I he tiijiory of Life and Death, 



increaied: Another by a piece of Flefh , expofed likewiie ; If it coriupt not over-foon: 

 Another by a Weather-GlaffeTf the Waterdnterchange not too luddenly . Ot 'thefe and 

 the like enquire further. 



Not onely the Goodne /?, or Purenef? of the tAire, but alio the Equality of the Aire, 

 is Material to Long Life. Inter- mixture of Hils and Dales , is plealant to the fight , but 

 fuipeded for Long Life. A Plaine,moderately dry ; But yet not over-barren, or San- 

 dy ; nor altogether withost Trees, and Shade; Is very convenient for Length ot 

 Life. 



In- equality of Aire y (as was even now faid;) in the Place of our Dwcllfrig,is naught: 

 But Change of Aire by Travelling, after one be ufed unto it , is good : And therefore 

 great Travellers have been Long Liv'd. Aifo thole that have lived perpetually in a little 

 Cottage,in the lame place,have been long-livers : For aire accuftomed, conlumeth lefle; 

 but aire changed,nounfrieib.and repaireth more f 



As the Continuation,and Number of SuccefTions , (which we laid before,) makes no- 

 thing to the Length or ShortncOe of Lift ; So the Im-mediate Condition of the Parents, 

 as well the Father , as the Mother, without doubt , availeth much. For fome are be- 

 gotten of old Men, fome of Young Men , fome of Men of Middle-age, again, fome 

 are begotten of Fathers Heakhfull, and well Dilpoled ; Others of Dileafed and langui- 

 fhing ; Again, fome of Fathers , immediately after Repletion, or when they are 

 Drunke; Others, after Sleeping, or in the Morning: againe, fome after a long Inter- 

 mifiion of Venm ; Others upon the a <5t repeated: againe, fome in the Fervency of the 

 Fathers love, (as it is commonly in Baliards;) Others after the Cooling of it, as in long 

 Married Couples. The fame things may be conlidered on the part of the Mother: 

 Unto which mult be added, the Condition of the Mother; whileft fhe is with child, 

 as touching her Health ; as touching her Diet : The time of her Bearing in the Womb; 

 To the tenth Moneth, or earlier. To reduce thefe things to a Rule, how farre they 

 mayconcernc Long Life , is hard :• and fo much the Haider, for that thofe things, 

 which a Man would conceive to be the belt , will fall out to the contrary : For that 

 Alacrity in the Generation, which begets Luliy and Lively Children, will be letTe 

 profitable to long-life, becaufe of the Acrimony, and Inflaming of the Spirits. We 

 laid before ; That to partake more of the Mothers Bloud , conduceth to LorgLife. 

 Alfo, we fuppofe all things in Moderation, to be belt ; Rather Conjugal Love, then 

 Meretricious.; The hour for Generation to be the morning ; a flate of body, not too 

 lulty, or full ; and iuch like. It ought to be well obfeived ; That a livong Conftkution 

 in the parents , is rather good for them, than for the Childe ; Efpecially in the Mother, 

 And therefore Plato thought , ignorantly enough; That the vertue of Generations 

 halted, becaufe the woman ufed not the fame Exercife , both of Minde and Bariy, 

 with the men : The contrarie is rather true ; For the Difference of vertue , betwixt 

 the Male , and the Female , is molt profitable for the Childe ; and the Thinner wo- 

 men , yeeld more towards the Nourishment of the Childe ; which alfo holds inNui- 

 fes. Neither did the Spartan women^ihkk married not before twenty two,or as fome 

 fay , twenty five ; (and therefore were called Man-like women • ) bring forth a more 

 Generous, or long hv 'd Progenie ; Than the Roman or <ts4thenian-.Qix. Theban vpomen^ 

 did,which were npe for Marriage, at twelve, or fourteen yeares. And if there were 

 any thing eminent in the Spartans ; Thau was rather to be imputed , to rhe Par- 

 limony of their Diet , than to the. late Marriages of their women. But this we are 

 taught by experience ; That there are fome Races, which are long-liv'd, for a few 

 Delcents; fo that life, is like fome Difeafes, a Thing Hereditarie . within ceitaine 

 Bounds. 



Faire in Face, or Skin , or Haire , are fhorter Livers ; Black^ot Red,cr Freckled, 

 longer. Alio too Frefh a Colour in youth , doth lelfe promife long life, than Paleneffe. 

 A hard skin, is a ligne of long life, rather then a Soft : But we underlfand not this of a 

 Rugged Skin, fuch as they call the gocfe skin , which is, as it were fpongie, but of that 

 which is hard, and Clofe. A fo re-head with deep Furtowes and Wrinkles is a better 

 ligne , than a fmooth and plain Fore-head. 



The Haires of the Headhzrd, and like Bridles, doe betoken longer life , than thofe 

 that are fbft , and Delicate. Curled Haires betoken the lame thing, if they be Hard 

 withal ; But the Contrane,if they be Soft and fhining. The hke,if the curling be rather 

 thickjthan.in large Bunches. 

 Early, or late, Baldneffe, ism iadiffarent Thing; Seeing many which haye been 



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