Builders for no Creature can subsist or consist by it self but must assist and be assisted Yet there are some differences in all Productions although of the same Producers otherwise all the Off-springs of one and the same Producer would be alike And though sometimes their several Off-springs may be so alike as hardly to be distinguished yet that is so seldom as it appears as a wonder but there is a property in all Productions as for the Produced to belong as a Right and Property to the Producer CHAP. IX Of Resemblances of several Off-springs or Producers THere are numerous kinds and sorts of Productions and infinite manners and ways in the actions of Productions which is the cause that the Off-springs of the same Producers are not so just alike but that they are distinguishable but yet there may not only be resemblances between particular Off-springs of the same Producers as also of the same sort but of different sorts of Creatures but the Actions of all Productions that are according to their own Species are Imitating Actions but not Bare Imitations as by an Incorporeal Motion for if so then a covetous Woman that loves Gold might produce a Wedg of Gold instead of a Child also Virgins might be as Fruitful as Married Wives CHAP. X. Of the Several Appearances of the Exterior Parts of One Creature EVery altered Action of the Exterior Parts causes an altered Appearance As for example A Man or the like Creature doth not appear when he is old as when he was young nor when he is sick as when he is well in health no nor when he is cold as when he is hot Nor do they appear in several Passions alike for though Man can best perceive the Alteration of his own Kind or Sort yet other Creatures have several Appearances as well as Man some of which Man may perceive though not all being of a different sort And not only Animals but Vegetables and Elements have altered Appearances and many that are subject to Man's perception The Fourth Part. CHAP. I. Of Animal Productions and of the Differences between Productions and Transformations I Understand Productions to be between Particulars as some particular Creatures to produce other particular Creatures but not to transform from one sort of Creature into another sort of Creature as Cheese into Maggots and Fruit into Worms c. which in some manner is like Metamorphosing So by Transformation the Intellectual Nature as well as the Exterior Form is transform'd Whereas Production transforms only the Exterior Form but not the Intellectual Nature which is the cause that such Transformations cannot return into their former state as a Worm to be a Fruit or a Maggot a Cheese again as formerly Hence I perceive that all sorts of Fowls are partly Produced and partly Transformed for though an Egg be produced yet a Chicken is but a Transformed Egg. CHAP. II. Of different Figurative Motions in MAN's Production ALL Creatures are produced by Degrees which proves That not any Creature is produced in perfection by one Act or Figurative Motion for though the Producers are the first Founders yet not the Builders But as for Animal Creatures there be some sorts that are composed of many different Figurative Motions amongst which sorts is Mankind who has very different Figurative Parts as Bones Sinews Nerves Muscles Veins Flesh Skin and Marrow Blood Choler Flegm Melancholy and the like also Head Breast Neck Arms Hands Body Belly Thighs Leggs Feet c. also Brains Lungs Stomack Heart Liver Midriff Kidnies Bladder Guts and the like and all these have several actions yet all agree as one according to the property of that sort of Creature named MAN CHAP. III. Of the Quickning of a Child or any other sort of Animal Creatures THE Reason that a Woman or such like Animal doth not feel her Child so soon as it is produced is That the Child cannot have an Animal Motion until it hath an Animal Nature that is until it be perfectly an Animal Creature and as soon as it is a perfect Child she feels it to move according to its nature but it is only the Sensitive Parts of the Child that are felt by the Mother not the Rational because those Parts are as the Designers not the Builders and therefore being not the Labouring Parts are not the Sensible Parts But it is to be noted That according to the Regularity or Irregularity of the Figurative Motions the Child is well shaped or mishaped CHAP. IV. Of the Birth of a Child THE reason why a Child or such like Animal Creature stays no longer in the Mother's Body than to such a certain Time is That a Child is not Perfect before that time and would be too big after that time and so big that it would not have room enough and therefore it strives and labours for liberty CHAP. V. Of Mischances or Miscarriages of Breeding Creatures WHen a Mare Doe Hind or the like Animal cast their Young or a Woman miscarries of her Child the Mischance proceeds either through the Irregularities of the Corporeal Motions or Parts of the Child or through some Irregularity of the Parts of the Mother or else of both Mother and Child If the Irregularities be of the Parts of the Child those Parts divide from the Mother through their Irregularity but if the Irregularity be in the Parts of the Mother then the Mother divides in some manner from the Child and if there be a distemper in both of them the Child and Mother divide from each other but such Mischances are at different times some sooner and some later As for false Conceptions they are occasioned through the Irregularities of Conception CHAP. VI. Of the Encrease of Growth and Strength of Mankind or such like Creatures THE reason most Animals especially Human Creatures are weak whilst they are Infants and that their Strength and Growth encreases by degrees is That a Child hath not so many Parts as when he is a Youth nor so many Parts when he is a Youth as when he is a Man for after the Child is parted from the Mother it is nourished by other Creatures as the Mother was and the Child by the Mother and according as the nourishing Parts be Regular or Irregular so is the Child Youth or Man weaker or stronger healthful or diseased and when the Figurative Motions move as I may say for expression sake curiously the Body is neatly shaped and is as we say beautiful But this is to be noted That 't is not Greatness or Bulk of Body makes a Body perfect for there are several sizes of every sort or kind of Creatures as also in every particular kind or sort and every several size may be as perfect one as the other But I mean the Number of Parts according to the proper size CHAP. VII Of the several Properties of the several Exterior Shapes of several sorts of Animals THE several Exterior Shapes of Creatures cause several Properties as Running Jumping
doth Nature commonly use Force But this is to be noted That there being a general Agreement amongst the particular Parts they are more forcible than when those Parts are divided into Factions and Parties so that in a general Irregular Commotion or Action all the Sensitive Parts of the Body of a man agree to move with an extraordinary force after an unusual manner provided it be not different from the property and nature of their Compositions that is not different from the Property and Nature of a Man But this is likewise to be noted That in a general Agreement man may have other Properties than when the whole Body is governed by Parts as it is usual when the Body is Regular and that every Part moves in his proper Sphere as I may say for example the Head Heart Lungs Stomack Liver and so the rest where each Part doth move in several sorts of Actions The like may also may be said of the Parts of the Leggs and Hands which are different sorts of Actions yet all move to the use and benefit of the whole Body but if the Corporeal motions in the Hands and so in the Leggs be irregular they will not help the rest of the Parts and so in short the same happens in all the Parts of the Body whereof some Parts may be Regular and others Irregular and sometimes all may be Irregular But to conclude this Chapter the Body may have unusual Force and Properties as when a man says He was carried and flung into a Ditch or some place distant and that he was pinch't and did see strange sights heard strange sounds smelt strange scents all which may very well be caused by the Irregular motions either by a general Irregularity or by some particular Irregularity and the truth is The particular Corporeal motions know not the power of the general until they unite by a general Agreement and sometimes there may be such Commotions in the Body of a Man as in a Common-wealth where many times there is a general Uproar and Confusion and none know the Cause or who began it But this is to be noted That if the Sensitive motions begin the Disorder then they cause the Rational to be so disordered as they can neither advise wisely or direct orderly or perswade effectually CHAP. XII Of Diseases produced by Conceit AS there are numerous sorts of Diseases so there are numerous manners or ways of the production of Diseases and those Diseases that are produced by Conceit are first occasioned by the Rational Corporeal Figurative Motions for though every several Conceit or Imagination is a several Rational Corporeal Figurative Motion yet every Conceit or Imagination doth not produce a Sensitive Effect but in those that do produce a Sensitive Effect it is the Conceit or Imagination of some sorts of Diseases but in most of those sorts that are dangerous to Life or causes Deformity The reason is That as all the Parts of Nature are Self-knowing so they are Self-loving Also Regular Societies beget an united Love by Regular Agreements which cause a Rational Fear of a disuniting or dissolving and that is the reason that upon the perception of such a Disease the Rational through some disorder figures that Disease and the Sensitive Corporeal Motions take a pattern from the Rational and so the Disease is produced The Tenth Part. CHAP. I. Of FEVERS SOME are of opinion That all or at least most Diseases are accompanied more or less with a Feverous Distemper If so then we may say A Fever is the Fundamental Disease but whether that Opinion is true or no I know not but I observe there are many sorts of Fevers and so there are of all other Diseases or Distempers for every alteration or difference of one and the same kind of Disease is a several sort As for Fevers I have observed there are Fevers in the Blood or Humours and not in any of the Vital Parts and those are ordinary Burning-Fevers and there are other sorts of Fevers that are in the Vital Parts and all other Parts of the Body and those are Malignant Fevers and there are some sorts of Fevers which are in the Radical Humours and those are Hectick Fevers and there are other sorts of Fevers that are in those Parts which we name the Spiritous Parts Also all Consumptions are accompanied with a Feverish Distemper but what the several Figurative Motions are of these several sorts of Fevers I cannot tell CHAP. II. Of the PLAGVE THere are Two visible sorts of the Disease named the Plague The weaker sort is that which produces Swellings or inflamed or corrupted Sores which are accompanied with a Fever The other sort is that which is named the Spotted Plague The First sort is sometimes Curable but the Second is Incurable at least no Remedy as yet hath been found The truth is the Spotted Plague is a Gangrene but is somewhat different from other sorts of Gangren's for this begins amongst the Vital Parts and by an Infection spreads to the Extream Parts and not only so but to Forrein Parts which makes not only a general Infection amongst all the several Parts of the Body but the Infection spreads it self to other Bodies And whereas other sorts of Gangren's begin outwardly and pierce inwardly the Plaguy Gangrene begins inwardly and pierces outwardly so as the difference as I said is That the ordinary sort of Gangren's infect the next adjoining Parts of the Body by moderate degrees whereas the Plaguy Gangrene infects not only the adjoining Parts of the same Body and that suddenly but infects Forreign Bodies Also the ordinary Gangren's may be stopped from their Infection by taking off the Parts infected or diseased But the Plaguy Gangrene can no ways be stopped because the Vital Parts cannot be separated from the rest of the Parts without a total ruine besides it pierces and spreads more suddenly than Remedies can be applyed But whether there are Applications of Preventions I know not for those Studies belong more to the Physicians than to a Natural Philosopher As for the Diseases we name the Purples and the Spotted Fever they are of the same Kind or Kindred although not of the same sort as Measles and the Small-Pox But this is to be noted That Infection is an act of Imitation for one Part cannot give another Part a Disease but only that some imitate the same sorts of Irregular Actions of other Parts of which some are near adjoining Imitators and some occasion a general Mode CHAP. III. Of the Small-Pox and Measles THE Small-Pox is somewhat like the Sore-Plague not only by being Infectious as both sorts of Plagues are but by being of a corrupt Nature as the Sore-Plague is only the Small-Pox is innumerable or very many small Sores whereas the Sore-Plague is but one or two great Sores Also the Small-Pox and Sore-Plague are alike in this That if they rise and break or if they fall not flat but remain until they be dry and
Hopping Leaping Climbing Galloping Trotting Ambling Turning Winding and Rowling also Creeping Crawling Flying Soaring or Towring Swimming Diving Digging Stinging or Piercing Pressing Spinning Weaving Twisting Printing Carving Breaking Drawing Driving Bearing Carrying Holding Griping or Grasping Infolding and Millions of the like Also the Exterior Shapes cause Defences as Horns Claws Teeth Bills Talons Finns c. Likewise the Exterior Shapes cause Offences and give Offences As also the different sorts of Exterior Shapes cause different Exterior Perceptions CHAP. VIII Of the Dividing and Vniting Parts of a particular Creature THose Parts as I have said that were the First Founders of an Animal or other sort of Creature may not be constant Inhabitants for though the Society may remain the particular Parts may remove Also all particular Societies of one kind or sort may not continue the like time but some may dissolve sooner than others Also some alter by degrees others of a sudden but of those Societies that continue the particular Parts remove and other particular Parts unite so as some Parts were of the Society so some other Parts are of the Society and will be of the Society But when the Form Frame and Order of the Society begins to alter then that particular Creature begins to decay But this is to be noted That those particular Creatures that dye in their Childhood or Youth were never a full and regular Society and the dissolving of a Society whether it be a Full or but a Forming Society Man names DEATH Also this is to be noted That the Nourishing Motion of Food is the Uniting Motion and the Cleansing or Evacuating Motions are the Dividing Corporeal Motions Likewise it is to be noted That a Society requires a longer time of uniting than of dividing by reason uniting requires assistance of Foreign Parts whereas dividings are only a dividing of home-Parts Also a particular Creature or Society is longer in dividing its Parts than in altering its Actions because a Dispersing Action is required in Division but not in Alteration of Actions The Fifth Part. CHAP. I. Of MAN NOW I have discoursed in the former Parts after a general manner of Animals I will in the following Chapters speak more particularly of that sort we name Mankind who believe being ignorant of the Nature of other Creatures that they are the most knowing of all Creatures and yet a whole Man as I may say for expression-sake doth not know all the Figurative Motions belonging either to his Mind or Body for he doth not generally know every particular Action of his Corporeal Motions as How he was framed or formed or perfected Nor doth he know every particular Motion that occasions his present Consistence or Being Nor every particular Digestive or Nourishing Motion Nor when he is sick the particular Irregular Motion that causes his Sickness Nor do the Rational Motions in the Head know always the Figurative Actions of those of the Heel In short as I said Man doth not generally know every particular Part or Corporeal Motion either of Mind or Body Which proves Man's Natural Soul is not inalterable or individable and uncompoundable CHAP. II. Of the variety of Man's Natural Motions THere is abundance of varieties of Figurative Motions in Man As first There are several Figurative Motions of the Form and Frame of Man as of his Innate Interior and Exterior Figurative Parts Also there are several Figures of his several Perceptions Conceptions Appetite Digestions Reparations and the like There are also several Figures of several Postures of his several Parts and a difference of his Figurative Motions or Parts from other Creatures all which are Numberless And yet all these different Actions are proper to the Nature of MAN CHAP. III. Of Man's Shape and Speech THE Shape of Man's Sensitive Body is in some manner of a mixt Form but he is singular in this That he is of an upright and straight Shape of which no other Animal but Man is which Shape makes him not only fit proper easie and free for all exterior actions but also for Speech for being streight as in a straight and direct Line from the Head to the Feet so as his Nose Mouth Throat Neck Chest Stomack Belly Thighs and Leggs are from a straight Line also his Organ-Pipes Nerves Sinews and Joynts are in a straight and equal posture to each other which is the cause Man's Tongue and Organs are more apt for Speech than those of any other Creature which makes him more apt to imitate any other Creature 's Voyces or Sounds Whereas other Animal Creatures by reason of their bending Shapes and crooked Organs are not apt for Speech neither in my Opinion have other Animals so melodious a Sound or Voice as Man for though some sorts of Birds Voices are sweet yet they are weak and faint and Beasts Voices are harsh and rude but of all other Animals besides Man Birds are the most apt for Speech by reason they are more of an upright shape than Beasts or any other sorts of Animal Creatures as Fish and the like for Birds are of a straight and upright shape as from their Breasts to their Heads but being not so straight as Man causes Birds to speak uneasily and constrainedly Man's shape is so ingeniously contrived that he is fit and proper for more several sorts of exterior actions than any other Animal Creature which is the cause he seems as Lord and Sovereign of other Animal Creatures CHAP. IV. Of the several Figurative Parts of Human Creatures THE manner of Man's Composition or Form is of different Figurative Parts whereof some of those Parts seem the Supreme or as I may say Fundamental Parts as the Head Chest Lungs Stomack Heart Liver Spleen Bowels Reins Kidnies Gaul and many more also those Parts have other Figurative Parts belonging or adjoining to them as the Head Scull Brains Pia-mater Dura-mater Forehead Nose Eyes Cheeks Ears Mouth Tongue and several Figurative Parts belonging to those so of the rest of the Parts as the Arms Hands Fingers Leggs Feet Toes and the like all which different Parts have different sorts of Perceptions and yet as I formerly said their Perceptions are united for though all the Parts of the Human Body have different Perceptions yet those different perceptions unite in a general Perception both for the Subsistence Consistence and use of the Whole Man but concerning Particulars not only the several composed Figurative Parts have several sorts of Perceptions but every Part hath variety of Perceptions occasioned by variety of Objects CHAP. V. Of the several Perceptions amongst the several Parts of MAN THere being infinite several Corporeal Figurative Motions or Actions of Nature there must of necessity be infinite several Self-knowledges and Perceptions but I shall only in this Part of my Book treat of the Perception proper to Mankind And first of the several and different Perceptions proper for the several and different Parts for though every Part and Particle of a Man's Body is perceptive yet
Flame of a Tallow Candle and as much difference between this Oyl and the greasie Oyl as between the purest Essence and Lamp-Oyl But these Vital Parts are as necessary to the Human Life as the solid Vital Parts viz. the Heart Liver Lungs Brains and the like CHAP. VI. Of Expelling Malignant Disorders in a Human Creature EXpelling of Poyson or any Malignity in the Body is when that Malignity hath not got or is not setled into the Vital Parts so that the Regular Motions of the Vital Parts and other Parts of the Body endeavour to defend themselves from the Forrein Malignancies which if they do then the Malignant Motions do dilate to the Exterior Parts and issue out of those Exterior Passages at least through some as either by the way of Purging Vomiting Sweating or Transpiration which is a breathing through the Pores or other passages After the same manner is the expelling of Surfeits or Superfluities of Natural Humours but if the Malignity or Surfeit Superfluity or superfluous Humours have the better as I may say then those Irregular Motions by their Disturbances cause the Regular Motions to be Irregular and to follow the Mode which is to imitate Strangers or the most Powerful the most Fantastical or the most debauch'd for it is many times amongst the Interior Motions of the Body as with the Exterior Actions of Men. CHAP. VII Of Human Digestions and Evacuations TO treat of the several particular Digestive Actions of a Human Creature is impossible for not only every part of Food hath a several manner of Digestive Action but every action in Transpiration is a sort of Digestion and Evacuation so that though every sort of Digestion and Evacuation may be ghest at yet every Particular is not so known that it can be described But this is to be noted That there is no Creature that hath Digestive Motions but hath Evacuating Motions which Actions although they are but Dividing and Uniting yet they are such different manners and ways of uniting and dividing that the most observing Man cannot particularly know them and so not express them but the Uniting actions if regular are the Nourishing actions the Dividing actions if regular are the Cleansing actions but if irregular the Uniting actions are the Obstructive actions and the Dividing actions the Destructive actions CHAP. VIII Of DISEASES in general THere are many sorts of Human Diseases yet all sorts of Diseases are Irregular Corporeal Motions but every sort of Motion is of a different Figure so that several Diseases are different Irregular Figurative Motions and according as the Figurative Motions vary so do the Diseases but as there are Human Diseases so there are Human Defects which Defects if they be those which Man names Natural cannot be rectified by any Human Means Also there are Human Decays and Old Age which although they cannot be prevented or avoided yet they may by good Order and wise Observations be retarded but there are not only numerous sorts of Diseases but every particular it self and every particular sort are more or less different insomuch that seldom a Disease of one and the same sort is just alike but there are some differences as in Men who though they be all of one sort of Animal-kind yet seldom any two Men are just alike and the same may be said of Diseases both of Body and Mind as for example concerning Irregular Minds as in Mad-Men Although all Mad-Men are mad yet not mad alike though they all have the Disease either of Sensitive or Rational Madness or are both Sensitively and Rationally mad Also this is to be noted That as several Diseases may be produced from several Causes so several Diseases from one Cause and one Disease from several Causes which is the cause that a Physician ought to be a long and subtile Observer and Practiser before he can arrive to that Experience which belongs to a good Physician CHAP. IX Of the Fundamental Diseases THere are numerous sorts of Diseases to which Human Creatures are subject and yet there are but few Fundamental Maladies which are these as follow Pain Sickness Weakness Dizziness Numbness Deadness Madness Fainting and Swounding of which one is particular the rest are general The particular is Sickness to which no parts of the Body are subject but the Stomack for though any parts of the Body may have Pain Numbness Dizziness Weakness or Madness yet in no part can be that which we name Sickness but the Stomack As for Dizziness the Effects are general as may be observed in some drunken Men for many times the Head will be in good temper when the Leggs I cannot say are dizzie yet will be so drunk as neither to go or stand and many times the Tongue will be so drunk as not to speak plain when all the rest of the body is well temper'd at least so well as not to be any ways perceived but by the tripping of their Speech but as I said no Part is subject to be sick but the Stomack And though there are numerous sorts of Pains to which every Part is subject and every several Part hath a several Pain yet they are still Pain But some may say That there are also several sorts of Sicknesses I grant it but yet those several sorts of Sicknesses belong only to the Stomack and to no other Part of the Body The Ninth Part. CHAP. I. Of SICKNESS TO go on as orderly as I can I will treat of the Fundamental Diseases and first of Sickness by reason it is the most particular Disease for though as I have said no part of a Human Creature is subject to that Disease namely Sickness but the Stomack yet there are different sorts of Sicknesses of the Stomack as for example Some sorts of Sickness is like the flowing and ebbing of the Sea for the Humours of the Stomack agitate in that manner as if the flowing motions flow upwards it occasions Vomiting if downwards Purging if the Humours divide as partly to flow upwards and partly downwards it occasions both Vomiting and Purging But the Question is Whether it is the motion of the Humours that occasions the Stomack to be sick or the sickness of the Stomack that occasions the Humours to flow I answer That 't is probable that sometimes the flowing of the Humours causes the Stomack to be sick and sometimes the sickness of the Stomack occasions the Humours to flow and sometimes the Stomack will be sick without the flowing of Humours as when the Stomack is empty and sometimes the Humours will flow without any disturbance to the Stomack and sometimes both the Humours and the Stomack do jointly agree in Irregularities but as I said there are several sorts of sicknesses of the Stomack or at least that sickness doth produce several sorts of Effects as for example some sorts of sickness will occasion faint and cold Sweats which sick Motion is not flowing up or down of the Humours but it is a cold dilatation or
rarifying after a breathing manner also expelling of those rarified parts through the pores Other sorts of Motions of the Humours are like Boyling motions viz. Bubling motions which occasion steaming or watry vapours to ascend to the Head which vapours are apt to cloud the perception of Sight Other sorts of sick Motions are Circular and those cause a swimming or a dizzie motion in the Head and sometimes a staggering motion in the Leggs Other sorts of sick Motions are occasioned through tough and clammy Humours the motion of which Humours is a winding or turning in such a manner that it removes not from its Center and until such time as that Turning or Winding Motions alter or the Humour is cast out of the Stomack the Patient finds little or no ease CHAP. II. Of PAIN AS I said No Part is subject to be sick but the Stomack but every several Part of a Human Creature is subject to Pain and not only so but every particular Part is subject to several sorts of Pain and every several sort of Pain hath a several Figurative Motion but to know the different Figurative Motions will require a subtile Observation for though those painful Parts know their own Figurarative Motions yet the whole Creature suppose Man doth not know them But it may be observed Whether they are caused by Irregular Contractions or Attractions Dilatations or Retentions Expulsions or Irregular Pressures and Re-actions or Irregular Transformations or the like and by those Observations one may apply or endeavour to apply proper Remedies but all Pain proceeds from Irregular and perturbed Motions CHAP. III. Of DIZZINESS I Cannot say Dizziness belongs only to the Head of an Animal Creature because we may observe by irregular Drinkers that sometimes the Leggs will seem more drunk than their Heads and sometimes all the Parts of their Body will seem to be temperate as being Regular but only the Tongue seems to be drunk for staggering of the Leggs and a staggering of the Tongue or the like in a drunken Distemper is a sort of Dizziness although not such a sort as that which belongs to the Head so that when a man is dead-drunk we may say that every part of the Body is Dizzily drunk But mistake me not for I do not mean that all sorts of dizzinesses proceed from drinking I only bring Drunkenness for an Example but the Effects of dizziness of the Head and other parts of the Body proceed from different Causes for some proceed from Wind not Wine others from Vapour some from the perception of some Forrein Object and numbers of the like Examples may be found But this is to be noted That all such sorts of Swimming and Dizziness in the Head are produced from Circular Figurative Motions Also it is to be noted That many times the Rational Corporeal Motions are Irregular with the Sensitive but not always for sometimes in these and the like Distempers the Sensitive will be Irregular and the Rational Regular but for the most part the Rational is so compliant with the Sensitive as to be Regular or Irregular as the Sensitive is CHAP. IV. Of the Brain seeming to turn round in the Head WHen the Human Brain seems to turn round the cause is that some Vapours do move in a Circular Figure which causes the Head to be dizzy as when a man turns round not only his Head will be dizzy but all the Exterior Parts of his Body insomuch that some by often turning round will fall down but if before they fall they turn the contrary way they will be free from that dizziness The reason of which is That by turning the contrary way the Body is brought to the same posture it was before as when a man hath travell'd some way and returns the same way back he returns to the place where first he began his Journey CHAP. V. Of WEAKNESS THere are many sorts of Weakness some Weakness proceeds from Age others through want of Food others are occasioned by Oppression others by Disorders and Irregularities and so many other sorts that it would be too tedious to repeat them could I know them But such sorts of Weakness as Human Creatures are subject to after some Disease or Sickness are somewhat like Weariness after a Laborious or over-hard Action as when a Man hath run fast or laboured hard he fetches his breath short and thick and as most of the Sensitive Actions are by degrees so is a Returning to Health after Sickness but all Irregularities are Laborious CHAP. VI. Of SWOVNDING THE cause why a Man in Swound is for a time as if he were dead is an Irregularity amongst some of the Interior Corporeal Motions which causes an Irregularity of the Exterior Corporeal Motions and so a general Irregularity which is the cause that a Man appears as if he were dead But some may say A Man in a Swound is void of all Motion I answer That cannot be for if the Man was really dead yet his Parts are moving though they move not according to the property or nature of a living Man but if the Body had not consistent Motions and the Parts did not hold together it would be dissolved in a moment and when the Parts do divide they must divide by Self-motion but in a Man in a Swound some of his Corporeal Motions are only altered from the property and nature of a living Man I say some of his Corporeal Motions not all Neither do those Motions quite alter from the nature of a living Man so as the alterations of the Fundamental Motions do but they are so alter'd as Language may be alter'd viz. From Hebrew to Greek Latin French Spanish English and many others and although they are all but Languages yet they are several Languages or Speeches so the alteration of the Corporeal Motions of a Man in a Swound is but as the altering of one sort of Language to another as put the case English were the Natural Language or Speech then all other Languages were unknown to him that knows no other than his Natural So a Man in a Swound is ignorant of those Motions in the Swound but when those Motions return to the Nature of a living Man he hath the same knowledg he had before Thus Human Ignorance and Human Knowledg may be occasioned by the alterations of the Corporeal Motions The truth is that Swounding and Reviving is like Forgetfulness and Remembrance that is Alteration and Repetition or Exchange of the same Actions CHAP. VII Of Numb and Dead Palsies or Gangren's AS for Numb and Dead Palsies they proceed not only from disordered and Irregular Motions but from such Figurative Motions as are quite different from the nature of the Creature for though it be natural for a Man to dye yet the Figurative Motions of Death are quite different from the Figurative Motions of Life so in respect to that which Man names Life that which Man names Death is unnatural but as there are several sorts of that