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degree of youth, and inteneration of the parts ; for 

 certain it is, that there are in living creatures parts 

 that nourish and repair easily, and parts that 

 nourish and repair hardly : and you must refresh 

 and renew those that are easy to nourish, that 

 the other may be refreshed, and, as it were, drink 

 in nourishment in the passage. Now we see that 

 draught oxen, put into good pasture, recover the 

 flesh of young beef ; and men after long emaciating 

 diets wax plump and fat, and almost new : so that 

 you may surely conclude, that the frequent and wise 

 use of those emaciating diets, and of purgings, and 

 perhaps of some kind of bleeding, is a principal 

 means of prolongation of life, and restoring some 

 degree of youth : for as we have often said, death 

 cometh up6n living creatures like the torment of 

 Mezentius : 



Mortua quin etiam jungebat corpora vivis 

 Componens manibusque manus, atque oribus ora. 



JEn. viii. 485. 



For the parts in man s body easily reparable, as 

 spirits, blood, and flesh, die in the embracement of 

 the parts hardly reparable, as bones, nerves, and 

 membranes ; and likewise some entrails, which they 

 reckon amongst the spermatical parts, are hard to 

 repair : though that division of spermatical and 

 menstrual parts be but a conceit. And this same 

 observation also may be drawn to the present pur 

 pose of nourishing emaciated bodies : and therefore 

 gentle frication draweth forth the nourishment, 



