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course of life having received its completion, is, 

 after a similar manner, dissolved. For as often 

 as, through the natural ardour of heat, the human 

 body is too much relaxed, it evaporates in conse- 

 quence of the inundations of humours ; and thus 

 it always suffers a decoction from a fiery ardour, 

 or is dissolved by excessive desudation. Nor do 

 the wisest interpreters of the medical art assert, 

 that the substance of the human race is dissolved 

 by a natural termination in any other way, than by 

 either moisture dissolving fire, or again heat pre- 

 dominating, fire being inwardly and deeply extin- 

 guished, is left without moisture. Thus the arti- 

 ficer, Nature, constituted man in an all-various 

 imitation of the world, so that whatever dissolves, 

 or forms the essence of the world, this also should 

 be the cause of the formation and dissolution of 

 man." 



ADDITIONAL NOTES. 



( a ) Page 50. Petosiris and Necepso were two of the 

 most ancient writers of Egyptian astrology, which, in many 

 respects, differs from that of the Chaldeans. The former of 

 these celebrated men is greatly applauded by Manetho, 

 who, in his Apotelesmatica, professes to be his follower, and 



