THE PARTICULAR 



Tropick Places. 



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Articles of Inquifition , Touching 

 Life, andDeath. 



irft inquire, of Nature Durably and Not Durable ; In Bodies Inani- 

 mate^ or without Life ; As alfo in Vegetables : But that ; not in ; 

 large, or Juft Treatiie ; But^as in a Brief, or Summary ,onely. 



Alto inquire diligently ,of Defccatian,Arefatlion, and Conj amp ti- 

 on, of Bodies Inanimate* And of Vegetables; And of thewayes,and 

 Proceffes; by which they are done ; And further of Inhibiting ^nd 'De- 

 laying^ Defecation, Arefatlton,ind Confumption • And of the Confervation of Bo- 

 dies in th p ir proper State : And agame* or the Integration, Emollition-, and Recovery of 

 Bodies to their former FrefhneifCjarter theybe once dried and withered, 



Neither need the Inquifition , Tonchmg thefe Things , to befall or exatt ; feeing 

 they per tain rather, to their properT\i\t, of Nature Durable ; feeing alfo t they are 

 not Principals, in this Inquifition; Bat jerveonely,to give Light, to the Prolonga- 

 tion,^ Inftauration ofL\k,ia Living Creatures. In which,(a* was faid before,) 

 /he fame Things come to paf, but in a Particular manner. So from the Inquifition 

 touching Bodies Inanimate , and Vegetables j Let the Inquifition paffe oh to other 

 Living Creatures, be fides Man. 



Inquire, touching the Length, and Shortnejfe of Life , in Living Creatures - with 

 the due Circumtiances, which make moft,for their long or Shor tLives. 



But becaufe the Duration of Bodies , is twofold ; One in Identity , or the felfe-fame 

 fubftance; The other,by a Renovation,or Reparation; whereof the former , hath place 

 oncly, in Bodies Inanimate ; The Latter in V :getables,znd Living Creatures ; And is 

 perfected by Alimentation-, or Nourifhrnent ; Therefore it will be fit to inquire of Ali- 

 mentation; And of the wayes, and Progreffes thereof : yetthis,not exactly; (becaufe 

 it p^rtaines properly to the Titles of Afftmilation and Aliment ationf) But as the reft, in 

 Progvefleonely. 



From the Inquifition,fe«-£/«jr Living creatures, & Bodies repaired by Nourifhrnent, 

 pafle on to the Inquifition touching Man. And now being come to the principal Sub* 

 jeti of In quifitionjhz Inquifition ought to be,in all point s,more precife,& accurate. 



Inqune,touching the Length,znd Shortnefe of Life, in Men, according to the Ages 

 of the world,Tht feveral Regions .Climates^wd Places^ their Nativity & Habitation. 



Inqui retouching the Length, and Shortnejfe of Life,m Men, according to their Ra- 

 ces , and Families; As if it were a Thing Hereditary: Alio according to their Complex- 

 ions, Confl nut tans, and Habits of Body ; Their Statures ; The Manner^ and Time,o{ 

 their Growth; And the Makj.ng,\\\d Compofition y of their Members. 



Inquire,touching the Length^nd Shorthejfe, of Life,\\\ yl</b2,according to theT«#<?.f 

 of their Nativityfiuz fo,as you omit, for the prefent, all Aflrological Obfervations, and 

 thcFigures of Heaven, under which they were born : Onely inlift upoti the vulgar,and 

 maniteft Obfervations ; As whether they were born, in the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth,or 

 Tenth Moncth ; Allb,whether by Night,or by Day; And in what Moneth of the Year? 



C Inquise 



