Professor Franklein is habitually pessimistic.

Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day, / Or gluttoning on all, or all away.

It is said that one fifth of the human race are bananivorous.

More veniable is a dependance upon the Philosophers stone, potable gold, or any of those Arcana's whereby Paracelsus that died himself at forty seven, gloried that he could make other men immortal.