[He] saw a pantomime perform so well that he could follow the performance from the action alone.

on the cusp between adulthood and old age

The required consistency of the spread is obtained by cooling in a scraped surface heat exchanger, a process called 'votation'.

Men of both these types abound in medicine especially, aside from the great mass of the unlearned, who, if perchance they have heard some mechanistic explanation of Descartes's and badly comprehended it (for indeed the whole system of Descartes is far above their heads), or if (bemused by the tricks of certain smoke-peddlers) they have learned to make some trifle at great cost with the aid of an evil-smelling torrefaction, they declare themselves not merely philosophers but the only wise men and cultivators of true medicine.