ATrCAtifi of BO DIES. Chap. 16. 



fpirits and a new rarifying- that then it may Warm the flefli it 

 pafiech again through: without which it would fnddenly grow 

 i.tone cold, as is manifeft if by tying or cutting the arteries, you 

 intercept the bloud xvhich is to nourifh any part: for then that 

 partjgroweth prefcntly cold and benummed. 



8. But referring the particulars of this doctrine unto Do&our 



ofNumnon. f-j arve y (\ v ho hath both invented afid perfected it) our task in 

 hand calleth upon us to declare in common the refiduc of mo~ 

 tions that all living creatures agree in. How generation is per- 

 formed we have determined in the part diicourfe. Our next con- 

 federation then ought to be of Nutrition and Augmentation. 

 Between which there is very little difference in the nature of 

 their ar,ion;and the difference of their names is grounded more 

 upon the different refult in the period of them, then upon the 

 thing it (elf; as will by and by appear. Thus then is the pro- 

 refle of this matter : as foon as a living creature is formed, it 

 cndcavourcth ftraight to augment it felf; and employeth it felf 

 onely about that; the parts of it being yet too young and tender 

 to perform the other functions which nature hath produ- 

 ced them for. That is to fay- the living creature, at its fir ft 

 production* is in fuch a ftate and condition as it is able to do 

 nothing elfe , but (by means of the great hea* that is in it ) to 

 turn into its own fubftance the abundance of moyfture that o- 

 verflowcth it. 



They who are curious in this matter, do tell us that the per- 

 formance of this work confifteth in five a&ions; which they call 

 Attraction, Adhcfion, Conco&ion, Affimilation, and Unition. 

 The nature of attraction we have already declared when we 

 explicated how the heart and the root fendeth juyce into the o- 

 ther parts of the animal or plant: for they abounding in thcm- 

 felvcs with inward heat, and befides that, much other circum- 

 ftant heat working likewife upon them; it cannot be otherwise, 

 but that they muft needs fuck and draw into them, the moy- 

 fture that is about them. 



As for adhcfion, the nature of that is Jikcwife explicated, 

 when we fhcwed how fuch parts as are moift butefpecially ae- 

 reall or oily ones (Tuch as are made by the operation of a fbfc 

 tnd continuall heat) are catching and do cafily ftick unto any 



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