( 7 7 V ) 
. fas of what is now permitted, which before were not 3) 
but rather as Introduftive of the Prohibition which pre- 
fently follows, to wit, Though he might eat Flelk 
even as the green Herb, f fo tar as it might be whol- 
fome food : ) yet, fiot with the Blood thenof 3 that is, 
not Raw flefh 5 not carnem crudum^ or carnemcum criiorc. 
I add aifo, that the fame Rule is given to other A.ni~ 
mals, Gm* i. 30. as is to man, at ver. 29. I have given 
them eve^y green herb for meat : Yet there are, weknow^ 
many Carnivorous Animals, without any further Per- 
miffion that we know of. 
But ( without difputing it as a point in Divinity, 
Whether men, before the Flood, did or might feed on 
Flefh, fappofing it to be wholfome nourifhment^") I 
(hall confider it ( with Gajjendus ) as a Queftion in Na« 
tural Philofophy, whether it be proper Food for Man* 
The confideration infifled upon by Gaffendm^ is i rom 
the ftruCture of the Teeth^ (and, as I remember thisonlyj 
that our Teeth are moftly eitlier Inci fores ^ or Molitores 5 
nor fuch as fin Carnivorous Animals) are proper to tear 
FleJI)^ except only 4.,which are called Canini : As if Nature 
had rather furnifhed our Teeth, for G^^^^/V/^ Herbs, Roots^ 
&c. and for bruifing Grain, Nuts, and other hard Fruits, 
than for Tearing Flefli, as Carnivorous Animals do, with 
their Claws, and fharp Teeth* And, even when we feed 
on Flefhjit is ooc without a preparative Cociion.hj boilings 
joafting, baking, &c. And, even fo, we forbid it to 
perfons in a Fever, or other like riiftempers, as of to© 
hard digeftion. And Children ( before their Palats are 
vitiated by cuftom ) are more fond of Frnits than ot 
Flep-meat^ And their breeding ¥/orms is wont to be 
imputed to their too early feeding on Flejh, 
This ingenious Conjedture of Gajfendus^ did prefcnt- 
ly fuggeft to me another fpeculation, which fecms not 
lefs confiderable. 
There is in Swine, Sheep, Oxen, and, I think, in moft 
Qiiadrupeds that feed on Herbs or Plants, a long Cohn, 
f^f f ff f 2 , ' witJi 
