The Preface. | 
_| as much as is pollible, be forbidden and reftrained, and the latter com- 
forted. ‘The formerof thefe pertains, efpecially to the Spirits and out ward 
Air, by which the Depredation and W afte is committed ; the latter to the 
whole race of ~Alimentation or Nourishment, whereby the Renovation or 
Reftitution is made. And as for the former part touching Confumption , 
thishath many thingscommon with Bodies Inanimate, or without life. For} 
fuch things as the Native Spirit (which is in all tangible Bodies, whether] 
living or without life) and the ambient or external Air worketh upon| 
| Bodies Inanimate, the fame it attempteth upon Animate or Living Bodies ; | 
although the Vital Spirit fuperadded, doth partly break and bridle thofe 
| operations, partly exalt andadvance them wonderfully. For it is moft 
manifeft that Inanimate Bodies (moft of them) will endure along time 
without any Reparation ; but Bodics Animate without Food and Repara- 
tion fuddenly fall and are extinguifhed, as the Fire is. So then, our Inguifition 
fhall bedouble. Firft, we will confider the Body of Man as Inanimate, and 
not repaired by Nourishment: Secondly, as Animate and repaired by Nourish- 
| ment. Thus having Prefaced thefe things, we come now to the T opick places 
of {nquifition. 
