Chap. 1 8. ^ Treati fe of B O D I E S. 



By this very rule we learn that other hoc things, which par- 8. 



ticipate the nature of fire, muft likewife( in other rcfpe6rs)havc Concerning - 

 a refemblance in this quality. And accordingly we fee that hoc fovimJTor 

 loafs in a bakers (hop newly drawn out of the oven, are ac- hot bodi ^ 

 counted to draw unto them any infection which is in the aire. 

 The like we fay ofonyons,& other ftrong breathing fubftances; 

 which by their fmell (hew much heat in them. In like manner it 

 is conceived that pigeons, and rabets,and cats eafily take infecti- 

 on, by reaibn of their extraordinary warmth which they have 

 in themfelves. 



And this is confirmed by the praelife of Phyfitians,who ufe to 

 Jay warm pigeons newly killed to thcfect,wrifts,or heads offick 

 pcrfons;& young puppies t their /tomacks,& fometimes certain 

 hot gums to their navels; to draw out fuch vapours or humours 

 as infeft the body : for the fame reafon they hang amulets of 

 arfenick, fublimate, drycd toads or fpiders, about their patients 

 necks, to draw unto them venimous qualities from their bodies. 

 Hence alfo it is, that if a man be ftrucken by a viper or a fcorpi- 

 on, they ufc to break the body of the beart it fclf that ftung him 

 ( if they can get ic)upon the wound: but if that beaft be crawled 

 out of their finding, they do the like by fbme other venimous 

 creature; as I have ieen a bruited toad laid to the biting of a vi- 

 per. And they manifeftly perceive the applyed body, to fwell 

 with the poyfon fucked out from the vr ound, and the patient to 

 be relieved and haveleflc poyfon; in the fame manner as by 

 cupping. glaffes , the poyfon is likewifc drawn out from the 

 wound: fothat you may leejthc reafon of both, is the very lame; 

 r at the leaft very like one another. Onely,we are to note, thac 

 the proper body of the beaft out of which the venome was driven 

 into the wound, is more efficacious then any other to fuck it our. 



And the like is to be obferved in all other kinds^hat fuch va- 

 pours as are to be drawn, do come better and incorporate fafler 

 in bodies of like nature, then in tho/e which have onely the 

 common conditions of heat and drynefTe; the one of which fcr- 

 veth to attrad^the other to faften and incorporate into it felf the 

 moifture which the firft drawetfc unto it.. So we fee that water 

 foketh into a dry body, whence it was extracted, almoft infepa- 

 rably,& is hidden in itjas when it raineth firft after hot weather, 

 the ground is prefently dried after thcfhowre. Likewifc we fee 



that 



