Then came Theophilus, who gave us the nerves, the lacteal vessels, and the pia mater." This worried Gerard.

"I cannot lie still and hear it said that mortal man bestowed the parts which Adam our father took from Him, who made him of the clay, and us his sons." "Was ever such perversity ?" said the doctor, his colour rising.

"Who is the real donor of a thing to man?
he who plants it secretly in the dark recesses of man's body, or the learned wight who reveals it to his intelligence, and so enriches his mind with the knowledge of it?
Comprehension is your only true possession.

Are you answered ?" "I am put to silence, sir." "And that is better still; for garrulous patients are ill to cure, especially in fever; I say, then, that Eristratus gave us the cerebral nerves and the milk vessels; nay, more, he was the inventor of lithotomy, whatever you may say.

Then came another whom I forget; you do somewhat perturb me with your petty exceptions.