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Ime, and Heat, are Fellows in many Effeds. Heat drieth Bodies, that Experiment 

 do eafily expire $ As Parchment, Leaves, Roots, Clay, &c. And, fo ehYn^he % 

 d oth r/'»^ or Age arefie ; As in the fame Bodies, &c. Heat diffolveth and i operations of 

 meketh bodies, that keep in their Spirits-, As in divers Liquefactions; And ( * Hr *&«1*M- 

 fo doth Time j in fome Bodies of a fofter Confidence s As is manifeft in Ho- |j 2 

 ney , which by Age waxeth more liquid $ And the like in Sugar ; And fo in i 

 old Oyl, which is ever more clear and more hot in Medicinable ufe. Heat ! 

 caufeth the Spirits to fearch fome Ifi'ueoutof the Body, as in the VolatiU- J 

 f§ of Metals 5 And fo doth 77 -, As in the _R»/? of Metals. Butgenerally | 

 Heat doth that in fmall time, which Age doth in long. j 



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Experiment 

 Solitary, tou- 

 ching the dif- 

 fering Operatt 

 ons of Fir e, 

 and Time. 



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Experiment 

 Solitary, tou 

 ching Motions 

 by Imitation 

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SOme Things which pafs the Fire' axe fofteft at firft, and by Time grow 

 hard-, As the Crumme of Bread. Some are harder when they come from 

 the Fire* and afterwards give again, and grow foft, as the Cruft of Bread, 

 Bisket,Sweet Meats, Salt, &c. The Caufe is, for that in thofe things which 

 wax Hard with Time, the Work of the Fire is a Kind of Melting 1 And in 

 thofe that wax foft with Time, (contrariwife,) the work of the Fire is a 

 Kind of Baking 3 And whatfoever the Fire baketh. Time doth in fome de- 

 gree diifolve. 



0// mm pafs fromd*ne Man to another, not fo much by Exciting I- 

 magination >, as by Invitation •, Efpecially if there be an Aptnefs or 

 Inclination before. Therefore Gaping, or T awning 5 and Stretching do pafs 

 from Man to Man ; For that that cauieth Gaping or Stretching is, when the 

 Spirits are a little Heavy, by any Vapour, or the like. For then they ftrive 

 (as it were,) to wring out, andexpell that which loadeth them. So Men 

 drowzy, and defirous to lleep ; Or before the Fit of an Ague^ do ufe to 

 Yawn and Stretch And do likewife yeeld a Voice or Sound, which is an 

 j Interjection ofExpulfion : So that if another be apt and prepared to do the 

 like,he followeth by the Sight of another. So the Laughing of another ma- 

 keth to Laugh. 



THere be fome known Difeafes that are Infectious • And others that are Experiment 

 not. Thofe that are Infectious, are Firft, fuch as are chiefly in the ; c \\mglnjl%- 

 Spiri's, and not fo much in the Humours And therefore pafs eafily from i »** Difeafes, 

 Body to Body: Such are Pejlilences, Lippitudes : and fuch like. Secondly,' 2 ^7 

 fuch as T aint the Breath $ Which we tee pafleth manifeftly from Man to 

 Man •, And not invifible, as the Affects of the Spirits do ; Such are Consump- 

 tions of the Lungs, &c. Thirdly, fnch as come f,>rth to the Skin 5 And 

 therefore taint the Air, or the Body Adjacent Efpecially if they conliit in an 

 □ndtuous Subftance, not apt to di(Tipate -, Such are Scabs, and Leprofie. 

 Fourthly, fuch as are meerly in the Humours, and not in the Spirits, Breath, 

 or Exhalations : And therefore they never infecT:, but by T ouch only And 

 fuch a T ouch alfo, as cometh within the Epidermis ^ As the venome 

 of the French Fox h And the Biting of a Mad Dog* 



MOft Powders grow more Clofe and Coherent by Mixture of Water than 

 by Mixture of Oyl, though- Oyl be the thicker Body as Meal, &c. 

 The Reafon is the Congruity of Bodies -, which if it be more, maketh a Per- 

 fe&er Imbibition, and Incorporation -, Which in mod Powders is more be- 

 tween Them and Water, then between Them and O.yl: But Painters Colours 

 ground, and Ajhes, do better incorporate with Oyl. 



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Experiment 

 Solitary, tou- 

 ching the In- 

 corporation of 

 Powders, . and 

 Liqueurs. 

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