fbme Reereation had employed all his time to dlfco- 
ver New Worlds by Anatomies, and to refute fin imita- 
tion of great Men) by his Vertue and great Learning, 
the Calumnies of the Envious. - 
He was of a good habit of Body, and had feen 66 
Years, tho' he had frequent Sicknefles. 
Moreover, (harp Vomiting did torment him for 20 
Years notwithftanding which , he was troubled 
with the Grave], a Ha^morragie in the Kidneys, a 
Rheumatifme fluxious ; which with their troublefomc 
confequences, augmented his Infirmities. 
Scarce had thefe evils given himfbme refpir, when a 
cruel palputation of the Heart, with an unequal Pulfe 
came upon him. Moreover Four Years before his 
Death a (harp and biting fweat failed not, all the Sum- 
mer to trouble him every Night. 
The Holy Father /;j«i>cf»/ the XII, who nov*^ Reigns, 
having called him to Rome to make him his Chief Phy- 
fitian, he began the firft Year to loofe his fre(h Colour^ 
In the fecond he voided many Stones without much 
pain; and in the third which was the laft of his Life, 
he found himfelf oppreft, during the Winter with a 
difficulty of breathing, which troubled him moft when 
he went up Stairs. His Health being thus infenfibly un- 
dermined, and a bilious Loo(enefs returning ever and a- 
ncn. He was at length feafed with a Vertigo, a lofs of 
Speech, and a Contorfion of the Mouth, Qfpafmus cy- 
nius^ and a Palfie of half the right fide. And tho' 
there was appearance that he was out of danger by 
' Bleedings, Purges, Diureticks, and Antspopledick 
Medicines, yet one might lee, by his Melancholy Coun- 
tenance, but efpecially his want of Memory, that there 
was lodged in his Brain fome Melancholy Humour. 
. Therefore perceiving his end drawing near, he refolved 
sot only to put hisHoufe in order, but alfo his Writings, 
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