All which conceits come now into my head, by the remembrance of a story was told me by a domestic apothecary of my father's, a blunt Swiss, a nation not much addicted to vanity and lying, of a merchant he had long known at Toulouse, who being a valetudinary, and much afflicted with the stone, had often occasion to take clysters, of which he caused several sorts to be prescribed him by the physicians, acccording to the accidents of his disease;
Besta eta alegrantzien erdian, ukan dezagun beti gure kondizioaren oroimenaren leloa, eta ez gaitezen abandona hain osoki atseginean, gogoratu gabe noizean behin, zenbat moduz geure alegrantzia heriotzari enkaratua den eta zenbat lotpidez mehatxatzen gaituen. Hala egiten zuten egiptoarrek, bazkarien erditan eta platerik hoberenen artetik, gizon hil baten gorputz ihartua ekarrarazten baitzuten gonbidatuen gaztigurako.