They believe that mineral medicines are more dangerous, but this is all sheer nonsense, for the most virulent poisons are extracted from herbs. Morphine, nux vomica, strychnia, nicotine, and many other dreadful poisons are vegetable extracts.
Inspiration came to Tartaglia and he discovered the method to solve all cubic equations.
Fun fact: His name was really Niccolo Fontana, but everyone called him Tartaglia ("stammerer") because he was brutally wounded by French soliders when he was a child, disfiguring his face and giving him a permanent speech problem. He was like the Stephen Hawking of the early 1500s. But you might know him better as the butt of the original "Would I? Would I? Hare lip! Hare lip!" joke.
Ever since I came to France, I could sense a difference. From the police, the hats and the little suits they wear… Everything is moist and petite. Petite and moist.