Disputatio physica expendens rationes & caussas, cur plurimi ab esu casei abhorreant

a Cardinal of great celebrity, who was forced to seclude himself every year during the season of Roses, and shut himself within his own gardens, which he had on the Quirinal, having set guards at the doors so that no one, whether those coming to pay respects or friends entering for the sake of duty, could bring in a rose. And a man distinguished among the Roman nobility, Petrus Melinus, a man noble in talent, learning, and station, was greatly offended by the smell of roses. So he writes. Amatus Lusitanus, a most celebrated physician, records a third example in Centuria 2, Curation 36, in these words: We have known a certain monk from the Dominican order, a man of no small standing as a Venetian and of the Berberigo lineage, who, when he sensed the smell of a rose, or even saw one from afar, would immediately fall into a swoon or syncope a sudden loss of consciousness, and would lie prostrate on the ground as if dead. Therefore, he was advised by physicians that during the time when roses were in bloom, he should stay at home and not go out, so that he might flee such a great evil and not come into danger of his life. So writes Amatus, who also adds in his Notes: original: "Cum igitur is ægrotabat, quod raro contingebat, à syrupo rosaceo, & conditis in quibus rosa ingrediebatur, medicorum consilio abstinebat." When he was ill, which rarely happened, he abstained on the advice of physicians from rose syrup and preserves containing rose. Servius the Roman physician has a fourth, in his booklet on Odors. I know, he says, a footman who