Ringelbergius—Drinking to Excess

Ringelbergius, in the notes to his treatise *De Ratione Studii*, speaking of great drinkers, has this passage: "Eos qui magnos crateras haustu uno siccare possunt, qui sic crassum illud et porosum corpus vino implent, ut per cutem humor erumpat (nam tum se satis inquiunt potasse, cùm, positis quinque super mensam digitis, *quod ipse aliquando vidi*, totidem guttæ excidunt) laudant; hos viros esse et homines dicunt." He says that he himself *has seen this*. Does any reader of the "NOTES AND QUERIES" know of *any other author* who says that he *has seen* such an exhibition? Or can Ringelbergius'…