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CHAP. III. 



Of the preternatural State of the Human 



1. What the preternatural state of the Body means* 



2. The variety of Diseases. 



3. Reduced to three classes : those of the Solids. 



4. Those of the Fluids, particularly the Blood* 



5. Those of the Animal Spirits, 



6. The remote causes of Diseases. 



7. Of Fevers. 



8. The way to preserve Health. 



9. Of Life and Death. 



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HEN the structure or disposition of the 

 parts of the body is so disturbed and disordered, 

 that the natural operations are no longer performed, 

 or not in the manner as they ought : tfifis is a preterna. 

 tural state of the body, otherwise termed a disease. 



2. There cannot but be a great variety of diseases, 

 whether we consider the manner, wherein that 

 structure or disposition is disturbed, the part wherein 

 each disease has its seat, or the various effects and 

 circumstances of them. Somife diseases only hurt the 

 use of the parts; some wholly destroy it. Some affect 

 this or that part ; others the whole body. Somedis* 

 order the body, some the mind ; and others both mind 

 and body. 



3. But they are all reducible to three classes, those 

 of the solids, of the fluids, and of both. The solid 



