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were far from him, by-which it appears, that this he did, not by refifting, but‘for want 
of the fenfe of feeling, which afterwards was reftored to him again. I hall pafs' by 
what the Englith hiftory relates of one Elizabeth Barton, a maid of Canterbury, who 
oftentimes was deprived of her fenfes by reafon of a difeafe fhe had. ied 
_ IL fhall alfo'wave'difputes concerning the number of the fenfes, fome fuppofing 
there are no more in nature than are apparent in us. There may very well bemore, 
yet greatly to be doubted that there are ; it is impoffible for us to know them, to 
affirm them, or to deny them, becaufe a man fhall never know the want of that fenfe 
which he never had: one fenfe cannot difcover another; and, if a man want one by 
nature, yet he: knows not which way toaffirmit. A man that is born blind, and hath 
not heard what fight is, cannot conceive that he feeth not, nor defiretofee. So man, 
being not able to imagine more than the five that he hath, cannot know how to judge 
whether there be more in nature: who knoweth whether the difficulties that we find 
in many of the works of nature, and the effects of many creatures which we caniiot 
underftand, do proceed from the want of fome fenfe that we have not? There are 
hidden properties which we fee inmany things, and aman may fay that there are fen- 
fible faculties in nature, proper to judge and apprehend them, yet muft conclude we 
have them not ; who knoweth whether it be fome particular fenfe that difcovereth 
the hour of midnight to the cock; and moves him to crow, or how beafts a 
to chufe certain herbs for their cure, and many fuch-like wonders ? 
OF THE STOMACH. pee 
THE STOMACH is a member compound and fpermatic, finewy and fenfible, 
wherein is made the firft perfect digeftion of chyle: it is a neceflary member to the 
body, for, if it fail in its operations, the whole fabric is corrupted. «Iris inthe'little 
world the fame as the terreftrial globe is in the great world ; in it is exprefled the 
fublunary part of the world; in it are contained the parts that ferve for nutrition, 
concoction, and procreation, And this leads me to difcourfe of the adminiftering 
virtues.in man, which are here feated, and to wind up all with a touch of the office 
of. the microcofmical {tars with as much brevity as may be, The ftomach is framed 
of two panicles, the outer is carnous, the inner nervous, from which is ftretchedt0 
‘the mouth #fophagus, or the way of the meat, by which theftomach draweth. coitelf 
smeat and drink as with hands. By the virtue.of the fubtile will, which 1s, in this 
-wmufcus longitudinalis, is made the attra€tive virtue, which is hot and dry, by a quality 
_ agtive, or principal, which appears by the fun, the fountain, of all heaty: which is of 
an attractive quality, which is evident by his attracting and exhaling the. a 
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