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And it is interesting in that connection to find that even in the present day a diet of ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BUT MILK for six or eight weeks is by many doctors recommended as the only means of getting rid of deep-seated illnesses and enabling a patient's organism to make a completely new start in life. Sallustius philosophus. See Adonis, Attis and Osiris, note, p. 229.
But this, as you will see, does not give his name, but merely the two words 'Porphyrius philosophus. What this may refer to I cannot say: it is beyond my experience. My friend Mr. Calvert has suggested that Stradivarius may have dedicated this violin to the pagan philosopher, or named it after him; but this seems improbable.
The life and trauailes of Baldwinus Deuonius, sometime Archbishop of Canterbury. Baldwinus Deuonius, tenui loco Excestrire natus, vir ore facundus, exactus Philosophus, et de omne studiorum genus per illos dies aptissimus inueniebatur.
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