Note 223 — BOOK VII[145]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Gui Patin (1601-1672), the famous doctor and wit, earned an extraordinary reputation by his caustic sallies and eccentric habits. He was the author of a treatise on the Conservation de la santé(1632) and of Letters published nearly fifty years after his death. A collection of his bons mots was published, under the title of Patiniana, in 1703.—T.