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was- seized with a fever again,. and the next day re* 

 covered his speech, but without eat'ng or drinking, or 

 the use of his limbs. On the 11 th of October he re. 

 covered his health, with the use of one of his legs, but 

 neither ate nor drank, only sometimes washed his 

 mouth with water. 



On the 18th of June, 1718, the fever returned and 

 lasted till September. He then recovered and continued 

 in pretty good health, and was fresh coloured, but 

 took no kind of meat or drink. On the 9th of June, 

 1719, he was again seized with a severe fever : on the 

 10th, at night, his father prevailed on him to take a 

 spoonful of milk, boiled with oatmeal. It stuck so 

 long in his throat, that his parents feared he had beea 

 choaked ; but ever since that time he has taken food, 

 though so little, that a half-penny lo^f serves him for 

 eight days. All the time he fasted he had>no evacua- 

 tion, either by stool or urine, and it was fourteen days 

 after he began to eat before he had any. He is now 

 in pretty good health.. 



I suppose such another instance as this has scarce 

 been known, in the memory of man. 



It is not improbable that the air itself furnishes some 

 nutritive particles, it is certain there are substances 

 of all kinds floating in the atmosphere, and that an 

 animal body may be nourished hereby, is evident in the 

 case of vipers. These, if taken when first brought 

 forth, and kept from every thing but <ar, will yet grow 

 very considerably in a few days. 



6, As without respiration and nutrition we cannot 

 live at all, so without Sense, life would be like death. 

 In every sensation there is, 1. An outward object. 2. 

 Its action in the organ of sense. 3.. A perception ot it 

 in the mind. Tiie action of the object on the organ is 

 by means of the nerves communicated to the brain ;\ 

 ajid then, not otherwise, the perception follows : but 

 how, none but He that made man can explain. 



7. In Sight, the action on the organ is performed* 



