human
And of books and preparations he had many, for he was a man not devoid of learning ...
gpt
according to the words of his neighbours. He even bore among them the reputation of a magician: he had even received the nickname of
human
He busied himself with chemistry, mineralogy, entomology, botany, and medicine; he treated voluntary patients with herbs and metallic powders of his own concoction, after the method of Paracelsus. With those same powders he had sent into the grave his young, pretty, but already too delicate wife, whom he had passionately loved, and by whom he had had an only son. With those same metallic powders he had wrought considerable havoc with the health of his son also, which, on the contrary, he had wished to reinforce, as he detected in his organisation anæmia and a tendency to consumption inherited from his mother. The title of
gpt
he had acquired, among other things, from the fact that he considered himself a great-grandson--not in the direct line, of course--of the famous Bruce, in whose honour he had named his son Yákoff.[51] He was the sort of man who is called
human
but of a melancholy temperament, fussy, and timid, with a predilection for everything that was mysterious or mystical....
gpt
Ah!