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of the Senfes and Motions of the Mufcles, that it 

 might cafe and refrefh us indeed. Nature hath 

 provided, that tho* we He long upon one Side, 

 we {hould have no Senfe of Pain or Unealinefs 

 during our Reft, no, nor when we awake ; where- 

 as in reafon one would think, that the whole 

 Weight of the Body preffing the Mufcles and 

 Bones on which we lie, jQiould be very burden- 

 fome and uneafy, and create a grievous Senfe of 

 Pain ; and we find by Experience that it doth fo 

 when we lie long awake in the Night, we being 

 not able (efpecially if never fo little indifpofed) 

 to reft one Quarter of an Hour in the fame Po- 

 fture, without (hif ting of Sides, or at leaft etch- 

 ing this way and that way, more or lefs. How 

 this may be effedled, is a great Queftion. To me 

 it feems moft probable that it is done by an In- 

 flation of the Mufcles, whereby they become 

 both foft, and yet renitent, like fo many Pillows, 

 diffipating the Force of the Preffure, and fo pre- 

 venting or taking away the Senfe of Pain. That 

 the Mufcles are in this manner inflated in time 

 of Reft, appears to the very Eye in the Faces of 

 Children, and may be prov'd from that, when 

 we reft in our Cloaths we are fain to loofen our 

 Garters, Shoe-ftrings, and other Ligatures, to 

 give the Spirits free Paflage, elfe we iliall expe- 

 rience Pain and Uneafinefs in thofe Parts, which 

 when we are waking we find not. 



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