16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
ing for home, wife, relations, consequence,
peace and quiet, and a fundamental
unsuitability for naval life,
prolonged naval life. But I did not mention
the efficient cause because I did
not perceive it until today, though it
should have been evident enough from
his intense application to Astruc, Booerhaave,
Lind, Hunter and what few other
authorities on the venereal distemper
we possess (we lack both Locker and
van Swieten), and even more from his
curiously persistent eager detailed enquiries
about the possibility of infection
from using the same seat of ease, drinking
from the same cup, kissing, toying
and the like. Whether he has the disease
I cannot tell for sure without a
proper examination, though I doubt he
has it physically: metaphysically how-