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it, isthe univerfal nourilhment of all living Creatures,* Md the 
immediate and whole Matter of whence, and from the 
three parts whereof viz, theButyraceous, Serous, and Cafeous, 
and their various concoction in the Stomach, and conftitutionin 
the Veins, he would deduce the different nature of the Humors 
and Spirits compofing the blood-, as from the different Quantity 
and Quality of thefe , he would derive the whole bufinefs of 
Health, and Sicknefs, and the method of Cure. 
But as to the Obfervations made upon thePerfonand Diffe- 
dionof Tkom,Parrc> 'tis noted-, 
x. That he was a poor Countryman of Shropjhire^ whence he 
was brought up by the Right Honorable Thomas Earl of Arundd 
andSftrrey, and that he dyed, after he had out-lived nine Prin- 
ces, in the tenth year of the Tenth of them, at the age of 152 
Years and s> Moneths. 
2. That being opend after his death {viz, An, 1655. No- 
vemL 1 6,) his body was found yet very fiefhy, his breaft hairy 3 
his Genitals unimpaired, ferving not a little to confirm the report 
of his having undergone public k Cenfures for his incontinency 5 
efpecially feeing that after that time,, viz^zt the age 120 years;, 
he married a Widow, who owned, Eumcum ipfa rem habutjfe, ■ 
ut alii mariti folent> & ufcjue ad 1 2 annos retroaffas folitum cum 
e a congr effttm frequent afle. Further, that he had a large Breaft, 
Lungs not fungous, but flicking to his ribs^ and diftended with 
much bloud^a lividnefs in his facets he had a difficulty of breath- 
ing a little before his death, and a long-lafting warmth in his Arm- 
pits and Breaft after it (which fign together with others were fo 
evident in his Body, as they ufe to be in thofe, that die by fuf- 
focation.) His Heart was greats thick, fibrous, and fat.- The 
bloud in the Heart blackifh and dilate. The Cartilages of the 
Sternum not more bony, than mothers, but flexile and foft. His 
Vifcera, very found and ftrong, efpecially the Stomach • and it 
was obferv'd of him that he ufed to eat oiten by nighi and day 5 . 
though contented with old Cheefe, Milk, courfe Bread, fmalL 
Beer, and Whey 5 and which is more remarkable, that he did 
eat at Midnight, a little before he died. His Kidneys cover'd 
with fat, and pretty found 5 only in the anterior furface of them 
there were found fome aqueous or ferous (as 'twere) abfcefles r 
whereof one was near the bignefs of a Hen-egge^ with a yel- 
Hhhh 1 lowiflis 
