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good Meat. And we fee, that thofe Birds which are of Prey, or fee 
upon Fleth, are good Meat, when they are very Young; as f/ax hs, Rook, 
out of the Neft, Owls. Mans flefhis not eaten. , The Reafons are three. 
Firft, Becaufe Men in Humanity do abhor ir. eer re : 
f itfelf, is good tc 
eat ; andthereforethe Cannibals (themfclves) eat no Mans flefh, of thofe 
that dic of themfclves, but of fuch as are flain. iu. ann i 
* The third is, Becaufe there muft be generally) fome difparity between 
the Nourifhment, and the Body nourifhed; and they muft not be overnear, | 
or like: Yet we fee, that ingreat weaknefles andConfumptions, Men have. 
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been (uftained with Womans Milk. And Picinusfondly (as 1 conceive) ad- 
vifeth, for the Prolongation of Life, that a Vein be opened in the Armof 
!fome wholfome young man, and the blood tobe fucked, It is faid, that 
Witches do greedily eat Mans flefh, which if it betrue, befides a deyillifh’ 
Appetite in them, itis likely to proceed ; “for that Mans flefh may fend up 
high and pleating Vapors, which may ftir the Imagination , and Witches. 
felicity is chiefly in Imagination, ashath been faid. ihe a ai 
maHere is an ancient received Tradition of the Salamander, that it liveth | 
'E in the Fire, and hath force alfo to extinguifh the fire. It muft have two } 
things, if it betrue, to this operation. Ihe one, avery clofeskin, whereby 
| fame, which in the midftis not fo hot, cannotenter : Fort we fee, thatif th 
Palm of the Hand be anointed thick with White of Eggs, and then quavite 
be poured uponit, and enflamed, yet one may endure the flame a pretty 
while. Theotheris fome extream cold and quenching vertue, in the Body'} 
| of that.Creature which choaketh:the fire. We fee that Milk quencheth | 
Wildfire betterthan VVater,becaufeit cntrethbetter. = |. jf 
Ime doth change Fruit (as eApples, Pears, Pomegranates, &c.) frommore | 
T four to more feet; .but contrariwife, Liquors (even thofe that are of | 
the Juyce of Bruit) from.more fweet.to more four; as, Wort, -Muft, New | 
Verjuyce, ec. The caufe is, the Congregation of the Spirits together; for] 
| in both kindes, the Spirit is attenuated by Time s but in the firftkinde, itis | 
| more diffufed, andmore mattered bythe grofler parts, which the Spiritsdo | 
| but digeft: But in Drinks the Spirits do reign, and finding lefs oppofition | 
| of the parts, become themfelves more Strong, which caufeth alfo more | 
| ftrength in the Liquor ;, fuch, as if the Spirits be of the hotter fort, the Li- | 
| quor becometh apt to burn; but in time, it caufeth likewife, when the higher } 
| Spirits are evaporated more fourneds. oStopsrabsli sical 
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-T hath been obferved bythe Ancients, that Plates of Metal, and. efpeeially | 
of Brafs, applied prefently to a blow, will keep it down from fwel ing. | 
The caufe is Repercuffion, without Humectation, or entrance of any Body: 
For the Plate hath onely, a virtual. cold, which doth notfearch into the hu 
whereas all Plaifters and Oynmentsdo enter, Surely, the caufe that bk 
and bruifes induce fivellings is, for that the Spirits reforting tofuccor the 
partthat Jaboreth, draw allo the humors with them’: For welee, thanitis 
not the repulfe, and the returnof the humor in the part ftrucken thatca feth 
it; forthatGouts, and Teothachs caufe fwelling,, where thercisno, Pers 
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