no M E M O I R S ?/^ the 
weft; but this {liould be farther confirmed by more frequent 
obfervations, before one can lately determine any thing on this 
headj however, it is certain, that the plague and pcltilential 
fevers rage more frequently in the eafl, towards Conftantiuople 
and the Levant^ than in thefe more wcflern parts of l^iirope. 
Phyfiognomyj hy Dr. Gwither. Phil. Tranf. N° 210. p. 118. 
SO F T wax is not more capable of receiving more numerous 
and various impreffions, than are imprinted on man's face by 
obje6}s that move his aflcclions 3 and not only the objects them- 
felves have this power, but alfo the very images, or ideas, them- 
lelves^ that is, any thing that puts the animal fpirits into the 
lame motion that the (object, when prefent did, will have the 
fame cffedl with the obje£l irfelf: To prove the firft, let one 
obferve a man's face, that Inoks on a pitiful obje^l, then a ridi- 
culous, and then on a frightful or dangerous objev^, ^c. For the 
iecond, that ideas have the fame effe6l with the object, dreams 
confirm this oftentimes. 
The manner Dr. G-'ii'itbcr conceives to be thus 3 the animal 
Ipirits, moved in the fenlbry by an obje£l, continue their motion 
to the brain, whence it is propagated to this or that particular 
part of the b(;dy, as is moft fuitable to the defign of its creation, 
having firft made an alteration in the face by its nerves, efpecially 
the pathetic and Oculorim motor ii^ a6luating its leveral muicles^ 
not that he thinks, the motion of the Ipirits in the lenlbrium to be 
continued by the impreffion of the objeft all the way, as from the 
finger to the foot ; but he conceives it done in the Aledulla of the 
brain, where is the common flock of fpirits 3 as in an organ, 
whole pipes being uncovered, the air rufhes into them, but upon 
letting go the keys, they are flopped again 3 now, if by repeated 
a(5^s, or by frequently entertaining the ideas of a favourite paffion, 
or vice, which natural temperament, or cuftom, have hurried one 
into, the f^ce is fo often put into that poflure, which accompa- 
nies fuch a61s, that the animal fpirits find liich palTiiges into its 
nerves, that it is (ometimes unalterably i^^t (as the Indian Reli- 
gious diXQ by long continuing in flrange poftures in their pagods) 
but moft commonly luch a habit is contracted, that the face falls 
inlcnlibly into that poilurc, when Ibme prefent object does not 
obliterate that more natural imprefTion by a new one, or difTimula- 
tionhideit: Hence it is, that we fee great drinkers with eyes 
gencnlly let towards the noic, the adducent mulcles being often 
employed to Icr them fee their beloved liquor in the glafs in the 
time of drinking, which were therefore called Sibito^y-y lalci- 
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