Note 16 — BOOK XXXII.1 REMEDIES DERIVED FROM AQUATIC ANIMALS.
John Bostock translation
Ajasson remarks that it was owing probably to this opinion that it was formerly the belief, that by holding the breath a person could render himself proof against the shock of the torpedo; a precaution recommended by Kæmpfer, in his “Amenitates Exoticæ,” p. 514. Ed. 1712.