mical and other Obfervations, then he comes to the 
Four Nutritious Humours, Biood, Choler, Spittle and 
^4elancholy, which the Opponent proving out of Hip^ 
pocrates, our Authr r (hews that Hippocrates is not in 
this matter confillent with himfelf ; fometimes confti- 
tuting but two, fometimes more Humours ; he likewife 
Anfwers the Authority of Galen-^ as alfo his other Rea- 
fons from the Four Seafons of the Year, &c. After 
which he brings a Citation out of Willis de Ferment. 
Whereupon he enlarges chiefly upon the motions of 
matter that are obiervable in Animals, and thence ex- 
plicates the caufe of Fevers, fo proceeds to the ex- 
?5:mioatii n of feveraf other Difeafes difputed of between 
the Galemfts and Moderns, the Opponent calls Novate* 
res, and firft whether blood-letting be necelTary in Apo* 
plexys ; our Author affirming it to be fo, the other 
having aflerted the contrary. Secondly, Concerning 
the Pleurifiet whether it be feated in the Lungs or Pie- 
ura : the former is defended by our Author, the reft of 
the Treatife relates to the Method of curing Difeafes 
efpecially Fevers, whether by Purging, Vomiting, and 
Sweating or by Blood-letting, the later being chiefly ap« 
proved by our Author, fhewing the danger of a Loofe- 
neft in an illnefs from the Hiftorys of Hippocrates con- 
cerning Epidemick Fevers. This Treaii(e being moftly 
Tolemick ought to be read ic felf, it not being fo eafie 
to make an extraft thereof without beingToo^arge. 
The next Treatife Printed in this work is, De recen- 
tiorum Medic onm ftudio Differtatio EpiHolaris ad Anti' 
€um^ this Trad is mentioned by our Author in his Life, 
where he gives fome account of it himfelf : The defign 
of the Writer thereof is to fliew, that a more fubtil and 
curious Anatomy oi the Parts, the Anatomy of Plants, 
and Comparative Anatomy are little or not at all fer- 
viceablc to the more folidPraxStice of Pbyfick. The firft 
he 
