Excerpt from Temperament, Disease and HealthThe neutral temperament is the happy mean, which would correspond to the temperate temperament of the ancients.This suggestion has much in its favor, and all later developments would seem to make for its truth. Among many facts of like nature going to prove its sound basis is' that of the very marked difference with which different temper aments support the bites of insects, many per sons, for example, being quite unconscious of annoyance from bites of ¿eas or mosquitoes which to others are an acute suffering, also the extraordinary differences in receptivity, by different animals, of porsons of certain diseases: thus the white rat is almost perfectly immune against the poison of anthrax (splenic fever.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.