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enough, That the laying of the young maid in David s 

 bosom was wholesome for him, but it came too late. He 

 should also have added, that the young maid, after the 

 manner of the Persian virgins, ought to have been anointed 

 with myrrh, and such like, not for deliciousness, but to 

 increase the virtue of this cherishing by a living body. 



26. Barbarossa in his extreme old age, by the advice of 

 a physician, a Jew, did continually apply young boys to his 

 stomach and belly, for warmth and cherishing. Also some 

 old men lay whelps (creatures of the hottest kind) close to 

 their stomachs every night. 



27. There hath gone a report, almost undoubted, and 

 that under several names, of certain men that had great 

 noses, who, being weary of the derision of people, have cut 

 off the bunches or hillocks of their noses, and then making 

 a wide gash in their arms, have held their noses in the place 

 for a certain time, and so brought forth fair and comely 

 noses ; which, if it be true, it shows plainly the consent of 

 flesh unto flesh, especially in live fleshes. 



28. Touching the particular inteneration of the principal 

 bowels, the stomach, lungs, liver, heart, brain, marrow of 

 the backbone, guts, reins, gall, veins, arteries, nerves, car 

 tilages, bones, the inquisition and direction would be too 

 long, seeing we now set not forth a practic, but certain in 

 dications to the practic. 



x. The Operation upon the purging away of old Juice, and 

 supplying of new Juice ; or of Renovation by turns. 



The History. 



Although those things which we shall here set down have 

 been, for the most part, spoken of before ; yet because this 

 operation is one of the principal, we will handle them over 

 again more at large. 



1. It is certain, that draught oxen, which have been 

 worn out with working, being put into fresh and rich pas 

 tures, will gather tender and young flesh again ; and this 

 will appear even to the taste and palate ; so that the intene 

 ration of flesh is no hard matter. Now it is likely that this 

 inteneration of the flesh being often repeated, will in time 

 reach to the inteneration of the bones and membranes, and 

 like parts of the body. 



2. It is certain, that diets which are now much in use, 

 principally of guaiacum, and of sarsaparilla, china, and 

 sassafras, if they be continued for any time, and according 

 to strict rules, do first attenuate the whole juice of the body, 



