pore a Deiuaslion thereof ; pu therefor’ the “Exclufon of it eft | ’ 
length of life. . raiveyscird 
suaitiod effe& which folic weelerhie Exclufiin afi vit, i is much oe | 
found, namely, thatthe Body clofed up, and not perfpiring by the pores, detaineth the 
Spirsts within, and turneth it upon. the harder parts of the body, whereby the Sprit | 
mollifies and intenerates them.» “ona ania 
Of this thing. the reafon is explained in the Defictdtion of inanimate Bodies ; and 
it is an Axiom almoft infallible, That the Spirce difcharged and ifluing forth; drieth 
Bodies ; detained, melteth andintenerateth them, And it fs further to be aflumed, 
That. all Heat doth properly attenuate and moiften, and contracteth and ieee by. 
Accident. i 2 empiet 
Leading the Lfe in Dens and ieee salir the Air receives not the Sitebeend ‘may | 
be effectual to long life.. For the efr of it felf doth not much towards the de 
tion of the body, unlefs i it be ftirredupby heat. Certainly, if aman shall recal 
{ paft to his memory, it ‘will appear that the ftatures of men have been casing éich | 
greater than thofe that fucceeded, asin Sicily, and fome other places : butthis kind of 
men led their lives; for the moft part, in Caves... Now length of life and largenefs of | 
limbs have fome affinity. The cave alfo of Epimenides walks among the’ Fables. 1 
fuppofe likewife, that the life of Columnar nchorites was a thing refembling the life | 
in Caves, in refpect the Sun-beams could not much piérce thither, nor the 4é receive | 
any great changes or inequalities. This is certain, both the Simeon Stelita’s; as well. 
Daniel asSaba, and other Columnar Anchorvees,have been exceedinglong-liy’d, Like. | 
wife the dnchorites in our dayes, clofed up and immured either within Walls or Pillars; 
are often found to be long-liv’d.” e] 
Next unto the life in Caves is the life on —Monntaixs: for as the beside “6 thd 
Sun do not penetrate into Caves; fo on the tops of Aonntains, being deftiture of | 
Reflexion, they are of finall force. . But this is tobe underftood of Mexntains where 
the Air is clear andpure ; namely,whether by reafon of the drinefs of the Vallies;Clouds 
and Vapours do not afcend; as it isin the Mountains which encompafs Barbary, where, 
oe at this day, they liye many times to an n hundred: and ek yearsyias hath been noted | 
before. ibily 
And this kind of er of Caves and Monntains, of its own proper ies is litte: or | 
nothing predatory ; but er, fuch as ours is, which is predatory through the heat of | 
the Sun, ought.as much as is poffible,to be excluded from the body. 
But the “ir is prohibited and excluded two sei firlt, ves 6lofi ng the Pores ; i! 5 
condly, . by filling themup. 
To the clofing of the Pores help coldiels of the air, going naked, whereby the skin’ 
is made hard, wafhing in cold water, Aftringents avec to the skin, fuch as are zie 
ftick, Myrrhe, Myrtle. 
But much more may we fatisfie this Operation by Baths, yet thofe rarely fas pie . 
cially in Summer) which are made of aftringent Msmeral waters, fachas may fafely be} — 
ufed, as Waters participating of Steel and Coperas ; for thefe do potently contractthe | 
skin. 
As for filling up the Hees, Paintings and fuch like Unttnous daubings, and ( ‘ditil 
may moft commodioufly be ufed) Oil and fat things, do no lefs conferyethe fubitance | 
of the body, than Oil-colours and Varnith do preferve Wood. Paha va 
The ancient Britains painted their bodies with «oad, and were exceeding long iva: | BG 
the Psés alfo ufed paintings, and are thought by fome to have derived their name from | 7 
thence. 
The srafilans and Virginians paint themfelves at this day, who are (efpeci slid + 
former ) very long | liv’d ; infomuch that five years ago the French fefwstes had fj pay t 
with fome who eethembrcd the building of Fernambuck, which was done an hundred |. 
and twenty years fince; and they were ‘then at Man’s eftate. 
Joannes de temporsibus, who is reported to have Prrended his life to che hailed 
years, being asked how he preferved himfelf fo long, is {aid to have anfwered, iy On| 
without, and by Honey withing 
The Jrifo, efpecially the wild-Irifh, even atthis day live very long iccieonalia 
report, that within thefe few years the counte(s of. Defimond lived to an hundred 
forty years of age, and bred Teeth three times. Now the /ri/h have @ fethion toch ¥ 
ge as it were, to baftethemfelves with old Salt- ier ane fink) Saini ae he 
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