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i) Ifthe Spirit be affaulted by another heat greater than it felf, it is diffipated and de- 
f 
; { diffipation. 
| death. And as touching the want of Refrigeration for conferving of the Spérit thus 
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_| bedy. Alfo sleep doth fupply fomewhnat to nourifhment ; and on the other fide 
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Lhe Hiftory of Life and Death, 
which fhe defireth to expel the foggy air drawn into the Luzgs, and to take in new, 
fcarce the third part of a minute. 
Again, the beating of the P#ife, and the motion of the Syffole and Diaftole of the 
heart, are three times quicker than that of breathing : infomuch that if it were pofli- 
; ble that that motion of the heart could be ftopped without ftopping the breath, death 
; would follow more {pedily thereupon than by ftrangling. 
Notwithftanding, ufe and cuftom prevail much in this natural ation of breathing ; 
asitis in the Delian Divers and Fithers for Pearl,who by long ufe can hold their breaths 
at leaft ten times longer than other men can do. _ 
Amonett living Creatures,even of thofe that have Lungs, there are fome that are Able 
to hold their breaths a long time, and others that cannot hold them fo long, according 
as they need more or lefs refrigeration. 
 Fifbes need lefs cefrigeration than Terreffrial (reatures, yct fome they need, and 
take‘it by their Gills. And as Terreftrial Creatures cannot bear the air that is too 
hot or too clofe; fo Fif/hes are {uftocated in waters if they be totally and long 
ftroyed ; for it cannot bear the proper eat without refrigeration, much lefs can it 
bear another heat which is far ftronger. This isto be feent in burnine- Fevers, where 
the heat of the putrefied humours doth exceed the native heat, even to extinction or 
The want alfo and ufe of Sleep is referred to Refrigeration. For Motion doth atte- 
nuate and rarifie the {pirit, and doth fharpen and increafe the heat thereof ; contra- 
rily, sleep fetleth and reftraineth the motion and gadding of the fame : for though 
| Sleep doth ftrengthen and advance the actions of the parts and of the livelefs {pi- 
| sits, and all that motion which is to the circumference of the body s yet it doth in 
great part quiet and {till the proper motion of the living Spirit. Now fleep regu- 
larly is due unto humane nature once withia four and twenty hours, and that for fix 
_ or five hours at the leaft : though there are, even in this kind, fometimes miraclcs of 
| Nature; as itis recorded of Afecenas, that he flept not for a long time before his 
+ much. 
As concerning the third Jndigence, namely of Aliment, it feems to pertain rather to 
the parts than to the wing Spirit; for a man may eafily believe that the wing “pirat 
fubfifteth in Identity, not by fueceffion or renovation. And as for the reafonable Soul 
inman, itis above all queftionthatit is not engendred of tlie Soul of the Parents, nor 1s 
repaired, nor candie, They fpeak of the Nararal sperit of living Creatures, and alfo 
i of Vegetables, which differs from that other Soul eflentially and formally. For out of 
( the confufion of thefe that fame tranfmigration of Souls, and innumerable other devices 
) of Heathens and Hereticks have proceeded, 
| - The Body of man doth regularly require Renovation by Aliment every day, and a 
| body in health can farce endure fafting three days together; notwithftanding ufe and | 
| cuftome will do much even in this cafe : but in ficknef fafting is lefs grievous to the 
Exercife doth require it more abundantly. Likewife there have fome been found 
who fuftained themfelves (almoft to a miracle in nature) a very long time without 
‘meat or drink, ; 
Dead bodies if they benot intercepted by patrefatizon, will fubfift along time with- 
out any notable e4b/umption ; but Living bodies not above three days, (as we faid) un- | 
lefs they be repaired by nourithment: which theweth that quick 4b/umption to be 
the work of the Avsng Sperst, which either repairs it {elf, or puts the parts into a ne- 
_ceffity of being repaired, or both. This is tettified by that alfo which was noted a little 
before, namely, that ving creatures may fublilt fomewhat the longer without Aliment 
if they fleep: now flcep is nothing elfe but a reception and retirement of the ving 
Spirit into it felf. 
An abundant and continual efflzxion of blood, which fomctimes happeneth in 
the Hemorrhoides, fometimes in vomitting of blood, the inward Veins being 
unlocked or broken, fometimes by wounds, caufeth fudden death, in regard that 
the bloud of the Veins miniftrech to the Arteries 5 and the blond of the Arteries 
to the Spirit. : 
