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| thall findonely three see Diets, the Opiate Diet, the Dect Malaciffant or Suppling, and } 
the Diet Ensactant and Renewing. Butamongft thofe which we referibed for Familbear 
Diet, and to beufed daily, the moft efficacious are thefe that fo low, which alfo come , 
not far fhort of the vertue of See Diets : Nitre and the fubordinates to Qitre; the’ Re- 
giment of the affections and Courfe of our Life ; Refrigerators which pals not byt “ 
| Stomach ; Drinks Rofcidating,or ingendring Oily fuices ; befprinkling of the bloud with 
fome firmer Matter, as Pearls, certain Woods, competent Unétions to keep outthe Air, | 
and to keep in the Spirit; Heaters from without, during the Affimilation after fleep ; 
avoiding of thofethings whichinflame the Spirit, and put it into an eager hear, as Wine | : 
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and spices ; laftly, a moderate and feafonable ufe of thofe things which endue the Spi- 
rits with a robust Heat, as Saffron, Croffes, Garlick, Elecampane,and compound Opiates. 0. F 
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a ha * Canon XXXI. ram 
He Living Spirit instantly extingusfhed if it be deprived exther of Motion,dr of Re- 
~ frigeration,or of Aliment. ) a 
Be | The Explication. . ll 
NAmely, thefe are thofe three which before we called the Porrhes of Death, and | 
they are the proper and immediate paffions of the Spirit. For all the Oxgans of | 
the principal parts ferve hereunto, that thefe three Offices be performed ; and again, | “ 
all deftru€tion of the Organs which is deadly brings the matterto this point, that onc or | 
more of thefe three fail. ‘Therefore all other things are the divers ways to Death, but 
they end in thefe three, Now the whole Fabrick of the Parts isthe Organ of the Spirit, 
as the sperit is the Organ of the Keafonable Soal, which is Incorporeous and Divine. 
Canon XXXIL ' hi 
Plame vs a Momentany Subftance, Air 4 Fixed ; the Living Spirit iz Creatures ws of 
a middle Nature. : 
His matter ftands in need both of an higher Indagation and of a longer Explica-_ 
.. tion than) is pertinent to the prefent Inquifition, Mean-while we mult know |: 
this, that Flame is almoft every moment generated and extinguifhed ; fo that it is con- 
tinued only by'fucceffion : but 4ir is a fixed body, and is not diffolved ; for though Air 
begets new Air out of watery moifturé, yet notwith{tanding the old Air {till remains 5 
whence cometh that Super-oneration of the Air whercof we have {poken in the Title 
De Vents. But Spirit is participant of both Natures, both of Flame and 4ér, even as’ 
the nourifhments thereof are, as well Oc/, which is homogeneous to Flame, as’ 
Water, which is homogeneous to. er ; for the Spirit is not nourifhed either of oély. 
alone, or of watry alone, but of both together ; and though ir doth not agree well 
with Flame, nor Oil with water , yet in a mx'd body they agree well enough. Alfo. 
the Sprit hath from the -4ir his eafie and delicate impreflions and yieldings, and from 
the Flame his noble and potent motions and aétivities. In like manner the Dyration | 
of Spirit is a mixed thing, being neither fo msomentany as that of Flame, nor fo fixed as | | 
that of 4 : And fomuch the rather it followeth not the condition of Flame, for |: 
that, Flame it felf is extinguifhed by accident, namely, by Contraries and Enemies envi. | 
roning it ; but Spirit is not fubject to the like conditions and neceffities. Now the | — 
Spirit is repaired from the lively and florid bloud of the {mall Arteries which are in- | 
ferted into the Brain; but this Reparation is done by a peculiar manner, of which we 
fpeak not now. ae ie 
The Explication. 
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