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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57186	A discourse upon prodigious abstinence occasioned by the twelve moneths fasting of Martha Taylor, the famed Derbyshire damosell : proving that without any miracle, the texture of humane bodies may be so altered, that life may be long continued without the supplies of meat & drink : with an account of the heart, and how far it is interessed in the business of fermentation / by John Reynolds ...	Reynolds, John, of Kings-Norton.	1669 (1669)	Wing R1314; ESTC R10543	24,717	44

to these are the presumers that the Fasters are dead and acted by Daemons but this notion is also incongruous not only to their transmigration from feeding to fasting without any shew of a dissolution but also to their regress from fasting to feeding as it hapned to some of these and health again And as for the admirers of occult Philosophy who resolve these phrases into the effects of occult qualities we only repose that though an antipathy to this or that food and possibly to all food may cause abstinence yet without food I cannot understand how it gives sustenance but others attribute all this to the influence of coelestial bodies whose operations I deny not to be great on sublunary wights yet 't is not imaginable that this universal cause diffusing its energy so promiscuously should now and then in a Century here and there in a Countrey produce such stupendious effects without some universal preparation and predisposition of Bodies to determine its general efficiency to the production of such a Prodigy but as the former affect darkness and these an invisible light we leave them to their retirements whilest we hunt the more perceptible prints of natures progress in these anomalous productions By this time Sir I hope you 'l grant that the old inconvenient and tottering building is in a measure demolish'd the rubbish removed and the ground cleared let us now propound the necessities and conveniencies the ends and uses by our new building to be supply'd and attained and then we 'll fall to the architecture it self I mean let us consider what the defect of aliment doth require for the support of humane life 1. The Natural Evacuations by Urine Stool Salivation Terms and Transpiration are so lavish that without reparation by feeding it seems impossible to avoid a sudden dissolution 2dly How shall natural heat be preserved from extinction without a constant feeding on the radical moysture and how shall this Oleaginous humour be secur'd from a nimble consumption if it receive not additions from frequent feeding 3ly How shall Fermentation be continued in the blood without new additions of Chyle and how shall Chyle be added if no food received 4ly How shall there be a supply of vital spirits and consequently of animal without food and fermentation 5ly How can life consist without sleep and how shall we attain sleep without ascending fumes to the brain from ingested food For a foundation I shall premise a few severals 1. The long finger of powerfull Providence is undoubtedly to be observ'd in the production of these wonderfull effects though these be not advanc'd to the Zenith of divine Miracles wrought by the immediate hand of Omnipotency yet the first cause must be acknowledg'd in the proportioning marshalling dividing uniting and actuating of concurrent subordinate second causes for such Heteroclite productions Plato himself could say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the admirable D. Willis acknowledges that Natures Parent orders natural Principles as to their quantity and mixture and consequently as to their operations 2. 'T is very evident that when higher causes shall disjoyn what Nature usually conjoyneth and vice versâ and exalt one Principle and depress another then very astonishing results appear upon the stage of humane bodies such is the stupendious voracity of some Helluo's the monstrous digestion of your Lithophagi the strange metamorphosis of your sanguineans into midnight melancholy and of lucid intellectuals into piceous mopishness c. 1. Now to supply the defect of food in its most usefull restauration of what by daily Evacuations the body is depriv'd of as I need not compute the vast expence of the Microcosme by stool urine spitting and terms these being vulgarly known so neither of the transcendent loss by transpiration reckoned by Sanctorius to preponderate all the rest all which exact constant additions to be made by aliment without which the body would quickly be depopulated But 1. let it be considered that this person as 't is most credibly reported emptyes nothing by urine or stool and 't is probable next to nothing by salivation or transpiration not by salivation through a considerable defect of drinks nor by transpiration because wanting food there 's a partial defect of fermentation in the blood and thence of natural heat and so by the coldness of the parts the pores are precluded and the diaphoresis impeded whence it will follow that where the parts are duely warm and the pores patent there the more active principles are apt to take flight yet where the parts are cold and the pores cork'd up there 't is otherwise as generous Wines and subtile spirits left in open Vessels will quickly bid adieu to their more volatile and brisk Principles yet if shut up in safe Vessels these Fugitives are imprisoned and kept to their daily offices the same is verifi'd ina queous humours which our Kitchens as well as Laboratories experiment quickly evaporate through intense subjacent heats but not without and so 't is here Thus these plentifull evacuations being suppressed restauration by food is rendred less necessary Yet lest you should dread from this hypothesis a suffocating mass of excrementitious humours to assault the heart c. I therefore subjoyn that a defect of nutritious assumptions must needs precede a defect of humours moreover the blood commands much of these remaining humours for its own chariot-use neither may it seem dissonant to reason that the ventricle and some of the intestines are us'd as a receptacle of the more tartarous and terrestrial faeculencies as Embryo's though they receive large quantities of liquid nutriment yet there 's seldom observ'd the least excretion by the fundament but a retention of a quantity of excrementitious terrestreities in the intestines during their whole abode in their maternal cells likewise in fermenting liquours the more active principles do precipitate the more sluggish to the bottoms chinks and walls of their continents further it cannot be denyed that by expiration there is a considerable evacuation as appears both by the heat of our breath and its moisture which is discovered by the reception of it into any concavous Body But 2. admit that there is some waste either by salivation or transpiration yet these being small produce only a lingring consumption which doth often consist for many years with a declining life such as our Virgins is 2. How shall natural heat be preserved if not fed by Oyl continually supply'd and renew'd by aliment There are Sir divers opininos touching humane ignicles and therefore it highly concerns us to proceed cautiously it cannot be deny'd that there is a potential heat more or less in all humane bodyes which is the calor mixti remaining when we are dead and key-cold such as is the heat of Sulphur Arsenick c. though in a great allay this appears from chymical operations on mans blood by which 't is forc'd to acknowledge its endowments with spirits and volatile Salts in great quantities and some