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{ 1 fuppofe alfo, that fome Emsaciating Difeafes well cured, do profittolong life, for 
| ‘they yield new Juice, .the old.bei g confumed ; ‘and, as Shot igh ote Tor 
| Sicknefi is to renew youth : Thetefore it were good to make'fome Artificial Difeafes, 
| which is done by ftri&t and Eysaciating Diets, of which I {hall fpcak we fter: 
| ‘i dimes AAT REPT oa gtathe nie out okie Ae “es 
mah ma “The Intestions. hal ie 
ae vi BORN A RPL _ tie Sg a 2b ah TANS dewege re: 
LY Aving finifhea the \nquifition wccording to the Subjects, + namely,-of inanimate 
‘ E Bodies ,. Vegetables, Living Creatures; Man ; / will wow come nearerto ebe 
Wratter, aizd order mine Inquifitions by certain Intentions, {uch as are true and proper, 
(4s I am wholly perfwaded ) and which are the very paths to ‘Mortal Lifes sBarsin | 
‘his part, nothing that ts of worth bath ihitherto been inquired, but the conemplations 
of men pracy vee ibe ahd vion-proficients. For when t\ heat men onthe ove | 
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fide {peak of comforting ‘Natural heat; and the Radical moifturé;.andiof Meats which 4 
breed good Blood’) {uch as may neitber be burnt nor iphlegmatick';> andvof 1 ing | 
and recreating ‘thé ch id 31 fappofe them t0 be 20: bad men whith Speak, thefe ithir 
‘but none of thefe workerh effecinally towlirds thesendy\\ Bat when onthe other ide | 
Several difcourfes torithing Medicines made of Golds becaufe Gold osros fabjelrocor: | 
ruption ; ‘and touching Precious {tones ‘t0’refvefh the Spirits by their, hidden properties | 
and luftre, and that if they could be taken and retained in Veffelsy the Balfoms, and 
Quifteflences ‘of living Creatures? Sbkld make men conceive a proud hope of Immiziaa \ 
lity: end that the Flefo of Sctpetits’ akd Warts, by a certain confent, are powerful to ) 
the Renovation of Life's becaufe the one cafterh his skin, the other his Borns: ( they | 
frould alfo have added the Flefh of Eagles , becanfe the Eagle’ changes his Bill )- dad 
|| that a certain'Man, ‘when he had found’ an Oyntment hidden, under the grounds and \ 
|| bad anointed himfelf therewith from head to foot, (excepting onelythe fol-s of hss feet) | 
| ded, by bis anointing , live three: bundred years , without anypaifeafe, fave onely fome | 
| Tumors in the foles of his feet : and of Artefius; who shen he fourdlis Spirit ready to . 
| depart, drew ‘nto “bis body the /perit ofa certain young man, dnd. thereby meade him | 
breathlefi, but bimfelf lived many years by another mans Spirit : ~ And of Fortunate | a 
| Hours according to'the Figures of Heaven, 1 which Medicines: are to be gathered sand } 
| compounded for the prolongation of ‘Isfe : And'of the Seales of Planets; by which ver : 
| taesmay be drawn'-and fetched down from Heaven toiprolone Life »\ and fuchlike fabulous ‘ 
and fuperfistions vanities : 1 wonder exceedingly that men (hould fo mutch doaty \asto | 
Suffer themfelves to be deluded with thele things. ‘And again, 1 do-pity.atantind that’ ey 
frould have the bard fortune tobe befreged mith fach frsvolous and feacelefs apprehenfions. \ 
But mine Intentions do both come home to the Matter, and are far from main and.cre\ 
dulous Imaginations ; being alfo fuch, as I conceive, pofterity may adde much to rhe : 
matters which fatisfie thefe Intention’ ; but to theYntentions themfélves, bur a little, | 
Notwithftanding ‘there are a fem things, and thofe \of very great moment, of which 1\\ 
would have men to be forewarned. eveamaly TaN. ARAL Sree 
Firft; we Gre of that opinion 3 2hatwe efteem the Oficesvof Life.sonbe mare worthy || 
than Life it felf. Therefore af chive be any thing of that kind thattmday audced exaktly | 
anfwer our Intentions, yer fo, thatthe Offices and Daties of Lifevbe’ thereby bin- || 
dred ; whatfoever it be of this binds we Pejeél it. “Perhaps wemay make fomellight men i 
tion of fome things, bue we infitnetuponthem. For wetmake no ferious nor diligent dif \\ 
|| 60 fey esther of leading the lifezn Caves, where the Sunbeams and feveral changes of the \\ 
Gir pickce not, like Epi enides his ‘Cave 5 ar if perperal sacks: mide \of “bsquors pre- | 
pared ehh ar of ¥ rts; and Sear-cloths [o applied, vbat ihe body) Hould ibe abpays astriwve |) 
i Rox 5 or Of Tbick paintings of she body, “after the mannervof forme Barbarous Né- | 
Hons 5 sah i Ras of on? ‘Life ‘and Diee which aimerh \onoly vat this and-\\ 
radibon ung Oe Bie thse a’ ial Weve, (as wink nbs of Hlevddlious tanongpt wives 
liens; and: SP Ouiiabud se Venetian in onP Ways mihi q 
any (uch Prodigy, Tedionfnels, or Inconvenience x but we proponnd {uch Remedzes | 
geen, bY hi Offices of Life iy ito We deereed'p Sober ccerdea 
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