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A57186	Reynolds, John, of Kings-Norton.	A discourse upon prodigious abstinence occasioned by the twelve moneths fasting of Martha Taylor, the famed Derbyshire damosell : proving that without any miracle, the texture of humane bodies may be so altered, that life may be long continued without the supplies of meat & drink : with an account of the heart, and how far it is interessed in the business of fermentation / by John Reynolds ...	1669.0		.xml	application/xml	13137	352	50	2. It is not unknown that several liquors are self-sufficient to command a fermentation , and that perfective ; as Wine , Cyder , with other like spiritosulphuro-saline-fluids , as also fruits of a more crass consistence , as Apples , Pears , Plumbs , &c. whereof many are advanced , by lying , to a greater perfection after pull'd from their Mothers Breast ; and it is at least a violent presumption that the blood confected by such self-fermenting bodies , and they exalted greatly by the various additional concoctions , percolations , and ( as it were ) distillations in the transcendently exquisite , and proto-laboratories of humane bodies is crown'd with the same Diadem of self-fermenting principles : and indeed an ordinary analysis of blood according to the rules of Pyrotechny will discover all those principles of Spirit , Sulphur , Salt , Water and Earth , lodg'd in its embraces which are sufficient to elaborate fermentations : which is further confirm'd in that when some of the innate fermenting principles , as suppose Salts begin to languish , several artificial ferments prove highly useful ; under this notion ( saith the sagacious Will● ) are the fixed Sa●ts of Vegetables , Chalybeats , &c. of such Soveraign efficacy . These things premised , 't will be no difficulty to prove that the blood is fermented by the Spleen : 't is but very lately that I added Spirit of Vitrioll to a small quantity of the recent blood of a Patient , which caus'd a visible fermentation , and such a coagulation that it became almost of the colour and consistence of our table Mustard , only there remain'd some perfect black parts , but no red ones : from whence I conjecture , that 't is an acid humour which causes such a black s●diment in the urine of many hypochondriack persons , and that the same humour it is that coagulates the blood often , if not alwayes , and renders it so unapt for circulation : wherefore by the way , I would offer it to your consideration , whether that sort of Scorbute and Melancholy which is rooted in blood more than sufficiently hot , florid , and fluid ( as oft-times they are ) can ascribe its origination to a meer acidity , or to fluid Salts : and consequently whether it be not a misapplication of the nitrosulphurous Plants which renders them of late suspected of impertinency ? for to what end should these Plants be given to those persons whose blood exceeds with salt and sulphur already ?	cache/A57186.xml	txt/A57186.txt
