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A18903	A true and admirable historie, of a mayden of Confolens, in the prouince of Poictiers that for the space of three yeeres and more hath liued, and yet doth, vvithout receiuing either meate or drinke. Of whom, his Maiestie in person hath had the view, and, (by his commaund) his best and chiefest phisitians, haue tryed all meanes, to find, whether this fast & abstinence be by deceit or no. In this historie is also discoursed, whether a man may liue many dayes, moneths or yeeres, without receiuing any sustenance. Published by the Kings especiall priuiledge.; Abstinens Confolentanea. English	Citois, François, 1572-1652.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.; Coeffeteau, Nicolas, 1574-1623, attributed name.	1603 (1603)	STC 5326; ESTC S118585	35,171	122

more noble wherein are contained those other more ignoble euen as the triangle within the quadrangle this is not a thing so easie For they acknowledge as the principall of their functions that nature properlie called the soule I say that is the moouing vertue of the naturall bodie the organe liuing by power And as for that which Haruet placeth in assumption of his argument that in the liuing bodie heate doth surmount the other elementarie qualities I cannot allow therof except he wil haue this heate to be vnderstood to be the same which diffuseth it selfe through the bodie gouerneth and moderateth the whole Oeconomie of same And this while it is in essence maintaineth life but comming once to quench it selfe then death of necessitie must follow and this surmounteth subiecteth to it selfe not only the colde moist and drie elementarie qualities but euen the hote elementarie nature also beeing as in herselfe truelie celestiall For if he would haue to be vnderstood this heate predominated by the elementarie heate as it seemeth to ensue by his sillogisme then let me set the Salamander before him which in his mixtion is composed of a temperature so colde as his very touch doth no lesse extinguish the fire then as if it were yce Hee liues notwithstanding yet not by the heate mixed or elementarie which being weake in it selfe cannot surmount the power of this colde it followes then that it must needes be by the heate celestiall which likewise maintaineth life in Serpents whom euery one knowes to bee colde temperatelie This then which hath bin said that the colde in olde men makes them to hate the abounding of foode it must bee that Haruet meanes it in such sort that cold hath no dominion ouer humaine bodies because actually it can haue no part thereof But for the colde of Hippocrates it is Com. 1. Apho. 14. the same which Galen and all Phisitians by comparison doo call a soft heat and therefore their weake and little heate hath neede of some small help euen as the slender flame of a Lampe is maintained by putting in the oyle by little little but easilie is it extinguished in beeing smoothered by a superaboundant effusion Hetherto we haue spoken of naturall heate as beeing the primitiue agent wherein we haue defended for M Ioubert that according to the abounding or tenuitie thereof the bodie hath neede of much or little nourishment Now let vs speake of the primitiue humour pacient and of his nature and how it is subiected to this heate VVith the consent of all Phisitians we haue constituted heat to be the first essentiall cause of our life haue said that she of herselfe cannot produce any effect of her functions without a proper nourishment which is the radicall moisture the primitiue abounding mingled with heate in the seede and menstruall blood the principles of our generation But by the swift flight of yeres i● greatly deminisheth and decayeth it selfe to our harme by the continuall embracing of the heate for the slacking or delaying whereof as we doo warilie renew the oyle in the burning Lampe euen so doo we as dilligently giue feeding to this heat feeding I say which serues to restore this humiditie and deliuer it from so strict an embracing So that if in the body there be any superabounding humour which these parts cannot any way disperse Galen calls the same Peritton hupoleipomenon In lib 5. Apho. 39. And in Schooles it is termed an vnprofitable excrement as it which remaines saith he within little hollow places of the bones and as the humiditie fumes vp to the lungs or lites the moisture glues the ioynts the seed is in the secrets and pipes wherby it is voided foorth spettle is in the tongue milke in the brests so this keepes the place for food and serueth the fomentation blowing vp of the natural heat as Ioubert hath very amply written in his Paradoxe and we our selues haue heeretofore declared Therefore so much as remaineth of this humour in the body while it there remaineth there is no neede at all of drinking nor eating and yet notwithstanding it is in the meane time nourished liueth which Haruet denieth with the like obstinacie and reiecteth all the reasons of this demonstration But for our own credit and regard without troubling our selues to cull out his writings by parcels where hee himselfe both makes feigneth obiections whereto also he answereth as any newe Apprentise in Phisicke might do the like we will confute those reasons which seem to be best furnished with apparence albeit we cannot endure any errour how little so euer it be Page 47. In the beginning of this proposition hee imposeth on Ioubert who hath writtē that not only the smalest heat helpeth to make abstinence or fasting the more easie but also that the humour superfluous and which holds the place of naturall heate might the more abound This doth Haruet interpret in his sence as if Ioubert had said that the sole smallest heat not only helps to render abstinence the more easie but also to the end that the humour superfluous which holds the place of naturall heat might be the more aboundant From whence hee drawes the proposition following That the smallest heat causeth the abounding of the superfluous humour against which proposition hee so tires his spirit and torments himselfe euen as if it were vpon Ioubert Let the Reader see if hee haue proposed apparance or no. Now he makes it a great case and Page 52. thinks he hath enterprised an act beseeming an other Hercules to shew that the excrement somtimes holds the place of foode and that nature serues herselfe in the same vsage or manner and that it can repaire that which is impaired by the power of heat In truth the excrements doe not fall altogether vnder one the same consideration For there be some which are quite against nature and wholy vnprofitable and which haue no resemblance at all with vs and therefore can neuer turne them selues to our vse to be incorporated with vs. The Greeks call them by an apt name Perittoomata as the ordure vrine sweat c. There be others more according to nature which are profitable to some part of the body yet are excrements not in regard of all or the whole body but for some part therof only Euen so the Chylus or white iuyce comming of the meat digested in the stomack whereof blood is ingendred after that the ventricle is full it is sent to the intestines as an excrement and vnprofitable charge VVhen it is drawn by the liuer then that which was an excrement of the ventricle is now made a nourishmēt to the liuer Now there while of the Chylus or white iuyce blood is made the spleene and the bladder of the gall or choller doe draw from both the one the other gall which are the excrements of the liuer theyr familiar nouriture and hauing taken their conuenable portion

sleepe without any nouriture so saith Plinie Arist lib. 4. cap. 5. de part anim Aboue all other kind of creatures the Grashopper dooth fast the longest for the moisture which is superaboundant in their bodies doth sufficiently furnish them with store of nourishment VVormes growing to be old their skin doth outwardly wex very hard and because that skin then lookes of yellow or gold culler the Greeks were wont to call them Chrisalides the Latines named them Aurelia After they haue once taken this forme they will receiue nothing more into their bodies neither doe they voyd or cast any thing forth Among these the Silke-worme sheweth a miracle in nature about the midst of Summer closed vp fast within her huske of silk she liues at the least for forty daies together not onely without eating but imployes beside very much of her substance in making of silk and cōming forth of her shell or couerture she becoms a Butterflie yet this liberty makes her not to seek any nourishment Arist lib. 8. cap. 17. Plin. lib. 8. cap. 57. The Bar or Dormouse remaines hidden all VVinter in a perpetuall sleep during all this time she hath no other nouriture then sleepe Arist lib. 8. cap. 17. The Rats of the Mountaines like vnto Dormise doesleepe hidden all the winter and for six months continuaunce they are busied in such a profound sleep as being cast vp out of the ground by digging or otherwise they will not awake at all vntill such time as they be brought into the Sun or layd before the fire they begin to feele heat They cary hay chaffe such other like things into their caue●nes to keep them frō the cold but yet al this hinders them not from sleeping soundly The Tortuise of the earth all winter lies within the earth there passeth that season as the other And I ib. de A●phib Rondeletus witnesseth that not onely in winter but like wise at al times she can liue longest without any foode yea although shee haue her head cle●t or cut off and this is by the power of the cold moisture within herselfe Arist lib. 9. Cap. 29. ●●● lib. 10. Cap. 24. The Loriot a kind of Bird hauing this nature that if a man see her when he is sick of the laundise the man shall wex whole the bird shall die immediatly all the winter she lies hidden in the earth shews not herselfe till about the Solstice of Summer Arist lib. 8. Cap. 16. Your Swallowes as well those of houses as they that are wild to shun the sharpnes of winter whē it draweth Pl●● lib. 10 Cap. 24. neer they retire themselues to secret places in the neighbouring Mountaines where you shall find them naked and without any feathers and you may see them almost in the like condition euen at the Spring-time As for them vvhich are called Swallowes of the Sea-coasts they withdraw themselues to the sides of Riuers Lakes Marishes and of the Seas where the Rocks doe serue them for a retirement There shall you see them in multitudes together as newly assembled to chase one another In such sort that as Agricola saith the Fisher men many times take them out of the waters so fast ioynd tied together as our new Philosophers may ceasse henceforward to forge their new Colonies in Affrick and other places beyond the Seas Arist lib. 8. cap. 10. hist Turtle-dooues they begin to hide themselues when they are fat although that they leaue their feathers in their holes yet notwithstanding they keepe their fatnes Some one peraduenture beeing a more diligent searcher into naturall things may discouer a great number of other birdes which might bee thought to be straungers because in winter time they hide themselues thus yet neuerthelesse are of our own coūtry as Kites Stock-dooues Black-birds Stares Houpes Backs Gripes Owles and others which are sustained and fed by the fat within themselues in all which time the Gal. 4. vsu part et Com. 2. de rat vict acut course office of the belly ceasseth For Galen holds that when hunger is not thorowlie contented the fat marrow and fleame giue nourishment to the naturall heat VVhence Hip. lib. de carn we may also relieue a doubt which may arise from that which Hippocrates hath written maintaineth that a man can hardly liue out the seauenth day without eating which although hee happen to ouerpasse yet notwithstanding hee will die soone after For albeit it may be true and that which he saith might haue been manifested in this Maiden of Confolans the intestine receiuing no foode at all it shut vp it selfe in such sort during this time that it could not afterward admit the receite of any yet notwithstanding it is not altogether so constrained that by this restriction of the entrailes death should follow theron so readilie For it is recorded of the Scithians that if by any occasion happening them they are to endure long fasting they will binde vp their bellies strictly with large bands to the ende that hunger may not charge them so soone because they haue left little or no space at all for the bellies conuoye And ●oreouer the Maiden of Spire of whom ranne such great report that she had bin three yeares without eating yet after the superabounding humour was consumed she returned according as they say which wrote thereof euen as one from banishment to her first right course and vse of eating beginning as it ●s verie likelie with potages and licquid things by little and little if this be true which those authours haue sayd Or rather if the mother of the maide did not impose it on those good people as the rumour ran therefore there hath bin some occasion of remaining in doubte by their owne proper writing for it might be noated that her nose voided much her eares wanted no part of their ordure and that she deliuered aboundaunce of teares foorth at her eyes which sheweth that the languishing powers haue bin often relieued with some foode albeit not solide whereby these excrements by a secret strength in nature were sent into their proper organes And nothing at all against this makes the Paradoxe which M. Ioubert hath in the second booke of his first decade where among many notable examples of a long fast or abstinence he produceth as an Hypothesis or argument disputed that historie of the Maiden of Spire For besides a great number of obseruations of the same qualitie which hee placeth before and that haue bin approoued by the auouching of many graue Authours we haue also notable confirmations as well by experience of elder ages as of newer and later Plato makes report in his Common VVealth of a certaine man named Herus Pamphilius who remained ten dayes together among the dead bodies of them which had bin slaine in a battaile two dayes after that he was brought thence as one was laying him on the pyle