my - 
Taal Fifloys 
is in i Befilences, for thatthe malignity of the mdcoing vapanm dace th 
principal Spirits , and maketh them flie, and leave their Regimert3 < ad 
then the Suripe Flefh, and Secondary Spirits, do diffolve and bee P) 
an Anarchy. ae 
The fixth is, VVhen a Forreign Spirit, ftronger and more cager rt 
the Spirit of the Body, entreth the Body, as in the ftinging of Serpents. And’ 
| this isthe caufe (generally) chat upon all Poyfons followech Swelling; and we | 
fee Swelling followeth alfo, when the Spirits of the. Body it felf congregate 
| toc much ; asupon blows and bruifes, or when they are pent in too much, | 
| as inSwelling upon Cold. And we fee alfo, that the Spirits coming of Pu- | 
| trefa&tion of Humors in Agues, &c. which may be counted as Foreign Spi- | 
| rits, though they bebred within the Body, do extinguifh and tuffocatethe | | 
| Natural {pirits and heat. | 
: The feventh is, By fuch a weak degree of heat, as fetteth the Spirits in | 
| alittle Motion, butis not able citherto digeft the parts, or to ide the Spitits, | | 
| as is (een in Flefh kept inaroom thatis not cool; whereas ina cool and wer } 
Larder it will keep longer. And we fee, that Vivification (whereof Putre. 
| faction is the Baftard Brother) is effe€ted by fuch foft heats 5 ; as the hatching | 
of Eggs, the heat of the VVomb, &c. 
| Theeighthis, By the releafing of ‘the Spirits, which before wereclofe | i 
kept by thefolidnefs of their coverture, and thereby their appcuite of iffaing | 4 
checked; asin the artificial rufts induced by S:rong waters in Iron, Lead, &c, | 
| And therefore werting haftneth Rutt or Putrefaétion of anything, becaufeit| 5 
foftneth the Cruft, for the Spirits to come forth. ‘ 
Theninthis, By theenterchange of heat andcold, or watandenys "i as | 
we fee in the Mouldring of Earth in Frofts, and Sun; andinche more hafty 
| rotting of VVood, that is fometimes wet, fometimes dry. 
The tenth is, By time, and the work, and procedure of the Spirits them: | 
| felves, which cannot kcep their ftation ;. efpecially, if they beleft to them- hi 
felves, andtherebe not Agication or Local Moron. As wefeein Cornngp p 
| ftirred, and Mens Bodies nor exercifed. i 
All Moulds are Inceptions of PutrefaGtion ; as the Moulds of Pyes and | 
Flefh the Moulds of Orenges and Lemmons, which Moulds afterwards turn F 
into VVorms, or more odious Putrefa@ions: And therefore (commonly) | 
prove tobe of ill odor. And if the Body be liquid, and nor apt to putrifie to- | 
| cally, it will caft upaMother in the top, as the Mothers of D.ftilled waters. ak 
| Mofs isa kinde of Mold of the Earth and Trees: But itmay be bens Ka 
fortedas aRudiment of Germination, to which. we referit. ; 
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in Confort TE is an Enquiry of excellent ufe to enquire of the Means of Preven ingor | 
Staying of Putrefaétion ; for therein confifteth the Means of Confervation | 
of Bodies: For Bodies have two kindes of Diffolutions, the one by Con- | | 
(umption and Dificcation, the other by Putrefaétion. Butas for the Putre= 
factions of the Bodies of Men and Living Creatures (as in Agues, VVorm | 
| Confumptions of the Lungs, Impofthum:, and Ulcers, bothinwards and ene C | 
wards) they area great part of Phyfick and Surgery : And therefore wewill 
| referve the Enquiry of themvto the proper place, where we thall handle M Y a 
| dicinal Experiments of all forts, Of the reft, we will now enter into an En. 
gquiry, wherein much light may be taken from that which hath been { 
the Means to enduce or accelerate Putrefaction: Forthe removing that 
caufed Rutrefattion, doth prevent, ene avoid Fuprcie@ion: coi vid oad 
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