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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

seruiceable for them These are the arguments wherwith the learned Ioubert hath fortified his opinion arguments which in my iudgement vntill this instant houre there could be no one found that did knowe deseruedly how to stand against them VVherto there are ioyned many examples both of plants and other creatures that not only preserue thēselues many dayes but also many yeares without any nourishment taken outwardly As in plants the Onyon and the Garlick c in graine VVheate Re Barley Oates Millet and others in and among beastes Serpents Lizardes Dormise Beares Crocodiles and Cameleons Of which examples Haruet striues to weaken the authoritie by opposition of the dissimulitude and great disproportion which is betweene the life of brute beastes yea much more of plants that of man because his principall is referred to the reasonable soule and theirs to the soule vnreasonable and beside that heate the instrument thereof is much more noble in man then in the vnreasonable soule and yet more in the vnreasonable soule then in the plant VVherto I answere that the similitude of these examples doo very well agree together in that kinde of life whereof we speake in this place which is the facultie of nourishing and feeding of the bodie which is equally distributed as well in beastes as in 2. Deg●● Cap. 5. plants saith Ari●●●tle And moreouer that they agree in the kinde of the cause to wit the rawe phlegmatique humour wherewith their bodies are as well filled as those of men But who can saith Har●et Page 78. support such a great aboundance of fleame in Diaphragma without a palpitation of the hart sicknesse of the stomacke paine of the collick the reines who can retaine them in the head without an apoplexie I answere that this humour abounding in cruditie seethes it selfe in the bodie there and yet hurtes it not at all for beeing according to nature it cannot create any accidents and diseases against nature He will obiect perhaps that the sole abounding of fleame causeth an apoplexie But I say that it is an excrement properly of the braine which hath not bin wunt to goe lodge it selfe at the ventricles therof nor doth except it be driuen by the spirit or the vapour He will say that in these natures the spirits are more feeble and haue not power sufficient to make so great a violence or impetuositie VVherto I reply albeit that otherwise the exercise of the bodie is healthfull saith Galen yet Com. 3. Aph. 20. neuerthelesse if you will exercise a man full of fleame or of one and the other choller or else full of bloode you shal forward him by such exercise either to an Epilepsie or Apoplexie Now where hee saith that our life is differing from that of Plants beasts and that her principle which is our soule is much more noble thē the others what is he that wil deny it whē Aristotle himselfe belieued that she onely was diuine and came from abroade or without to lodge within our bodie But because hee encloseth within his obiection the vegetatiue soule of Plants and the sensitiue of beasts it behooueth to let him know that our body hath a vegetatiue soule and nourisheth it selfe as a Plant senseth or senteth as a brute beast and hath the discourse of reason of which it makes vse as a man For marke but his beginning saith the same Aristotle he liueth as the plant and hath onely then the vegetatiue soule afterward in time he gaines the sensitiue at length comes the intellectuall and reasonable which bringeth with it all perfections For he is not all at one time both an animall and a man nor an animall and an horse though this reason be scant seemly in the mouth of a Christian Philosopher but he● is first of all an hearbe a Lettise afterward a dog a horsse or the like thing and at length he comes to be Casar or Cato De prisc● med But Haruet continues on yet and prooueth by Hippocrates that our elders would neuer haue sought out a proper manner of feeding for man if one selfe same drinking eating might haue suffised for the nourishment both of men and beasts Neuerthelesse he omitteth that which Hippocrates addeth that in the first age men vsed one selfe-same foode as the other creatures did when the inuention of sowing and planting was as yet vnknowne to them then they fedde on fruites which nature on her owne good will brought foorth without any tillage howbeit notwithstanding the omnipotent Creator of man had a wil from the beginning that he should not only feed on the fruites of the earth but also that he should vse the vnreasonable creatures for his nourishment VVhat would he haue Hippocrates to say more That which our auncients then did declared a will to prouide for the infirmitie of our naturall heat which beeing sometimes vnable to digest those meates that were too crude raw is now better supplied and maintained by such as are prepared and corrected by knowledge and experience in the dooing whereof the health of man is the lesse subiect to perrill Otherwise a man might take eate without danger if he had been thereto accustomed of Hemlocke with the Stare and of Helleborus with the Quaile or as Mithridates vse poysons not to be poysoned and he being inured to such a custome they were to him as naturall viands In like manner an old man of Athens recorded by Galen vsed familiarly 3. De fimpl fac Lib. 9. hist Plant. cap. 18. Arist de reg prin to eate Hemlock as Thrasiaes did the like of Helleborus by report of Theophrastus A mayden beeing sent by the King of the Indiaes to Alexander she did a long time feede before euery one of Napellus called VVoolfes-bane without any preiudice to herselfe But without all these the earth our good Mother hath not shee brought foorth from her bosome many other thinges necessary to maintaine life yes truly hath she in the estate as she receiues vs whē wee come to arriue in the Inne of this world she therafter entertaines and feedeth vs shewing herselfe alwaies benigne sweet indulgent ready to do whatsoeuer she can deuise to serue our vse VVhen shee is tilled and husbanded what diuersitie of foodes doth she produce proper and apt for our nourishing How plenteously is she furnished without tillage vvhat odours what fauours what iuyces what cullers And yet in this while we will needs exercise our crueltie vpon the brute beasts we will keepe those creatures imprisoned to whō Nature hath giuen the free wide palace of heauen VVhy are not vvee more carefull to make our bankets in simplicitie and without butcherie after the manner of Pythagoras rather then to war in the ayre aduēture life on the Seas and Riuers and make such spoile of the earth as wee Ouid. 1. Meta. doe Our elders doo report that the age which we call the golden age was happy in this that it fullied

comes to yeeld it selfe vnder the tirannie of one alone giues therby reasonably to vnderstand that the course of life keeps it selfe for so long time as naturall heat dooth aboundantly disperse it selfe with the radicall humour and that the elementarie qualities doe hold a good simpathie among them selues in their harmony kind accord which wee call temperature And therefore it is blamelesse to define life by these two causes that is to say heat and temperature because it behooueth to take the definition by the cause which is most neere Now heat is the most neere instrument of the soule the temper next that of naturall heat which disposeth and accommodates it to diuers actions Then this causall definition is well deriued from the chiefe and principall occasion of life which heere wee haue alleaged by the authoritic of Aristotle Neuerthelesse Haruet goes after another fashion he defines the life of man to be an action of the reasonable soule produced into the bodie of man but this definition is not subtile enough For first formost life is no action at all of the soule otherwise it should be the soule that liueth and not the body but life is an abiding as hath bin said or an vnion of the soule with the body according as Aristotle describeth in another of his bookes wherof soone 8. Metaph. after proceedeth action Heere I add that the actions of life beeing to vnderstand to smell to mooue and to nourish if life be an action then it were an action of an action which is most absurd Or els if life be an action of the reasonable soule in so much then as shee is reasonable the corporal parts should then be driuen to performe they● operations as receiuing foode for nourishment to beget her like onely by reason and the intellect not by any naturall sence But peraduenture Haruet hauing drawn his definition from others hath read that life is an act of the reasonable soule which word of act he hath conuerted into action Or act is that which the Greeks call E●telecheia which is a perfection efficacie and moouing power of it selfe far enough differing from that which they call Ergon And so one may to some purpose define life an act of the soule in the body that is to say a power vertue of the soule by the vnion thereof with the body VVhence is casie to be vnderstood that taking life generally it should rather be imputed to naturall heat as to the organe of the soule then vnto reason in case notwithstanding that this heat still abides alwaies vnited with the radicall moisture which although that day by day it be consumed by this heate yet neuerthelesse nature prouideth a subrogation daily of new which she borrows from the nouritures we receiue as it hath bin said already heeretofore But Haruet imagineth that these nourishments serue yet to another vse which is saith he to relieue fortifie the spirits the which I●ubert hath omitted as if vnder this name of radicall moisture we should comprehend onely moisture by it selfe not the spirits likewise And what is he who will denie that the spirits are not restored strengthened both by eating and drinking Yee haue in very truth great store of things heere chawed and eaten vnprofitably and to little purpose And of abounding that vvhich he proposeth against Hippocrates in the 14. Aphorisme of his 2. Booke is altogether paradoxicall to wit that hee in whom heate is most languishing hath the more neede of nourishment which hee proues by the example of a forty-yeeres aged man who saith he receiueth more food then any infant of two or three dayes in whom notwithstanding there is an aduantage of this heat according to Hippocrates himselfe Behold in my iudgement an argument very feeble if one should bring in all that he failes in if also we should oppose the organs of the twaine the one against the other For to the end that vnder this word Infant no cauillation may be couered I call all them Infants which are vnder 14. yeeres of age in the same maner as the Greekes do vnderstand this word Paidi● They I say that according to the proportion of their maw or little belly doe take more foode then men of middle perfect age as well by reason of the power of the facultie which seethes or boiles the foode whence proceedeth a speedie riddance thereof as by their frequent exercises during the which time good store of their substance glides it selfe thorow the pores into the skinne to the end I may be silent also in the two necessities alleaged by Hippocrates that infants haue of eating to wit for nourishing to giue encreasing to the bodie Now the strength of the facultie which boiles the meate in our stomack depends much vppon temperature and moderation but that is when it is excited and prouoked on by the heat natural which although that after one food is digested shee introduceth not then of herselfe any other nouriture as saith Haruet neuerthelesse because that this first is thus digested by heate there growes incontinently a feeling of penurie and want of foode at the mouth of the ventricle which we call hunger For this cause Ioubert referres only to heate as the principall agent the quantitie of those foodes which we take immediatly after and they are ruled by the appetite of hunger The facilitie of supporting Com. 2. Apho. 13. hunger saith Galen makes it selfe knowne thus when any one hath no appetite at all and yet neuerthelesse he feeles no endamagement or defect VVhich Haruet thus brings in that such as are restored from sicknesse haue a good appetite and yet notwithstanding no such meates are then giuen them as their appetite doth desire but when aduise is giuen for restoring of the powers it beho●es also to haue regard to the 〈…〉 of the naturall heate 〈…〉 is not to be any way iniuried but still supported This is thus done because that the temperature beeing not yet thorowlie reseated the naturall faculties feele themselues as yet to be diseased the organes cannot boile the foodes receiued in too great a quantity Now Ioubert in his demonstration purposed to speake of the healthfull not of the sick or else of them which are neither And therefore he concluds that olde men haue not need of meate often because they doo not desire or appetite often principally considering that they haue colde bodies whereto Haruet in no wise will agree for he saith that all the action of mixed bodies comes from the qualitie which winnes the vpper hand in the assembling of the elements So is it in liuing bodies heate ruleth ouer the other qualities of which heate all action hath his originall and not of colde I willingly admit the proposition with Aristotle so farre foorth as to mixte things inanimate or without soule which know the simple formes of the elements for their principles But in animate bodies hauing soules which haue a forme

little is in such maner grown leane and dried vp in her as downe from her sides and so along to her nauill there remaineth nothing of the belly which shee had before There is only in this place or in sted thereof to wit vnder the auncient belly where we may say it hath bin a Cartilage or gristle hanging pointed down from * That part of the breast where the ribs meete and ioyne together thorax or sternu●● after the maner of an eaues or penthouse which throwes off from the building all the water that falls on the top or couerture Here-hence frō the points of these bastard-sides the skinne vnderneath dooth suffer great paine and feeling both of extension and diu●lsion as may easily be perceiued by the moanes which the Maide herselfe maketh From thence comes it that all the muscles intestines bowels other parts of the belly being withdrawne and annihiled by want of foode one would iudge that they had bin rackt or rent away at least there remaineth nothing but the lappings silaments for all the ●leshie substance which filled those parts there are perished and gon As concerning the other parts of her bodie it behoueth much more that there should be an aunswerable diminution yet she hath a large breast the paps pretie and round her armes thighes fleshie her face also indifferent round but brownish her lippes somewhat red her tongue indeed drawne inward a little but yet her words prompt and readie her head couered with haire of good length for her nailes and haire they do encrease in each meet part of the body There comes not any excrement from her her belly yeelds no ordure neither doth any vrine at all passe from her bladder or is the matrixe impeached by her menstruall flowers Her head is not charged with filth or dandriffe but shewes it selfe verie sound and well as well in the exteriour part of the 〈…〉 as in the inward organes of 〈◊〉 for neither dooth her nose or 〈◊〉 render any excrements onlie frō her mouth comes a little spettle and sometimes from her eyes issues a few teares The whole body ouer yeelds no sweat at all but we and such as haue touched her doe find all her skinne to be colde and dry and not heated or chafed by any moouing except the arme-pits those parts which neighbor neer to the hart yet doth shee trauaile about the house goe to the market for victuals sweepe the house spinne at her wheele reele off her quill and giues herselfe as any other to all seruiceable offices in a familie seemes as if shee were not defectiue in any part of sence or mouing of her bodie By all which things we may gather the raritie and meruailous noueltie of this example for the accident happeneth in such an age whē as the body receiues increasing And those things which increase haue need of good store of nouriture but especially in bodies of such constitution as this Maidens is slender thin cold where the internall parts are accustomed to be most hot Hence comes it that our auncients haue said that in VVinter our bellies are Lib. 1. Aph. 15. more hot then at other times which causeth a much readier concoction and an appetite lesse tollerable especially when it is prouoked by exercises whereof this Mayden maketh no spare especially such as her age is capable of the ayre and soyle also wherein she liues affoords the people to be very hungry All which occasions of appetite and hunger were taken frō her by the accident of her continuall Feauer and in the end all her naturall functions became asswaged and seazed on by a kinde of dead Palsie And nowe to begin with the first principall the little belly or maw which otherwise is the receptacle of foode and the officer for the first concoction being lagde rent by the ordure of crude raw humors hath languished in such sort as it had no power either to retaine the meates therin enclosed or to receiue in any other Euen so in Hippocrates Hermocrates being surprized with an extreame burning Feauer did euermore cast the foode hee receiued because this facultie had lost his strength and that was quenched in him saith Galen in the same place Com. 1. whereof the office was to feele lack in health and to desire what was familiar for him Many would attribute the cause of this Symptome or passion ensuing sicknesse to some bad power in an Apple which an olde woman had giuen to this young Maiden two or three months before because when she had eaten it she had a distaste of her meats and felt some alteration of her spirits But in regard that besides this nothing hath happened to her which outwardly hath impeached her health neither her naturall functions vntill she became surprized by the Feauer before mentioned I see no reason at all that yeelds any subiect to belieue how the euill power in the Apple could remaine so long time hidden without yeelding any effect Her vomiting ceassing she became dumbe by reason of those nerues resolution which wee call recurrent vvhich hapned to her soone after through all her body the fleame cold raw beeing liquefied by the heate of the Feauer which by this meanes wrought a debilitie in the braine caused that shee could not be sound and wel in spirit Here-hence it hath necessarily followed that she must needs loose the sence of tast sucking and likewise the vse of swallowing meat and drinke which onely hath procured the abolition of the animall appetite and by little little it hath bin followed by a totall priuation of the appetite naturall which Hippocrates noteth by these words Genestai de ouc edunato if we may giue credit to his most graue interpreter Galen VVhich casts the cause of this passion vpon the blame of the liuer who being the vegetant and naturall soule so soone as she is wounded she is constraind that the auxiliarie or succouring faculties to wit attraction retention assimiliation or comparison and expulsion in whom lies all the power of nourishing must needs sinck fall and so consequently the appetite which cannot be compleat perfect but by attraction The same Authour gathers it to be the sicknes of the liuer in Hermocrates by this 1. Epid. sect 3. that the sixt day of his sicknesse he was seene to looke yellow notwithstanding in all the course of his disease which was for 27. dayes this yellownes neuer left him as it had done in Heraclides to whō the selfe same passion happened and on the same day neither by sweating neither by the voyding of much choller nor by the conuoye of the bellie nor by vrine nor yet by vomitting And therefore it was easie to be seene that the naturall facultic whereof the liuer is the fountaine in very strange manner was ouerthrowne VVhich being so all the 5. De lo● aff Chap. 1. strength of appetite doth become so weakened saith