The tiftory of Life and Death. $5 
Exceutioner’s hand for high Treafon, after his Heart was plucked out and in the Exe- 
* cutioner’s hand, was heard to utter three or four words of prayer : which therefore 
| we faidto be more credible than that of the ox in Sacrifice, becaufe the friends of the 
| party fuffering do ufually give a reward to the Executioner to difpatch his office with 
! the more f{pced, that they may the fooner be rid of their pain ; but in Sacrifices we 
fee no caufe why the Prieft fhould be fo {peedy in his office. 34. | 
For reviving thofe again which fall into fudden swooning and Catalepfes of aftonifh- : 
ments, (in which Fits many, without prefent help, would utterly expire) thefe things 
are ufed; Putting into their mouths Water diftilled of Wine , which they call Hoz- 
waters, and Cordial-W aters, bending the body forwards, {topping the mouth and noftrils 
-} hard, bending or wringing the fingers, pullingthe hairs of the beard or head, rubbing 
of the parts, efpecially the face and legs, fudden cafting of cold water upon the face, 
fhrieking out aloud and fuddenly ; putting &o/e-warer to the noftrills with /megar in 
famtings ; burning of Feathers or Cloth in the fuffocation of the Azother: but efpe- 
cially a Frying-pan heated red hot is good in 4poplexees ; alfo a clofe embracing ef the 
* | body hath helped fome. 
There haye been many exainples ‘of men in fhew dead, cither laid out upon the 345 
‘\\cold Aoor, or carried forth to burial; nay, of fome buried in the earth, which not- 
withftanding have lived again, which hath been found in thofe that were buried (the 
earth being afterwards opened ) by the bruifing and wounding of their head, through 
the ftrugling of the body within the Coffin; whereof the moft recent and memo- 
rable example was that of Foannes Scotus, called the Subz:/, anda School. man, who 
being digged up again by his Servant, ( unfortunately abfent at his burial, and who 
| Knew his Mafters manner in fuch fits ) was found in that {tare : And the like happened 
in our days in the perfon of a Player, buried at Cambridge. 1 remembertohave heard 
ofa certain Gentleman, that would needs make trial in curiofity what men did feel that 
were hanged ; fo he faftened the Cord about kis neck, raifing himfelf upon a ftool, and 
then letting himfelf fall, thinking it fhould be in his power to recover the ftool at 
his pleafure, which he failed in, but was helped by a friend then prefent. He was 
‘asked afterward what he felt. He faid he feleno pain,but firft he thought he faw before 
his eyes a great fire and burning ; then he thought he faw all black and dark ; laftly 
it turned to a pale blew, or Sea-water green ; which colour is alfo often feen by them 
which fall into Swoowings. I have heard alfo of a Phyfician, yet living, who reco- 
-yered a man to life which had hanged himfelf, and had hanged’half an hour, by Frz- 
| cations and hot Baths: And the fame Phyfician did profefs, that he made no doubt to 
pussy any man that had hanged fo long, fo his Neck were not broken with the firft 
fwing. - 
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The Differences of Youth and Old eAge. 
Pye I adder of Man’s Body is this, To be conceivedsto be quickned in the womb, | Jo the 16 
| .@ tobeborn, to fuck, to be weaned, to feed upon Pap, to put forth Teeth the | grticle. 
firft time about the fecond year of age, to begin to go, to begin to {peak, to > 
put forth Teeth the fecond time about feven years of age, to come to Puberty about 
twelve or fourteen years of age, to be able for gencrationand the flowing of the 14ex- 
firxa, to have hairsabout the legs and arm-holes, to put fortha Beard ; and thus long, 
and fometimes later, to grow in ftature, to come to full years of ftrength and agility, to 
grow gray and bald ; the AZen(fruaccafing, and ability to gencration, to grow decrepit 
and a monfter with threelegs, todic. Meain-whilethe Mind alfo hath certain periods, 
but they cannot be defcribed by years, ‘as to decay in the «Memory, and the like; of 
which hereafter. “We nape a \ 
The differences of Youth and old e4ge are thefe: A young man’s skin is fmooth B 
and plain, an old man’s dry and wrinkled, efpecially about the forehead and eyes ; a 
young man’s flefh is tender and foft, an old man’s hard; a young man hath ftrength 
and agility, an old man feels decay in his ftrength and is flow of motion ; a young man 
~ hath 
