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manifeft Obfervations ; as whether they were born in the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, ¢ c 
Tenth Moneth ; alfo, whether by Night or by Day; and in what Moneth of the Year. 
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8. _ Inquire touching the Length and Shortnef3 of Life in Men, according totheir Fare, 
Dict, Government of their Life, Exercifes, and the like. For asforthe Air, i wh chi 
Meri live and make their abode, we accotint that proper tobe inquired of in the: eas | 
faid Article, touching the places of their Habztatzon. . Me a | 
a Inquire touching the Lengthand Stortne/s of Life in Aden; according to their Stu- | 
dies, their feveral Courfés of Life, the Affettionsof the Adinde, anddivers Accidents befal. | 
lingthem. | 
10. a Inquire apart touching thofe «Medicines which are thought to prolong Life. _ ; \ 
Il. Inquire touching the Szgns and Prognosticks of long and hort life; not thofe which| 
betoken Death athand, (for they belong. to an History of Phyfick) butthofe which are } 
{een and may be obfervedevenin Health, whiethér they be Phyfiognontical figns, orany | 
other. 4 . 3 . hs 
Hitherto have been propounded Inquifittons touching Length and Shortnefs of Life, 
befides the R les of Art, and inaconfufed manner ; now we think to add fome, which 
fhall be more 4/t-/zke, and tending to practice, under thé name of /ntemzons, Thole 
Intentions are generally three: As forthe particular Diftributions of them, we will pro- 
pound them when we come to the Inquisition it {clf. The three general Zarentzons are, 
the Forbidding of Wafte and (onfumprion, the Perfecting of Reparation, and the Ren owing 
of Oldnefs. ; plies fo: ‘ 
12s “ Inquire touching thofe things which conferve and exempt the Body of Manfrom 
Arefatiion and Confumption, at lea{t which put off and protraét the inclination thereunto. | _ 
13. Inquire touching thofe things which pertain to the whole procefs of Alimentation, | 
(by which the Body of Man is répaired) that it may be good, and with the beft im- | 
provement. 1) | 
14, Inquire touching thofe things which purge out the old atter,and fupply withnews; | 
as alfo which do Intenerate and Moiften thofe parts which arealready dried and hardried, » 
But becaufe it will be hard to know the Ways of Death; unlefs we fearch out and E 
difcover the’ Seat,’ or Honfé, or rather Den of Death, it will be convenient to make In- f 
quifition of this thing ; yet not of every kinde of Death, but of thofe Deaths which | 
are caufed by want and indigence of Nourifhment, notby violence ; for they are thofe ‘ 
Deaths oncly which pertain toa decay of Nature, and meer old Age, : ih asl 
15. Inquite touching the Point of Death, and the Porches of Death, leading thereun- | 
to from all parts, fo as that Death be caufed by a decay of Natuce, and not by Viow} 
lence. 
Laftly, becaufcit is behovefulto know the Character and Formof Old Age, which | _ 
will then beft be done, if you make a Collection of all the Differences, both in the State | 
and Funétions of the Body, betwixt Youth and Old age, that by them you may obferye’ i 
what it is that produceth fuch manifold Effects; let not this nguiees be omitted.’ - 
16. Inquire diligently touching the Differences inthe State of the Body and Faculties of i 
17. the inde in Youth and Old age; and whether there be any that remain the fame with- t 
out alteration or abatement in Old Age. parted | ; 
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Nature Durable, and not Durable. 
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The History. “Ae ‘im en gee 
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Erals are of that long lafting, that Men cannot trace the beginnings of | 
them; and when they do decay, they decay through Rw/?, not through per-, 
fpiration into Air; yet Gold decays neither way. $s 
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: _ Quick-filver, though it be an humid and fluid Body, and eafily aC 
yolatile by Fire 3 yet (as faras we have obferved) by Age alone, without Fire, itn 
wafteth nor gathereth Rutt. Ohad wea 
e. Stones, efpecially the harder fort of them, and many other Foffiles, are 
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