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an entire doctrine of the body of man, which should com 

 prehend them all; yet lest arts should be thus too much 

 multiplied, or their ancient limits too much disordered, we 

 receive into the system of medicine, the doctrines of the 

 parts, functions, and humors of the body; respiration, 

 sleep, generation; the foetus, gestation in the womb; 

 growth, puberty, baldness, fatness, and the like; though 

 these do not properly belong either to the preservation of 

 health, the cure of diseases, or the prolongation of life, but 

 because the human body is, in every respect, the subject of 

 medicine. But for voluntary motion and sense, we refer 

 them to the doctrine of the soul as two principal parts 

 thereof. And thus we conclude the doctrine of the body, 

 which is but as a tabernacle to the soul. 



CHAPTEK III 



Division of the Doctrine of the Human Soul into that of the Inspired Essence 

 and the Knowledge of the Sensible or Produced Soul. Second Division 

 of the same philosophy into the Doctrine of the Substance and the Fac 

 ulties of the Soul. The Use and Objects of the latter. Two Appen 

 dices to the Doctrine of the Faculties of the Soul: viz., Natural Divina 

 tion and Fascination (Mesmerism). The Faculties of the Sensible Soul 

 divided into those of Motion and Sense 



WE NOW come to the doctrine of the human soul, 

 from whose treasures all other doctrines are de 

 rived. It has two parts the one treating of the 

 rational soul, which is divine, the other of the irrational 

 soul, which we have in common with brutes. Two dif 

 ferent emanations of souls are manifest in the first crea 

 tion, the one proceeding from the breath of God, the 

 other from the elements. As to the primitive emanation 

 of the rational soul, the Scripture says, God formed man 

 of the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the 

 breath of life; but the generation of the irrational and 

 brutal soul was in these words Let the water bring forth; 



