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Sangrado to Saracen

Sangrado (Doctor), of Valladolid. This is the “Sagredo” of Espinel’s romance called Marcos de Obregon. “The doctor was a tall, meagre, pale man, who had kept the shears of Clotho employed for forty years at least. He had a very solemn appearance, weighed his discourse, and used ‘great pomp of words.’ His reasonings were geometrical, and his opinions his own.” Dr. Sangrado considered that blood was not needful for life, and that hot water could not be administered too plentifully into the system. Gil Blas became his servant and pupil, and was allowed to drink any quantity of water, but to eat only sparingly of beans, peas, and stewed apples.

Other physicians make the healing art consist in the knowledge of a thousand different sciences, but I go a shorter way to work, and spare the trouble of studying pharmacy, anatomy, botany, and physic. Know, then, that all which is required is to bleed the patients copiously, and make them drink warm water.—Lesage: Gil Blas, ii. 2 (1715).

Dr. Hancock prescribed cold water and stewed prunes.

Dr. Rezio of Barataria allowed Sancho Panza to eat “a few wafers and a thin slice or two of quince.”—Cervantes: Don Quixote, II. iii. 10 (1615).

Sanjak-Sherif, the banner of Mahomet. (See p. 654.)

Sansar, the icy wind of death, kept in the deepest entrails of the earth, called in Thalaba “Sarsar.”

She passed by rapid descents known only to Eblis,
…and thus penetrated the very entrails of the earth,
where breathes the Sansar or icy wind of death.—
   —Beckford: Vathek (1784).

Sansculottes , a low, riff-raff party in the great French Revolution, so shabby in dress that they were termed “the trouser-less.” The culotte is the breeches, called bræck by the ancient Gauls, and hauts-de- chausses in the reign of Charles IX.

Sansculottism, red republicanism, or the revolutionary platform of the Sansculottes.

The duke of Brunswick, at the head of a large army, invaded France to restore Louis XVI. to the throne, and save legitimacy from the sacrilegious hands of sansculottism.—G. H. Lewes: Story of Goethe’s Life.

Literary Sansculottism, literature of a low character, like that of the “Minerva Press,” the “Leipsic Fair,” “Hollywell Street,” “Grub Street,” and so on.

Sansfoy, a “faithless Saracen,” who attacked the Red Cross Knight, but was slain by him. “He cared for neither God nor man.” Sansfoy personifies infidelity.

Sansfoy, full large of limb and every joint
He was, and carëd not for God or man a point.
   —Spenser: Faërie Queene, i. 2(1590).

Sansjoy, brother of Sansfoy. When he came to t he court of Lucifera, he noticed the shield of Sansfoy on the arm of the Red Cross Knight, and his rage was so great that he was with difficulty restrained from running on the champion there and then, but Lucifera bade him defer the combat to the following day. Next day, the fight began; but just as the Red Cross Knight was about to deal his adversary a death- blow, Sansjoy was enveloped in a thick cloud, and carried off in the chariot of Night to the infernal regions, where Æsculapius healed him of his wounds.—Spenser: Faërie Queene, i. 4, 5(1590).

(The reader will doubtless call to mind the combat of Menelaos and Paris, and remember how the Trojan was invested in a cloud and carried off by Venus under similar circumstances.—Homer: Iliad, iii.)

Sansloy [“superstition”], the brother of Sansfoy and Sansjoy. He carried off Una to the wilderness, but when the fauns and satyrs came to her rescue, he saved himself by flight.