It is interesting to note that Misomedon resorts to the vocabulary of anatomy to enrich his literary commentary. On the relation between disease and metaphor, see Sylvie Kleinman-Lafon, ''Métaphore et maladie de Robert Burton a ` George Cheyne, Bacilles, phobies et contagion: les métaphores de la pathologie, p.364, 1730. ,
Treatise (1711), p.71: 'But I hear somebody coming up stairs, my supper I suppose is ready... So it is ,
She told me, that as soon as she could dispatch the two ladies you saw at dinner, she would come up to us, 1711. ,
There are other examples throughout the Treatise, for instance when Misomedon is looking for Baglivi's book on the shelves of his library: 'I have read it almost as soon as it came out; here he stands' (p.38) On p.80, in the middle of a discussion of Van Helmont's work, Misomedon points to a specific passage in the book: 'Here it is, page 52'; and again on p.102, this time about a volume by Purcell: 'But then again, pp.83-31278, 1705. ,