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ther O'SfervatioDS and Tryals concerning the power of the 
fame* 
And Fir ft, the Illuftrious Lord of Verulam , in his Hftory of 
Life and Death 5 Hiftor® 6 . §. 3. obferves, That Motion and 
Warmth (of which t wo,Fri&ion confifts) draws forth,into the 
parts, New Juyce and Vigour. And Canon. XIII'. he affirms. 
That FriUtons conduce much to Longevity. See the fame, 
Cmnex. ix. §.2d. &c. 
Secondly, The Honourable "Robert Boyle s in his Vfeful - 
m/s of Experimental Philofephy, [eft- 2. ch.i$. confidering the 
Body of a Living man or any Animal, as an Engine, , fo 
compofed , that there is a confpiring communication be- 
twixt its parts , by vertue whereof a very flight imprei- 
fion of adventitious matter upon feme one part , may be 
able to work , on fome other diftant part, or perhaps on 
the whole Engine, a change far exceeding, what the 
fame adventitious matter could do upon a Body not fo 
contrived: Reprefenting , I fay, an Animai in this man- 
ner, and thence inferring, how it may be alter’d for the bet- 
ter or worfe by motions oritnpulfes, confeffedly Mecham- 
call , obferves, How fome are recover’d from fwouning 
fits by pricking i others grow faint and do vomit by the 
bare morion of a Coach a others fall into a troublefome 
ficknefs by the agitation of a Ship , and by the Sea-air 
( whence they recover by reft, and by going a ffiore.) A- 
gain, how in our Stables a Horfe well-curried is half-fed: 
How fome can tell by the Milk of their Afles, whether that 
day they have been well curried or not: Arguing hence, 
that: if in AMl\ the alteration is fo confiderable, it ffiould be 
fo like wife in the Blood, or other Juyces, of which the Blood 
is elaborated , and confequently in divers of the principal 
parts of the Body. Where alfo ( upon the authority of 
Pi/d) he refers the Reader to the Brafilian Empiricks^whofe 
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