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* Invenire etiam barbari solent, disponere et ornare non nisi eruditus. Jonson possessed all the learning which was wanting to Shakspeare, and wanted all the genius of which the other was possessed. Both of them were equally deficient in taste and elegance, in harmony and correctness.

By Mark Pattison, late Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford. London, 1885. Critics have spoken of his learning, but the description is only relatively accurate. Of him, in this respect, we may say, what he said of Erasmus. 'Erasmus, though justly styled by Muretus, eruditus sane vir ac multæ lectionis, was not a learned man in the special sense of the word not an érudit. He was the man of letters.

There are many signs that fall far short of the marks of cretinism, yet just as plain as that is to the visus eruditus, which one meets every hour of the day in every circle of society. Many of these are partial arrests of development.

On both banks of the Rhine he was known as doctor, doctissimus, eruditus Bernardus, under which triumphal titles he dilated with honest pride, while he tried to bear his honours with becoming gravity.

The maladies of the larynx are very ticklish things to handle, and nobody should be trusted to go behind the epiglottis who has not the tactus eruditus. And so of certain other particular classes of complaints. A great city must have a limited number of experts, each a final authority, to be appealed to in cases where the family physician finds himself in doubt.

"Perhaps I shall," said his elder; "but I should like to try. Sometimes, my boy, the tactus eruditus will succeed when main force fails." "I wish you wouldn't talk Latin," said the boy impatiently, and he snatched his hand from the sword-hilt, leaving it vibrating and swaying up and down where it stuck in the wood. "Worse and worse," said the doctor quickly, as he caught it by the guard.

There was also confusion in the reverse direction. Well into the sixteenth century the cedilla is often found wrongly added to words such as puer, equus, eruditus, epistola; in 1550 the Froben firm was still regularly printing aedo, aeditio; and in the index to an edition of Aquinas, Venice, 1593, aenigma and Aegyptus, spelt in this way, are only to be found under e.

"What is this, fishing-line?" "That's it, sir," said Dumlow. "It's right enough, there arn't no knobs on it, and it stopped the bleeding fine." "Difficult work here, Dale," Mr Frewen whispered to me. "One need have well-educated fingers what surgeons call the tactus eruditus to work like this in the dark." "Terrible," I replied, and I noticed how his voice trembled.

The maladies of the larynx are very ticklish things to handle, and nobody should be trusted to go behind the epiglottis who has not the tactus eruditus. And so of certain other particular classes of complaints. A great city must have a limited number of experts, each a final authority, to be appealed to in cases where the family physician finds himself in doubt.

We should still avail ourselves of every particle of information that can be gained by the trained eye, the educated ear, the expert touch, the tactus eruditus of the medical classics, and even the sense of smell.