With head erect and with firm tread she moved to the door; she turned there and blazed forth in bitter scorn, her bobbed curls shaking as she spoke: "Take that selling plater back to the car barn, where he belongs.
"Flowing Gold"
Rex Beach
The thymus was introduced by the great classic monograph of Friedleben on the "Physiology of the Thymus," in which he mentioned the usual forgotten pioneers: Felix plater, a Swiss physician, who in 1614 had found an enlarged thymus in an infant dying suddenly, and Restelli, an Italian, who interested himself in the effects of removal of the thymus more than ten years before.
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.
It was about this time that the Polish Countess plater said, speaking of the genial Ferdinand Hiller and the two cronies: "I would choose Hiller for my friend, Chopin for my husband, Liszt for my lover."
"The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2"
Rupert Hughes