G efit fern 
efpecially, if they be ftri&) the Patienpis n more troubled in the begianing 
than a ter continuance. ; which hath madefome of the mote delicate fort 
| of Patients, give them over.in the midft; Suppofing, that if thofe Diets 
| TAP them fo much atfirft, they fhallinot be able ¢o endure them ro the 
end. But the caufe is, for that all thole Diets, to dry up Eumors,, Rheums, 
andthe like ; and they cannot dey up until they have firlt artenuated: And 
% hp clack b's pe od : ‘ 
; We is iar by Lateran , eee in Diets of Guiacuing: ney eae hes like; 
troubleth the Body a ¢reat dealmore, untilit be dryed up, and pasty eae 
And therefore Patients muft expect adue time, and not cheeky at, them at 
| the firk. 
opHe nee of Culd is a thing | v ‘ery plone the, Induifcion, both for 
T ufe and Pieehirs of caufes. For Hear and Cold are Natures two hands, 
whereby the chiefl; yworkcth; and Heat we have inreadinels, in re{fped of 
the Fire: But for Cold, we mutt ftay cillic cometh, or {eek itin deep Caves, 
orhigh Mountains ; and when allisdone, we cannot obtain it in any great 
; degree : For Furnaces of Fire are far hotter than'a Summers Sun; but 
} Vaultsor Hills arenot much colder than a Winters Froft. 
1 wichal; namely, the expiringof Cold out of the inivard parts of the Earth 
jin Tmt . when the Sun hath no power toovercome it ; the Earth being 
| (ashath beennoted by fome (Primum Frigidum.) Thishath been afferted, as 
| was the opinion of the Author of the Difcourfe in Plutarch, (for [ take it, chat 
Book was not Plutarchs own) De primo Frigido. Jt was the opinion of Tele- 
| Novelifts. 
A@ive and T ranfitive into Bodies adjacent, as well as Heat; which is {een 
whofoever willbe an Enquirer into Narre, lethim refort toa Confervatory 
} of Snow and Ice; fuchasthey ufe of delicacy, to cool Wine in Summer: 
| made of fuch Confervatorics, 
| The third caufe is the Primary Bias of all Tangible Bodies ; forit 
| is well to benoted, ‘That all things whatfoever ( Tangible are of themfelves) 
Cold; except they have an acceflory heat by Fire,. “Life, or Motion: For 
j even the Spiritof Wine. or Chymical Oyls, which are fo hoc in operation, 
are tothe irfttcuch, Cold; and Airit felf comprelled, and condenfed a 
little by blowing,isCold. 
colder than moftother Bodies, as Mettals, Stone, Glaf, and they are longer 
jin fneating than fafterBodies. Andit is certain, that Larth, Denfe, Taisgable, 
{hold allof the Nature of Cold: The caufeis, for that all Marsers Tangible 
being Cold, it muft needs follow, that where the Matter is moft congregate 
thet old i is thegreater. - 
The ath eauife of Cold, or rather of Reeale and vehemency of Cold, is 
Agpuick Spiritinaclofedina ‘cold Body; as willappear to any that fhall arten- 
tively contider of Nature in many inftances. We fee Nitre (whichhath 
aquic k Spirit) isCold, morecold tothe Tongue than aStone; fo Water 
bot is 
while the Humor is attenuated, it ismore fluid, tham.ic was before, and 
The frftmeans of producing Gold, is that which Nature prefenteth us | 
jwellby Ancient, as by Modern Philofophers.: It was the tenet of Parmenides it | 
| fis, whohath renewed the Philofophy of Parmenides, and is the beft of the 
Thefecond caufe of Coldis, the contad of cold Radics: fot Cold is : 
Which isa poor and contemptible ufe, inrefped of other ufes thatmay be | 
‘the fourch caufe is, the Denfity of the Body; for alldenfe Bodies are . 
am actrees oo 
Experiment, 4 
Solicary, | 
i touching 
Diets, | 
Experiments: 
in Confort, - 
touching the | 
ProduGion of 
Colde os 
69. 
© 76. 
in thofe things thatare touched with Snow orcold Water. And therefore, } 
71. 
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