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However, having received the expected, or rather the required, compliment on his sobriety, the Baron proceeded, 'No, sir, though I am myself of a strong temperament, I abhor ebriety, and detest those who swallow wine GULAE CAUSA, for the oblectation of the gullet; albeit I might deprecate the law of Pittacus of Mitylene, who punished doubly a crime committed under the influence of LIBER PATER; nor would I utterly accede to the objurgation of the younger Plinius, in the fourteenth book of his HISTORIA NATURALIS. No, sir; I distinguish, I discriminate, and approve of wine so far only as it maketh glad the face, or, in the language of Flaccus, RECEPTO AMICO.

The description of the treatment of this fracture seems, however, to indicate that the catena gulae of Roger and Gilbert is what we call the clavicle, though the more common Latin names of this bone are claviculus, furcula, juglum or os juguli.

On folio 180d we find a chapter entitled "De cathena gulae incisa vel fracta," and copied almost literally from the chapter "De catena gulae" of Roger. In neither writer do I find any precise definition of what the cathena gulae is, though Roger says, Si es gulae, quod est catena, fractum fuerit, etc., nor do I find the terms used explained in any dictionary at present available.