augmented without any impairing of its vigour when the vigour is diminish'd the same weight of the body still remaining or lastly when both vigour and weight admit of diminution XXXV That weariness which ensues upon the Body's becoming less strong and of less weight is more dangerous than any other for ponderosity is a kind of strength XXXVI The weight of the body communicates strength to us when we either draw any thing downwards or carry turn or thrust it XXXVII The strength of an old man does many times depend more on the weight than the vigour of his body an old Animal of little weight may live a long time but cannot be strong XXXVIII If after sleeping the body be reduc'd to its usual weight without feeling any trouble 't is well for it arguâ— perfect concoction but if with trouble 't is ill XXXIX The body does not fall into any disease upon external miscarriages unless it have some of the entrails prepar'd for it that preparation is discover'd by the more or less than usual weight occasion'd not without some precedent disturbance XL. If nature be obstructed while she is employ'd in the office of perspiration she becomes presently defective in divers others XLI When the head akes the body receives a sudden check in perspiration and becomes more ponderous XLII The first seeds of diseases are more certainly discover'd by the alteration of the unusual perspiration than by the obstruction of the offices XLIII If by ponderation thou shalt find that the matter of usual perspiration is retain'd in the body and that the party does neither sweat nor urine for some days after infer thence that the retain'd matter prognosticates future corruption XLIV But if by ponderation thou shalt find that upon some violent cause the perspirable matter is more than usually emitted out of the body be assur'd that the place where the perspirable matters had been lodg'd and whence they were violently evacuated is fill'd with crudities which are crowded into the smallest passages XLV Yet if those crudities which so force their way in could as to all parts be rendred fluid and perspirable 't were well but if not the part wherein they are contain'd first becomes hard like Leather and at last schirrous XLVI If that which is perspirable should not be dissipated either by nature or some feaverish heat the body would be immediately prepar'd for a malignant Feaver XLVII Such as are in Feavers are as likely to grow worse and worse if their perspiration be diverted by the excessive applications of Medicines from an unskilful Physician as it might be if diverted by the miscarriages of the patients themselves XLVIII A small quantity of Cassia does not divert perspiration does not impair the strength but only eases the body of a superfluous weight but other Medicines contribute more to evacuation are diffus'd to the more remote parts and render the body lighter and yet the Meat and Drink which is receiv'd afterwards fill up the evacuated passages thence the belly and bladder are exsicatted and soon after the body commonly becomes more ponderous XLIX Any Pain or Grief of the body obstructs the passage of that perspirable matter which is concocted L. Any cold even the least that we feel in the night while we are asleep obstructs perspiration LI. One of the most frequent causes that hinder perspiration in the Summer time is the often turning of our bodies in bed LII There are three internal causes of the obstruction of perspiration Nature's being otherwise employ'd diversion and want of strength LIII Hence it appears by a statical ponderation that on the day a man takes Physick and during the space of three hours after refection there is little perspiration for on such day of taking Physick Nature is busied about sensible evacuation and after meat she is intent on the first concoction LIV. In Fluxes and Vomiting perspiration is obstructed because it is diverted LV. A burthensome weight of Garments is a hindrance to perspiration because they abate a man's strength LVI The body does not perspire every hour after the same rate in regard that after refection in the space of five hours it is commonly wont to exhale a pound or thereabouts from the fifth hour to the twelfth about three Pound from the twelfth to the sixteenth at which time we are to take refection or Physick hardly half a pound LVII He who takes his refection or is evacuated by Physick during the hours of greatest perspiration such as are for the most part those of the morning is highly injur'd because presently after meat as also after Physick perspiration is extreamly diverted LVIII The secret and insensible perspiration eases us more than all the sensible ones put together for after sleep before there be any evacuation of the sensible excrements every one feels himself lighter because he is really become lighter by three pound or thereabouts LIX In the space of one night there are commonly evacuated of Urine sixteen Ounces more or less of concocted excrements by stool four Ounces and by occult perspiration forty and above LX. There are many who in the space of four and twenty hours evacuate as much by insensible perspiration as they do by stool in the space of fifteen daies LXI How comes it then that most of our Country-men in all discases mind only the evacuation by Stool or Urine and hardly ever think of insensible perspiration LXII If in the night thou hast perspir'd more than usually but without Sweating or any disturbance be assur'd of thy being in perfect Health LXIII Then are we at the greatest distance from any disease when we are come to the mean proportion of the latitude of healthy ponderation not through spontaneous sensible evacuation or that prescrib'd by the Physician or yet by fasting but by the insensible perspiration which comes by sleep after perfect concoction LXIV What quantity of perspiration is convenient for every one in order to his continuance in a most healthful constitution of body you will thus find out Observe in the morning after a somewhat-plentiful Supper over night that sort of greater perspiration which may be compleated in thy self in the space of Twelve Hours grant it to have amounted to Fifty Ounces some other morning after fasting over-night yet with this proviso that thou didst not exceed at thy Dinner the day before make the same observation let us admit the perspiration to have amounted to Twenty Ounces This fore-known pitch upon that moderate proportion of Meat and other non-natural causes which will be likely to reduce thee daily to the mean between Fifty and Twenty Ounces and that mean will be Thirty Five Ounces Thus maist thou live a long and healthful life nay haply arrive to that of a hundred years LXV The healthful bodies of men and such as are most moderate in their diet become every month more than usually ponderous to wit by one pound or two and are reduc'd to the usual weight about the
month's end as it happens to Women but after a crisis made by a more plentiful or more muddy emission of Urne LXVI Before the said menstrual crisis made soon after sleep either there is felt a drowsiness of the head or weariness of the body and afterwards by a more plentiful Evacuation of Urine all things are quieted LXVII The external causes which ordinarily obstruct perspiration are a cold troubled and moist air swimming in cold water gross and viscous meats the intermission of Corporeal exercise or that of the mind and in robust persons over much abstinence from venery LXVIII External cold obstructs Perspiration in a weak body because its heat is dissipated but in a robust person it augments it for the heat is forc'd to the bottom and reduplicated and thereupon nature is corroborated and upon that the weight of the perspirable matter that is retain'd being by her consum'd the body becomes and is felt lighter LXIX The health of that body is more firm and of longer continuance whose weight in the process of many years is neither augmented nor diminish'd than that of a body whose weight is alter'd every year LXX For a body to be reduc'd to its usual ponderosity by the accession of crude humours is ill but if it be by the addition of such as are concocted it is most wholsome LXXI It is an ill sign when a healthy person becomes of less weight than usual it being suppos'd his course of life be the same as before for there is not any refusion of that wholsome matter which had been lost LXXII The concocted excrements of the belly are of great bulk but little weight they swim on the surface by reason of the air contain'd in them and whatever may be evacuated at one and the same time never exceeds the third part of a pound LXXIII If it happen that in one dayes space through some miscarriage or other there be so great a retention of perspiration as may amount to a pound nature is commonly three days employ'd in the insensible expurgation of that which had been retain'd LXXIV Then does nature make a great insensible evacuation when she endeavours to voyd perspirable matter retain'd by yawnings and extensions of the joynts LXXV The perspirable matter consists of two parts to wit a light and a ponderous LXXVI The ponderous part is so exuberant that living creatures are generated of it as Punaizes lice and the like LXXVII From the more ponderous part of perspiration do proceed the contagious Infections of such as lye together for the light part vanishes but the more ponderous being adhesive does infect LXXVIII They who in the scorching Heats of Summer are obstructed in the exhalation of the perspirable matter are incommodated by Heat but to those who have an absolute freedom of respiration the Heat is not troublesome LXXIX A greater weight differs from a lesser equal healthful because the greater does the more accelerate old Age. Be it suppos'd that some person hath his Health as well when he weighs two hundred weight as at two hundred and five pound we have observ'd that the excess of those five pounds did more accelerate old Age. LXXX Why does Animated Flesh live and not putrify as a carcase does Because it is daily renew'd Why are Children in a capacity of living longer than old men Because they may be more often renew'd since they begin from the lowest weight of the whole latitude and so proceed to the highest for they are capable of most of the Healthful weights Why is there a necessity that old men should die Because they are capable only of the last proportions of weight But why only of those because their fibres are hard and as such cannot be any more renew'd whence death ensues LXXXI Why are they cur'd are who surpriz'd by some dangerous Disease because they are capable of several sorts of Healthy weights for such Diseases take away thirty pounds from mens bodies more or less as the bodies are more or less repleat and as the Disease is more or less hot and according to its continuance APHORISMS Added by the Author LXXXII Old men prolong their lives by frequent Spittings for these being retain'd within the body as being uncapable of coction or digestion hinder perspiration the consequences whereof are suffocation and death LXXXIII Old Age is indeed a Disease but may last a long time if the body be made easily perspirable LXXXIV Venery actual frigidity of the body over-plentiful drinking supping as young men do to be angry more than needs and much exercise all these shorten the lives of old men LXXXV Old men reach not decrepit Age by reason of the weakness of their expulsive faculties Thence it comes to pass that when they drink more than it was requisite they should they urine less and perspire less than they are wont The remedy is that the substraction be equivalent to the addition LXXXVI Insensible perspiration being quite obstructed does not only deprive the chiefest parts of life but also one ignoble part It deprives the chiefest when there is an Apoplexy in the Brain palpitation in the Heart an excess of Blood in the Liver and a suffocation in the Matrix it deprives the ignoble part by Gangrene LXXXVII That Women are troubled with the suffocation does not proceed from the Womb 's compressing the midriff but from the frigidity of the corrupted seed which does not want perspiration LXXXVIII The humours of persons troubled with the Gout though they are most gross are dissolved only by way of vapour LXXXIX Vomiting diverts Urine and perspiration XC The frequent turning of the body in bed since the doing of it requires the assistance of all the muscles does weaken and obstruct concoction and perspiration The remedy is for one to be obstinately resolv d to lye in one and the same posture XCI While the knees are kept actually warm the feet are not chil'd such persons sleep well they perspire more and urine less XCII Looseness of the belly is taken away by those things which augment perspiration of which kind Bathing is one XCIII As the Loadstone is better preserv'd where there is much iron and wine better kept in a great vessel than a litle one So such bodies as are more ponderous yet healthy withal do better preserve strength than such as abate in their weight through want of aliment XCIV They who urine more than they drink do perspire little or nothing at all XCV Why is there an obstruction of insensible perspiration in intermittent Feavers because the peccant humour is in the circumference of the body XCVI In the Dropsy the water in the lower part of the belly is not dissolved because its drought and hardness hinder perspiration XCVII Hot humours being got together into any part are to be entertain'd with hot digestives in order to their dissolution by insensible perspiration XCVIII Why is fainting or swouning beneficial in high Feavers because it causes sweating and a
summer time temperate bodies are less ponderous than they are in winter by about three pounds XXIV In the summer time men are subject to weariness not because the body is more ponderous but because it is less strong XXV In a warm air the body is of less strength as well by reason that with the perspiration there is somewhat of the better spirits exhal'd as because the warmth is not concentrated XXVI There is alwayes by a warm air somewhat dispersed through the whole skin which carries away with it somewhat of the internal good humour XXVII In the summer time we are troubled with heat not principally proceeding from the warmth of the air for every part of the body is warmer than the summer-air but because there is not so much coldness in the summer-air as that the natural heat may be sufficiently concentrated Whence it comes to pass that being so diffus'd it cannot insensibly evacuate that perspirable matter which is of its own nature hot which matter being kept in becomes sharp and is the cause of our being troubled with much heat XXVIII When mens bodies in the hottest seasons upon sleeping in the night or day time perspire abundantly or sweat they become lighter and are not that day troubled with any heat XXIX If a cold Air immediately succeed the Summer-heat there will be occasion'd for the most part that day the retention of about a pound of the insensible excrements XXX If the Summer prove like the Spring so as that mens bodies may be reduc'd to the weight answerable to the Summer it must be the effect of Sweating XXXI At the beginning of Summer if intense heat come of a sudden weariness and faintness ensue which do not continue long though the sultriness be encreas'd for some daies after because the weight of the perspirable body is abated XXXII The same vigour is not so much concern'd in strugling with a lesser as it is with a greater weight of the body XXXIII Perspiration procur'd by the force of warm air or water is hurtful unless the malignancy of it be not ballanc'd by some greater benefit XXXIV Robust bodies perspire more in the Summer time by day in the Winter by night XXXV That impediment of respiration which in the Summer-time is apt to be introductory to a malignant Feaver does hardly in the winter-time cause the least alternation for in the summer mens bodies are fill'd with a perspirable matter of a sharper nature than they are in winter XXXVI To sleep in the Summer-time with the body uncover'd or abroad in the open Air does for the most part dispose it to putrefaction by hindring the perspiration XXXVII The difficulty of respiration does not heat the entrails unless the perspirable matter become sharp by reason of its retention or upon the account of external heat or violent motion XXXVIII In the Summer-time when cold does of a sudden succeed heat the inconvenience of excessive Venery is hardly perceiv'd but if the Air reassume its former warmth men are very sensible of the injury they have receiv'd by the precedent miscarriage XXXIX The injury men receive by the not-immoderate exercise of Venery is commonly ballanc'd by an equal benefit if the heat be concentrated by the cool Air. XL. In the Summer-nights mens bodies are most dispos'd to Feavers by reason of the vicissitude of the Air for at the beginning of the night the Air is enflam'd but about midnight it is more temperate and in the morning cool whence it comes to pass that the usual perspirable matter is not evacuated in such as sleep with the Bed-cloaths off and their bodies are more ponderous which happens not in winter XLI From the Autumnal Equinox to the Winter Solstice we perspire every day much about a pound from thence to the Spring-Equinox we begin to perspire more freely XLII Autumn is an unhealthy season as well by reason that the perspiration is obstructed by the cold then coming in as for that what is not perspir'd becomes sharp and corroding XLIII Autumnal indispositions are avoided if the body be not of greater weight in Autumn than it had been in Summer XLIV That weight which is augmented by degrees is to be abated by degrees XLV The more than usual weight of the body is not to be taken off in the Spring but in Autumn for the cold air then coming in is a greater enemy to the weight XLVI Thou wilt not be troubled with any disease in Autumn if the cold weather then coming in find thee well furnish'd with cloaths if thou use diureticks and wilt be kept in the same weight as before XLVII He who is well cloath'd perspires the better for it and is rendered of less weight XLVIII They who in the Winter-time are commonly troubled with diseases proceeding from the abundance of humours are to be purg'd in Autumn and not in the Spring and ought to be reduc'd to the weight they were of at the beginning of Summer XLIX But if the diseases proceed from some malignant quality the bodies are to be purg'd in the Spring and not in Autumn for the malignancy of the quality is more augmented in Summer than in Winter L. They who at the beginning of the Spring devest themselves too soon and in Autumn are backward in putting on their winter-garments are in Summer apt to fall into Feavers and in Winter to be troubled with distillations LI. The retention of the perspirable matter as it has a sharp quality causes Feavers and Erysipelas's as to its redundancy it causes Apostems Distillations or an evil habit of the body LII External cold by concentrating the heat makes nature so much the stronger by how much it is the more able to bear about two pounds of perspirable matter unevacuated over and above its ordinary weight LIII At the beginning of winter mens bodies are easily reduc'd to their usual weight but in the beginning of Summer it is with much ado that they are reduc'd to the Summer-weight LIV. There would be an uninterrupted healthfulness even to the extremity of age if mens bodies were kept in an equal weight during the four seasons of the year LV. Those bodies whose weights are much augmented and diminished in the space of a year are in great danger LVI The greater variety there is of the weight of any body in the space of a year and the greater the augmentation or diminution of the blood is so much the worse is the condition of that body LVII The augmentation of the weight happens at the beginning of Autumn the diminution at the beginning of Summer LVIII Those bodies whose weight is augmented are in a more dangerous condition than those whose weight is diminish'd APHORISMS Added by the Author LIX THose parts of the body which are cover'd do healthfully perspite but if they be found uncover'd after sleep their pores are condensated by even the warmest air LX. That air which is over cool moist or windy obstructs perspiration whence it
between excess and defect The excess after a plentiful supper of meats of easy perspiration commonly amounts in the space of one night to forty ounces or thereabouts the defect but to fourteen That proportion therefore of meat which will bring thee to two and twenty ounces which is the mean between the other two will promise thee infallible health and long life XLII The opinion of Celsus is not safe for all persons to wit that in the use of the six not natural things men ought sometimes to be sparing and sometimes to exceed XLIII Bodies are with less trouble reduc'd to their usual weight if men take four pounds of meat at dinner and four at supper observing a convenient interval than if they take six at dinner and two at supper XLIV That person destroyes himself by degrees who eats once a day besides his ordinary meals whether he eat little or much XLV The body is made more ponlerous by four ounces of meat that is of much nutriment such as Pork Eeles and all fat things than by six ounces of meat that is of little nourishment such as are small Fishes Chickens small Birds and the like XLVI If there be any difficulty in the concoction of meat which is of littlâ— nourishment it will happen only in the first concoction but if there be a difficulty in the concoction of meat of much nutriment it will happen in all the concoctions XLVII Meat of little nutriment moistens and loosens the belly is soon digested and readily promotes the perspiration of men whether sleeping or waking XLVIII Meat of much nutriment binds the belly if it be noâ— corrupted is of difficult concoction and perspires little XLIX Where there is a difficulty of concoction there is but a slow perspiration L. Not that meat which is fluid but that which is of better juice ought to be eaten first for the Pylorus or Stomach-gut is not at the bottom in men as it is in Dogs LI. Three inconveniences are consequent to mens feeding on variety of meats there is an excess of eating the concoction is less and the perspiration less LII The time of least perspiration is when the stomach is full especially with variety so meats LIII They who vomit up their supper do immediately remove the pain of their stomach but the next morning they feel their bodies more ponderous for vomiting diverts perspiration by attracting the perspirable matter to the inward parts which matter upon the score of its being sharp causes lassitude and heat upon that of its redundancy it causes heaviness LIV. That person who eats more than is requisite is nourish'd less than is requisite LV. They who in their youth are immoderate in their diet make the Stomach larger than it should be whence it comes to pass that it proves a hard matter to reduce them afterwards to a moderate diet LVI If any one be desirous to be reduc'd to a moderate diet let him use food of little nutriment and so the Stomach soon disburthening it self of it will be contracted and reduc'd to a less capacity LVII You will find what quantity of meat you should eat if for several daies together you observe that the body after sleep is without any trouble reduc'd to the same weight LVIII If after a plentiful supper the body be of less weight the next day it happens either by reason of the corruption of the meat or because nature is stir'd up to expel that which is beneficial which is extreamly hurtfull for the body is prepar'd for diseases when those things which are beneficial are evacuated and crudities kept within the body LIX If a man's supper amount to eight pounds and what he has eaten be corrupted in the stomach the next day the body will be of less weight than if the supper had been of three pounds and the meat had not been corrupted LX. Those meats that are most conducive to perspiration are not corrupted nay after watching whole nights they keep a man from weariness and heaviness LXI Meats not apt to perspire are wont to cause obstructions corruptions lassitude pensiveness and ponderosity LXII Then is a living creature in the worst condition when after the concoction is compleated the body seems to be more burthensome than ordinary while yet it is of less weight LXIII If any one has been excessive in eating or drinking and there ensue thereupon such sensible evacuations as are greater than usual the body is next day lighter than usual LXIV Liquid meats supposing an equality as to quantity are more ponderous than the solid the liquids go to the bottom the solid keep on the top a cup of wine or mess of Broath is of more weight than a whole loaf LXV If excess in drinking make the Eies as 't were full of tears it is a sign the body has not perpir'd as much as it should have done LXVI If after much drinking you sweat or urine much it is an argument of either great strength or great weakness LXVII The drinking of cold water obstructs insensible perspiration but augments the sensible LXVIII In these our daies Drinking even in temperate persons is disproportionate for men eat commonly after the rate of twelve Ounces but drink after that of forty and above LXIX In a man of moderate diet the nocturnal perspiration sometimes amounts to three pound in a person who feeds plentifully the stomach being empty before and strong it may amount to five pounds LXX If a body be in its standard of greater weight fasting is beneficial to it if in its mean it is hurtful if in its lesser weight it is much more hurtful LXXI If after long fasting the body be plentifully fed the perspiration amounts to a pound more than it usually does LXXII To eat immediately after immoderate exercise of body or mind is hurtful for the wearied body perspires with some difficulty LXXIII When sober persons and such as are moderate in their diet die betimes their friends wonder at the strangeness of it because they know nothing of insensible perspiration LXXIV Excess of meat and drink does not only keep the acrimony of the perspirable matter which is retain'd lurking in the body but also the deprav'd affections of the parts especially of those that are not the principal and that for a long time which affections when the bodies are purg'd or brought low by much fasting break forth of a sudden and turn into violent distempers LXXV That Physician who is to regulate the diet of Princes if he be ignorant how much and when they daily perspire deludes and does not cure them and if he do them any good it is by chance LXXVI For about the space of four hours after meat most people do hardly perspire a pound thence to the ninth hour two pound from the ninth to the sixteenth hardly a pound LXXVII Then is it the proper time to take refection when the body shall be reduc'd to that weight yet healthful which it was of a
and natural spirits languish XLVIII By Vigilance the animal spirits are corroborated but the vital and natural languish XLIX By Sleep the internal parts are more heated and are also made more light By Vigilance the external parts are made more hot and also more light L. By too much sleep the internal and external parts grow cold the humours are forcibly crowded in and made imperspirable and the bodies are rendred more ponderous LI. Cholerick bodies are extreamly prejudiced by excessive sleeping not because the excrements of the third concoction are made imperspirable but because they become extream sharp and are afterwards noxious to the head and other entrails LII In persons sleeping with the bed cloaths cast off perspiration is more obstructed than it is in persons awake who have no cloaths on as well by reason of the quiet posture of such as are asleep as also for that the heat of the external parts retreats inward LIII A more than usual watching â—enders men's bodies during the first subsequent days after it more ponderous and more weak They are more ponderous because after the evacuation of the perspirable excrements there is left behind a certain juice which of it self is crude and by accident ponderous they are weaker because where there is any crudity there is no conversion made and consequently the strength is impair'd LIV. If after immoderate watching a man sleep seven hours the Perspiration will be more than usual by about a pound LV. Continued watching renders mens bodies more ponderous not by reason of the greater Perspiration or sensible evacuation but because the recruit of fat and flesh is not answerable to what had been wasted LVI In the morning the body both is and is felt less ponderous it is so because by the precedent sleep three pound of perspirable excrements were evacuated it is so felt not only because it is lighter but also in regard that by the concoction of the meats that were easily perspirable there is an augmentation of strength LVII A man's body may become more ponderous by unusual watching if the meat wherewith it is fed be unfit for perspiration LVIII There is so plentiful an exhalation of the body in persons steeping that not only the sick lying with the sound but also the sound among themselves do mutually communicate their good or evil dispositions APHORISMS Added by the Author LIX AFter meat sleep after sleep concoction after concoction transpiration is best LX. Diacydonium or Marmalet not taken immediately after supper but after the first sleep excites sleep provided there be nothing drunk after it LXI Diacydonium or Marmalet taken with a little Cinnamon strengtheneth the stomach and that being strengthened sleep alwaies follows LXII A small quantity of Generous Wine and Garlick cause sleep and perspiration but if a man take more than is requisite they obstruct both however they convert the perspirable matter into sweating LXIII That man will doubtless come to a great age who does daily concoct and digest well concoction is caus'd by sleep and rest digestion by vigilance and exercise LXIV If the weariness ensuing after sleep be taken off by usual exercise the defect was in the digestion and not in the concoction LXV When we rise from sleep with our usual weight but with greater unweildiness if it be not taken off by our accustomed exercise it signisies an accumulation of crudities corruption of meat or immoderate coition LXVI Unusual sleeping at noon is hurtful to all the entrails and checks perspiration LXVII Weariness or unweildiness after sleep is taken off by those things which facilitate perspiration These are abstinence exercise vigilance and anger LXVIII If the body lie loose and flat sleep is hurtful if it be contracted it is good the entrails lying close and compacted together havean easy concoction but when they are loose by one's lying at length they have a difficult concoction LXIX If in sound persons a cold sweat ensue after sleep it argues they perspire less than they should do and in process of time if the same thing happens they are troubled with the Gout LXX By immoderate sleep and excessive drinking of Wine the strength is suffocated by excessive vigilance and exercise it is dissolved all these dimimishconcoction and that diminish'd there is a stoppage of requisite perspiration OF EXERCISE AND REST. SECT V. Aphorism I. THE occult perspiration of a mans body is less in violent motion than it is in the morning nine or ten hours from the time he had supp'd II. That which is evacuated in violent motion by the pores is sweat and an occult perspirable matter but as it is violent it is rais'd for the most part out of unconcocted juices for it seldom happens that there should be so great a collection of concocted perspirable matter in the body as is evacuated by violence III. Sweating alwaies proceeds from a violent cause and as such as statical experiments make it appear it obstructs the occult evacuation of concocted perspirable matter IV. The body perspires much more lying quietly in bed than turning from one side to another by frequent agitation V. Chearful and angry persons are less wearied by long travelling than the fearful and pensive for the former perspire more healthfully but the other less VI. Those bodies which are admitted to refection after immoderate exercise receive much prejudice because as they are wearied and burthen'd with meat they perspire less VII Exercise from the seventh hour to the twelfth after refection does insensibly dissolve more in the space of one hour than it does in three hours at any other time VIII Insensible evacuation after violent exercise obstructs the successive recruiting of that which is wasted nay if the same violence should continue the body will be rendred so light that in many there would be some danger of a future consumption IX By exercise mens bodies are made lighter for all the parts especially the muscles and ligaments are cleans'd from excrements by motion the perspirable matter is prepar'd for exhalation and the spirits are made more tenuious or subtil X. Motion prepares bodies for the evacuation of sensible and insensible excrements rest does it rather for that of the insensible only XI If the body lye quietly in the bed after supper for the space of ten hours it shall perspire excellently well if it rest there yet somewhat longer there follows immediately a diminution of both sensible and insensible evacuation XII Long rest renders indispos'd bodies more weighty as well in regard the perspirable excrements are prepar'd for evacuation by motion as also for that the meat and drink if such as the patient is not accustom'd to or more in quantity than is requisite are not digested and thence proceed all inconveniences and many times death XIII If a person who has kept his bed long be troubled with pain in the feet the remedy is walking if one that is upon a journey be so troubled the remedy is rest XIV There
intrinsecally obstruct the excretion of the gross matter and the muddy air does it extrinsecally XV. They who carry grief along with them to their beds perspire so much the less that night and the next day their bodies continue more than usually ponderous XVI In venereous meditations the gross part of the perspirable excrements is with grief retain'd which part upon the evaporation of the subtile becomes yet more gross and more cold If this be pent up together it causes an almost invincible coldness in the head and a hardly curable palpitation in the heart or other members XVII Melancholy is two ways overcome either by a free perspiration or some continual satisfaction of the mind XVIII If mens bodies become lighter after grief than after joy it must of necessity happen either by reason of a less quantity of meat or by that of their more transpirable quality XIX The consolation of the mind from whatsoever cause it proceeds opens the passages and very much promotes perspiration XX. ' f after anger there immediatey ensue some consolation of the mind or the contrary happen mens bodies allowing an equal proportion of aliment are lighter the next day than they would be if only anger or joy had continu'd XXI As there is a sudden period put to some great pleasure by a small evacuation of seed so all other immoderate affections of the mind may be abated and taken off by some evacuation of the perspirable matter XXII Fear and grief as we find by statical experiments are taken off by the evacuation of the gross perspirable excrements anger and alacrity by that of the tenuious XXIII If any one find himself in a merry jocund humour without any cause it proceeds from a greater freedom of perspiration and his body will be found â—he next day of less weight XXIV Moderate joy insensibly evacuates what is superfluous immoderate joy both what is superfluous and what is beneficial XXV Moderate joy assists the concoctive faculties for nature not being burthen'd with that which is superfluous does much better perform her functions XXVI Unexpected joy is more hurtful than that which is look'd for For it does not only excite the evacuation of the excrements of the third concoction but also the exhalation of the vital spirits but the expected joy promotes only that of the excrements XXVII Joy and anger take off from the body what makes it more ponderous and what renders it more light Grief and fear take away only what makes it more light but what makes it more ponderous is left behind XXVIII A continual gladness for many daies together hinders sleep and renders a man weaker XXIX If any one after moderate joy finds himself lighter it does not proceed principally from the evacuation of the whole body but from that of the heart and brain whence what is evacuated is least of all as to quantity and greatest as to vertue XXX Those aliments which open and facilitate perspiration produce joy those that obstruct it grief XXXI Parsley and other aliments that are opening induce joy Pulse fat meat and other things which incrassate and presently fill the cavities of the passages cause grief XXXII If the cavities of the passages be evacuated and afterwards presently fill'd it was rightly said of Hippocrates that evil passions of the mind are generated XXXIII To those who are subject to anger immoderate exercise is very hurtful for their passages are immediately empty'd and with much violence are fill'd up again Whence it came that Hippocrates forbad Cholerick persons to use frictions and wrastling XXXIV In a person who uses no exercise of body or mind the passages are not empty'd nor are there any evil passions of the mind contracted XXXV A body lying all along does perspire more and becomes of less weight if the mind be vehemently active than if the body were in a very swift motion and the mind were idle XXXVI The shifting of the body from one place to another makes a longer alteration of the body than of the mind it self XXXVII The passions of the mind are concern'd about the internal subject which rather moves than is moved inasmuch as it is least as to quantity and greatest as to Vertue like the sperm of man and by the disposal thereof in several manners is the origine of Perspiration or Ponderosity and Lightness XXXVIII Those bodies which perspire more than usually not occasion'd by any motion of the body but through some vehement agitation of the mind are with greater difficulty reduc'd to their usual and healthy Perspiration XXXIX An immoderate affection of the mind is more hurtful than an immoderate motion of the body XL. The body would pine away and be destroy'd through idleness were it not for the motion of the mind but the contrary cannot be affirm'd XLI A vehement motion of the mind differs from a vehement motion of the body the latter is taken off by rest and sleep the former by neither rest nor sleep XLII Let those forbear gaming whose thoughts are altogether upon winning because if they always have good fortune out of excessive joy they will hardly sleep in the night and in time will find the want of the exhalation of the concocted perspirable matter XLIII A moderate victory is more wholsome than a glorious one XLIV Study is longer endur'd in a vicissitude of the affections of the mind than if it be without affection or without any change of affections for Perspiration becomes more moderate and more wholsome XLV Study without any affection hardly endures an hour with any one affection hardly four hours with vicissitude of affections as at Dice at which kind of gaming men feel one while the joy for winning another sadness for losing it may continue night and day XLVI In all Study continual sadness disturbs the good constitution of the heart and excess of gladness hinders sleep for every excess is destructive to nature XLVII They who are sometimes merry sometimes sad sometimes angry sometimes timorous have a more healthful perspiration than they who continue in one and the same though that a constantly-good affection XLVIII Gladness makes the Diastole and the Systole more easy grief and sadness render them more difficult TO THE STATICOMASTIX SECT VIII Aphorism I. THE Staticomastix while he attributes the cure of diseases to the position of the Heavens Paralogizes by assigning a more common cause than he needed to have done II. The fool first denies yet afterwards admits Staticks or Ponderation affirming that there is a diversity of weight in a guilty person and an innocent In like manner he first denies that the spirits of Swine are light and afterwards he would have their getting up to any place to proceed from the lightness of their spirits III. He who is experienc'd in Staticks knows the weight of the excrements though he neither see them nor weigh them He weighs the body before and again after all evacuation what is deficient is their weight And so