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I the general 1 Sort of ilfc,Frugality may betheC/«/eof DrinkingW.iter^ 
| For that it is no ('mail Sailing, to pay nothing for ones Drinket But the 
^ better Sort mought well beac the Coil. And yet I wonder thclefTe at ir, 
: bccaufe I fee France, Italy , 01 Spline, hauenot taken into vfe, Beere, or 
j AfifoV hich (perhaps} it they did,would better both their Healths,and 
j choir Complexions^ It is likely it would be Matter of great Gaine to 
! any, that fhould begin it fn Turkey . 
N Bathing in Hot water. Sweat (rieuerthelelTc) comttieth not in the 
Parts vnder th e water. The Caufe is j Firti, for that Sweat is a Kind of 
j Colliqimion. And that Kind ot Colli quit ion is not made, either by an 
\ Oner-Dry Heat, or an Ouer-MoijlHeat. For Ouer-Moijlure doth fome- 
Ivyhat extinguilh the Heat • Aswefee that euen Hot water quencheth 
I Fire: And Ouer-Dry Heat fhutteth the Pores : And therefore Men will 
fooner Sweat coik r« d before the Same or Fire, than if they flood Na- 
ked^ And Earthen Bottles, filled with Hot Water $ doe protiokejn Bed, a 
Sn^mure daintily, than Brick-bats Hot* Secondly, Hot water doth 
caufe Euaporation from the Skin ; So as it fpendeth the Matter,in thole 
Parts vnder the water , before it itfiieth in Sweat, Againe, Sweat com- 
mech more plentifully, if the Heat be.increafed by Degrees , chan if it be 
grcarefl at firti,or equall.The Caufe is for that the Peres are better ope¬ 
ned by a Gentle Heat , than by a more violent-. And by their opening^the 
Sweat iffiieth more abundantly. Arid therefore Phyfitians may doe Welly 
when they prouoke Sweat in Bed, by; Bottles,with a DecoHion of Sudori- 
ficke Herls in Hot water, to make two Degrees of Heat in the Bottles-, And 
to lay in the Bed,the Icjjle Heated fir fl,and after halfe an houre the more 
Heated i 'lA'* ‘ 
Sweat is Salt in Tafle*,The Caufe is,fordiat,that Part of the Nourijb- 
ment, which is Frejh and Sweet, turneth into Bloud, and Fiefs ; And the 
Sweat is only that Part which h separate and Excerned. Bloud alfo Raw, 
hath fome S alt ncjje,more than Flejh-, becaufe the Affimilation into Flejh, 
is not without a little and fubtile Excretion from the Bloud. 
Sweat commeth forth more out of the’ Hpper Parts of the Body, than 
the Lower-,The Rea fin is,becaufe thofe Parts are more replenifhed with 
Spirits * And the Spirits are they that put forth Sweat:fteCides, they are 
\cffe Flejhie,and Sweatiffheth (chiefly) out of the Parts that are Icfle 
Flefhie, and more Drie -, As the Fore-head, and Breajl. 
Men Sweat more in Sleepe than Waking • And yet sltepe doth rather 
flay other Fluxions, than cable them • As Rheumei, LoofeneJJe of the 
Body, Sec. The Caufe is, for that in sleepe, the Hear and Spirits doenatu- 
rally moue inwards j and there refT But when they are collected once 
within,thc Heat becommeth more Violent, and Irritate^ And thereby 
expelleth Sweat. 
Cold Sweats are (many times) Mortall, and neere Death-, Aridalwayes 
dll, and SufieBed • As in Great Feares,Hypochondria call Papons foe. The 
Caufe is, for that Cold Sweats come by a Relaxation or Forfaking of the 
* , <V 2 __ - Spirits „• 
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