Book VI deals with surgery, including an account of tracheotomy, and a final long book is taken up with drugs, including the use of colchicum for gout.

White prisoners, and sometimes black ones, are put into the dungeon, and ironed; and black prisoners have been “cobbed.”

Visitors to the museum gazed on […] the many-faceted work of the Rio de Janeiro artists Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, close colleagues whose protominimalist and precociously interactive work in the ’60s (like his capes to be danced in and her hinged sculptures to be reconfigured at will) exert a powerful influence today.

Though he his house of polisht marble build, / Yet shall it ruine like the Moth's fraile cell