If at the close of the sixteenth century the mannerists sought to startle and entrance the world by empty exhibitions of muscular anatomy misunderstood, and by a braggadocio display of meaningless effectscrowding their compositions with studies from the nude, and painting agitated groups without a discernible cause for agitationthe crime surely lay with the patrons who liked such decoration, and with the journeymen who provided it.

Chemical anatomy physiology and pathology of extracellular fluid; a lecture syllabus.

But I must draw to an end, for every character is an anatomy lecture, and it fares with me in this of the diurnal-maker, as with him that reads on a begged malefactor, my subject smells before I have gone through with him; for a parting blow then.