n 8 Of the Advancement of Learning. L i b. I Vi 



dined by the fway of their Servaatsj yet without fubjeftion of their 

 Perfons or diminution of their Power. 



& Nowas for the reciprocal part, the operations of the Soul, and of the 

 Efe^s andPajfions thereof upon the Body':, that alfo hath found a place 

 in Medicine. For all wife Phyficians do ever conlider and handle, Ac- 

 cidetitia A»im, as a Matter of great moment, for their Cures 5 and 

 which are of great force to further or hinder all other Remedies; But 

 there is another obfervation pertinent to this fubjeft, which hath been 

 very fparingly inquired into , and nothing to the depth and dignity of 

 the thing h that is, (fetting afide the afFeftions) hovpfar the Imagination 

 of the Mind, or a thought deeply fixi, and exalted as it were, into a be- 

 lief, is ofPorver to alter the Body of the Imaginaht .<? For though it hath 

 a manifeft power to hurt, it follows not,that it hath the lame degree of 

 power to help .• No more indeed, thai>ifainan fhould conclude, that 

 becaufe there be peftilent Airs able fuddenly to kill a man in health; 

 therefore there (hould be Soveraign Airs, able fuddenly to cure a man 

 in ficknefs. This Inquifition would certainly be of excellent ufe, but 

 laert.inv. g^^ socrates^aixd, it needs a Delian Diver, being covered with darknefs 

 andoblcurity. Again, of all thefe Knowledges, deFeedere^ or of the 

 Concordances betvpeen the mind and the body, there is no part more ne- 

 ceflary than the difquifition of the Seats and Domicils, which the feve- 

 ral faculties of the mind do take and occupate in the Body, and the Or- 

 gans thereof. Which kind of knowledge hath not wanted Seftatofs, 

 but what is found in many fuch Writers is either controverted,or flight- 

 ly inquired 5 and would be fearcht into with more diligence and per-- 

 piat itiTi- fpicacity. For the opinion introduced by Tlato placing the underftand- 

 jnso. ing in the brain, as in a high Tower 5 Anintofity (which he unfitly cal- 

 ^'''*'^! leth Anger, htmg it is nearer to Tumor and Pride) in the Heart ; Con-. 

 nim.4. cupifcence and Senfuality in the Liver, delerves not altogether to be de- 

 ^^*- fpifed j nor yet too haftily embrac'd. So the placing of the InteUe&U' 

 niu^' al Faculties •-, Imagination, Reafon, Memory-, according to the ventri- 

 cles of the Brain, is not without error. Thus have we explicated the 

 Knowledge touching the individed nature ofman^ as alfo touching the 

 league of the Body and the Mind. 



HAP. 



II. 



I. The Partition of the Knowledge refpeUing the Body of Man into Art 

 Medicinal, ^.Cofmetick. f^. Athletic l{. (j. And Voluptuary. II. 

 The Partition of Medicine, into three duties. (j.Confervationof 

 Health. III. Cure of Difeajes. IV. And Prolongation of Life .- 

 And that the laft part, Prolongation of Life, (hould be feparate from 

 the other two. 



THE Knowledge that concerns mans body, is divided, as the Good 

 oiMans Body is divided, unto which it is referr'd. The Good of 

 Mans Body, is of four kinds 3 Health'^ Form, or Beauty-, Strength 5 

 rleafure. Wherefore there are fo many 5"m»fe/ 5 Medicine j or the Art 



