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The flochful, general, and indefinite Contemplations and Notions ¢ 
the Elements, and their Conjugations cf the Influences of Heaven, of Ht 
Cold, moifture, Dron, ht, Qualities Adive, Pafive andthelike, have fwallow 
_edup the truc Paffages, and Proceffes, and Affects, and Confiftencies of Matter, asi 
| Natural Bodies. Therefore they are to be fet afide. being but notional, an 
limited ; and definite axioms are to be drawn out of meafured inftances, | 
and fo affent to be made to the more general axioms by Scale. Andof thefe| 
kindes of Proceffesof Nature, and Charattersof Adatter, we willnow fetdown | 
fome inftances. ite: 
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836 Ll Putrefa&ions come chiefly from the inward Spirits of the Body, 
Experiment A and partly alfo from the CA mbient Boay, be it Air, Liquor, or what: | 
pac the | foeverelfe. And this laft, by two means; either by ingrefs of the fubftance | 
cauferof Pu-| Of the Ambient Body into the Body putrefied, or by excitation and folici-|_ 
intfaétion | tation of the Body putrefied, andthe partsthereof, by the Body Ambient. | 
As for the received opinion, that Putrefa@ionis caufed either by Cold, of | 
Peregrine and Preternatural Hat, itis but nugation: ForCold in things e 
inanimate, is the greateft enemy thatis to Putrefaétion, though it extin-| 
guifheth Vivification, which ever confifteth in Spirits attenuate, which the | 
Cold doth congeal and coagulate. And as for the Peregrine bead, itis thus | 
far true, That it the proportion of the _//dventiveheat, be greatly predomi- | 
nant to the Natural bear, and Spirits of the Body, it tendeth to diflolution, or} 
notable alteration. But this iswrought by t miffion, or Suppreffion, or | 
Suffocation of the Native Spirits, and alfo bythe Difordination and Dif. | 
compoture of the Tangible parts, and other paflages of Nature, and not | 
by aconfli& of Heats. Bis 2) Ee 
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$37. N verfions or main Alterations of Bodies, theré.is a Medium between the | 
parts are in confufion till they fettle one way or other. j iff 
838. He word Concottion or Digeftion, is chiefly taken into ufe from Living | 
Experiment ‘Creatures, and their Organs, and from thence extended to Liquors | 
eh and Fruits,&c. Therefore they fpeak of Meat concoded, Urine and Exére. { 4 
Conceéfinand| Ments Concotted; and the Four Digcftions (in the Stomack, in the Liver,in | _ 
|erdizy. || che Arteries and Nerves, and in the feveral parts of the Body) are likewife | 
called Céncoctions ; and they areallmade tobe the works of Heit. All which 
notions are but ignorant catches of a few things, whichare moft obvious 
to Mens obfervations. The conftanteft notion of Concottion is, that it fhould 
fignifie the degrees of alteration of one Body into another, from Crudity tc 
|| Perfect Concottion, whichisthe ultimity of that action or procefs. And while 
{the Body to be converted and altered is too ftrong forthe efficient 
fhould convert or alter it, (whereby it refifteth, and holdeth faft in fomeé 
degree'the firft Form or Confiftence ) it is ¢ all that while ) Crude anc 
Inconco&, andthe Procefs is to be called Crudity and Inconcottion. Ut is tru 
| that Conco@ion is in'great part the work of Hear; but not the work of Hi 
alone: For all things that further the Converfion or Alteration (as 
Mixture of a Body already concotted, 8c.) are alfo means to Concoftion. 
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