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by mingling it felf prefently with it by reafon of their Ana- 
logic 5 but the Spirit of Wine is nothing but the folution of its 
^ola tile Salt ; for it may by the fpirit of Urine or Sah of Tartar, 
be corporified into a manifeft and palpable lahne concretion, 
and indeed it is in this iuftance by conta<a of the Vital Ferment 
prefenty turn'd into a volatile faline nature, fuch as is the Vital 
fpirit it felf. Now that the Vital fpirit is of a fahne nature , 
feems evident by the teftimony of Senfe, for if a part happen 
to be torpid or benum'd 5 by any accidental prohibition for a 
while of the influx of the Animal fpirit, which acquires no for- 
mal tranfmutation in the medulla ohlonj/ata^ nor other difference 
from theVita^^fane graduperfeHwo^upon the return I (ay of this 
fpirit to the fuccour of the part labouring j we find a kind of 
flinging and pricking , an infallible Index of its faltnefs 5 as is 
its total difHation in healthful bodies ^ of its volatiHty: I 
mean here the Influous fpirit, which is continually reflor'd , 
not to the Infitous, whole decay is naturally attended with 
irrepairable- weaknefs and its total extin(9:ion orefHation, 
with prefent death. Let us now fee if we can find fuch 
a&ive principles in the blood of the Lamb thus emitted 
without diminution of its vital energie y as may fuffice for the 
a&uating of the languifhiog Ferment of the blood of the 
Patient. 
It cannot be deny^, but that the blood of Beafls as well as 
men, is full of Vital fpirit, and volatile Salt. Fernelius ( defpiritu 
vzventium) defines the fpirit of all living creatures to be Corpus 
atberium^SLndjiriflotleholds it to be of a Caelcftial Divine nature; 
anfwering to the Element of the Starrs^ There cannot pro- 
bably- then be fo great a difEmilarity between the Vital fpirit 
of the Lamb, and that of the Man, but that the firfl, (elabora- 
ted in its w^y to the Patients heart, by the Aftion of the Innate 
ipirit implanted in every part , and afterwards by the force of 
the Vital Ferment in the left Ventricle , which Helmont cAls 
{Maxima mtale luminofum^ may eafily be tranfmuted , and 
affimilated into the latter i and the Archeus of the Patient thus 
fortified might well overcome his difeafe. Nature being her 
^felf f if freed from impediment)J/<?ri(?r«?;^ 
Now 
