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ae The Hiftory of Life and Death. 
The Operation upon the Fuices of the Body. 
The Hiffory hee 
Ms Here are two kinds of Bodies (as was {aid before in the Izquifition to 
_animates) which are. hardly confumed , Hard things and Fat things 
feen in Aetalls and Stones, and in Oil and wax. ei dk ee 
a It muft be ordered therefore, thatthe juice of the body be fomewhat hard, and it | 
be fatty or fubrofeid. — PRES Te ot at b 
denfing the skin and flefh, and by @xercze, binding and compacting the juices of the 
3. - As for hardnefi, it is caufed three ways: by Aliment ofa firm nature, by caldcon- ‘ 
body, that they be not foftand frothy.  ; . 1° ae erect 
4 As for the Nature of the Aliment, it ought to befuch as is not eafily diffipable ; fuch | 
\ asare Beef, Swine’s fle/b, Dear, Goat, Kid, Swan, Goofé, Ring- dove, by iia if they be a’ 
little powdreds Fifblikewife falted and dried, Old Cheefé, andthe like. bec) 
§: Asforthe Bread ; Oaten-bread, or bread with fomemixture of Peafe in it, or Rye- 
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courle 7 heat-bread is more folidthan the pure Adanchet. ER a 
6. The Inhabitants of the Orcades,which live upon falted fi/h,and generally all Fs/b-eaters, | 
bread, or karly-bread, are more folid than wheat-bread, and in wheat-bread, 
monly to a great age. _ as Pt 
8. | Allo pure water ufually drunk makes the juices of the body lefsfrothy ? unto which 
if, for the dulnefs of the fpirits, (which no doubt in Vater are but a little penetratiye ) 
you fhall addea little Nutre, we conceive it would be very good. And touching the 
firmuefs of the Aliment thus much, Paik Sei 
As for the Condenfation of the skin and flefh by cold: They are longer-liv’d for the | 
oft part that live abroad in the oper aér, than they that live in Hoafes ; and the Inha- 
bitants of the cold countries, than the Inhabitants of the hot. ot ee 
Great ftore of clothes, either upon the bed or back, do refolve the body. _ 5 
Wathing the bedy in cold water is good for length of life; ufeof bot B.ths is naught. 
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are long liv’d. : SoM ira 
Te The AZonks and Hermsites which fed fparingly, and upon dry <lement, attained com. 
Touching Barhs of Aftringent Mineral waters we have {pokenbefore, 
- Asfor Exercife; an idle life doth manifeftly make the fleth foft and diffipables robufe 
exercife ( {fo itbe without over-much{weating or wearinefs) maketh it hard and com-- 
pact. Alfo exerci/e within cold Water, as {wimming, is very good; and generally - 
exercife abroad is better than that withinhoufes. 3 1? gS Ee 
Touching Fricarions, (which area kind of exercie) becaufe they do rather call forth | 
the Aliment than harden thefleth, we will inquire hereafter in the due place. pei ae 
Having now {fpoken of hardning the juices of the body, we are.to come next to the oie 
Olcofity, and Fattine/s of them, which is a more perfedt and potent Intention than Imdy- | 
ration, becaufe it hathno inconvenience or evil annexed. For all thofe.things which AY r 
pertain to the bardaing of the jusces are of that nature, that while they prohibit the q 
abfumption of the Aliment, they alfo hindcr the operation’ of the fame ; whereby it} 
happens,that the fame things are both propitious andadverfe to length of life: but thofe a 
things which pertain tomaking the Jzices Oclyand Rofcid, help on both fides, for they + 
render the Aliment bothlefs ciffipable,and more reparable J aeshash. ge ate 
|, But whereas we fay that the Jwice of the body ought to-be Roferdand Fat, it 1s to be} 
‘noted that we meanitnot of ayifible Fat; but of a Dewinefs difperfed, or (if ye will | 
callit ) Radical inthe very fubftance of the body. PR cs . 
__ Neither again let any man think, ‘that Os/ or the Fat of Meats or Marrow do engeh- | 
‘der the(like, and fatisfie our intention: for thofe things which are once t a: ; 
not brought back again ;. but the Aliments ought to be fuch, which after 
atid maturation do then.in the end engender Oleofityin the fusces. 
i, Neither again let any! man think, that Od or Fag by it felf and oe ee hard LJ 
pation, but in mixture it doth not retain the fame? nature : for as O01 | y it felt i 
more longer in confuming then ater; {o in Paper or Linnen it ftickcth long 
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is later dried, as we noted before. 
