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ftapds upon the fame untrufty bottom 5 snd holds it rational 
to thiokjthe World could cot have been fooner, nor bigger, 
cor more^and thai mores or bigger, or earlier worlds would 
not better declare fhePowerjEfernity and Immecfity ofGod, 
than this world doth. For fhould God have made worlds be- 
fore or befides this3that fo his works might hold a fuller pro-- 
portion with his Everlajiing and Almighty power, it would not 
have anfwer'd that Eod.For fhould he have made any worlds 
maiyy thoufands of years before this, there would have been 
ftill the fame Everlafting power before all fuch worlds, as is 
before thisjaod no left ; And fliould he make other Worlds 
together with or wide of this World^thcre would be the fame 
Almighty power beyond thcm.that is beyond this. 
IV» Jpologema pro VRINIS HVMANIS 5 Anthore Antonio 
EygG\M,DMTraUtcoAmftelodamenfi. Amftclod^ 1 672 .i« 8% 
THis piecCjWritten in theBclgic tonguejConfiftsof gParts; 
The firfl contains a Defence of the neccffify and ufeful- 
nefsof infpeding and well confidering the Urine in Difeafo 
maintaining againft thofe who defpife or negltd: that confide- 
ratioUjihat thence a more general and better Diagnoftick can 
be taken, than from the Pulfe it felf ^ becaufc it is part of the 
ferum or vehicle of the Blood, with which it runs through all 
the parts of the Body, and confequently carries off with it- 
felf fomcthing of the morbific {kicLfr^ or pollution of the famej 
whereas the Fnl^e^ being nothing elfe but a propulfion of the 
blood into the Arteries and Veins, made by the Heart, can do 
little more than difcover the difcompofed ftate of the Heart, 
and poffibly the hot or cold conftitution of the Body : The 
fame being alfo very deceitful/orafmuch as 'tis fubjefl: to very 
many alterations from the Exercife of the body and the Paffi-- 
ons of the Soul, efpecially Fear, Angcr^ Love. Befides whieb, 
the Author allcdgcs his own Experience of having found fuch 
a Pulfe in fomc Healthy perfons, whence any one might have^ 
eoncluded, they were not able to live 54 hours 5 as alfo of 
having met with divers intermittent pulfcs, and amongft 
them with one that had ceafed, as to his fence, for the fpace 
of three meals, and yet all thofe Patients recovered. He 
concludes this p3rt with feme confidcrable Examples of his 
own happy difcernment made from the Infpeftion ot 
Urines 5 by which alfo he affirms he hath been enabled 
