Human Frames, 



It may be observed of tastes, tha* 

 though there be a great variety of them, 

 yet, as in smells, they have only some few 

 general names, as sweet, bitter, sour, 

 harsh, rank, and some few others. 



Of Touch. The fifth and last of our 

 senses is Touch ; a sense spread over the 

 whole body, though it be most eminently 

 placed in the ends of the fingers. 



By this sense the tangible qualities of 

 bodies are discerned ; as hard, smooth, 

 rough, clry r wet, clammy, and the like. 



But the most considerable of the quali- 

 ties that are perceived by this sense are 

 Jieat and cold. 



The due temperament of those two 

 opposite qualities is the great instrument 

 of nature, that she makes use of, in most, 

 if not all her productions. 



Heat is considered by some as merely 

 the consequence of a very brisk agitation 

 of the insensible parts of the object 

 which produces in us that sensation, but 

 it is most generally supposed that these 

 effects depend on a certain matter called 

 caloric, or the matter of heat. 



Bodies are denominated hot and cold 

 in proportion to the present temperament 



