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             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 ...
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           Fasting -- Early works to 1800.
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           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
           Iohn
           Reynolds
           .
        
         
           Humbly
           offered
           to
           the
           Royall
           Society
           .
        
         
           London
           ,
           Printed
           ,
           by
           
             R.
             W.
          
           for
           
             Nevill
             Simmons
          
           ,
           at
           the
           Sign
           of
           the
           three
           Crowns
           near
           Holborn-Conduit
           :
           and
           for
           
             Dorman
             Newman
          
           ,
           at
           the
           Chyrurgeons
           Arms
           in
           
             Little
             Brittain
          
           .
           1669.
           
        
      
       
         
         
         
           To
           the
           deservedly
           Famous
           ,
           and
           my
           Honoured
           Friend
           ,
           Walter
           Needham
           ,
           Doctor
           of
           Physick
           ,
           as
           also
           a
           Member
           of
           ,
           and
           Curator
           Elect
           to
           the
           Royal
           Society
           .
        
         
           
             SIR
             ,
          
        
         
           IT
           were
           a
           Solaecism
           of
           the
           first
           magnitude
           to
           entertain
           you
           with
           any
           thing
           like
           a
           Narrative
           of
           the
           Superennial
           Fast
           ,
           under
           all
           the
           Havooks
           and
           depraedations
           whereof
           the
           Derby-shire
           Damosell
           hath
           hitherto
           been
           sustained
           ,
           though
           emaciated
           thereby
           into
           the
           ghastliness
           of
           a
           Skeleton
           ,
           to
           the
           great
           astonishment
           of
           the
           Vulgus
           .
           Your
           correspondencies
           are
           so
           faithful
           ,
           and
           your
           Circumstances
           so
           advantageous
           ,
           as
           wholly
           to
           supersede
           the
           necessity
           of
           my
           engaging
           in
           ,
           and
           the
           possibility
           of
           my
           gratifying
           you
           ,
           by
           such
           a
           Province
           .
           However
           ,
           indulge
           me
           ,
           while
           bemoaning
           my self
           ,
           the
           liberty
           to
           tell
           you
           ,
           that
           concerning
           the
           Phaenomena's
           attending
           this
           prodigeous
           Abstinence
           ,
           my
           own
           thoughts
           have
           been
           so
           miserably
           ravel'd
           ,
           and
           my
           scanty
           intellectuals
           so
           much
           overmatcht
           thereby
           ,
           
           that
           I
           could
           not
           with
           any
           Complacency
           look
           into
           those
           ,
           nor
           with
           any
           delight
           consult
           these
           .
           A
           just
           reverence
           to
           Reformed
           Theologues
           ,
           asserting
           a
           total
           Cessation
           of
           Miracles
           ,
           forbad
           me
           to
           immure
           my self
           in
           any
           such
           supernatural
           Asylum
           :
           and
           a
           praejudicate
           opinion
           of
           humane
           bodies
           in
           this
           Animal
           State
           ,
           allowed
           me
           not
           to
           Eurefuge
           my
           fluctuating
           mind
           in
           Physical
           Causes
           clubbing
           together
           ,
           by
           an
           Anomalous
           C●pulation
           ,
           to
           engender
           so
           great
           an
           Heteroclite
           .
           While
           thus
           lost
           in
           the
           Chaos
           of
           confused
           apprehensions
           ,
           and
           smarting
           under
           the
           Hirricano
           of
           my
           own
           tumultuary
           thoughts
           ,
           I
           hurry
           away
           to
           a
           very
           Worthy
           and
           Compassionate
           Friend
           ,
           who
           with
           a
           little
           deliberation
           runs
           through
           the
           Diagnosticks
           of
           my
           Malady
           ,
           pitieth
           my
           case
           ,
           and
           after
           some
           sharp
           Conflicts
           ,
           with
           his
           own
           Modesty
           ,
           affords
           the
           Relief
           of
           a
           Philosophical
           Elixir
           (
           for
           so
           I
           call
           the
           ensuing
           Discourse
           )
           wholly
           transferring
           the
           right
           ,
           which
           he
           had
           in
           the
           happy
           results
           of
           his
           own
           contemplations
           ,
           upon
           me
           .
           Now
           (
           Sir
           !
           )
           what
           by
           much
           importunity
           I
           extorted
           from
           him
           ,
           for
           my
           own
           private
           satisfaction
           ,
           I
           make
           bold
           to
           tender
           the
           world
           a
           view
           of
           ,
           under
           the
           Countenance
           and
           Protection
           of
           your
           great
           Name
           ,
           which
           is
           not
           only
           able
           to
           secure
           it
           from
           the
           Critical
           Pharaphrases
           of
           an
           Envious
           Age
           ,
           but
           also
           to
           command
           it
           the
           Iustice
           of
           an
           unpraejudicate
           perusal
           with
           such
           as
           know
           your
           worth
           .
           To
           my
           own
           grief
           ,
           I
           have
           found
           it
           much
           an
           Anodyne
           ;
           or
           as
           a
           pleasant
           Lullabie
           to
           my
           whimpering
           fancy
           ;
           the
           issue
           of
           all
           hath
           been
           rest
           :
           not
           knowing
           ,
           but
           it
           may
           minister
           the
           like
           seasonable
           relief
           to
           others
           ,
           who
           have
           not
           Wit
           and
           Philosophy
           enough
           to
           start
           any
           greater
           Objections
           ,
           than
           my self
           ;
           I
           judged
           it
           worthy
           to
           travail
           the
           World.
           The
           confidence
           wherein
           I
           seek
           to
           entitle
           you
           to
           the
           Patrociny
           of
           it
           ,
           is
           no
           less
           than
           an
           assurance
           of
           your
           benign
           Nature
           ,
           singular
           Ingenuity
           ,
           and
           obliging
           goodness
           ,
           which
           have
           begotten
           and
           pupil'd
           in
           me
           ,
           that
           perswasion
           ,
           ever
           since
           I
           had
           the
           happiness
           and
           honour
           
           to
           know
           you
           .
           Besides
           your
           clearer
           Intellectuals
           ,
           and
           your
           vast
           acquaintance
           with
           Natures
           Recondite
           Mysteries
           ,
           made
           it
           wholly
           incongruous
           to
           adopt
           any
           other
           the
           object
           of
           this
           Dedication
           .
           I
           do
           still
           remember
           with
           the
           deepest
           resentments
           of
           a
           grateful
           heart
           ,
           the
           happy
           distinction
           betwixt
           parts
           Spermatique
           and
           parts
           Haematique
           ,
           wherewith
           in
           pity
           you
           relieved
           me
           ,
           when
           anxiously
           enquiring
           ,
           upon
           a
           Religious
           account
           ,
           after
           the
           
             principuum
             individuationis
          
           in
           humane
           bodies
           :
           a
           Notion
           (
           as
           to
           me
           it
           seems
           )
           more
           able
           to
           rescue
           the
           Grand
           Article
           of
           our
           Creed
           concerning
           the
           Resurrection
           of
           the
           same
           individual
           Body
           from
           under
           suspicion
           ,
           and
           the
           many
           gross
           ▪
           absurdities
           ,
           that
           some
           Phylosophasters
           ,
           and
           half-witted
           Atheists
           ,
           would
           ●ain
           clogg
           it
           with
           ,
           than
           any
           offerture
           of
           Humane
           Reason
           ,
           that
           I
           ever
           yet
           had
           the
           happiness
           to
           meet
           with
           !
           Here
           (
           methinks
           I
           could
           break
           forth
           into
           an
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           ,
           and
           congratulate
           my
           great
           ,
           though
           late
           felicity
           ,
           that
           the
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           )
           as
           Origen
           ,
           in
           one
           sense
           or
           other
           calls
           it
           )
           the
           Principle
           maintaining
           a
           Numerical
           Identity
           in
           Humane
           Bodies
           ,
           through
           the
           whole
           series
           of
           Vicissitudes
           ,
           Changes
           ,
           and
           Sanctorian
           Transmutations
           ;
           betwixt
           the
           Vterine
           Formation
           ,
           and
           the
           Vltimate
           Reunition
           of
           soul
           and
           body
           ,
           should
           ,
           after
           many
           a
           tedious
           search
           ,
           and
           frustraneous
           disquisition
           ,
           at
           last
           be
           suggested
           by
           an
           hand
           able
           ,
           in
           the
           maintenance
           of
           it
           ,
           to
           grapple
           with
           any
           Contradictor
           .
           In
           this
           you
           have
           satisfied
           not
           only
           my
           reason
           ,
           but
           my
           curiosity
           too
           ;
           and
           therefore
           (
           Sir
           ,
           )
           so
           great
           is
           my
           opinion
           of
           your
           skill
           
             (
             absit
             omnis
             adulationis
             suspicio
             !
             )
          
           that
           whatever
           Dogma
           steps
           abroad
           with
           your
           name
           written
           upon
           it
           ,
           I
           could
           almost
           surrender
           up
           my self
           as
           a
           perfect
           Captive
           to
           it
           (
           were
           I
           not
           a
           Man
           ,
           and
           which
           is
           more
           ,
           a
           Protestant
           )
           upon
           an
           implicit
           faith
           !
           But
           I
           have
           ,
           I
           know
           not
           well
           how
           ,
           digressed
           ,
           and
           stept
           asid●
           into
           things
           heterogeneous
           to
           the
           purport
           of
           this
           Dedicatory
           Address
           .
           I
           therefore
           return
           to
           my
           ingenious
           friends
           
           Discourse
           ,
           upon
           which
           ,
           were
           my
           judgement
           in
           these
           matters
           worth
           any
           thing
           ,
           I
           could
           afford
           to
           be
           liberal
           in
           the
           bestowance
           of
           my
           Encomium's
           .
           But
           as
           't
           is
           shrouded
           under
           your
           Patronage
           ,
           so
           't
           is
           submitted
           to
           your
           Censure
           :
           (
           this
           I
           am
           bold
           to
           do
           ,
           knowing
           the
           Author
           ,
           so
           much
           an
           Admirer
           of
           you
           ,
           that
           he
           cannot
           reluctate
           )
           whether
           more
           worthy
           your
           pity
           or
           your
           approbation
           ,
           none
           can
           better
           judge
           ,
           than
           your
           discerning
           and
           deserving
           self
           .
           Therefore
           such
           as
           it
           is
           ,
           I
           leave
           it
           to
           your
           Mercy
           ;
           and
           beg
           leave
           to
           tell
           you
           ,
           that
           I
           should
           presently
           fall
           out
           with
           my self
           ,
           did
           I
           not
           ,
           upon
           a
           faithful
           Scrutiny
           ,
           find
           my self
           in
           the
           number
           of
           those
           that
           really
           love
           and
           honour
           you
           .
        
         
           Farewell
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           
             Worthy
             Sir
             ,
          
        
         
           YOUR
           requests
           to
           take
           into
           consideration
           the
           so
           much
           fam'd
           prodigious
           Twelve
           Moneths
           Abstinence
           of
           the
           Derby-shire
           Maid
           ,
           having
           the
           force
           of
           commands
           ,
           have
           produced
           these
           lean
           results
           of
           the
           imposed
           Meditations
           .
           It
           cannot
           be
           unknown
           to
           a
           Person
           of
           your
           large
           endowments
           and
           hot
           pursuit
           after
           substantial
           Science
           ,
           that
           both
           Divines
           ,
           Medicks
           ,
           Historians
           ,
           yea
           ,
           Poets
           and
           Legenders
           have
           presented
           the
           Learned
           World
           with
           a
           great
           variety
           of
           wonderful
           Ab●tinents
           ,
           some
           whereof
           I
           shall
           briefly
           recite
           ,
           as
           well
           to
           reserve
           your
           sliding
           time
           for
           more
           Noble
           Employments
           ,
           as
           to
           manifest
           that
           our
           contemporary
           Derb●●se
           ,
           is
           not
           so
           sing●lar
           as
           some
           may
           imagine
           .
        
         
           Most
           certain
           it
           is
           ,
           that
           the
           a
           Learned
           Moses
           b
           fasted
           40.
           dayes
           ,
           and
           as
           many
           nights
           whilst
           he
           abode
           on
           the
           Burning
           Mount
           ;
           the
           great
           c
           El●jah
           ,
           went
           as
           long
           in
           the
           〈◊〉
           of
           a
           meal
           ,
           and
           no
           less
           was
           the
           Fast
           of
           the
           d
           holy
           Jesus
           e
           Sword●
           Austin
           reports
           ,
           that
           in
           his
           time
           one
           survived
           40.
           dayes
           fasting
           :
           but
           most
           strange
           is
           the
           
           Story
           fathered
           on
           f
           Nicephorus
           of
           three
           Brethren
           affrighted
           by
           persecution
           into
           a
           Cave
           ,
           where
           they
           slept
           373.
           years
           ,
           as
           was
           known
           by
           the
           Coin
           they
           produced
           when
           they
           awaked
           .
           The
           Learned
           g
           Fernelius
           saith
           ,
           he
           saw
           a
           pregnant
           Woman
           that
           lived
           two
           moneths
           without
           meat
           or
           drink
           .
           h
           
             Zacutus
             Lusitanus
          
           reports
           ,
           that
           at
           Venice
           there
           lived
           a
           man
           that
           fasted
           40.
           dayes
           ,
           another
           there
           46.
           dayes
           ;
           and
           from
           Langius
           and
           Forstius
           (
           two
           considerable
           Writers
           )
           another
           full
           three
           years
           ,
           and
           that
           with
           just
           stature
           ,
           good
           habit
           ,
           free
           countenance
           ,
           and
           youthful
           ▪
           wit.
           The
           famous
           i
           Sennertus
           is
           copious
           in
           such
           stories
           ;
           he
           relates
           from
           Sigismundus
           and
           Citesius
           (
           a
           person
           he
           saith
           worthy
           of
           credit
           )
           that
           the
           people
           of
           Lucomoria
           inhabiting
           some
           Mountains
           in
           Moscovy
           do
           every
           year
           dye
           in
           a
           sort
           ,
           or
           rather
           sleep
           or
           freeze
           (
           like
           Froggs
           or
           Swallows
           )
           on
           Novemb.
           27.
           and
           so
           continue
           in
           that
           rigid
           state
           till
           April
           24.
           in
           which
           time
           they
           use
           no
           evacuation
           ,
           save
           only
           that
           a
           tenuious
           humor
           distilling
           from
           their
           nostrils
           is
           presently
           condens'd
           by
           the
           ambient
           cold
           ,
           much
           like
           to
           Isicles
           ,
           by
           the
           which
           those
           patent
           Pores
           are
           precluded
           ,
           and
           the
           most
           endangered
           .
           Brain
           fortified
           against
           the
           fatal
           assaults
           of
           brumal
           extremities
           .
           The
           same
           Sennertus
           rehearses
           a
           Story
           of
           a
           Virgin
           at
           Padua
           (
           from
           Viguntia
           Professor
           there
           )
           who
           anno
           1598.
           was
           afflicted
           with
           a
           Fever
           ,
           then
           a
           Tumor
           ,
           then
           Arthritick
           pains
           ,
           and
           pains
           in
           the
           Ventricle
           ,
           and
           whole
           abdomen
           ,
           then
           with
           vomiting
           and
           nauseating
           of
           food
           ,
           till
           at
           last
           she
           could
           take
           no
           food
           for
           two
           moneths
           ,
           then
           after
           another
           fit
           of
           vomiting
           ,
           purging
           and
           bleeding
           ,
           she
           fasted
           eight
           moneths
           ,
           and
           after
           a
           little
           use
           of
           food
           ▪
           she
           fasted
           two
           moneths
           more
           .
           And
           to
           be
           short
           ,
           he
           stories
           it
           of
           three
           persons
           that
           fasted
           each
           two
           years
           ,
           one
           three
           years
           ,
           another
           
           four
           ,
           one
           seven
           ,
           another
           fifteen
           ,
           another
           eighteen
           ,
           and
           one
           twenty
           ,
           yea
           one
           twenty
           nine
           ,
           another
           thirty
           ,
           another
           thirty
           six
           ,
           and
           one
           forty
           years
           .
           Famous
           is
           the
           story
           (
           perhaps
           fiction
           being
           Poetical
           )
           of
           k
           Epimenides
           (
           whose
           words
           St.
           Paul
           is
           thought
           to
           cite
           in
           his
           Epistle
           to
           Titus
           ,
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           )
           whom
           some
           report
           to
           have
           slept
           17
           years
           ,
           some
           77
           years
           together
           ;
           but
           enough
           of
           story
           ,
           those
           that
           are
           desirous
           to
           read
           more
           ,
           are
           referr'd
           to
           
             Marcellus
             Donat.
             l.
             4.
             de
             med
             .
             hist.
             mirab
             .
             c.
             12.
             
             Schenk
             .
             l.
             4.
             observ
             .
             Guaguinus
             ,
             l.
             3.
             hist.
             Franc.
             Petrarch
             .
             l.
             3.
             de
             mirabil
             .
             c.
             22.
             
             Portius
             de
             hist.
             puellae
             German
             .
             Uspergensis
             in
             Chron.
             Lentulus
             in
             hist.
             admir
             .
             Apol.
             Baccius
             l.
             de
             vini
             nutritione
             .
             Bozius
             l.
             11.
             c.
             4.
             de
             signis
             eccl
             .
             Fulgosius
             ,
             l.
             1.
             c.
             6.
             
             Lessaeus
             ,
             l.
             9.
             hist.
             Scot.
             Favorinus
             apud
             Gellium
             ,
             l.
             16.
             c.
          
           3.
           and
           especially
           L●cetus
           that
           wrote
           a
           particular
           Tract
           to
           solve
           the
           Phoenomena
           of
           this
           Prodigy
           .
        
         
           Now
           Sir
           ,
           it
           would
           be
           our
           ambition
           to
           advance
           towards
           the
           same
           noble
           work
           ,
           were
           it
           not
           our
           duty
           to
           serve
           those
           awhile
           that
           blot
           all
           these
           stories
           with
           one
           dash
           of
           unbelief
           :
           that
           pen
           certainly
           drops
           blasphemy
           that
           dares
           to
           rase
           the
           sacred
           Records
           ;
           and
           that
           uncharitableness
           which
           presumes
           to
           write
           falshood
           upon
           all
           humane
           testimonies
           ,
           they
           that
           assent
           to
           nothing
           not
           confirmed
           by
           Autopsia
           are
           unfit
           to
           converse
           in
           humane
           Societies
           ;
           for
           how
           can
           I
           expect
           that
           any
           body
           should
           believe
           me
           ,
           whilest
           I
           my self
           will
           believe
           no
           body
           ?
           't
           is
           an
           argument
           of
           an
           empty
           brain
           to
           presume
           to
           comprehend
           all
           things
           ,
           and
           thereupon
           to
           reject
           those
           things
           from
           an
           existence
           in
           the
           world
           ,
           that
           have
           not
           their
           science
           in
           its
           intellectuals
           .
           Many
           things
           forreign
           and
           strange
           may
           well
           be
           admitted
           on
           good
           testimonies
           ,
           sith
           ,
           the
           most
           obvious
           objects
           are
           scarce
           pervious
           to
           the
           most
           eagle-ey'd
           Philosopher
           ;
           
           witness
           the
           mistakes
           discovered
           by
           
             D.
             Cartes
             ,
             Gassendus
          
           ,
           &c
           in
           Aristotle
           himself
           ,
           one
           of
           the
           most
           sublimated
           wits
           in
           all
           the
           Republick
           of
           Natural
           philosophy
           ;
           and
           likewise
           the
           spots
           in
           Hippocrates
           and
           Galen
           ,
           those
           mirrours
           in
           medicine
           ,
           modestly
           pointed
           at
           by
           our
           famous
           
             Harvey
             ,
             Glisson
             ,
             Willis
          
           ,
           &c.
           but
           further
           to
           satisfie
           these
           incredulous
           persons
           ,
           't
           is
           affirmed
           that
           some
           of
           these
           Abstinents
           have
           been
           l
           watch't
           by
           the
           most
           wakefull
           eyes
           and
           jealous
           ears
           ,
           to
           detect
           their
           fraud
           ,
           if
           guilty
           of
           any
           ;
           as
           was
           that
           Maid
           that
           refus'd
           all
           food
           except
           only
           water
           ,
           for
           three
           years
           ,
           by
           Bucoldian●us
           ,
           with
           whom
           she
           abode
           for
           twelve
           dayes
           ,
           at
           the
           command
           of
           Ferdinand
           the
           Emperour
           ,
           so
           that
           
             Apollonia
             Schrejerana
          
           was
           taken
           by
           the
           Senate
           of
           Bern
           ,
           and
           put
           into
           the
           Hospital
           of
           their
           Town
           ,
           and
           there
           watch'd
           till
           they
           were
           satisfied
           in
           the
           truth
           of
           her
           total
           abstinence
           .
        
         
           But
           enough
           to
           these
           that
           cut
           the
           knot
           to
           save
           the
           labour
           of
           untying
           it
           ;
           yet
           I
           may
           not
           step
           aside
           to
           those
           in
           the
           contrary
           extream
           ,
           that
           believe
           a
           century
           of
           such
           reports
           with
           a
           faith
           almost
           as
           miraculous
           as
           these
           miracles
           themselves
           ,
           for
           so
           they
           seem
           to
           them
           :
           but
           Sir
           ,
           as
           't
           is
           humane
           infidelity
           to
           disbelieve
           all
           such
           reports
           ,
           because
           some
           are
           false
           ,
           so
           't
           is
           superstitious
           charity
           to
           believe
           all
           because
           some
           are
           true
           .
           Some
           persons
           as
           scant
           in
           their
           reading
           ,
           as
           they
           are
           in
           their
           travels
           ,
           are
           ready
           to
           deem
           every
           thing
           strange
           to
           be
           a
           monster
           ,
           and
           every
           monster
           a
           miracle
           ;
           true
           it
           is
           ,
           the
           fast
           of
           
             Moses
             ,
             Elijah
          
           ,
           and
           the
           Incarnate
           Word
           ,
           was
           miraculous
           ,
           and
           possibly
           of
           some
           others
           ;
           yet
           why
           we
           should
           make
           all
           miracles
           ,
           I
           understand
           not
           ;
           for
           what
           need
           have
           we
           now
           of
           miracles
           ?
           Sith
           such
           supernatural
           operations
           m
           are
           for
           them
           that
           believe
           not
           ,
           not
           for
           them
           that
           believe
           ,
           as
           witnesseth
           that
           n
           coelestial
           
           Philosopher
           St.
           Paul
           ;
           and
           thence
           we
           inferr
           ,
           Beings
           are
           not
           to
           be
           multiply'd
           without
           necessity
           .
           Moreover
           ,
           to
           what
           end
           are
           such
           miracles
           wrought
           ?
           certainly
           ,
           the
           infinitely
           wise
           Operator
           labours
           not
           for
           nought
           ,
           therefore
           these
           Abstinents
           ,
           if
           miraculous
           ,
           should
           confirm
           some
           Doctrine
           rejected
           ,
           or
           refute
           some
           Errour
           received
           ,
           enfranchise
           some
           Saints
           oppressed
           ,
           subvert
           some
           Wickedness
           exalted
           ,
           foretell
           some
           extraordinary
           events
           and
           issues
           of
           Providence
           to
           be
           performed
           ,
           or
           for
           some
           other
           end
           ,
           at
           which
           miracles
           have
           been
           usually
           level'd
           ;
           but
           not
           a
           Gry
           of
           these
           from
           most
           of
           our
           Abstinents
           ;
           moreover
           ,
           the
           fast
           of
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           and
           his
           Prodromi
           procur'd
           not
           the
           least
           detriment
           to
           their
           health
           ,
           but
           't
           is
           otherwise
           with
           most
           of
           these
           .
        
         
           Near
           of
           kin
           to
           these
           Miracle
           mongers
           are
           those
           that
           suppose
           these
           pretended
           Fasters
           to
           be
           invisibly
           fed
           by
           Angels
           ;
           but
           't
           is
           incredible
           that
           such
           a
           favour
           should
           be
           shewn
           to
           persons
           of
           no
           known
           sanctity
           ,
           as
           some
           of
           these
           (
           reported
           to
           be
           Ethnicks
           )
           were
           ;
           moreover
           ,
           either
           this
           food
           was
           visible
           ,
           or
           invisible
           ;
           if
           visible
           ,
           't
           is
           strange
           ,
           that
           vigilant
           observers
           ,
           and
           jealous
           suspecters
           ,
           could
           neither
           discover
           the
           ingress
           at
           the
           fore-door
           ,
           nor
           the
           excrementitious
           egress
           at
           the
           back-door
           ;
           but
           if
           't
           were
           invisible
           ,
           then
           altogether
           incongruous
           to
           our
           bodyes
           ,
           and
           therefore
           miraculous
           ;
           of
           which
           before
           .
           Neither
           is
           it
           of
           easie
           credibility
           ,
           that
           food
           should
           be
           supply'd
           by
           Doemons
           possessing
           them
           ;
           for
           we
           read
           of
           no
           foot-steps
           of
           such
           a
           possession
           i'th●
           story
           ,
           and
           't
           would
           be
           strange
           if
           the
           Devil
           should
           grow
           so
           modest
           as
           to
           content
           himself
           with
           a
           single
           Trophy
           of
           a
           captivated
           rational
           ;
           and
           as
           strange
           ,
           that
           a
           cloven
           foot
           should
           make
           such
           inrodes
           and
           not
           leave
           a
           doubled
           yea
           redoubled
           impression
           .
           
           Cousin-germanes
           to
           these
           are
           the
           presumers
           that
           the
           Fasters
           are
           dead
           ,
           and
           acted
           by
           Daemons
           ;
           but
           this
           notion
           is
           also
           incongruous
           not
           only
           to
           their
           transmigration
           ,
           from
           feeding
           to
           fasting
           without
           any
           shew
           of
           a
           dissolution
           ,
           but
           also
           to
           their
           regress
           from
           fasting
           to
           feeding
           ,
           (
           as
           it
           hapned
           to
           some
           of
           these
           )
           and
           health
           again
           .
        
         
           And
           as
           for
           the
           admirers
           of
           occult
           Philosophy
           who
           resolve
           these
           phrases
           into
           the
           effects
           of
           occult
           qualities
           ,
           we
           only
           repose
           ,
           that
           though
           an
           antipathy
           to
           this
           or
           that
           food
           ,
           and
           possibly
           to
           all
           food
           ,
           may
           cause
           abstinence
           ,
           yet
           without
           food
           I
           cannot
           understand
           how
           it
           gives
           sustenance
           ;
           but
           others
           attribute
           all
           this
           to
           the
           influence
           of
           coelestial
           bodies
           ,
           whose
           operations
           I
           deny
           not
           to
           be
           great
           on
           sublunary
           wights
           ,
           yet
           't
           is
           not
           imaginable
           that
           this
           universal
           cause
           diffusing
           its
           energy
           so
           promiscuously
           ,
           should
           now
           and
           then
           in
           a
           Century
           ,
           here
           and
           there
           in
           a
           Countrey
           produce
           such
           stupendious
           effects
           ,
           without
           some
           universal
           preparation
           and
           predisposition
           of
           Bodies
           to
           determine
           its
           general
           efficiency
           to
           the
           production
           of
           such
           a
           Prodigy
           ;
           but
           as
           the
           former
           affect
           darkness
           ,
           and
           these
           an
           invisible
           light
           ,
           we
           leave
           them
           to
           their
           retirements
           ,
           whilest
           we
           hunt
           the
           more
           perceptible
           prints
           of
           natures
           progress
           in
           these
           anomalous
           productions
           .
        
         
           By
           this
           time
           ,
           Sir
           ,
           I
           hope
           you
           'l
           grant
           that
           the
           old
           inconvenient
           and
           tottering
           building
           is
           in
           a
           measure
           demolish'd
           ,
           the
           rubbish
           removed
           ,
           and
           the
           ground
           cleared
           ;
           let
           us
           now
           propound
           the
           necessities
           and
           conveniencies
           ,
           the
           ends
           and
           uses
           by
           our
           new
           building
           to
           be
           supply'd
           and
           attained
           ,
           and
           then
           we
           'll
           fall
           to
           the
           architecture
           it self
           ;
           I
           mean
           ,
           let
           us
           consider
           ,
           what
           the
           defect
           of
           aliment
           doth
           require
           for
           the
           support
           of
           humane
           life
           .
           1.
           
           The
           Natural
           Evacuations
           by
           Urine
           ,
           
           Stool
           ,
           Salivation
           ,
           Terms
           ,
           and
           Transpiration
           ,
           are
           so
           lavish
           ,
           that
           without
           reparation
           by
           feeding
           it
           seems
           impossible
           to
           avoid
           a
           sudden
           dissolution
           .
           2dly
           ,
           How
           shall
           natural
           heat
           be
           preserved
           from
           extinction
           without
           a
           constant
           feeding
           on
           the
           radical
           moysture
           ?
           and
           how
           shall
           this
           Oleaginous
           humour
           be
           secur'd
           from
           a
           nimble
           consumption
           ,
           if
           it
           receive
           not
           additions
           from
           frequent
           feeding
           ?
           3ly
           ,
           How
           shall
           Fermentation
           be
           continued
           in
           the
           blood
           without
           new
           additions
           of
           Chyle
           ?
           and
           how
           shall
           Chyle
           be
           added
           ,
           if
           no
           food
           received
           ?
           4ly
           ,
           How
           shall
           there
           be
           a
           supply
           of
           vital
           spirits
           ,
           and
           consequently
           of
           animal
           ,
           without
           food
           and
           fermentation
           ?
           5ly
           ,
           How
           can
           life
           consist
           without
           sleep
           ?
           and
           how
           shall
           we
           attain
           sleep
           without
           ascending
           fumes
           to
           the
           brain
           from
           ingested
           food
           ?
        
         
           For
           a
           foundation
           I
           shall
           premise
           a
           few
           severals
           ;
           1.
           
           The
           long
           finger
           of
           powerfull
           Providence
           is
           undoubtedly
           to
           be
           observ'd
           in
           the
           production
           of
           these
           wonderfull
           effects
           ;
           though
           these
           be
           not
           advanc'd
           to
           the
           Zenith
           of
           divine
           Miracles
           ,
           wrought
           by
           the
           immediate
           hand
           of
           Omnipotency
           ,
           yet
           the
           first
           cause
           must
           be
           acknowledg'd
           in
           the
           proportioning
           ,
           marshalling
           ,
           dividing
           ,
           uniting
           and
           actuating
           of
           concurrent
           subordinate
           second
           causes
           for
           such
           Heteroclite
           productions
           ;
           Plato
           himself
           could
           say
           ,
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           ,
           and
           the
           admirable
           D.
           Willis
           acknowledges
           ,
           that
           Natures
           Parent
           orders
           natural
           o
           Principles
           as
           to
           their
           quantity
           and
           mixture
           ,
           and
           consequently
           as
           to
           their
           operations
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           'T
           is
           very
           evident
           that
           when
           higher
           causes
           shall
           disjoyn
           what
           Nature
           usually
           conjoyneth
           ,
           and
           
             vice
             versâ
          
           ,
           and
           exalt
           one
           Principle
           and
           depress
           another
           ,
           then
           very
           astonishing
           results
           appear
           upon
           the
           stage
           
           of
           humane
           bodies
           ;
           such
           is
           the
           stupendious
           voracity
           of
           some
           Helluo's
           ,
           the
           monstrous
           digestion
           of
           your
           Lithophagi
           ,
           the
           strange
           metamorphosis
           of
           your
           sanguineans
           into
           midnight
           melancholy
           ,
           and
           of
           lucid
           intellectuals
           into
           piceous
           mopishness
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           1.
           
           Now
           to
           supply
           the
           defect
           of
           food
           in
           its
           most
           usefull
           restauration
           of
           what
           by
           daily
           Evacuations
           the
           body
           is
           depriv'd
           of
           ;
           as
           I
           need
           not
           compute
           the
           vast
           expence
           of
           the
           Microcosme
           by
           stool
           ,
           urine
           ,
           spitting
           and
           terms
           ,
           these
           being
           vulgarly
           known
           ,
           so
           neither
           of
           the
           transcendent
           loss
           by
           transpiration
           ,
           reckoned
           by
           p
           Sanctorius
           to
           preponderate
           all
           the
           rest
           ;
           all
           which
           exact
           constant
           additions
           to
           be
           made
           by
           aliment
           ,
           without
           which
           the
           body
           would
           quickly
           be
           depopulated
           .
           But
           1.
           let
           it
           be
           considered
           ,
           that
           this
           person
           (
           as
           't
           is
           most
           credibly
           reported
           )
           emptyes
           nothing
           by
           urine
           or
           stool
           ;
           and
           't
           is
           probable
           next
           to
           nothing
           by
           salivation
           or
           transpiration
           ,
           not
           by
           salivation
           through
           a
           considerable
           defect
           of
           drinks
           ;
           nor
           by
           transpiration
           ,
           because
           wanting
           food
           there
           's
           a
           partial
           defect
           of
           fermentation
           in
           the
           blood
           ,
           and
           thence
           of
           natural
           heat
           ,
           and
           so
           by
           the
           coldness
           of
           the
           parts
           the
           pores
           are
           precluded
           ,
           and
           the
           diaphoresis
           impeded
           ;
           whence
           it
           will
           follow
           ,
           that
           where
           the
           parts
           are
           duely
           warm
           ,
           and
           the
           pores
           patent
           ,
           there
           the
           more
           active
           principles
           are
           apt
           to
           take
           flight
           ,
           yet
           where
           the
           parts
           are
           cold
           ,
           and
           the
           pores
           cork'd
           up
           ,
           there
           't
           is
           otherwise
           ;
           as
           generous
           Wines
           and
           subtile
           spirits
           left
           in
           open
           Vessels
           ,
           will
           quickly
           bid
           adieu
           to
           their
           more
           volatile
           and
           brisk
           Principles
           ;
           yet
           if
           shut
           up
           in
           safe
           Vessels
           ,
           these
           Fugitives
           are
           imprisoned
           and
           kept
           to
           their
           daily
           offices
           :
           the
           same
           is
           verifi'd
           ina
           queous
           humours
           ,
           which
           (
           our
           Kitchens
           as
           well
           as
           Laboratories
           experiment
           )
           quickly
           evaporate
           through
           intense
           
           subjacent
           heats
           ,
           but
           not
           without
           ,
           and
           so
           't
           is
           here
           .
           Thus
           these
           plentifull
           evacuations
           being
           suppressed
           ,
           restauration
           by
           food
           is
           rendred
           less
           necessary
           .
           Yet
           lest
           you
           should
           dread
           from
           this
           hypothesis
           a
           suffocating
           mass
           of
           excrementitious
           humours
           to
           assault
           the
           heart
           ,
           &c.
           
           I
           therefore
           subjoyn
           ,
           that
           a
           defect
           of
           nutritious
           assumptions
           must
           needs
           precede
           a
           defect
           of
           humours
           :
           moreover
           ,
           the
           blood
           commands
           much
           of
           these
           remaining
           humours
           for
           its
           own
           chariot-use
           ;
           neither
           may
           it
           seem
           dissonant
           to
           reason
           that
           the
           ventricle
           and
           some
           of
           the
           intestines
           are
           us'd
           as
           a
           receptacle
           of
           the
           more
           tartarous
           and
           terrestrial
           faeculencies
           ;
           as
           Embryo's
           though
           they
           receive
           large
           quantities
           of
           liquid
           nutriment
           ,
           yet
           there
           's
           seldom
           observ'd
           the
           least
           excretion
           by
           the
           fundament
           ,
           but
           a
           retention
           of
           a
           quantity
           of
           excrementitious
           terrestreities
           in
           the
           intestines
           during
           their
           whole
           abode
           in
           their
           maternal
           cells
           ;
           likewise
           in
           fermenting
           liquours
           the
           more
           active
           principles
           do
           precipitate
           the
           more
           sluggish
           to
           the
           bottoms
           ,
           chinks
           and
           walls
           of
           their
           continents
           ;
           further
           it
           cannot
           be
           denyed
           ,
           that
           by
           expiration
           there
           is
           a
           considerable
           evacuation
           ,
           as
           appears
           both
           by
           the
           heat
           of
           our
           breath
           ,
           and
           its
           moisture
           ,
           which
           is
           discovered
           by
           the
           reception
           of
           it
           into
           any
           concavous
           Body
           .
           But
           2.
           admit
           that
           there
           is
           some
           waste
           either
           by
           salivation
           or
           transpiration
           ,
           yet
           these
           being
           small
           ,
           produce
           only
           a
           lingring
           consumption
           ,
           which
           doth
           often
           consist
           for
           many
           years
           with
           a
           declining
           life
           :
           such
           as
           our
           Virgins
           is
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           How
           shall
           natural
           heat
           be
           preserved
           ,
           if
           not
           fed
           by
           Oyl
           ,
           continually
           supply'd
           and
           renew'd
           by
           aliment
           ?
           There
           are
           Sir
           ,
           divers
           opininos
           touching
           humane
           ignicles
           ,
           and
           therefore
           it
           highly
           concerns
           us
           to
           proceed
           cautiously
           ;
           it
           cannot
           be
           deny'd
           that
           there
           is
           a
           potential
           
           heat
           more
           or
           less
           in
           all
           humane
           bodyes
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           
             calor
             mixti
          
           ,
           remaining
           when
           we
           are
           dead
           and
           key-cold
           ;
           such
           as
           is
           the
           heat
           of
           Sulphur
           ,
           Arsenick
           ,
           &c.
           (
           though
           in
           a
           great
           allay
           )
           this
           appears
           from
           chymical
           operations
           on
           mans
           blood
           ,
           by
           which
           't
           is
           forc'd
           to
           acknowledge
           its
           endowments
           with
           spirits
           and
           volatile
           Salts
           in
           great
           quantities
           ,
           and
           some
           Sulphur
           also
           .
           Likewise
           it
           must
           be
           granted
           ,
           that
           there
           is
           an
           actual
           heat
           abiding
           in
           us
           whilest
           we
           live
           ,
           and
           somewhile
           after
           death
           ;
           this
           is
           obvious
           to
           the
           sence
           of
           feeling
           it self
           :
           this
           is
           the
           heat
           (
           as
           I
           conceive
           )
           joyn'd
           with
           the
           primogenite
           humour
           to
           which
           Aristotle
           ascribes
           life
           it self
           .
           But
           yet
           Sir
           ,
           I
           am
           somewhat
           doubtfull
           ,
           whether
           this
           heat
           be
           properly
           cal'd
           
             calor
             vivens
          
           ,
           though
           the
           great
           q
           Riverius
           term
           it
           so
           ;
           or
           an
           immediate
           cause
           of
           life
           ,
           though
           an
           Aristotle
           himself
           pronounce
           it
           so
           :
           For
           certainly
           Holy
           Writ
           ascribes
           life
           to
           the
           blood
           ,
           
             the
             blood
             is
             the
             life
             thereof
             :
          
           and
           death
           to
           a
           dissolution
           of
           the
           
             compositum
             ,
             the
             body
             returns
             to
             the
             dust
             ,
             and
             the
             spirit
             to
             God
             that
             gave
             it
             .
          
           But
           of
           this
           dissolution
           (
           I
           suppose
           )
           the
           soul
           is
           not
           ordinarily
           the
           cause
           ,
           but
           the
           body
           ;
           and
           what
           part
           of
           the
           body
           may
           more
           justly
           be
           challenged
           to
           be
           the
           Parent
           (
           if
           I
           may
           so
           phrase
           it
           )
           of
           death
           ,
           than
           the
           blood
           ,
           which
           is
           in
           a
           famous
           sense
           the
           parent
           of
           life
           ?
           So
           then
           ,
           r
           most
           killing
           distempers
           must
           arise
           from
           the
           excessive
           multiplication
           ,
           consumption
           or
           depravation
           of
           the
           blood
           ,
           and
           the
           pernicious
           effects
           thereof
           ;
           yet
           mistake
           me
           not
           ,
           this
           hinders
           not
           other
           parts
           of
           the
           body
           ,
           bowels
           and
           humours
           to
           be
           often
           peccant
           ,
           as
           undoubtedly
           they
           are
           by
           infecting
           the
           blood
           ,
           and
           receiving
           infections
           morbifick
           from
           it
           .
           Moreover
           ,
           this
           heat
           continues
           some
           hours
           without
           life
           ,
           even
           after
           the
           dissolution
           ;
           and
           as
           it
           is
           without
           life
           ,
           so
           is
           life
           often
           found
           
           without
           it
           ,
           as
           not
           only
           in
           some
           Vegetables
           ,
           as
           Lettuce
           ,
           Hemlock
           ,
           Cucumbers
           ,
           &c.
           but
           in
           Animals
           ,
           as
           Frogs
           and
           Fish
           ,
           which
           are
           said
           to
           be
           actually
           cold
           ,
           and
           the
           Salamander
           ,
           reputed
           cold
           in
           a
           high
           degree
           .
           This
           heat
           may
           possibly
           be
           but
           the
           effect
           of
           matter
           and
           motion
           ,
           
             i.
             e.
          
           of
           the
           blood
           ,
           or
           before
           it
           of
           the
           seed
           impregnated
           with
           active
           principles
           ,
           which
           through
           their
           activity
           and
           heterogeneity
           suffer
           mutual
           collisions
           ,
           or
           fermentations
           ,
           whence
           ebullition
           ,
           and
           thence
           this
           heat
           ,
           which
           is
           by
           circulation
           not
           only
           promoted
           ,
           but
           also
           convey'd
           to
           all
           parts
           of
           the
           body
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           same
           causes
           preserved
           ,
           which
           possibly
           may
           prove
           the
           summe
           of
           s
           Riverius's
           implanted
           and
           influent
           heat
           .
           These
           things
           presupposed
           ,
           't
           will
           not
           be
           impossible
           to
           guess
           that
           this
           heat
           is
           no
           such
           Coelestial
           fire
           ,
           as
           the
           most
           famous
           Fernelius
           would
           have
           it
           ,
           but
           only
           the
           igneous
           result
           of
           the
           combinations
           and
           commotions
           of
           the
           most
           active
           elementary
           Principles
           ;
           and
           if
           there
           be
           any
           other
           heat
           ,
           it
           may
           prove
           to
           be
           (
           according
           to
           the
           conjecture
           of
           great
           Riverius
           )
           the
           product
           of
           the
           immateriate
           soul
           ;
           but
           of
           that
           I
           understand
           little
           ,
           only
           this
           is
           unquestionable
           ,
           that
           the
           caelestial
           Soul
           chooseth
           for
           its
           more
           immediate
           organs
           ,
           the
           most
           subtiliated
           ,
           spirituous
           ,
           and
           active
           parts
           of
           matter
           ,
           such
           as
           the
           vital
           and
           animal
           spirits
           ,
           and
           the
           heat
           before
           mentioned
           ,
           which
           seems
           to
           be
           of
           the
           same
           Genius
           ,
           and
           all
           but
           the
           mechanick
           productions
           of
           various
           fermentations
           ,
           percolations
           and
           distillations
           in
           the
           humane
           Engine
           :
           Wherefore
           ,
           I
           shall
           crave
           leave
           to
           dismiss
           this
           fire
           till
           we
           come
           to
           discourse
           of
           Fermentations
           .
        
         
           And
           so
           I
           pass
           on
           the
           next
           flame
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           Biolychnium
           ,
           or
           the
           actual
           flame
           of
           the
           blood
           kindled
           in
           the
           heart
           ,
           asserted
           both
           by
           Antients
           and
           Moderns
           
           of
           astonishing
           titles
           ,
           and
           tremendous
           veneration
           ;
           which
           devouring
           flame
           ,
           if
           once
           kindled
           ,
           will
           quickly
           depredate
           all
           the
           oleaginous
           aliment
           ,
           if
           not
           renewed
           by
           frequent
           and
           plentifull
           assumptions
           ;
           but
           ,
           therefore
           't
           is
           greatly
           suspected
           to
           have
           no
           existence
           in
           our
           bodyes
           ,
           because
           in
           these
           Jejunants
           it
           must
           needs
           extinguish
           for
           want
           of
           Sulphureous
           supplyes
           ,
           and
           produce
           death
           to
           those
           that
           have
           liv'd
           long
           enough
           to
           help
           to
           entombe
           it
           .
           'T
           is
           strange
           to
           me
           ,
           that
           provident
           Nature
           should
           require
           such
           vast
           supplyes
           both
           of
           meat
           and
           drink
           ,
           out
           of
           which
           to
           extract
           a
           small
           quantity
           nutritious
           juice
           ;
           which
           with
           divers
           Ferments
           ,
           Colatures
           ,
           Emunctories
           ,
           and
           rapid
           motions
           ,
           it
           endeavours
           to
           exalt
           and
           defecate
           ,
           and
           yet
           after
           all
           should
           expose
           what
           she
           hath
           attain'd
           of
           purity
           and
           activity
           ,
           and
           consequently
           of
           noblest
           use
           by
           her
           unparallel'd
           artifices
           ,
           cost
           and
           toil
           ,
           to
           the
           improvident
           disposal
           of
           wastfull
           flames
           ;
           for
           indeed
           flames
           are
           great
           wasters
           ,
           as
           appears
           in
           the
           preparation
           of
           the
           Balsom
           of
           Sugar
           ,
           &c.
           no
           less
           wonderfull
           it
           is
           that
           a
           flame
           should
           continually
           burn
           in
           the
           heart
           ,
           and
           yet
           the
           fleshy
           walls
           thereof
           not
           boiled
           ,
           roasted
           ,
           nor
           so
           much
           as
           a
           fuliginous
           or
           cineritious
           colour
           imparted
           .
           But
           lest
           Sir
           ,
           you
           should
           be
           confident
           that
           this
           perennial
           slame
           scorns
           an
           extinction
           by
           these
           few
           drops
           ,
           I
           therefore
           commend
           to
           your
           observation
           those
           numerous
           and
           plentifull
           buckets
           that
           are
           poured
           thereupon
           by
           the
           dexterous
           hand
           of
           the
           very
           learned
           and
           t
           candid
           Dr.
           Needham
           .
           But
           yet
           lest
           you
           should
           be
           so
           far
           praepossessed
           by
           the
           determinations
           of
           venerable
           antiquity
           ,
           as
           to
           reject
           this
           new
           Doctrine
           ,
           and
           avowedly
           maintain
           this
           unseen
           fire
           ,
           I
           shall
           therefore
           adde
           :
           1.
           
           That
           this
           Flame
           can
           be
           but
           small
           through
           the
           defect
           of
           bodily
           exercise
           ,
           and
           freer
           ventilations
           ,
           
           (
           these
           fasters
           being
           mostly
           close
           Prisoners
           )
           as
           also
           of
           strong
           fermentations
           ;
           therefore
           the
           less
           the
           Lamp
           ,
           the
           less
           Oyl
           will
           sustain
           it
           .
           2.
           
           Through
           the
           defect
           of
           heat
           the
           pores
           are
           bolted
           ,
           and
           transpiration
           restrained
           ,
           whence
           a
           scarce
           credible
           quantity
           of
           moisture
           is
           retained
           ,
           which
           returning
           both
           by
           Veins
           and
           Lymphaticks
           ,
           gives
           no
           contemptible
           quantity
           of
           food
           to
           this
           fire
           .
           3.
           
           Through
           the
           restraint
           of
           Transpiration
           the
           igneous
           particles
           are
           secur'd
           from
           their
           excursions
           ,
           to
           the
           great
           increase
           of
           intestine
           heat
           ;
           for
           in
           feeders
           the
           loss
           of
           transpiration
           often
           kindles
           in
           the
           blood
           a
           feaverish
           fire
           .
           4.
           
           The
           Air
           (
           as
           impregnated
           sometimes
           especially
           )
           entring
           by
           the
           mouth
           ,
           the
           nose
           ,
           and
           pores
           in
           parts
           passing
           the
           various
           concoctions
           ,
           may
           be
           converted
           into
           a
           humour
           not
           altogether
           inept
           to
           preserve
           the
           lingring
           life
           of
           this
           dying
           flame
           .
           5.
           
           In
           pituitous
           bodies
           the
           abundance
           of
           flegme
           through
           the
           various
           concoctions
           which
           it
           undergoes
           in
           the
           body
           ,
           may
           become
           usefull
           in
           the
           room
           of
           more
           proper
           aliment
           to
           this
           analogous
           Lamp
           in
           its
           Table-supplyes
           ;
           which
           flegme
           though
           some
           reject
           as
           excrementitious
           ,
           yet
           I
           suppose
           they
           do
           it
           only
           when
           consideration
           is
           from
           home
           ,
           of
           its
           usefulness
           in
           the
           mastication
           of
           our
           food
           ,
           wherein
           (
           as
           some
           say
           )
           lyes
           the
           first
           concoction
           ;
           at
           least
           therein
           lyes
           the
           main
           preparation
           for
           the
           grand
           concoction
           in
           the
           ventricle
           ;
           the
           constant
           mixture
           of
           our
           food
           with
           our
           spittle
           in
           the
           Jaw-mill
           ,
           may
           enforce
           some
           considering
           men
           to
           think
           ,
           that
           't
           is
           nearer
           of
           kin
           to
           our
           natural
           moisture
           than
           hath
           been
           formerly
           acknowledged
           .
           6.
           
           The
           colliquation
           of
           the
           parts
           of
           these
           emaciated
           bodies
           may
           yield
           Oyl
           to
           these
           Lamps
           ;
           as
           't
           is
           usually
           affirmed
           in
           Hectick
           feavers
           ;
           besides
           ,
           if
           fire
           be
           nothing
           but
           an
           innumerable
           host
           of
           sulphurous
           
           atomes
           breaking
           the
           Prisons
           of
           their
           former
           compositions
           with
           other
           heterogeneities
           ,
           u
           then
           certainly
           all
           fire
           is
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           ,
           for
           nothing
           of
           that
           Sulphur
           remains
           ,
           it
           leaves
           only
           the
           heterogenious
           Principles
           ,
           with
           which
           it
           was
           combin'd
           .
           7.
           
           'T
           is
           probable
           that
           the
           moisture
           of
           these
           jejune
           bodies
           is
           much
           not
           only
           condens'd
           by
           their
           cold
           ,
           but
           also
           loaded
           with
           terrestreities
           through
           the
           non-reception
           of
           aliment
           imp●egnated
           with
           active
           Principles
           ;
           whereby
           't
           is
           rendred
           more
           durable
           in
           this
           flame
           .
           As
           Oyls
           the
           more
           impure
           ,
           thick
           ,
           and
           clammy
           they
           are
           ,
           the
           less
           fiercely
           they
           burn
           ,
           but
           the
           more
           tenuious
           and
           spirituous
           ,
           the
           more
           nimbly
           do
           they
           flame
           and
           expeditiously
           consume
           .
           As
           my
           face
           and
           hair
           did
           sadly
           experiment
           upon
           the
           unexpected
           and
           suddain
           conflagration
           of
           a
           quantity
           of
           the
           Oyl
           of
           Turpentine
           ,
           as
           I
           not
           long
           since
           drew
           it
           from
           the
           fire
           ;
           I
           dare
           say
           ,
           the
           Turpentine
           it self
           would
           not
           ,
           or
           rather
           could
           not
           have
           serv'd
           me
           so
           .
           8.
           
           This
           moisture
           being
           drawn
           from
           more
           jejune
           Principles
           (
           as
           air
           ,
           flegme
           ,
           and
           lympha
           )
           x
           is
           the
           less
           impregnated
           with
           intro-sulphurous
           particles
           ,
           and
           therefore
           less
           inflamable
           ;
           
           as
           in
           oligophorous
           Wines
           ,
           where
           the
           spirit
           and
           sulphur
           are
           greatly
           exhaled
           ,
           and
           with
           a
           quality
           abundantly
           dilated
           ,
           there
           fire
           slowly
           burns
           .
           9.
           
           'T
           is
           probable
           ,
           that
           the
           crasis
           of
           these
           bodies
           is
           so
           altered
           by
           the
           predominancy
           of
           fixed
           Salts
           not
           duely
           actuated
           by
           powerfull
           fermentations
           ,
           
           that
           they
           much
           retard
           the
           consumption
           of
           Oyl
           by
           this
           vital
           fire
           ;
           
           as
           if
           Quicklime
           ,
           Soap
           ,
           or
           other
           saline
           concretes
           be
           added
           to
           Wax
           or
           Tallow
           ,
           they
           will
           (
           say
           Chymists
           )
           make
           a
           candle
           of
           far
           greater
           duration
           than
           ordinary
           .
           
           Strange
           is
           that
           story
           of
           St.
           Austine
           ,
           who
           reports
           a
           Lamp
           to
           be
           found
           in
           the
           Temple
           of
           Venus
           ,
           that
           no
           storms
           could
           extinguish
           .
           Yet
           much
           more
           
           strange
           was
           that
           Torch
           ,
           reported
           to
           have
           burnt
           1550
           years
           in
           the
           Tomb
           of
           
             Tullia
             ,
             Cicero's
          
           daughter
           ,
           which
           being
           expos'd
           to
           the
           Air
           ,
           by
           the
           opening
           of
           the
           Tomb
           ,
           was
           quickly
           extinguish'd
           :
           Now
           if
           our
           humours
           should
           chance
           to
           attain
           the
           disposition
           of
           these
           antient
           Oyls
           ,
           they
           might
           supply
           the
           Byolychnium
           long
           enough
           .
           10.
           
           Or
           if
           these
           fixed
           Salts
           should
           attain
           fluidity
           ,
           as
           't
           is
           probable
           they
           have
           done
           ,
           because
           some
           of
           these
           Abstinents
           were
           of
           melancholick
           complexions
           ,
           
           then
           the
           sulphurous
           parts
           of
           the
           humours
           would
           be
           so
           fettered
           and
           oppressed
           thereby
           ,
           that
           they
           could
           not
           so
           quickly
           burst
           from
           under
           the
           yoke
           into
           violent
           flames
           ,
           but
           by
           degrees
           and
           leisurably
           as
           they
           could
           disentangle
           themselves
           ;
           from
           whence
           will
           arise
           a
           more
           durable
           though
           less
           forceable
           fire
           .
           Lastly
           ,
           it
           seems
           probable
           ,
           that
           extraneous
           particles
           of
           fire
           may
           be
           convey'd
           into
           a
           body
           ,
           and
           therein
           lodged
           ,
           which
           shall
           afterwards
           cause
           heats
           to
           kindle
           therein
           .
           That
           igneous
           particles
           pass
           from
           one
           body
           to
           another
           seems
           a
           matter
           of
           daily
           experience
           :
           for
           't
           is
           not
           easie
           to
           demonstrate
           how
           our
           bodies
           are
           warm'd
           by
           their
           approach
           to
           the
           fire
           ,
           if
           there
           be
           not
           fiery
           effluviums
           from
           the
           burning
           matter
           that
           enter
           our
           bodyes
           ;
           and
           that
           these
           fiery
           atomes
           thus
           lodg'd
           in
           a
           foreign
           body
           ,
           may
           afterwards
           by
           water
           ,
           air
           ,
           or
           the
           like
           ,
           break
           forth
           into
           a
           considerable
           heat
           ,
           is
           very
           imaginable
           ;
           as
           in
           Quick-lime
           ,
           which
           before
           't
           is
           burnt
           is
           not
           at
           all
           subject
           to
           ●●mbustions
           by
           air
           or
           water
           ;
           but
           when
           it
           hath
           endured
           the
           Kill-fire
           ,
           then
           't
           is
           readily
           kindled
           by
           the
           addition
           of
           almost
           any
           humidity
           ;
           which
           humidities
           may
           not
           be
           supposed
           directly
           to
           contribute
           to
           the
           kindling
           of
           the
           atomes
           ,
           but
           to
           the
           dissolving
           of
           the
           Concrete
           ,
           and
           thereby
           the
           disentangling
           of
           the
           Atomes
           ,
           whereupon
           they
           fly
           out
           into
           a
           
           considerable
           heat
           ;
           like
           whereunto
           is
           that
           Powder
           ,
           boasted
           by
           Chymists
           ,
           to
           take
           flame
           in
           your
           hand
           by
           the
           only
           addition
           of
           Spittle
           .
           
           Thus
           Sir
           ,
           having
           tender'd
           a
           slender
           repast
           for
           your
           antique
           lamp
           ,
           I
           crave
           leave
           to
           attend
           the
           more
           modern
           Hypothesis
           of
           fam'd
           fermentation
           .
        
         
           Thirdly
           ,
           How
           shall
           Fermentation
           be
           continued
           in
           the
           blood
           without
           the
           addition
           of
           chyle
           ?
           and
           how
           can
           chyle
           be
           added
           without
           food
           assumed
           ?
           
           It
           is
           the
           opinion
           of
           ingenuous
           Henshavius
           that
           fermentation
           is
           caused
           by
           the
           addition
           of
           chyle
           to
           the
           blood
           in
           the
           heart
           ,
           like
           that
           of
           Wine
           by
           the
           adding
           of
           Must
           ,
           from
           whence
           doth
           arise
           (
           he
           saith
           )
           a
           necessity
           of
           frequent
           feeding
           :
           
           which
           the
           excellent
           D.
           Needham
           seems
           much
           to
           approve
           :
           and
           both
           the
           incomparable
           Willis
           and
           ingenious
           Castle
           cite
           Hogeland
           for
           ascribing
           heat
           to
           a
           fermentation
           in
           the
           heart
           ,
           
           like
           to
           that
           which
           happens
           upon
           the
           pouring
           of
           Spirit
           of
           Nitre
           on
           Butter
           of
           Antimony
           .
           R.
           Now
           Sir
           ,
           to
           help
           us
           out
           at
           this
           dead
           lift
           also
           ,
           I
           shall
           take
           notice
           of
           the
           several
           opinions
           of
           the
           Learned
           touching
           the
           causes
           of
           fermentation
           .
           1.
           
           There
           is
           a
           ferment
           placed
           in
           the
           heart
           it self
           by
           the
           great
           Willis
           and
           his
           Hypaspistes
           ,
           
           the
           dexterous
           anatomist
           Dr.
           Lower
           ,
           with
           Dr.
           Castle
           ,
           and
           other
           renowned
           Assertors
           of
           fermentation
           .
           This
           Sir
           would
           serve
           us
           eximiously
           ,
           
           to
           supply
           the
           defect
           of
           new
           chyle
           ,
           if
           it
           were
           but
           sufficiently
           evinced
           ;
           but
           I
           must
           confess
           ingenuously
           though
           (
           as
           't
           is
           not
           unknown
           to
           you
           )
           I
           have
           laboured
           to
           advance
           the
           antique
           glory
           of
           the
           heart
           ,
           yet
           I
           cannot
           satisfie
           my self
           ,
           though
           I
           would
           ,
           that
           there
           is
           any
           such
           implanted
           ferment
           therein
           ;
           for
           I
           find
           not
           this
           ferment
           confirmed
           by
           any
           experiment
           ,
           or
           other
           sufficient
           evidence
           ,
           but
           
             (
             absit
             invidia
             verbo
          
           )
           too
           precariously
           asserted
           :
           nor
           
           any
           necessity
           assigned
           for
           such
           a
           ferment
           ;
           the
           doctrine
           of
           fermentation
           being
           sufficiently
           demonstrated
           without
           it
           ;
           and
           though
           the
           honour
           ascribed
           to
           the
           heart
           may
           seem
           to
           require
           it
           ,
           yet
           I
           cannot
           approve
           of
           conferring
           honours
           ,
           which
           infer
           a
           necessity
           of
           multiplying
           Beings
           above
           what
           the
           opus
           and
           usus
           of
           Nature
           createth
           .
           Neither
           can
           I
           conceive
           where
           this
           ferment
           should
           be
           nested
           ;
           it
           must
           be
           either
           in
           the
           walls
           of
           the
           heart
           ,
           or
           in
           the
           chambers
           thereof
           ;
           in
           the
           walls
           (
           saith
           Dr.
           Castle
           from
           Severinus
           ,
           
           Danus
           ,
           D.
           Cartes
           and
           Hogeland
           )
           are
           mechanick
           spirits
           ,
           seminal
           salts
           or
           ferments
           ;
           but
           yet
           
             (
             pace
             tanti
             viri
          
           )
           the
           heart
           by
           its
           carnous
           fibres
           ,
           membranes
           ,
           colour
           and
           consistence
           seems
           to
           be
           but
           a
           muscle
           ,
           as
           our
           worthy
           Dr.
           Needham
           ,
           
           and
           acute
           Steno
           affirm
           ;
           and
           if
           so
           ,
           how
           a
           ferment
           should
           be
           there
           generated
           any
           otherwise
           than
           in
           other
           muscles
           ,
           
           I
           do
           not
           understand
           ;
           it
           hath
           not
           the
           Parenchyma
           of
           the
           Liver
           ,
           Spleen
           ,
           or
           other
           parts
           which
           are
           colatures
           to
           the
           blood
           ,
           whereby
           they
           easily
           separate
           ,
           and
           having
           separated
           retain
           what
           may
           conduce
           to
           constitute
           ferments
           ;
           but
           the
           walls
           of
           the
           heart
           seem
           only
           like
           other
           muscles
           to
           receive
           blood
           for
           their
           own
           private
           use
           ,
           but
           none
           for
           a
           publick
           stock
           .
           Moreover
           ,
           if
           there
           were
           such
           a
           salt
           ferment
           ,
           it
           is
           a
           wonder
           it
           doth
           not
           discolour
           the
           rutilous
           fibres
           ;
           as
           the
           salt
           in
           the
           Spleen
           manifestly
           doth
           ,
           but
           leave
           it
           of
           the
           same
           hieu
           with
           other
           nonfermenting
           muscles
           ;
           neither
           are
           there
           any
           cavities
           within
           these
           walls
           capacious
           enough
           to
           contain
           these
           mechanick
           spirits
           for
           publick
           offices
           ;
           nay
           it
           is
           observable
           that
           the
           heart
           is
           more
           firm
           ,
           fast
           ,
           hard
           ,
           and
           less
           stor'd
           with
           porosities
           than
           other
           muscles
           :
           neither
           in
           the
           auricles
           ,
           or
           venticles
           can
           these
           spirits
           keep
           quiet
           possession
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           that
           impetuous
           torrent
           which
           many
           times
           in
           every
           minute
           
           washeth
           both
           flores
           and
           walls
           ;
           and
           though
           these
           cavities
           have
           their
           cellars
           ,
           yet
           by
           the
           so
           frequent
           constrictions
           of
           the
           omnimodous
           fibres
           causing
           the
           systole
           ,
           there
           's
           not
           only
           a
           mixture
           of
           the
           blood
           at
           the
           bottom
           with
           that
           on
           the
           top
           ,
           but
           also
           a
           violent
           extrusion
           of
           both
           made
           in
           the
           same
           pulsation
           :
           neither
           in
           dissections
           is
           there
           any
           considerable
           difference
           found
           betwixt
           that
           in
           the
           heart
           ,
           and
           that
           in
           the
           veins
           ,
           as
           famous
           Harvey
           observeth
           .
           Yet
           with
           a
           
             non
             obstante
          
           to
           these
           premises
           I
           must
           tell
           you
           ,
           I
           opine
           that
           fermentation
           may
           not
           abusively
           be
           ascribed
           to
           the
           mechanick
           structure
           and
           operations
           of
           the
           heart
           ,
           though
           not
           enriched
           with
           an
           innate
           ferment
           ,
           of
           which
           hereafter
           more
           seasonably
           .
        
         
           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
           .
        
         
           Thirdly
           ,
           after
           various
           disquisitions
           touching
           the
           use
           of
           the
           Spleen
           ,
           some
           exalting
           it
           to
           the
           honour
           of
           sanguifying
           for
           the
           lower
           belly
           ,
           others
           depressing
           it
           to
           the
           vile
           use
           of
           a
           sink
           ,
           't
           is
           now
           by
           many
           upon
           consideration
           of
           its
           colour
           ,
           site
           ,
           and
           vessels
           resolv'd
           to
           be
           a
           colature
           ,
           wherein
           the
           more
           black
           and
           feculent
           juice
           is
           sever'd
           from
           the
           blood
           ,
           and
           being
           there
           reserved
           it
           becomes
           a
           ferment
           to
           the
           scarle●
           liquor
           ;
           even
           as
           a
           small
           parcel
           of
           dough
           reserv'd
           in
           a
           ●aline
           condiment
           grows
           acid
           ,
           and
           so
           arrives
           to
           the
           dignity
           of
           a
           levain
           ,
           or
           ferment
           to
           the
           new
           farinaceous
           mass
           .
           The
           principles
           which
           in
           this
           bowell
           are
           supposed
           to
           be
           regent
           ,
           are
           salino
           terrestrial
           ,
           which
           by
           over
           long
           abode
           attain
           fluidity
           ,
           and
           so
           become
           acetous
           ,
           like
           Spirit
           of
           Vitrioll
           ,
           Nitre
           ,
           and
           of
           other
           saline
           concretes
           ,
           and
           that
           which
           renders
           this
           the
           more
           probable
           ,
           are
           the
           sowre
           belchings
           of
           hypochondriack
           persons
           ,
           the
           whiteness
           of
           their
           tongues
           ,
           the
           soreness
           of
           their
           throats
           ,
           the
           excess
           of
           their
           appetite
           ,
           and
           the
           emaciating
           of
           their
           bodies
           :
           all
           which
           seem
           to
           proceed
           from
           a
           preternatural
           acidity
           :
           and
           
             vice
             versa
          
           ,
           when
           the
           Spleen
           hath
           lost
           its
           ferment
           ,
           then
           the
           blood
           grows
           too
           insipid
           as
           appears
           in
           Cachexys
           ,
           Ascites
           ,
           Tympanites
           ,
           &c.
           
           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
           ?
           yet
           in
           the
           colder
           more
           chachectical
           Sorts
           of
           Scurvy
           and
           Melancholy
           nothing
           possibly
           may
           be
           found
           more
           proper
           ;
           for
           't
           is
           well
           known
           that
           fixed
           salts
           and
           fluid
           salts
           ,
           or
           (
           which
           is
           the
           same
           thing
           )
           acid
           spirits
           do
           highly
           ferment
           ,
           and
           cause
           a
           considerable
           heat
           ;
           as
           lately
           discover'd
           it self
           to
           me
           in
           the
           preparation
           of
           Tartarus
           Vitriolatus
           ,
           whence
           I
           further
           conjecture
           that
           those
           preparations
           of
           Chalybs
           ,
           Corall
           and
           other
           saline
           concretes
           which
           rob
           them
           of
           their
           salts
           ,
           or
           (
           which
           is
           the
           same
           thing
           )
           that
           glut
           them
           with
           acidities
           so
           plentifully
           as
           to
           leave
           no
           capacity
           to
           receive
           more
           acids
           do
           spil
           them
           
             eo
             nomine
          
           of
           their
           fermenting
           vertue
           .
           But
           lest
           I
           should
           seem
           to
           transgress
           whilst
           I
           intend
           searcely
           to
           digress
           ,
           I
           return
           to
           remind
           you
           that
           you
           have
           a
           third
           ferment
           which
           in
           these
           Abstinents
           is
           presumeable
           to
           be
           highly
           useful
           ,
           for
           several
           of
           them
           (
           not
           to
           say
           all
           )
           were
           Spleneticks
           before
           they
           were
           Abstinents
           .
        
         
         
           Fourthly
           ,
           'T
           is
           probable
           that
           the
           seminal
           humours
           in
           these
           Virgins
           may
           by
           a
           long
           abode
           in
           their
           vessels
           grow
           acid
           ,
           and
           thereby
           supply
           the
           blood
           with
           a
           more
           than
           ordinary
           ferment
           .
           Here
           are
           two
           things
           supposed
           ,
           the
           first
           is
           that
           the
           seed
           is
           impregnated
           with
           salt
           ,
           and
           that
           is
           prov'd
           by
           the
           many
           arguments
           of
           the
           Philosophical
           Dr.
           Ente
           ,
           
           the
           other
           is
           that
           the
           seed
           by
           its
           principles
           may
           elaborate
           the
           blood
           ,
           this
           is
           evident
           in
           females
           whose
           seed
           being
           grown
           fecundate
           and
           vegete
           ;
           it
           so
           levains
           the
           blood
           ,
           that
           except
           it
           purge
           〈◊〉
           by
           menstrual
           terms
           it
           exposes
           to
           innumerable
           diseases
           ;
           but
           much
           more
           manifest
           in
           men
           by
           the
           ●ruption
           of
           their
           Beards
           ,
           the
           greatning
           of
           their
           voice
           ,
           the
           heating
           of
           their
           blood
           ,
           esseminate
           desires
           ,
           &c.
           
           These
           things
           being
           evidently
           so
           ,
           't
           will
           much
           strengthen
           our
           Hypothesis
           to
           observe
           that
           most
           of
           these
           Damosels
           fall
           to
           this
           abstinence
           between
           the
           age
           of
           fourteen
           and
           twenty
           years
           when
           the
           seed
           hath
           so
           fermented
           the
           blood
           ,
           that
           various
           distempers
           will
           probably
           ensue
           without
           due
           evacuations
           ;
           except
           in
           our
           case
           ,
           wherein
           through
           the
           defect
           of
           fermenting
           food
           we
           are
           enabled
           to
           bear
           the
           excess
           of
           these
           so
           much
           the
           better
           .
        
         
           Fifthy
           ,
           There
           are
           several
           other
           innate
           ferments
           placed
           by
           nature
           in
           humane
           bodies
           ,
           as
           the
           Learned
           testifie
           ,
           
           as
           that
           ascrib'd
           by
           Dr.
           Willis
           to
           the
           brain
           ,
           for
           the
           freeing
           the
           spirits
           from
           the
           entanlemen●s
           of
           other
           principles
           to
           which
           they
           were
           married
           whilst
           they
           abode
           in
           the
           blood
           ,
           that
           so
           the
           brains
           distilla●ion
           might
           proceed
           the
           more
           prosperously
           ;
           likewise
           that
           in
           the
           reins
           ,
           which
           is
           like
           Runnet
           to
           Milk
           ,
           to
           precipitate
           the
           serosities
           ,
           that
           the
           ureters
           may
           exterminate
           them
           as
           useless
           ,
           burdensome
           excrements
           .
           There
           are
           many
           more
           assign'd
           ,
           yea
           more
           than
           can
           
           be
           numbred
           ,
           
           if
           Dr.
           Willis's
           Doctrine
           be
           true
           of
           a
           fermentation
           through
           the
           habit
           of
           the
           body
           ,
           caused
           by
           the
           concurrence
           of
           arterial
           blood
           and
           nervous
           juice
           ;
           but
           these
           I
           lightly
           pass
           over
           ,
           because
           I
           conceive
           they
           are
           not
           immediately
           intended
           for
           the
           elaborating
           of
           the
           bloody
           mass
           ;
           yet
           I
           may
           not
           forget
           them
           ,
           because
           working
           upon
           the
           blood
           ,
           't
           is
           not
           to
           be
           doubted
           but
           the
           veins
           derive
           somewhat
           of
           their
           vertue
           with
           the
           retrieved
           blood
           .
        
         
           Sixthly
           ,
           But
           to
           approach
           yet
           nearer
           to
           our
           mark
           ,
           I
           affirm
           that
           though
           there
           be
           no
           edibles
           received
           ,
           yet
           it
           follows
           not
           that
           there
           's
           no
           sort
           of
           new
           chyle
           to
           renew
           the
           bloods
           fermentation
           :
           for
           First
           ,
           In
           these
           cold
           bodies
           there
           must
           of
           necessity
           be
           a
           far
           greater
           quantity
           
             (
             consideratis
             considerandis
          
           )
           of
           pituitous
           humours
           than
           ordinary
           :
           for
           if
           transpiration
           be
           denyed
           to
           our
           bodies
           but
           a
           very
           small
           time
           ,
           what
           a
           redundance
           of
           flegm
           doth
           presently
           oppress
           us
           :
           which
           flegm
           being
           led
           into
           the
           mouth
           by
           a
           great
           variety
           of
           salivating
           ducts
           ,
           and
           thence
           conveyed
           into
           the
           Ventricle
           may
           take
           off
           the
           acidity
           ,
           the
           edge
           of
           the
           appetite
           ,
           by
           which
           they
           tolerate
           their
           abstinence
           with
           the
           greater
           patience
           ;
           and
           also
           suffer
           a
           sorry
           concoction
           ,
           which
           is
           much
           advanc'd
           by
           the
           attendance
           of
           all
           the
           concoctive
           forces
           to
           subact
           this
           sluggish
           matter
           ,
           which
           is
           other
           bodies
           are
           variously
           diverted
           by
           the
           great
           variety
           of
           food
           frequently
           admitted
           .
           Secondly
           ,
           'T
           is
           probable
           that
           some
           of
           these
           Fasters
           were
           more
           than
           ordinarily
           addicted
           to
           flegm
           before
           their
           abstinence
           ,
           which
           is
           usual
           with
           those
           whose
           concoctions
           are
           low
           ,
           and
           with
           these
           't
           is
           more
           than
           an
           even
           lay
           they
           were
           not
           very
           high
           ,
           which
           must
           needs
           be
           augmented
           by
           the
           defect
           of
           urine
           and
           stool
           ,
           which
           if
           granted
           ,
           adds
           somewhat
           to
           our
           purpose
           .
           Thirdly
           ,
           
           The
           air
           receiv'd
           continually
           into
           the
           Stomach
           by
           the
           Mouth
           and
           Nose
           ,
           and
           also
           into
           the
           blood
           more
           directly
           ,
           though
           sparingly
           by
           the
           pores
           ,
           and
           virtually
           ,
           if
           not
           formally
           by
           the
           Lungs
           ,
           may
           contribute
           much
           to
           this
           humour
           ,
           but
           more
           to
           the
           fermentation
           of
           the
           blood
           :
           that
           the
           air
           is
           impregnated
           with
           Salts
           ,
           
           the
           Learned
           Dr.
           Ente
           affirms
           and
           ascribes
           vegetation
           ,
           as
           also
           the
           production
           of
           various
           animals
           thereunto
           ,
           as
           the
           worthy
           Willis
           doth
           frost
           and
           ice
           :
           and
           't
           is
           asserted
           by
           Chymists
           that
           Caput
           Mortuum's
           lixivated
           ,
           if
           expos'd
           to
           the
           open
           air
           for
           a
           good
           space
           they
           shall
           re-attain
           their
           saline
           principle
           :
           and
           that
           salts
           cause
           fermentation
           in
           the
           blood
           ,
           hath
           been
           already
           noted
           .
           Yet
           one
           step
           further
           I
           may
           advance
           upon
           good
           ground
           ,
           and
           that
           is
           ,
           these
           salts
           may
           much
           renew
           the
           ferment
           of
           the
           stomach
           also
           in
           lieu
           of
           other
           condiments
           .
           
           Moreover
           the
           Liver
           being
           an
           ample
           bowell
           ,
           instructed
           with
           a
           great
           variety
           of
           vessels
           ,
           enrich'd
           with
           constant
           traffique
           from
           most
           of
           the
           Corporations
           in
           the
           Microcosm
           ,
           so
           curious
           in
           its
           elections
           and
           collections
           of
           the
           sulphuro-saline
           commodities
           so
           diligent
           in
           reconding
           them
           in
           a
           peculiar
           Cell
           ,
           and
           thence
           transmitting
           them
           to
           the
           intestines
           upon
           all
           occasions
           ;
           these
           severals
           ,
           I
           say
           ,
           considered
           ,
           it
           may
           be
           rationally
           inferr'd
           ,
           that
           't
           is
           not
           only
           helpful
           to
           the
           guts
           in
           their
           excretions
           ,
           but
           also
           in
           their
           fermentations
           ,
           whereby
           the
           chyle
           is
           rendred
           not
           only
           more
           fermentiscible
           in
           the
           blood
           ,
           but
           also
           more
           fermentesce●t
           thereunto
           .
           Yet
           Sir
           ,
           lest
           this
           lean
           meat
           should
           not
           satisfie
           your
           more
           delicate
           pallat
           ,
           I
           must
           advertise
           you
           ,
           that
           the
           blood
           in
           these
           persons
           must
           needs
           be
           sparing
           ,
           and
           therefore
           the
           lesser
           chyle
           may
           ferment
           it
           ,
           especially
           considering
           that
           their
           fermentations
           are
           but
           small
           ,
           as
           
           appears
           by
           the
           smalness
           of
           their
           heat
           ,
           and
           therefore
           pray
           do
           your self
           the
           right
           ,
           not
           to
           expect
           an
           account
           of
           robust
           ones
           .
        
         
           Seventhly
           ,
           The
           heart
           it self
           contributes
           much
           to
           this
           fermentation
           .
           'T
           is
           acknowledged
           by
           all
           that
           the
           circulation
           of
           the
           blood
           being
           a
           rapid
           motion
           through
           the
           indefatigable
           pulsation
           of
           the
           heart
           adds
           much
           to
           the
           fermentation
           ;
           we
           see
           that
           motion
           given
           to
           Wine
           ,
           Ale
           ,
           Cyder
           ,
           or
           Cream
           of
           Milk
           though
           sufficiently
           fermented
           ,
           will
           yet
           without
           a
           new
           ferment
           give
           a
           new
           fermentation
           .
           But
           Sir
           ,
           lest
           you
           should
           mistake
           me
           when
           I
           stumbled
           at
           an
           innate
           ferment
           in
           the
           heart
           ,
           and
           yet
           stood
           upon
           't
           that
           fermentation
           may
           be
           ascribed
           thereto
           ,
           let
           me
           unbosome
           my self
           ,
           that
           you
           may
           see
           what
           the
           heart
           contributes
           thereunto
           .
           First
           ,
           The
           heart
           is
           as
           it
           were
           a
           cistern
           into
           which
           the
           bloody
           veins
           ,
           milky
           veins
           ,
           and
           water
           veins
           ,
           or
           lymphaeducts
           by
           mutual
           consent
           deposite
           their
           multiform
           juices
           .
           Secondly
           ,
           It
           hath
           the
           force
           of
           a
           Mill
           by
           its
           quaquaverse
           fibres
           continually
           busied
           in
           their
           constrictions
           and
           dilatations
           to
           grind
           and
           make
           small
           the
           more
           crassy
           particles
           of
           the
           juices
           .
           Thirdly
           ,
           Of
           a
           Mortar
           wherein
           the
           more
           exact
           mixture
           of
           these
           different
           juices
           is
           highly
           promoted
           .
           Fourthly
           ,
           Of
           a
           ●inne
           expelling
           the
           blood
           sufficiently
           subacted
           ,
           and
           then
           to
           the
           further
           execution
           of
           its
           Offices
           ,
           but
           too
           too
           troublesome
           ;
           and
           by
           the
           way
           ,
           the
           burden
           of
           the
           blood
           may
           be
           one
           cause
           of
           its
           pulsation
           ,
           for
           't
           is
           said
           ,
           if
           a
           live
           heart
           be
           taken
           out
           of
           the
           body
           ,
           the
           prick
           of
           a
           Pin
           will
           renew
           its
           pulsation
           .
           Fifthly
           ,
           Of
           a
           Pump
           to
           give
           motion
           and
           according
           to
           the
           sanguiterious
           ducts
           to
           the
           several
           parts
           distribution
           of
           this
           juice
           adapted
           to
           nutrition
           .
           
           Sixthly
           ,
           Of
           a
           Loom
           wherein
           the
           blood
           is
           fermented
           .
           Seventhly
           ,
           Of
           a
           
           kind
           of
           Philosophical
           Furnace
           ,
           wherein
           a
           spirital
           Biolychnium
           is
           kindled
           ,
           I
           intend
           only
           a
           heat
           perchance
           caused
           only
           by
           the
           motion
           and
           fermentation
           aforesaid
           .
           Eighthly
           ,
           Of
           a
           Pelican
           to
           rarifie
           and
           exalt
           the
           vital
           spirits
           .
           Ninthly
           ,
           of
           an
           Alimbeck
           (
           not
           vulgar
           )
           whereby
           the
           spirits
           receive
           a
           kinde
           of
           separation
           (
           though
           yet
           they
           run
           with
           the
           blood
           )
           which
           being
           condensed
           in
           the
           Refrigeratory
           of
           the
           habit
           of
           the
           body
           (
           as
           the
           learned
           Walaeus
           expresseth
           it
           )
           are
           the
           more
           easily
           subject
           to
           the
           brains
           Philtration
           ,
           and
           the
           nerves
           preservation
           .
           Tenthly
           ,
           of
           a
           potential
           Philtre
           ,
           whereby
           there
           's
           made
           such
           a
           fegregation
           of
           homogeneous
           particles
           into
           their
           proper
           classes
           ,
           as
           renders
           the
           blood
           much
           more
           obedient
           to
           the
           colatures
           ,
           and
           emunctories
           of
           the
           body
           ;
           as
           runnet
           in
           the
           milk
           potentially
           separates
           the
           whey
           ,
           and
           prepares
           it
           for
           an
           actual
           separation
           by
           the
           sieve
           ;
           and
           in
           chymical
           preparations
           the
           acid
           liquor
           ,
           or
           diluteing
           large
           quantity
           of
           weakning
           water
           ,
           provoke
           a
           kinde
           of
           fermentation
           ,
           whereby
           the
           suspended
           atomes
           in
           the
           strong
           Menstruums
           are
           precipitated
           ,
           and
           so
           prepa●red
           for
           a
           more
           facile
           separation
           :
           so
           that
           indeed
           all
           the
           Engines
           in
           Natures
           shop
           depend
           mainly
           upon
           the
           right
           ●o●e
           ,
           texture
           ,
           and
           operation
           of
           the
           heart
           .
           From
           which
           it
           seems
           apparent
           to
           me
           (
           which
           yet
           I
           submit
           to
           clearer
           minds
           )
           that
           the
           heart
           is
           further
           serviceable
           to
           fermentation
           ,
           and
           other
           offices
           of
           Nature
           ,
           than
           meerly
           Pump-like
           to
           conciliate
           motion
           :
           which
           may
           be
           further
           confirmed
           by
           the
           site
           of
           the
           heart
           in
           the
           centre
           of
           the
           body
           ,
           as
           also
           by
           it's
           firmest
           muniments
           by
           which
           't
           is
           garrison'd
           on
           its
           back
           by
           the
           spine
           ,
           on
           its
           face
           by
           the
           sternum
           ,
           on
           its
           sides
           by
           the
           ribs
           ,
           under
           its
           feet
           by
           the
           diaphragme
           ,
           and
           over
           its
           head
           by
           the
           canopy
           of
           the
           pyramidall
           thorax
           ,
           and
           lastly
           by
           its
           bu●●-coat
           
           the
           Pericardium
           ;
           and
           which
           is
           not
           nothing
           ,
           the
           curious
           fabrick
           with
           various
           camerations
           ,
           the
           ret●form
           fibres
           and
           various
           passages
           ,
           the
           uniform
           procedure
           of
           Nature
           in
           the
           formation
           of
           the
           hearts
           of
           Animals
           ,
           whilest
           often
           it
           sports
           it self
           in
           the
           building
           of
           other
           parts
           ,
           and
           its
           primogeniture
           ,
           as
           appears
           by
           the
           〈◊〉
           
             vesi-cula
             palpitans
          
           first
           formed
           in
           Egges
           (
           according
           to
           the
           renowned
           Harvey
           )
           the
           rudiment
           of
           the
           heart
           ,
           and
           the
           bloods
           constant
           flux
           and
           reflux
           to
           and
           from
           the
           heart
           ,
           even
           then
           when
           the
           liver
           and
           lungs
           (
           though
           famous
           bowels
           )
           are
           pass'd
           by
           unsaluted
           in
           the
           circulation
           of
           Embryo's
           ;
           as
           also
           Natures
           great
           care
           to
           supply
           the
           defective
           passages
           of
           those
           viscera
           by
           
             foramen
             ovale
          
           in
           the
           septum
           of
           the
           heart
           ,
           lest
           the
           intercourse
           of
           the
           blood
           with
           the
           heart
           should
           be
           impeded
           ,
           which
           hole
           is
           yet
           afterwards
           precluded
           when
           the
           Infant
           is
           midwiv'd
           into
           a
           new
           World
           ;
           much
           of
           this
           curiosity
           of
           Nature
           about
           the
           heart
           ,
           seems
           utterly
           unnecessary
           ,
           if
           it
           serv'd
           only
           for
           motion
           ;
           but
           we
           are
           sure
           that
           God
           and
           Nature
           do
           nothing
           frustraneously
           .
           Neither
           am
           I
           yet
           satisfied
           ,
           that
           the
           whole
           of
           the
           bloods
           motion
           is
           to
           be
           ascribed
           to
           the
           hearts
           pulsation
           ;
           for
           Conringius
           affirms
           that
           in
           live
           dissections
           the
           blood
           strongly
           circulates
           a
           long
           time
           after
           the
           left
           ventricle
           hath
           lost
           its
           pulse
           ;
           yea
           though
           the
           heart
           be
           taken
           out
           ,
           yet
           presently
           is
           not
           the
           motion
           of
           the
           blood
           destroy'd
           ;
           which
           seems
           to
           be
           confirm'd
           by
           the
           experiment
           upon
           Frogs
           ,
           which
           leap
           so
           nimbly
           ,
           and
           swim
           so
           freely
           after
           their
           hearts
           are
           exempted
           ,
           that
           they
           cannot
           be
           known
           from
           unwounded
           Frogs
           that
           exercise
           in
           their
           company
           ;
           the
           story
           whereof
           that
           most
           dexterous
           Anatomist
           D.
           Needham
           hath
           published
           ;
           
           moreover
           ,
           if
           a
           Ligature
           be
           apply'd
           to
           a
           Vein
           or
           Artery
           ,
           whereby
           the
           pulse
           is
           intercepted
           with
           the
           undulation
           of
           the
           blood
           
           also
           ,
           yet
           the
           blood
           beyond
           the
           bond
           runs
           its
           course
           towards
           the
           heart
           ;
           and
           which
           is
           so
           much
           the
           more
           strange
           ,
           because
           't
           is
           the
           motion
           of
           a
           heavy
           body
           contrary
           to
           its
           natural
           tendency
           ,
           upward
           .
           Moreover
           ,
           if
           the
           pulse
           of
           the
           heart
           were
           the
           only
           cause
           of
           the
           motion
           of
           the
           blood
           ,
           why
           then
           is
           not
           the
           menstrual
           blood
           thrust
           into
           other
           parts
           as
           well
           as
           into
           the
           uterine
           ?
           sith
           the
           other
           parts
           equally
           with
           these
           receive
           the
           constant
           force
           of
           the
           hearts
           even
           pulsations
           and
           impartial
           distributions
           ;
           likewise
           we
           see
           that
           the
           animal
           spirits
           in
           the
           nerves
           ,
           with
           their
           juice
           ,
           the
           Lympha
           in
           its
           ducts
           ,
           the
           Chyle
           in
           its
           thoracicks
           ,
           the
           Seed
           in
           its
           seminals
           ,
           the
           Urine
           in
           the
           ureters
           ,
           and
           the
           Flegme
           in
           its
           pituitary
           Vessels
           are
           all
           in
           motion
           without
           the
           force
           of
           any
           such
           Engine
           to
           give
           the
           origen
           thereto
           .
           Whereupon
           I
           am
           apt
           to
           conjecture
           ,
           that
           Nature
           hath
           furnished
           several
           parts
           with
           an
           attractive
           power
           ,
           the
           blood
           with
           fermentation
           ,
           and
           several
           Vessels
           with
           a
           kinde
           of
           Vermicular
           motion
           of
           their
           own
           (
           no
           doubt
           excited
           by
           the
           nerves
           )
           the
           Porta
           with
           Asinus
           in
           the
           Liver
           ,
           which
           serves
           for
           a
           Pump
           ,
           and
           the
           Cava
           (
           or
           one
           part
           it
           )
           with
           a
           pulsifick
           energy
           (
           by
           which
           blood
           is
           thrust
           into
           the
           right
           ventricle
           ,
           as
           the
           learned
           Walaeus
           asserts
           )
           by
           which
           the
           motion
           of
           humours
           is
           promoted
           ;
           and
           consequently
           that
           the
           rareness
           of
           the
           structure
           ,
           unweariedness
           of
           the
           pu●sations
           of
           the
           heart
           ,
           &c.
           are
           designed
           to
           some
           higher
           ends
           ,
           than
           meerly
           ,
           and
           as
           such
           ,
           to
           give
           motion
           ,
           though
           that
           it
           doth
           with
           an
           Emphasis
           .
        
         
           Fourthly
           ,
           How
           can
           Spirits
           both
           vital
           and
           animal
           be
           prepared
           and
           separated
           without
           food
           ,
           and
           frequent
           fermentations
           ?
           ●
           .
           I.
           Whether
           there
           be
           a
           flux
           of
           animal
           spirits
           through
           the
           
             genus
             nervosum
          
           seems
           yet
           not
           fully
           resolv'd
           ;
           and
           if
           no
           flux
           then
           the
           waste
           is
           small
           ,
           and
           
           a
           small
           reparation
           may
           supply
           a
           small
           waste
           ;
           but
           I
           confess
           ,
           I
           understand
           not
           how
           Narcotick
           fumes
           ,
           nor
           redundant
           humours
           restagnating
           in
           the
           brain
           can
           cause
           an
           Apoplexy
           ,
           Epilepsie
           ,
           Palsie
           ,
           &c.
           in
           the
           whole
           body
           ,
           if
           there
           be
           no
           flux
           of
           spirits
           from
           the
           brain
           ;
           nor
           how
           the
           hurt
           from
           a
           Coach
           in
           the
           seventh
           Vertebre
           of
           the
           back
           (
           mention'd
           by
           great
           Galen
           )
           could
           cause
           a
           Palsey
           in
           three
           singers
           ;
           nor
           why
           we
           anoint
           the
           Vertebres
           of
           the
           back
           for
           Palseys
           in
           the
           extreme
           parts
           ,
           if
           there
           be
           no
           flux
           of
           spirits
           .
           2.
           
           Supposing
           a
           flux
           of
           animal
           spirits
           through
           the
           nervous
           systeme
           ,
           yet
           (
           according
           to
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           famous
           Dr.
           Wharton
           )
           much
           of
           the
           nervous
           juice
           separated
           by
           the
           glandules
           ,
           
           is
           returned
           by
           the
           veins
           and
           Lymphaticks
           ,
           and
           so
           not
           lost
           ,
           though
           ense●bled
           by
           its
           peregrination
           ;
           and
           more
           yet
           deposited
           (
           according
           to
           Dr.
           Willis
           the
           great
           Reformer
           of
           Physick
           )
           by
           the
           extremity
           of
           the
           nerves
           in
           the
           habit
           of
           the
           body
           ,
           is
           again
           retriv'd
           by
           the
           Lymphaticks
           ,
           which
           serving
           in
           our
           Abstinents
           little
           or
           nothing
           to
           assimulation
           (
           only
           somewhat
           to
           the
           cherishing
           of
           the
           implanted
           spirits
           )
           is
           the
           more
           plentifully
           return'd
           and
           so
           the
           loss
           (
           thus
           far
           forth
           )
           less
           considerable
           than
           ordinary
           ▪
           3.
           
           'T
           is
           apparent
           that
           there
           's
           a
           decay
           of
           these
           spirits
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           an
           obstruction
           in
           most
           of
           these
           Abstinents
           ,
           as
           witnesseth
           their
           great
           inability
           to
           motion
           ▪
           4.
           
           The
           fermentations
           mentioned
           before
           ,
           though
           small
           may
           contribute
           something
           to
           the
           encrease
           of
           these
           spirits
           ;
           for
           Chymists
           know
           that
           there
           are
           few
           juices
           so
           〈◊〉
           ,
           so
           sterile
           ,
           but
           by
           the
           help
           of
           fermentation
           may
           yield
           a
           not
           contemptible
           spirit
           .
           5.
           
           Those
           spirits
           that
           pass
           from
           the
           brain
           to
           the
           extremity
           of
           the
           body
           ,
           and
           thence
           returned
           as
           before
           by
           the
           Lymphaticks
           ,
           and
           that
           more
           for●eably
           and
           plentifully
           being
           reflected
           by
           the
           impervious
           cold
           and
           constipated
           skin
           seem
           rather
           tyred
           than
           exhausted
           ,
           
           which
           may
           by
           the
           small
           ferments
           aforementioned
           ,
           the
           contritions
           mixtions
           ,
           and
           exaltations
           of
           the
           heart
           ,
           and
           the
           perpetual
           motions
           of
           the
           scarlet
           liquor
           be
           rarifi'd
           and
           volatiliz'd
           to
           do
           at
           a
           dead
           lift
           further
           good
           service
           .
           6.
           
           'T
           is
           notorious
           ,
           that
           sents
           do
           hugely
           affect
           the
           brain
           ;
           as
           to
           instance
           in
           Apoplexies
           ,
           hysterical
           passions
           ,
           and
           in
           some
           sort
           of
           Syncopes
           and
           Cephalalgies
           common
           practice
           doth
           demonstrate
           ;
           so
           then
           if
           feeding
           animals
           perceive
           such
           strange
           alterations
           by
           odoriferous
           exhalations
           (
           as
           of
           
             Assa
             faetida
             ,
             Galbanum
             ,
             Verrucae
             Equinae
             ,
          
           &c.
           which
           according
           to
           the
           prodigious
           invention
           of
           the
           most
           Philosophical
           Dr.
           Willis
           are
           able
           to
           restrain
           the
           most
           violent
           explosions
           (
           like
           those
           of
           Gunpowder
           ,
           than
           which
           none
           more
           violent
           )
           of
           the
           Nitro-sulphurous
           atomes
           with
           which
           in
           spasmodick
           distempers
           the
           nervous
           juice
           is
           impregnated
           ,
           (
           and
           by
           which
           it
           's
           reduc'd
           to
           the
           greatest
           disorders
           )
           why
           may
           not
           these
           Abstinents
           be
           reliev'd
           by
           such
           enriched
           fumes
           also
           ?
        
         
           Fifthly
           ,
           
           without
           sleep
           no
           long
           life
           ,
           and
           without
           food
           no
           sleep
           ;
           for
           say
           the
           Ancients
           ,
           sleep
           is
           the
           binding
           up
           of
           the
           first
           Sensorium
           ,
           
           or
           common
           sence
           caused
           by
           the
           food
           digesting
           in
           the
           stomach
           ,
           elevating
           its
           fumes
           to
           the
           brain
           ,
           which
           there
           condensing
           stop
           the
           passages
           of
           the
           animal
           spirits
           ,
           whereby
           they
           are
           detained
           from
           their
           just
           visitations
           ,
           whence
           the
           senses
           are
           disenabled
           for
           the
           execution
           of
           their
           offices
           .
           R.
           1.
           
           'T
           is
           not
           certain
           that
           sleep
           is
           absolutely
           necessary
           to
           life
           ,
           for
           we
           read
           of
           many
           that
           liv'd
           waking
           :
           
           'T
           is
           said
           that
           Ramus
           studied
           Philosophy
           so
           uncessantly
           ,
           that
           he
           became
           blinde
           ,
           or
           deaf
           ,
           or
           both
           ,
           through
           defect
           of
           sleep
           .
           Bhasis
           watched
           so
           long
           at
           his
           study
           of
           Physick
           till
           at
           last
           he
           could
           not
           sleep
           at
           all
           ;
           likewise
           a
           Doctor
           of
           the
           Law
           studyed
           so
           indefatigably
           ,
           that
           
           he
           never
           laid
           his
           eye-lids
           together
           for
           four
           months
           ;
           yet
           all
           recovered
           by
           the
           use
           of
           Hypnoticks
           .
           The
           most
           inquisitive
           Galenist
           Fernelius
           reports
           a
           certain
           man
           to
           have
           surviv'd
           14
           moneths
           waking
           .
           The
           grave
           Heurnius
           relateth
           a
           story
           ,
           from
           (
           he
           saith
           )
           a
           truly
           learned
           man
           
             Ierom
             Montuus
          
           ,
           of
           a
           Noble
           Matron
           that
           lived
           35
           years
           without
           sleep
           ,
           nor
           hurt
           thereby
           ;
           and
           of
           another
           that
           lived
           10
           years
           waking
           .
           Seneca
           reports
           that
           Maecenas
           lived
           three
           years
           without
           sleep
           ,
           and
           at
           last
           was
           recovered
           by
           musick
           .
           2.
           
           But
           I
           affirm
           not
           that
           our
           Jejunants
           are
           Vigilants
           ,
           and
           therefore
           adde
           ,
           that
           though
           these
           persons
           receive
           no
           external
           food
           ,
           yet
           airy
           condensations
           and
           concretions
           ,
           the
           flegmatick
           humours
           ,
           colliquations
           of
           the
           parts
           ,
           &c.
           afford
           matter
           for
           such
           vapours
           ,
           and
           so
           much
           the
           more
           plentifully
           ,
           because
           they
           are
           environ'd
           with
           a
           thick
           wall
           ,
           whose
           very
           ●revises
           ,
           and
           much
           more
           gates
           ,
           and
           publick
           out-lets
           ,
           are
           so
           close
           shut
           up
           and
           barricado'd
           ,
           that
           these
           troops
           of
           Exhalations
           that
           were
           wont
           to
           be
           dispersed
           ,
           are
           now
           crouded
           together
           ,
           which
           assaulting
           the
           brain
           may
           do
           much
           to
           bind
           up
           her
           common
           sense
           .
           3.
           
           It
           seems
           probable
           by
           Apoplectical
           Dormitators
           that
           a
           cold
           humour
           lodged
           in
           the
           brain
           is
           a
           great
           causer
           of
           sleep
           ;
           and
           why
           such
           a
           humour
           may
           not
           lodge
           in
           a
           sufficient
           proportion
           in
           these
           constipated
           brains
           to
           procure
           intermitting
           sleeps
           ,
           I
           see
           not
           .
           4.
           
           'T
           is
           apparent
           that
           Narcoticks
           ,
           as
           Opium
           ,
           and
           in
           their
           measure
           ,
           Wines
           ,
           Tobacco
           ,
           &c.
           provoke
           sleep
           ,
           not
           by
           any
           cold
           quality
           ,
           for
           they
           are
           all
           prov'd
           to
           be
           hot
           ,
           but
           (
           't
           is
           probable
           )
           by
           adding
           such
           a
           ferment
           to
           the
           blood
           ,
           as
           renders
           the
           spirits
           separated
           in
           the
           brain
           more
           torpid
           ,
           ignave
           ,
           and
           consequently
           inept
           to
           motion
           ,
           and
           the
           execution
           of
           their
           offices
           ;
           or
           ,
           (
           which
           is
           almost
           the
           same
           thing
           )
           as
           renders
           the
           blood
           
           inept
           for
           separation
           of
           spirits
           in
           the
           brains
           Alembick
           ,
           whence
           the
           wearied
           spirits
           for
           want
           of
           fresh
           supplies
           are
           be●almed
           and
           quiescent
           .
           So
           then
           if
           the
           humours
           in
           the
           bodies
           of
           these
           Abstinents
           should
           haply
           partake
           of
           these
           Narcotick
           sulphurs
           ,
           they
           may
           prove
           somniferous
           without
           the
           elevation
           of
           fumes
           from
           digesting
           food
           .
           But
           Sir
           ,
           lest
           you
           should
           be
           startled
           at
           this
           unphilosophical
           discourse
           ,
           in
           representing
           sleep
           rather
           as
           a
           non-emission
           of
           spirits
           from
           the
           brains
           ,
           than
           a
           non-immission
           of
           them
           to
           the
           brain
           from
           the
           external
           sences
           ,
           and
           consequently
           as
           a
           negation
           of
           action
           rather
           than
           of
           passion
           ,
           I
           crave
           leave
           to
           minde
           you
           ,
           that
           I
           am
           not
           only
           deficient
           in
           the
           beard
           ,
           but
           much
           more
           in
           the
           brain
           of
           some
           very
           great
           Philosophers
           who
           rank
           not
           only
           the
           external
           sences
           but
           the
           first
           internal
           or
           common
           sence
           in
           the
           predicament
           of
           passions
           ;
           which
           I
           confess
           I
           cannot
           understand
           ,
           because
           I
           know
           ,
           that
           when
           devout
           persons
           are
           taken
           up
           in
           divine
           services
           ,
           though
           their
           eyes
           be
           wide
           open
           ,
           and
           presented
           with
           various
           objects
           ,
           yet
           they
           see
           them
           not
           ,
           because
           they
           mind
           them
           not
           ;
           likewise
           when
           diligent
           Students
           are
           intent
           on
           their
           books
           ,
           they
           hear
           not
           the
           Clock
           that
           strikes
           at
           their
           ears
           ;
           and
           sound
           sleepers
           with
           lethargical
           persons
           feel
           not
           the
           pulling
           and
           haling
           of
           their
           friends
           that
           would
           awake
           them
           ,
           &c.
           
           From
           whence
           I
           conjecture
           ,
           that
           though
           objects
           act
           
             ad
             ultimum
             virium
          
           upon
           the
           external
           sences
           in
           imprinting
           their
           species
           ,
           yet
           that
           causeth
           not
           sensation
           ,
           except
           there
           be
           an
           actual
           attendance
           of
           the
           sensitive
           spirits
           upon
           the
           sensible
           objects
           ,
           a
           framing
           of
           their
           effigies
           or
           species
           ,
           and
           a
           conveyance
           thereof
           to
           the
           understanding
           .
           Can
           you
           imagine
           that
           Columbus
           his
           journey
           to
           the
           Indies
           ,
           his
           surveying
           that
           unknown
           World
           ,
           and
           returning
           a
           map
           thereof
           to
           his
           own
           Countrey-men
           ,
           was
           a
           meer
           passion
           of
           his
           ,
           and
           only
           
           the
           action
           of
           a
           novel
           Jig
           of
           American
           Atoms
           ?
           or
           Camden's
           perambulation
           through
           all
           the
           Coasts
           of
           this
           Island
           ,
           with
           his
           observations
           thereon
           ,
           which
           he
           digested
           into
           a
           valuable
           volume
           ,
           was
           meerly
           his
           suffering
           ,
           but
           wholly
           the
           doing
           of
           subtile
           spirits
           ,
           and
           aethereal
           globules
           magically
           charm'd
           into
           a
           once
           happy
           combination
           .
           But
           to
           return
           ,
           5.
           
           Cold
           juices
           ,
           as
           of
           Housleek
           ,
           Lettuce
           ,
           Violets
           ,
           &c.
           will
           conduce
           to
           our
           sleep
           ,
           and
           't
           is
           not
           to
           be
           doubted
           but
           the
           Juices
           in
           these
           bodies
           may
           be
           cold
           enough
           to
           effect
           the
           same
           .
           6.
           
           The
           animal
           spirits
           in
           these
           persons
           being
           but
           languid
           ,
           are
           the
           less
           active
           ,
           and
           consequently
           can
           give
           the
           fewer
           repulses
           to
           the
           insinuating
           courtships
           of
           somniferous
           causes
           .
           7.
           
           The
           spirits
           of
           these
           languishers
           (
           't
           is
           probable
           )
           are
           scant
           and
           defective
           ,
           and
           therefore
           easily
           tyred
           by
           their
           constant
           operations
           ,
           and
           consequently
           easily
           perswaded
           either
           by
           a
           command
           of
           the
           Heaven-born
           Soul
           ,
           or
           an
           Exhalation
           from
           the
           earthy
           body
           to
           yield
           to
           this
           temporary
           death
           .
           8.
           
           Great
           security
           of
           minde
           ,
           pleasing
           Fancies
           ,
           either
           from
           Imagination
           (
           such
           as
           some
           of
           these
           are
           said
           to
           be
           swell'd
           withall
           )
           or
           from
           the
           sences
           affected
           by
           Musick
           ,
           dropping
           waters
           ,
           gliding
           Rivers
           ,
           whistling
           winds
           ,
           &c.
           are
           usuall
           promoters
           of
           insensation
           .
           By
           all
           which
           you
           may
           perceive
           that
           there
           are
           more
           doors
           〈◊〉
           our
           Bedchambers
           than
           one
           .
        
         
           Thus
           Sir
           ,
           to
           satisfie
           your
           curiosity
           ,
           I
           have
           travel'd
           somewhat
           an
           unbeaten
           ,
           yet
           not
           altogether
           unpleasant
           path
           ,
           and
           that
           I
           might
           not
           return
           these
           fruits
           of
           my
           travels
           as
           jejune
           and
           sterile
           as
           the
           Countrey
           visited
           ,
           I
           have
           therefore
           taken
           a
           slight
           view
           of
           some
           of
           the
           Monuments
           of
           Antiquity
           ,
           as
           also
           of
           the
           stately
           superstructures
           of
           the
           new
           modell
           that
           occurred
           in
           our
           Journey
           ;
           yet
           there
           is
           one
           thing
           remaining
           that
           should
           have
           been
           premised
           ;
           and
           that
           is
           an
           exact
           history
           of
           
           our
           Damosell
           ,
           but
           that
           you
           cannot
           expect
           ,
           because
           you
           did
           not
           demand
           ,
           and
           I
           suppose
           you
           did
           not
           demand
           ,
           because
           you
           knew
           I
           was
           unable
           to
           perform
           ;
           yet
           that
           I
           might
           not
           seem
           to
           build
           on
           the
           sands
           ,
           I
           shall
           present
           you
           with
           a
           short
           Narrative
           receiv'd
           since
           I
           began
           this
           Discourse
           ,
           from
           a
           person
           of
           known
           ingenuity
           and
           honesty
           ,
           and
           therefore
           most
           worthy
           of
           credit
           .
        
         
           
             This
             Abstinent
             is
             one
             
               Martha
               Taylor
            
             a
             young
             Damosell
             ,
             born
             of
             mean
             Parentage
             ,
             inhabiting
             not
             far
             from
             Bakewell
             in
             Darbyshire
             ,
             who
             receiving
             a
             blow
             on
             the
             back
             from
             a
             Milner
             ,
             became
             a
             prisoner
             to
             her
             bed
             for
             several
             dayes
             ,
             which
             being
             expired
             ,
             she
             obtained
             some
             enlargement
             for
             a
             time
             ,
             but
             by
             encreasing
             distempers
             was
             quickly
             remanded
             to
             her
             bed-prison
             again
             ;
             where
             continuing
             some
             time
             ,
             she
             found
             at
             last
             a
             defect
             in
             her
             Gula
             ,
             and
             quickly
             after
             a
             dejection
             of
             appetite
             ,
             so
             that
             about
             the
             22.
             of
             
               December
               ,
               Anno
            
             1667.
             she
             began
             to
             abstain
             from
             all
             solid
             food
             ,
             and
             so
             hath
             continued
             (
             except
             something
             so
             small
             at
             the
             seldome
             ebbings
             of
             her
             distemper
             as
             is
             altogether
             inconsiderable
             )
             till
             within
             a
             fortnight
             before
             the
             date
             hereof
             ,
             which
             amounts
             to
             thirteen
             months
             and
             upwards
             ;
             as
             also
             from
             all
             other
             sorts
             both
             of
             meats
             and
             drinks
             ,
             except
             now
             and
             then
             a
             few
             drops
             of
             the
             Syrup
             of
             stew'd
             Prunes
             ,
             Water
             and
             Sugar
             ,
             or
             the
             juice
             of
             a
             roasted
             Raisin
             ,
             &c.
             but
             these
             repasts
             are
             used
             so
             seldom
             ,
             and
             in
             such
             very
             small
             quantities
             ,
             as
             are
             prodigiously
             insufficient
             for
             sustentation
             ;
             she
             evacuates
             nothing
             by
             urine
             ,
             or
             stool
             ,
             she
             spits
             not
             that
             I
             can
             hear
             of
             ,
             but
             her
             lips
             are
             often
             dry
             ,
             for
             which
             cause
             she
             takes
             water
             and
             sugar
             with
             a
             feather
             ,
             or
             
             some
             other
             Liquids
             ,
             but
             the
             palms
             of
             her
             hands
             are
             often
             moist
             ,
             her
             countenance
             fresh
             and
             lively
             ,
             her
             voice
             cleer
             and
             audible
             ,
             in
             discourse
             she
             's
             free
             ,
             her
             belly
             ●●ap'd
             to
             her
             back-bone
             ,
             so
             that
             it
             may
             be
             felt
             through
             her
             Intestines
             ,
             whence
             a
             great
             cavity
             is
             admitted
             from
             the
             
               Gartilago
               ensiformis
            
             to
             the
             Navil
             ,
             and
             though
             her
             upper
             parts
             be
             less
             emaciated
             (
             though
             much
             too
             )
             yet
             her
             lower
             parts
             are
             very
             languid
             ,
             and
             inept
             for
             motion
             ,
             and
             the
             skin
             thereof
             de●iled
             with
             a
             dry
             pruriginous
             scurf
             ,
             for
             which
             of
             late
             they
             have
             washed
             them
             with
             milk
             ;
             she
             sleeps
             so
             sparingly
             ,
             that
             once
             she
             continued
             five
             weeks
             waking
             :
             I
             hear
             nothing
             of
             any
             extraordinary
             previous
             sanctity
             ,
             though
             since
             her
             affliction
             ,
             being
             confin'd
             to
             her
             bed
             (
             which
             lyeth
             in
             a
             lower
             room
             ,
             by
             the
             fire-side
             )
             she
             hath
             learn'd
             to
             read
             ,
             and
             being
             visited
             so
             plentifully
             by
             the
             curious
             from
             many
             parts
             ,
             as
             also
             by
             the
             Religious
             of
             all
             perswasions
             ,
             she
             hath
             attain'd
             some
             knowledge
             in
             sacred
             Mysteries
             ,
             but
             nothing
             of
             Enthusiasm
             that
             she
             pretends
             unto
             .
             And
             lest
             she
             should
             prove
             a
             Cheat
             ,
             she
             hath
             been
             diligently
             watch'd
             by
             Physitians
             ,
             Surgeons
             ,
             and
             other
             persons
             ,
             for
             at
             least
             a
             fortnight
             together
             ,
             by
             the
             appointment
             of
             the
             Noble
             Earl
             of
             Devon
             ;
             as
             is
             already
             publish'd
             by
             Mr.
             Robins
             B.
             of
             D.
             that
             is
             ,
             Ballad-maker
             of
             Darby
             ,
             whose
             Ballad
             (
             they
             say
             )
             doth
             much
             excell
             his
             Book
             .
             Likewise
             several
             other
             persons
             at
             other
             times
             have
             been
             pleas'd
             to
             watch
             for
             their
             own
             satisfaction
             ,
             who
             detecting
             no
             fraud
             ,
             have
             given
             the
             account
             above
             mention'd
             ,
             which
             was
             for
             the
             main
             confirm'd
             to
             me
             by
             a
             Sophy
             ,
             the
             renown
             of
             whose
             wisdom
             hath
             often
             made
             England
             to
             ring
             ,
             who
             assured
             me
             ,
             that
             he
             had
             an
             exact
             account
             of
             her
             .
          
        
         
         
           This
           story
           being
           born
           thus
           out
           of
           due
           time
           ,
           it
           may
           seem
           necessary
           to
           make
           some
           reflections
           therefrom
           on
           the
           precedent
           discourse
           .
           And
           1.
           her
           Age
           confirms
           the
           probability
           of
           a
           ferment
           in
           the
           seminals
           .
           2.
           
           An
           antipathy
           to
           meat
           was
           not
           the
           promoter
           of
           the
           Tragedy
           ,
           but
           an
           inability
           to
           swallow
           .
           3.
           
           Her
           assumptions
           of
           Liquors
           ,
           though
           seldom
           and
           slender
           ,
           contribute
           not
           only
           to
           a
           petite
           concoction
           in
           the
           Ventricle
           ,
           but
           also
           to
           a
           fermentation
           in
           the
           Heart
           .
           4.
           
           Her
           restrained
           Evacuations
           by
           Urine
           and
           Stool
           adde
           much
           to
           her
           moisture
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           to
           our
           trouble
           to
           render
           the
           assumption
           and
           non-evacuation
           consistent
           :
           to
           the
           performance
           whereof
           ,
           let
           it
           be
           remembred
           ,
           that
           in
           this
           respect
           she
           was
           formerly
           compar'd
           to
           Embrio's
           ,
           who
           use
           no
           excretion
           by
           the
           fundament
           ,
           but
           retain
           in
           their
           Intestines
           the
           more
           crass
           feculencies
           ,
           till
           the
           time
           of
           their
           exclusion
           the
           uterine
           embraces
           ;
           which
           is
           the
           rather
           to
           be
           admitted
           ,
           because
           she
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           they
           ,
           receives
           nothing
           but
           liquids
           ;
           only
           in
           this
           she
           differs
           ,
           they
           evacuate
           by
           the
           Urachus
           into
           the
           Allantoides
           their
           urinal
           excrement
           ,
           but
           she
           hath
           no
           excretion
           of
           Urine
           at
           all
           :
           the
           defect
           whereof
           may
           yet
           be
           supply'd
           by
           these
           three
           advantages
           which
           she
           hath
           above
           them
           ,
           as
           is
           her
           expiration
           ,
           extraordinary
           transpiration
           in
           the
           palms
           of
           her
           hands
           ,
           and
           the
           far
           smaller
           quantity
           of
           Liquors
           that
           she
           receives
           .
           5.
           
           Her
           non-excretion
           ,
           and
           the
           driness
           of
           her
           mouth
           ,
           argue
           the
           remanding
           of
           the
           humours
           to
           the
           further
           services
           of
           Nature
           .
           6.
           
           The
           Atrophy
           of
           the
           parts
           ,
           and
           inability
           to
           motion
           ,
           seem
           to
           argue
           a
           defect
           of
           nervous
           juice
           and
           animal
           spirits
           ;
           which
           weakens
           the
           necessity
           of
           our
           giving
           a
           perfect
           
           account
           how
           Nature
           may
           be
           compleatly
           sustain'd
           in
           the
           absence
           of
           food
           .
           7.
           
           Her
           impetiginous
           Eruptions
           argue
           the
           saltness
           of
           her
           blood
           ,
           which
           addes
           the
           greater
           probability
           to
           the
           several
           saline
           Ferments
           mentioned
           before
           .
           8.
           
           Her
           sparing
           sleep
           shews
           not
           only
           the
           no-necessity
           of
           the
           ordinary
           measures
           of
           healthfull
           Dormitators
           ,
           but
           also
           that
           sleep
           may
           be
           conciliated
           otherwise
           than
           by
           the
           powerfull
           mediation
           of
           fuming
           food
           .
           9.
           
           There
           's
           no
           cause
           from
           any
           antecedent
           sanctity
           to
           ascribe
           this
           mirandous
           production
           to
           miraculous
           causes
           .
           10.
           
           Her
           abode
           in
           a
           lower
           Room
           doth
           accommodate
           her
           with
           a
           moister
           Air
           ,
           which
           is
           more
           generative
           of
           humours
           ,
           11.
           
           Her
           propinquity
           to
           the
           Fire
           conduceth
           to
           the
           extraneous
           reception
           of
           igneous
           Atoms
           .
           12.
           
           Her
           non-pretensions
           to
           Revelations
           ,
           and
           the
           constant
           visits
           she
           receives
           from
           persons
           of
           all
           forms
           ,
           may
           serve
           to
           occlude
           not
           only
           the
           mouths
           that
           are
           so
           unevangelical
           as
           to
           cry
           her
           up
           for
           a
           Miracle
           ,
           but
           those
           also
           that
           are
           so
           unphilosophical
           as
           to
           cry
           her
           down
           for
           the
           cheat
           of
           a
           Faction
           .
        
         
           Now
           Sir
           ,
           should
           I
           take
           my
           hand
           from
           the
           Table
           ,
           did
           I
           not
           suspect
           that
           some
           one
           may
           possibly
           reply
           upon
           me
           ,
           and
           say
           ,
           If
           I
           take
           it
           to
           be
           possible
           to
           live
           without
           food
           ,
           't
           is
           a
           wonder
           I
           fall
           not
           my self
           to
           this
           piece
           of
           frugality
           ;
           I
           therefore
           adde
           ,
           though
           with
           this
           jejune
           Table
           one
           may
           possibly
           live
           ,
           yet
           it
           follows
           not
           that
           I
           can
           ,
           for
           according
           to
           the
           old
           Saw
           ,
           
             that
             which
             is
             one
             mans
             meat
             is
             another
             mans
             poyson
             :
          
           And
           even
           in
           Physick
           't
           is
           affirm'd
           by
           that
           noble
           Philosopher
           
             Esq
          
           Boyle
           (
           a
           worthy
           Fellow
           of
           the
           Royall
           Society
           ,
           of
           whose
           admirable
           designs
           I
           would
           you
           should
           know
           that
           I
           am
           a
           great
           admirer
           )
           that
           
           some
           medicines
           as
           particularly
           ,
           
           Salt
           of
           Amber
           is
           effectual
           for
           Epileptical
           Children
           ;
           not
           so
           for
           adult
           Epilepticks
           ;
           and
           the
           deserving
           Dr.
           Castle
           affirms
           ,
           that
           
             Mercur.
             dulc
          
           .
           is
           more
           safe
           for
           children
           ,
           than
           grown
           persons
           ,
           especially
           if
           irrigated
           with
           acidities
           .
           But
           Sir
           ,
           
           I
           finde
           my self
           launching
           into
           a
           wide
           Sea
           ,
           I
           shall
           therefore
           tack
           about
           to
           do
           my
           Devoire
           ,
           and
           crave
           your
           acceptance
           of
           this
           slender
           Offering
           ,
           and
           your
           
             quietus
             est
          
           for
           the
           present
           ,
           giving
           you
           assurance
           that
           in
           so
           doing
           you
           may
           hereafter
           command
        
         
           
             SIR
             ,
          
           
             King-Norton
             .
             
               Feb.
               25.
               1668.
               
            
          
           
             Your
             Observant
             Servant
             ,
             
               Jo.
               Reynolds
            
             .
          
        
      
    
     
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A57186-e370
           
             a
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Acts
             7.
             22.
             
          
           
             b
             Exod.
             34.
             28.
             
          
           
             c
             1
             King.
             19.
             8.
             
          
           
             d
             Matth.
             4.
             2.
             
          
           
             e
             August
             .
             in
             Epist.
             86.
             ad
             〈◊〉
             .
          
           
             f
             〈◊〉
             l.
             14.
             c.
             45.
             
          
           
             g
             〈◊〉
             l.
             6.
             〈◊〉
             c.
             1.
             
          
           
             h
             〈…〉
             p.
             〈◊〉
             .
             hist.
             p.
             914.
             
          
           
             i
             Sennert
             .
             pract
             .
             l.
             3.
             par
             .
             1.
             
             S●cl
             .
             2.
             c.
             2.
             de
             lo●â
             abstin
             .
             p.
             383.
             
          
           
             k
             〈…〉
             ubi
             supra
             .
             Plutarch
             .
             in
             Symp●
             &
             l.
             de
             〈◊〉
             in
             orb
             :
             〈◊〉
             
          
           
             l
             〈…〉
             
          
           
             m
             1
             Cor.
             14.
             22.
             
          
           
             n
             2
             Cor.
             12.
             3.
             
          
           
             o
             Si
             hujusmodi
             limitatiosis
             causa
             inquiratu●
             ,
             di●imus
             ,
             quod
             naturae
             pa●ers
             pos●it
             i●
             primoge
             to
             cujusque
             r●i
             s●mi●e
             ta
             lem
             spi●itus
             salis
             &
             s●lp●●ris
             copiam
             quae
             pro●●●
             eadis
             ●●times
             corporum
             stam●●ibus
             ,
             se●●●camenti
             s●ssi●●ret
             .
             
               Willes
               de
               ferment
               .
               p.
            
             48.
             49
             
          
           
             p
             Sanctor
             .
             de
             staticá
             medici●a
             .
          
           
             q
             River
             .
             instit
             .
             med
             .
             l.
             1.
             
             Sect.
             4.
             c.
             3.
             de
             calido
             innato
             .
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             
               Arist.
               de
               respir.
            
             
          
           
             r
             Willis
             de
             morbis
             coavuls
             .
             p.
             175.
             
             Netdham
             de
             form●o
             f●ctu
             ,
             p.
             138.
             
             Ioweri
             diatribae
             ,
             p.
             115.
             
             Ferael
             .
             de
             abdit
             .
             l.
             2.
             c.
             7.
             
          
           
             s
             Riverius
             ubi
             supra
             .
          
           
             t
             Needham
             de
             format
             .
             foetu
             .
             
               p.
               129
               ,
               &c.
            
             
          
           
             u
             Willis
             de
             Fermeat
             ,
             p.
             66.
             
          
           
             x
             Willis
             de
             ●●br
             .
             p.
             103.
             
          
           
             Willis
             de
             Fer●
             .
             p.
             8
             66.
             
             French's
             Art
             of
             Distillation
             ,
             p.
             148.
             
          
           
             Ioh.
             Baptist.
             Porta
             .
             Card.
             de
             subtilitate
             .
          
           
             Ludovic
             .
             Vives
             i●
             l.
             21.
             c.
             6.
             de
             Civitat
             .
             Dei
             Augustin
             .
          
           
             Guido
             Pancirollus
             .
          
           
             Se●●ert
             .
             pract
             .
             l.
             3.
             pa●l
             .
             1.
             
             Sect.
             2.
             de
             lo●ga
             absti●●tià
             .
          
           
             〈◊〉
             Art
             of
             〈…〉
             
          
           
             〈…〉
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
          
           
             N●e●h
             .
             de
             form
             .
             〈◊〉
             p.
             132.
             〈◊〉
             de
             s●b
             .
             p.
             113.
             
          
           
             Cast●●'s
             Chym.
             Gal.
             p.
             81
             ,
             82.
             
          
           
             Wi●lis
             de
             〈◊〉
             .
             p.
             24
             ,
             25.
             ●e
             〈◊〉
             .
             101
             ,
             102
             ,
             113.
             
          
           
             Low●●
             Diatr
             .
             p.
             121
             ,
             124.
             
             Castle
             's
             Chym.
             Gal.
             p.
             81
             ,
             82.
             
          
           
             〈…〉
             
          
           
             〈◊〉
             .
             foet
             .
             132.
             
          
           
             Ste●o
             de
             Muse.
             &
             Gland
             .
          
           
             De
             ferm
             .
          
           
             〈…〉
             
          
           
             De
             〈◊〉
             p.
             〈…〉
             .
          
           
             〈…〉
             .
             c.
             20.
             p.
             139.
             
          
           
             Apolog.
             〈…〉
             .
             p.
             93.
             
          
           
             〈…〉
             
          
           
             Walaeus
             i●
             Meth.
             〈◊〉
             .
          
           
             De
             format
             .
             foetu
             ▪
             
          
           
             De.
             〈◊〉
             .
          
           
             Aristot.
             de
             〈◊〉
             &
             〈◊〉
             .
             c.
             3.
             
          
           
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Galen
             .
             de
             sympt
             .
             caus
             .
             c.
             8.
             &
             de
             〈…〉
             .
             c.
             4.
             
          
           
             〈…〉
             .
             de
             med
             .
             〈◊〉
             .
             hist.
             p.
             23
             ,
             24
             ,
             25.
             l.
             5.
             
             Patholog
             .
             l.
             de
             〈◊〉
             .
             cap.
             c.
             16.
             l.
             de
             Pro●identia
             .
          
           
             Scept
             .
             Chym.
             p.
             251.
             
          
           
             Chym.
             Gal.
             p.
             26.
             
          
        
      
    
  

