| he Hiftory of Life and Death. 
Reparation, and Reparation proceedeth by the Appetites of things, and Appetite is | 
fharpned by variety ) it holdeth notrigoroufly ; but itisfotar forth to be reccived,that 
this variety be rather analternation or enterchange than a confufion, and as it were con- | 
{tant in inconftancy.: 
Canon XV. 
The Spirit 2 a Body of a folid compofure ¢s detained, though nawellingly, 
The Explication. | 
A’ things do abhor a Solution of their Continuity, but yet in proportion to their 
Denfity or Rarity : for the more rare the bodies be, the more do they fuffer 
themfelyes to be thruft into fmall and narrow paflages 5 for water will go into a paflage 
which df? will not go into, and ar which water will not go into, nay, flame and 
Spirit which ar will not go into. Notwith{tanding of this thing there are fome 
bounds: for the sfzrz is not fo much tranfported with the defire of going forth, that 
it will fuffer it {elf to be too much difcontinued, or be driven into over-ftreight pores 
and paflages 5 and therefore if the {pirit be encompaffed with an hard body, or elfe 
| with an anftuows and tenacious, ( whichis not eafily divided.) it is plainly bound, and, 
/ as I may fay, imprifoncd, andlayeth downthe appetite of going out: wherefore we 
fee that eMetalls and Stones require alongtime for their {pirit to go forth, unlefs either 
the f{pirit be excited by the fire; or the grofler partsbe diflevered with corroding and 
ftrongwaters. Thelike reafon is there of cemaccous bodies, {uch asare Gums, fave onely 
that they are melted by a more gentle heat: and therefore the juices of the body hard, 
a.clofe and compact skea, andthe like, (which are procured by the drine/s of the aliment; 
and by Exercife, and by the coldnefi of the air ) are good for long life, becaufe they 
detain the fpirit in clofe prifon that it goeth not forth. | 
Canon XVI. 
In Oily aid Fat chings the Spirit 2s detained willingly, though they be not tenacious, 
a a ALT Explication. 
THe fpirit, if it be not irritated by the antipathy of the body enclofingit, nor fed by. 
the oyer-much /kenefs of that body, nor follicited nor invited by the external body, 
it makes no great ftir to get out: all which are-wanting to oily bodies; for they are 
. | neither fo preffing upon the {pirits as hard bodies, nor fo near as watry bodies, neither 
| haye they any good agrecment with the air ambsent. ' 
Canon XVII. 
YT fpeedy fying forthof the Watry humor conferves the Oily the longer in hus 
being. j : 
a. The Explication. 
WE faid before that the Watry humors, as being confubftantial to the 47, flic 
forth fooneft ; the ozly later, as having {mall agreement with the -4ir, Now 
whereas thefe two humors are inmoft bodies, it comes to pafs that the »vatry doth in a 
fort betray the oxy, for thatiffuing forthinfenfibly carrieth this together with it. ,There- 
fore there is nothing more furthereth the confervation of bodies than a gentle drying of 
them, which caufeth the ~atry bumonr to expire, and inviteth not the Ozly; for then 
‘the oily enjoyeth the proper nature. And this tendeth not onely to the inhibiting of 
Putrefattion, ( though that alfo followeth) but to the confervation of Greenne/s. 
| Hence it is, that gentle Frications and moderate Exercifes, caufing rather Perfpiration than 
Sweating,conduce much to long life, 
ae _ Canon XVIIL 
Air excluded conferreth to Long life, if other inconveniences be avoided. 
The Explication. 
E faid a little before-, that the flyeng forth of the Sfirst is a redoubled action, 
-™™ from the appetite of the fpirit and of the air, and therefore if either of thefe be 
taken out of the way, there is not a little gained. Notwithftanding divers Zaconve- 
niences follow hereupon, which how they may be prevented we have fhewed in the 
| fecond of our Operations. 
Canon XIX. 
YY Ouhial Spirits inferted into an old Body might foow turz Nature's courfe back 
7 Ae his , 
