to the eye by a second line for by the first line the light falls upon the object by the second from thence upon the eye Refracted is that whereby things are seen through a double medium and so by refracted lines as when an oare or pole seems broken in the water Also when a piece of mony in the bottome of a vessel full of water seemes bigger and nearer the superficies so that one may go back and see it Of the motive faculty LI. Motion was given to a living creature 1. To seek his food 2. For those actions to which every one is destinated 3. To preserve the vigour of life For a living creature being of a more tender constitution then a plant would more easily putrifie and perish if it were not quickned by most frequent motion Therefore the Creator hath most wisely provided for our good that we cannot so much as take our meat without labour and motion LII The moving principle is the animall spirit Therefore a body without life though never so well furnished with Organs moves not and when the braine the feat of the animall spirits is ill affected for example either with giddinesse or a surfet the members presently fall or at least stumble and totter And when the nerve of any member is stopped it is presently deprived both of motion and sense as may be seen in the palsie and apoplexie LIII Now the animall spirit moves either it self only or the vitall spirit with it or lastly the members of the body also LIV. The animall spirit moves it self perpetually sometimes more sometime lesse namely running out and into the Organs of the senses or howsoever stirriug it self in its work-house For from this inward motion of it are perpetual phantasies or imaginations even in sleep which then we call dreams LV. It carries the vitall spirit along with it when at the sense of something either pleasing or displeasing it conveyes it self to and fro through the body taking that with it as it were to aide it as it is in joy and sorrow hope and feare gratulation and repentance and last of all in anger For joy is a motion wherein the spirit poureth forth it self at the sense of a pleasant object as though it would couple it self with the thing that it desireth Thence that lively colour in the face of a joyful man from the vital spirit flowing thither with a most pure portion of the blood And this is the cause why moderate joy purifies the blood and is helpful to prolong life See Prov. 15. v. 13. 17. v. 22. Sorrow is a motion whereby the vitall spirit at the sense of an object that displeaseth it runnes to its centre the heart as it were feeling a hurtful thing thence palenesse in the face of those that are affrighted and stiffnesse of the skin and haires hence also danger of death if any one be often and greatly affected with sorrow the like motions are in hope and fear joy and sorrow that is in the sense of good or bad either present or past But anger is a mixt motion whereby the spirit for fear of injury flies to the center and thence poures forth it self again as it were in revenge Hence they that are angry are first pale and afterwards red c. N. W. All these motions commonly called affections or passions of the minde are common to all living creatures But according to more and lesse for Sanguine creatures are merry Melancholy sad Flegmatick faint Cholerick furious c. LVI The said Animall spirit moves the members but with the use of instruments Tendons and Muscles and the joynts of the bones The puppets wherewith Juglers a pleasant sight to children shew playes that they may turne themselves about as though they were alive must of necessity have 1 Joynts of the members that they may bow 2 Nerves or strings with which drawne to and fro they are bowed 3 Some living strength which may draw the nerves forward and backward which the neurospasta that is hid under the covering supplies Just so to the motion of a living creature there are requisite 1 Joynts or knuckles of bones For bones were given to a living creature that he might stand upright But that he might bend also his bones were not given him continued but divided with joynts of limbs 2. Certain ligaments fastned about the bones wherewith attraction and relaxation might be made therefore certaine tendons were given them as it were cords being of a nervy and half gristly substance which growing out of the head of one bone and running along the side of another bone grow to the lower head thereof and when the tendon is drawne the following bone is drawne so as to bend it self Now it is to be noted that these tendons about the joynts of the bones are bare on both sides but about the middle of them they are extended into a kinde of a membranceous purse stuffed up with flesh Which flesh or fleshy purse they call a muscle of which every member hath many not only least that the tendons when they are drawne should depart out of their place or the bones or tendons be hurt with oft rubbing against one another or for the shape of a living creature only for what a body would that be which consisted of meer bones veins nerves and tendons a Sceleton but because there can be no motion at all without muscles as it shall forthwith appear 3. The neurospasta or invisible mover is the animal sqirit which as it can at the pleasure of the phantasie convey it self into the belly of this or that muscle so it stretches or dilates it as it vvere a paire of bellowes and drawes in that vvhich is opposite from whence nothing can follow but the bending of that member Thence it appears 1. That the animall spirit can move nothing without an Organ For why doth no man bend his knees before because there wants a knuckle above Why doth no man move his ear because that member wants muscles c. 2. It appeares also That by how many the more muscles are given to any member by so much the nimbler it is unto motion by how much the bigger so much the stronger For example in the hands and feet that they might be sufficiently able to undergo the variety of labours and going It appeares also why they that are musculy or brawnie are strong but those that are thin are weak 3. It appeares also that the animal spirit is most busie in motion running to and fro at the command of the phantasie most speedily through the nerves and arteries 4. That the motion of a living creature is compounded of an agitative expansive and contractive impulsive and continuative motion For the animal spirit coveys it self at the pleasure of the phantasie into this or that muscle and the muscle giving place to the spirit flowing in stretcheth forth it self then when the muscle is stretched forth in breadth the length of it must be
a septenary gradation For we have understood that whatsoever there is besides God it is either an Element or a Vapour or a Concrete or a Plant or an Anâ—â—all or a Man or an Angell and that the whole multitude of creatures is ranked into these seven Classes or great Tribes In every of which there is some eminent virtue flowing from the essence of the Creatour yet every latter including the former For In Elements Being is eminent Vapours Motion Concretes Figure or Quality Plants Life Living creatures Sense Men Reason Angels Understanding See the house which Wisdome hath built her having hewn out her seven pillars Prov. 9. 1. See the seven Stairs which the King of Heaven hath placed in the entry of his inner house Ezek. 40. 22. The six first degrees are of visible creatures the seventh of invisible Angels After the same manner as there were nine dayes wherein God wrought and rested the seventh six Planets in heaven of inferiour light the seventh of extraordinary brightnesse the Sun six baser metals on earth The seventh exceeding all in perfection gold c. And as Salomons Throne had six inferiour steps to every of which there were six inferiour Leoncels adjoyned after all in the seventh place stood the Throne and by it two Lions 1 King 10. 19 20. So the King of eternity when he built him a visible throne of glory erected six visible degrees of corporeous creatures to every of which he added their Leoncels that is their virtues and their powers and last of all about the throne on high he placed the strongest of the creatures the Angels mighty in power Psal. 103. 19 20. But now what mean the seven planets in heaven what mean the seven continents on earth the seven kinds of meteors seven kinds of metalls seven kinds of stones c the seven combinations of tangible qualities the seven differences of taste the seven vitall members in man the seven tones in musick and other things which we meet with throughout all nature yea and in the Scripture the number of seven is every where very much celebrated and sacred For what do the seven dayes of the week point at what are the seven weeks betwixt the Passeover and Pentecost what the seventh year of rest what the seven times seventh of Jubilee what do all these portend I say but that it is the expresse Image of that God whose seven eyes passe through the whole earth Zach. 4. 10. and whose seven spirits are before his Throne Apoc. 1. 4. yea who doth himselfe make a mysticall eighth with every degree of his creatures For in him all things live aud move and have their being which live and move and have a being Acts 17. 28. and he worketh all in all 1 Cor. 12. 6. and all these are as it were him himselfe Eccles. 43. 27. and yet none of them is he himselfe Job 12. 9. 10. but because all these have some effigies of the divine essence and operate that which they operate by virtue thereof hence it is that he being above all without all and beneath all is the true mysticall eighth of all Of whom that Syracides may conclude our meditation though we say much we shall not yet attain thereto The sum of the doctrine is that he is all For what ability have we to praise him For he is greater then all his works The Lord is terrible and very great marvellous is his power Extol the Lord in praise as much as you can For yet he wil be greater then all praise Eecl 43. 30. c. Therefore let every spirit praise the Lord Hallelujah Psal. 150. And thou my soul praise the Lord Psal. 103. 1. Holy holy holy Lord of Hosts Heaven and earth are full of his glory Isai. 6. 3 Hallelujah A Short APPENDIX TO PHYSICKS Touching the Diseases of the Body Mind and Soul and their generall Remedies I. A Disease is the corruption of an Entity in some part thereof and a disposition of it to totall perishing that is death Therefore both the Body Mind and Soul hath its diseases II The diseases of the body are various scarce to be numbred and oft-times mâ—â—t A disease added to a disease is called a ymptome of a disease III A disease of the body is either by solution of that which is continued or by distemper of humours IV Solution of that which is continued is either by a rupture or a wound A rupture is prevented by bewaring falls and violent motion A wound is avoided by shunning of those things which can cleave cut prick rent tear or bruise or hurt anyway and both are to be cured by the Chirurgion N. W. The cure of a Wound is desperate if any vitall member be hurt as the heart the brain the liver the entrals c. For then the vitall actions are hindred and soon after cease 2 If any member be quite lost it cannot be set on again because the spirit hath not wherewithall to passe into the part that is severed V The distempers of the humours and the diseases that come from thence always proceed from some of these 6 causes namely either from 1 Crudity 2 Inflation 3 Distillation 4 Obstruction 5 Putrefaction 6 Inflammation VI Crudity in the body is nutriment not sufficiently concocted namely either Chyle or bloud which comes I from the quality of meat and drink when they are taken too raw flegmatick unwholesome which the concoctive faculty cannot well subdue 2 from the quantity when more meat and drink is put in then it is able to alter and assimilate unto the body For hence undigested and not assimilated humours burthen the body like strangers and not pertaining thereunto 3 For want of exercise when the naturall heat is not stirred up nor strengthened to perform its office lustily in the concoction of meats From such like crudities diverse inconveniences follow For 1 if the crudity be in the stomack it causes loathing of food for so long as the first food is not digested there can be no appetite to any other Again children have an appetite to eat earth chalk coales c. according as the crudities are turned into the likenesse of any matter For like desireth like 2 If there be a viscous crudity adhering in the ventricle or in the guts being warmed it takes spirit and is turned into wormes which gnawing the bowels stir up evill vapours by their motion whence also come phartasies very hurtfull to the head Lastly ctudity under the skin in the bloud and flesh begets palenesse and when it is collected and putrified scabs ulcers c. Crudity is prevented by a temperate diet as to Food Sleep and daily exercises and cured 1 by violent expurgation 2 by strong exercises 3 by the use of tart meats and drinks 4 by comforting the stomack with such things as heat both within and without VII Inflation is much and grosse vapour exhaling from the crudities that are gathered together and stretching the members And
that either without pain as when it causeth yexing or belching in the ventricle panting in the heart giddinesse in the head when being prohibited to go any further it is carried in a round lazinesse and stretching in the whole body or else with pain as when it causeth aches in the bowels straightning the spirits that lie between in the Fibres and shurp or else blunt prickings in the muscles according as it is more grosse or subtile It is cured 1 by strong exercise that the vapour being attenuated may go out at the pores opened 2 by expurgation of the humours by which they are generated VIII Distillation is the condensation of crude vapours into rheume which is the cause of many evils For crude vapours gettting up to the head when as by reason of the abundance and grossenesse of them they cannot be expurgated by the ordinary passage they become rheume flowing severall wayes and rausing diverse diseases For 1 If they run abundantly and 〈◊〉 at the nose they cause the Murre or Pose 2 If the distillation fall into the jawes it causes the Catarrhe 3 If into the kernels of the jawes the Quinsie 4 If into the lungs difficulty of breathing and the Asthma 5 If the distillation be salt and sharp ulcerating the lungs it causes the Cough 6 Which if it be done oft and the lungs be filled with apostemes it causes the consumption For when the ulcerous lungs cannot with dexterity enough perform their office of cooling the heart the vitall spirit is generated more hot then it should be which doth not cherish but feed upon the flesh and bloud and at length burns out the very workhouse it self of the bloud which is the liver whence for want of bloud which is as it were the food followes the consumption of the whole body 7 If the distillation flow in abundance and grosse down the marrow of the back it causeth the Palsie by hindring the animall spirit that it cannot be distributed by the nerves springing from the back bone 8 If it fill the nerves of the muscles only it becomes the Spasma or Convulsions that is when the nerve is contracted like as a chord being wet and dried again is wont to be contracted and become shorter 9 If it flow subtle and penetrating the nerves it is at length gathered together in the extremities of the members and there raises sharp pains which in the feet are called the Gout in the hands Chiragra or the Hand-gout in any of the joynts of the bones Erthritica the running gout in the hip it is called Ischias or the Hip-gout commonly the Sciatica 10 Lastly if those kind of runnings stay in the head they procure divers diseases as when they are subtle the Head-ach 11 Too raw and flegmatick the Lethargie 12 Salt and cholerick the Phrensie 13 Grosse and mixt with a melancholy humour the Epilepsie or Falling-sickness when as the spirits diffused through the whole body making haste to relieve the spirits befieged in the brain make most vehement stirs and fight till they either overcome and repell the disease or else faint and are extinguished 14 But if the grosse phlegmatick humours have occupied all the vessels of the brain at once it becomes the apoplexie that is a privation of all sense and motion whence also the vitall fire in the heart is soon after extinguished All these diseases are both prevented and also if they go not too farre cured 1 by exercise 2 by rectification of the brain by good smels 3 by a thin hot and sulphury air 4 by thin light meat and drink But the peculiar cure of every disease is committo the physiciaus IX Obstruction is a stopping of the bowels by thickned flegme whence it comes to passe that they cannot execute their office For example when the entrals are stopt that they cannot void it is the Volvuls or wringing of the guts when the liver is stopt the dropsie For the Chylus being not turned into bloud flowes through the veins and members and is not turned into members When the bladder of gall is stopt the Yellow Jaundise when the Spleen the Black Jaundise For in the first the choler in the other the melancholy when it cannot be voided diffuseth it selfe through the bloud But when the urine pipes or the 〈◊〉 or the bladder are stopped that is by reason of the breeding of Tartar which they call the Stone which stopping the passages by its sharpnesse pains the Veins and Nerves The cure is 1 by purgations 2 by medicines attenuating or breaking cutting and driving out the grosse humours which Physicians know X Putrefaction is the corruption of some humour in the body namely either of flegme or of choler or of melancholy which putrifying either in or out of their vessels produce feavers or ulcers The cure is 1 Expurgation of the place affected 2 A good diet 3 Motion XI Inflamation is a burning of the vitall spirit N. vitall or of the bloud caused by too much motion either of the body by wearying it or of the mind by musing and anger or else by putrefaction or else by obstruction For it is known out of the physicks that motion doth heat even unto firing and that by obstruction doth 〈◊〉 an Antiperistasis exasperate the heat included even in these things that are watry and pâ—trid so that at length it breaks out violently hay laid up wet when it cannot get transpiration doth shew When the bloud is kindled within it becomes a feaver when under the skin S. Anthonies fire The generall cure is the opening of a vein and cooling But of feavers being that it is a most common disease and of divers kinds something more is to be said XII The feaver so called from its fervency or heat is of three kinds 1 The Ephemera 2 The Putrid 3 The Hectick The first burns the spirits the second the humours the third the solid parts The first like a raging hot wind scorching all it meets with the second like boiling water poured into a vessell which it heats with it selfe The third like unto a hot vessell heating the water poured into it with it selfe For the Hectick occupies the bones and membranes and eats and consumes them with an unnaturall heat by degrees almost insensibly till at length it causeth death It is very like the Consumption But the putrid or rotten feaver occupies the bloud and humours by which the whole body grows hot The Ephemera is a more subtle flame feeding upon the spirits only and therefore it scarce endures one or two days til the peccant cause be consumed by the spirit it self Hence either health or death usually follows within two or three dayes and therefore it is called the Ephemera or diary Feaver also the Maligne feaver Of which sort also is the pestilentiall infection for it comes after the same manner Putrid feavers are most usuall but with very much difference for when the humours putrifie within their vessels or workhouses especially
motion bodies were to be framed which might performe a free motion and these are called Animalia or Animantia living creatures from the soul which powerfully evidences life in them 2 Therefore mobility is in all living creatures but after divers manners For some move only by opening and shutting not stirring out of their place as oisters and cockles Others creep by little and little as snailes earth-wormes and other wormes some have a long body which creeps with winding it selfe about as snakes some have feet given them as lizards beasts birds but these last have wings also to flie through the air Which fishes do imitate in the water performing their motion by swimming III The moving principle in a living creature is the vitall soul which is nothing else but the spirit of life thick and strong mightily filling and powerfully governing the bodies which it inhabiteth IV Now because a voluntary and a light motion cannot be performed but in a subtle matter living creatures have bodies given them far more tender then plants but far more compound For they consist of spirit flesh blood membranes veins nerves gristles and lastly bones as it were props and pillars lest the frame should fall Understand this in perfect living creatures For more imperfect living creatures in which we contemplate onely the rudiments of nature have neither bones nor flesh nor bloud nor veins but onely a white humour covered with a skin or crust as it were with a sheath which the spirit included doth stir or move as it appears in worms snails oisters c. But to perfect living creatures 1 That they might have a more subtle spirit bloud and brains were given 2 And that these might not be dissipated they had vessels and channels given them veines arteries nerves 3 That a living creature might be erected bones were given him 4 And left the bones as also the veins arteries nerves should easily be hurt all was covered either with fat or flesh 5 And that the members might move tendons and muscles were interwoven throughout 6 And least in moving the bone the bones should wear one against another cause pain in the living creature a gristle which is a softer substance being as it were halfe flesh was put between the joints 7 And lastly that the frame might hang firmly together in its composure it was compassed with a hide or skin as also all the members with their membranes Therefore a living creature consists of more similar parts then a plant but of far more dissimular parts or members of which it followes V The bodies of living creatures were furnished with many members as with diverse organs for diverse actions The head indeed is the principall member of a living creature wherein the whole spirit hath its residence and shews all its force but because a living creature was intended for divers actions it had need of besides 1 Vivifying organs supplying the living creature with heat life and motion that is brains and heart 2 Moving organs that is feet wings feathers c. 3 And left one thing should run against another or fall into precipices it was necessary to furnish them with sight also with a quick hearing and touch Lastly because the earth was not to supply nutriment immediately to a living creature as to a plant fixed in the earth but it was left them to seek there was need of smelling and tasting that they might know what was convenient to their nature Hence eyes ears nostrils c. 4 Now because a living creature was not to be fixed in the ground with a root because of his free motion more perfect organs of nutrition were requisite for that cause there was given him a mouth teeth a stomack a liver a heart veins c. 5 And because they were not to spring out of the earth as plants by reason of the same motion to and fro Divers Sexes were given them to multiply themselves and distinct genitall members 6 And because living creatures were to be alwayes conversant with others of their own or of a divers kind they had need of some mutuall token even in the dark they had a tongue given them to form sounds 7 Lastly because it could not be but that a living creature should sometimes meet with contraries they had as it were shields and armes given them Hares bristles scales shels feathers likewise horns clawes teeth hoofs c. VI Therefore the whole treatise concerning a living creature is finished in the explication I Of the nutritive faculty II Of the vitall III Of the sensitive IV Of the loco-motive V Of the enuntiative VI Of the defensive VII And lastly of the generative For he that knoweth these seven knowes the whole mysterie of nature in living creatnres For whatsoever is in the body of a living creature serveth those faculties if it do not serve them it is in vain and maketh a monster It is to be observed also that the first three faculties are governed by so many spirits The nutritive faculty by the naturall spirit the vitall by the spirit of life the sensitive by the animall spirit the other four by those three spirits joyntly Of the nutritive Faculty VII Every living creature standeth in need of daily food to repair that which perisheth of the substance every day For life consists in heat And heat being that it is fire wants fuell which is moist spirituous and fat matter Heat in a living creature being destitute of this sets upon the solid parts and feeds on them And hence it is that a living creature as well as a plant without nourishment pines away and dies But if it be sparingly fed it therefore falls away because the heat feeds upon the very substance of the flesh VIII That nourishment is convenient for a living creature which supplies it with a spirit like its own spirit For seeing that life is from the spirit the matter of it selfe doth not nourish life but a spirituous matter And indeed the spirit of the nourishment must needs be like the spirit of the living creature Therefore we are not nourished with the elements as plants are for as much as they have only a naturall not a vitall spirit but we are nourished with plants or with the flesh of other â—iving creatures because those afford a vitall spirit Nay further there is a particular proportion of spirits by reason of which a â—orse chuseth oates a swine barley a wolfe flesh c. Nay an hog hath an appetite to mans excrements also because it yet findeth parts convenient for it IX Nourishment turneth into the substance â—f that which is nourished That appears 1 because he that feeds on dry meats is dry of complexion he that feeds on moist is flegmatick c. 2 because for the most part a man reteins the qualities of those living creatures on whose flesh he feeds as he that feeds on beefe is strong he that feeds on venison is nimble c. If any one have the brains
it selfe vvhatsoever it perceiveth that is too grosse and earthy in the bloud and by little veins sends it again into the entrals and by that means disburdens it selfe of that dreggy humour and last of all the gall attracteth those parts of the bloud that are too sharp and fiery vvhose little bag hangs at the liver and by strings sends them again mixt into the entrals whence the bitternesse and ill sent of dung XXI The vessels of membrification are 1 veins 2 every particular member 3 pores For the veins proceeding from the liver spread themselves over all the parts of the body like boughs and sending forth little branches every way end in strings that are most tenacious from which every member apart sucketh and by a slow agglutination assimilates it to it selfe so that the bloud flowing into the flesh becomes flesh that in the bones turns into bone in a gristle to a gristle in the brain to brains just after the same manner as the juice of a tree is changed into wood bark pith leaves fruits by meer assimilation The excrements of this third most subtle concoction are subtle also namely sweat and vapour which alwayes breaths out through the pores If any more grosse humour remains especially after the first and second concoction not well made it breeds scabs or ulcers or the dropsie XXII For the furthering of nourishment there is a spur added that is appetite or hunger and thirst which are nothing but a vellication of the fibres of the stomack arising from the sharp sucking of the Chylus For the members being destitute of the juice wherewith they are watered solicite the veins of bloud and the veins by the motion of continuity sollicite the liver the liver the Mesenterie that the entrals the entrals the stomack which if it have nothing to afford contracts and wrinkles it selfe and the strings of it are sucked dry from whence proceeds first a certain titillation and that we call appetite simply and afterward pain and this we call hunger and if solid meat be taken but dry because coction or vaporation cannot be made by reason of drinesse there is a desire that moisture should be poured on and this vve call thirst It appears then why motion provokes appetite and why the idle have but little appetite c. XXIII The whole body is nourished at once together by the motion of libration To vvit after the same manner as the root in a plant doth equally nourish both it selfe and the stock and all the boughes Therefore no member nourisheth it selfe alone but others vvith it selfe and so all preserved Otherwise if any member rob the rest of their nourishment or again refuseth it there follows a distemperature of the vvhole body and by and by corruption at length death XXIV A living creature being 〈◊〉 nourished is not onely vegetuted but also as long as his members are soft and extensive augmented the superficies of the members yielding by little and little and extending it selfe but as soon as the members are hardened after youth the living creature ceaseth to grow yet goes forward in solidity and strength so long as the three concoctions are rightly made But when the vessels of the concoctions begin to dry up also the living creatures begins to wither away and life grows feeble till it fail and be extinguished Of the vitall faculty XXV Life in a living creature is such a mixture of the spirits with the bloud and members that they are all warme have sense and move themselves Therefore the life of living creatures consists in heat sense and motion and it is plain for if any creature hath neither motion nor sense nor heat it lives not XXVI Therefore every living creature is full of heat sometimes stronger and sometimes weaker For every living creature is nourished How it appears out of that which went before the nourishment is not made but by concoction but reason teacheth that concoction is not made but by heat and fire It comes therefore to be explained whence a living creature hath heat and fire and by what means it is kindled kept alive and extinguished which the two following Aphorismes shall teach XXVII The heart is the forge of heat in a living creature burning with a perpetuall fire and begetting a little flame called the spirit of life which it communicates also to the whole body Hence the heart is said commonly to be the first that lives the last that dies XXVIII The vitall spirit in the heart hath for its matter bloud for bellowes the lungs for channels by which it communicates it selfe to the whole body the arteries Our hearth fire hath need of three things 1 matter or fuell and that fat 2 of blowing or fanning whereby the force of it is stirred up 3 free transpiration whereby it may diffuse it selfe the same three the maker of all things hath ordeined to be in every living creature For the heart seated a little above the liver drinketh in a most pure portion of bloud by a branch of the veins which being that it is spirituous and oily conceives a most soft flame and left this should be extinguished there lies near to the heart the lungs which like bellowes dilating and contracting it selfe blowes upon and fans that fire of the heart perpetually to prevent suffocation Now being that that inflammation of the heart is not without fume or vapour though very thin the said lungs by the same continuall inspiration exhaleth those vapours through the throat and drawing in cooler air instead thereof doth so temperate the flame of the heat whence the necessity of breathing appears and why a living creature is presently suffocated if respiration be denied it And that flame or attenuated and most hot bloud is called the spirit of life which diffusing it self through the arteries that accompany the veins every way cherisheth the heat both of the bloud that is in the veins and all the members throughout the whole body Now because it were dangerous to have this vitall spirit destroyed the arteries are hid below the veins only in two or three places they stand forth a little that so the beating of that spirit as well as of the heart it selfe when the hand is laid upon the breast may be noted and thence the state of the heart may be known Of the sensitive faculty XXIX Sense in a living creature is the perception of those things that are done within and without the living creature XXX That perception is done by virtue of a living spirit which being that it is most subtle in a living creature is called the Animall spirit XXXI That perceptive virtue consists in the tendernesse of the animall spirit for because it is presently affected with whatsoever thing it be wherewith it is touched For all sensation is by passion as shall appear hereafter XXXII The seat and shop of the animall spirits is the brain For in the brain there is not only greatest store of that spirit residing but