50 The Hiftory of . Life and Death. i 
176 Next unto warm Bloud, things alike in fubstance to the Body of a man are nutritives : 
fat flefhes of Oxen, Swine, Dear; Sifters amouglt Fifbes; Ailk, Butter, Yolks of 
Eggs, Flower of Wheat, fweet wine, either Sugred, or before it be fined. . * 
18. Such things as we would have mixed to make impreffion are, inftead of all, Sal¢s, 
efpecially Bay-fale; alfo Wine (when it is full of Spirit ) maketh entrance, and is an 
excellent Convoy. 
19: Aftringents of that kind which- we defcribed, namely, un@uous and comfortable | 
things, are Saffron, Maflickh, ~—Morrhe, and Myrtle berries. er 
20. Of thefe parts, in our judgment, may very well be made fuch a Bath as we defign : 
Phyficiansand Pofterity will find out better things hereafter. — a Ue Shae 
21. But the Operation will be much better and more powerful, if fuch a Bath as we have 
propounded ( which we holdto be the principal matter ) be attended with a fourfold 
Courfe and Order. 
22. Firft, that there go before the Bath a Frisation of the body, and an Anointing with | 
oil, with fome thickning fubftance, that the virtue and moiftning heat of the Bath may 
pierce the body, andnotthe watry part of the Liquor. Then let the Bath follow, for 
the {pace of fometwohours, After the Bath, let the body be Emplaiftered with Mea- 
flick, Myrrhe, Tragacanth, Diapalma, and Saffron ; that the per{piration of the body 
may (as much as ts poffible ) be inhibited, till the /upple matter be by degrees turned 
into fold: This to be continued for the {pace of twenty four hours or more. Laftly, 
the Emplaiftering being removed, let there be an anointing with Oz! mixed with Sale and’ 
Saffron. And let this Bath, together with the Emplaistering and Unttion, (as before) | 
be renewed every fifthday. ‘This AZalaci[fation or fuppling of thc body be continued 
for one whole month, hake 
23. Alfo during the time of this Adalaciffation, we hold it ufeful and proper,and accord- 
ing to our intention, that men nourith their bodies well, and keep out of the cold air, 
and drink nothing but warm drink, Sabie 
24. Now this is one of thofe things (as we warned in general in the beginning ) | ’ 
whereof we have made no trial by Experiment, but onely fet it down out of our 
stn and levelling at the end: Forhaving fet up the Mark, we deliver the Light to 
others. 
250 Neither ought the warmrbs and cherifbings of living bodies tobe negleGted. Ficinns 
faith, and that ferioufly enough, That the laying of the young Maid in David's bofom 
was wholfome for him, but it came too late. Fie fhould alfo have added, That the young 
Maid, after the manner of the Perfian Virgins,oughtto have been anointed with Adyrrhe, 
and fuch like, not for delicioufnefs, but to increafe the virtue of this cherifhing by a 
living body. , 
26. zarbaroffa, in his extream old age, by the advice of a Phyfictan, a Jew, did cone | 
tinually apply young Boys to his ftomach and belly, for warmth and cherifhing: alfo 
fome old men lay Whelps (creatures of the hotteft kind) clofe to their ftomachseyery | _ 
night. | 
27. “There hath gone a report, almoft undoubted, and that under feveral names, of cer- 
tain men that had great Nofes, who being weary of the derifion of people, have cut | 
| off the bunches or hillocks of their Nofes, and then making a wide gath in their arms, | 
have held their No/es in the place for a certain time, and fo brought forth fair and come- 
ly QNofes: Which if it be true, it fhews plainly the confent of fe/h unto fe/h, efpecially 
in live flefhes. f : | et | 
aa jie the particular Juteneration of the principal Bowels, the Stomach, Lwngs,Liver, | 
Heart, Brain, Marrow of the Back-bone, Guts, Reins, Gall, Veins, Arteries, Nerves,Carts- 4 
lages,Bones,the Inquifition and Direction would be too long fecing we now fet not forth } 
| a Pratlick, but certain Indications to the Prattick. enor ey 
