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Partoi Man, wherein that Virtue chiefly Confiftetb. As if you would Super- 

 induce Courage and Fortitude, take a Lion, or a Cock ; And take the Hearts 

 footh,ov Paw of xhe Lion; Or the Heart, or Spur of the £W* : Take thofe 

 Parts immediately alter the Lion, or the Cock have been in Fight ;, And let 

 them be worn,upon a Mans-Heart,ot Wreft. Of thefe and fuch like Sympa- 

 thies,^ (hall fpeak under this prefent Title. 



The Eighth and laft is, an Emifsion of Immateriate Virtues ; Such as we 

 are a little doubtfull to Propound ; It is fo prodigious : But that it is fo 

 conftantly avouched by many : And we have fet it down, as a Law to our 

 Selves, to examine things to the Bottom ; And not to receive upon Cre- 

 dit, or reject upon Improbabilities,untill there hath paffed a due Exami- 

 nation. This is , the Sjmpathy of Individuals : For as there is a Sympathy of 

 I Species-, So, (it may be ) there is a Sympathy of Individuals: That is, that in 

 Things, or the Parts of Things that have been once Contiguous , or Entire , 

 there fhould remain a Transmission of Virtue from the one to the other: As 

 between the mtyon&M the wound. Whereupon is blazed abroad the Ope- 

 ration of Vnguentem Teli : And fo of a Peece of Lard , or Stick of Elder j, &X. 

 that if Part of it be Confumed or Putrified, it will work upon the other 

 Parts Severed. Now we will purfue the Inftar.ces themfelves. 



TpHe Plague is many times taken without Manifeft Senfe , as hath been 

 * faid.And they report, that where it is found,it hath a Sent of the Smell 

 of a Mellow Apple; And ( as fome fay ) of May Flowers : And it is alfo recei- 

 ved,that Smels of Flowers that are Mellow and LujhiouS, are ill for the Plague; 

 As Whitt-Lillies, Couflips, and Hyacinths. 



The Plague is not ealily received by fuch,as continually are about them, 

 that have the Plague, As Keepers of the Sick, and Pbyfitians ; Nor again by 

 fuch as take Antidotes, either Inward, ( as Mithridate, Juniper-Berries, Rue, 

 Leaf, and Seed, 8cc. ) Or Outward,(as Angelica,Zedoary,and thelike,in the 

 Mouth ;Tarre,Galbanum,2iX\di the like) in Perfume^Nor again by Old People 

 and fuch as are of a Drie and cold complexion.On the other fide , the Plague 

 taketh fooneft hold of thofe that come out of a Frejh Air; and of thofe 

 that are Facing; and of children; And it is like wife noted to goe in a Bloud , 

 more than to a Stranger. 



The moft pernicious InfeBion, next the Plague, is the Smell of the \ayl , 

 when Prisoners have been Long, and Clofe, and Naftily kept 5 Whereof 

 we have had,in our timc,experience,twice or thrice^when both the ludges 

 that fat upon the layl , and Numbers of thofe that attended the Bufineffo , 

 or were pf cfent, Sickned upon it,and died. Therefore it were good wifdom, 

 that in fuch Cafes, the layl were Aired,before they be brought forth. 



Out of queftion, if fuch Foul Smels be made by Art , and by the Hand , 

 the^ confift chiefly of Mans Flefh, or Sweat, Putnfed: For they are not thofe 

 Stinks, whic h the Noflrils ft raight abhor, and expell, that are moft Pernici- 

 ous ; But fuch Airs, as have fome fimilitude with Mans Body; And fo in- 

 finuate themfelves, and betray the Spirits. There may be great danger, in 

 ufing fuch Compolitions, in great Meetings of People,within Houles^As 

 in Churches; At Arraignments; A t Playes and Solemnities; And the like ; For 

 Poyfoning of Air is no leffe dangerous than Poyfoning of water; Which hath j 

 been ufed by the Turks in the Warn- And was ufed by Emanuel Comnenm \ 

 towards the Chriftians, when they paffed thorow his Country to the Holy 

 Land, find thefe Empoyfonments of Air, are the more dangerous in Meetings 

 of People; Becaufe the much Breath of People , doth further the Reception of 



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