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

Sulphur also Likewise it must be granted that there is an actual heat abiding in us whilest we live and somewhile after death this is obvious to the sence of feeling it self this is the heat as I conceive joyn'd with the primogenite humour to which Aristotle ascribes life it self But yet Sir I am somewhat doubtfull whether this heat be properly cal'd calor vivens though the great Riverius term it so or an immediate cause of life though an Aristotle himself pronounce it so For certainly Holy Writ ascribes life to the blood the blood is the life thereof and death to a dissolution of the compositum the body returns to the dust and the spirit to God that gave it But of this dissolution I suppose the soul is not ordinarily the cause but the body and what part of the body may more justly be challenged to be the Parent if I may so phrase it of death than the blood which is in a famous sense the parent of life So then most killing distempers must arise from the excessive multiplication consumption or depravation of the blood and the pernicious effects thereof yet mistake me not this hinders not other parts of the body bowels and humours to be often peccant as undoubtedly they are by infecting the blood and receiving infections morbifick from it Moreover this heat continues some hours without life even after the dissolution and as it is without life so is life often found without it as not only in some Vegetables as Lettuce Hemlock Cucumbers c. but in Animals as Frogs and Fish which are said to be actually cold and the Salamander reputed cold in a high degree This heat may possibly be but the effect of matter and motion i. e. of the blood or before it of the seed impregnated with active principles which through their activity and heterogeneity suffer mutual collisions or fermentations whence ebullition and thence this heat which is by circulation not only promoted but also convey'd to all parts of the body and by the same causes preserved which possibly may prove the summe of Riverius's implanted and influent heat These things presupposed 't will not be impossible to guess that this heat is no such Coelestial fire as the most famous Fernelius would have it but only the igneous result of the combinations and commotions of the most active elementary Principles and if there be any other heat it may prove to be according to the conjecture of great Riverius the product of the immateriate soul but of that I understand little only this is unquestionable that the caelestial Soul chooseth for its more immediate organs the most subtiliated spirituous and active parts of matter such as the vital and animal spirits and the heat before mentioned which seems to be of the same Genius and all but the mechanick productions of various fermentations percolations and distillations in the humane Engine Wherefore I shall crave leave to dismiss this fire till we come to discourse of Fermentations And so I pass on the next flame which is the Biolychnium or the actual flame of the blood kindled in the heart asserted both by Antients and Moderns of astonishing titles and tremendous veneration which devouring flame if once kindled will quickly depredate all the oleaginous aliment if not renewed by frequent and plentifull assumptions but therefore 't is greatly suspected to have no existence in our bodyes because in these Jejunants it must needs extinguish for want of Sulphureous supplyes and produce death to those that have liv'd long enough to help to entombe it 'T is strange to me that provident Nature should require such vast supplyes both of meat and drink out of which to extract a small quantity nutritious juice which with divers Ferments Colatures Emunctories and rapid motions it endeavours to exalt and defecate and yet after all should expose what she hath attain'd of purity and activity and consequently of noblest use by her unparallel'd artifices cost and toil to the improvident disposal of wastfull flames for indeed flames are great wasters as appears in the preparation of the Balsom of Sugar c. no less wonderfull it is that a flame should continually burn in the heart and yet the fleshy walls thereof not boiled roasted nor so much as a fuliginous or cineritious colour imparted But lest Sir you should be confident that this perennial slame scorns an extinction by these few drops I therefore commend to your observation those numerous and plentifull buckets that are poured thereupon by the dexterous hand of the very learned and candid Dr. Needham But yet lest you should be so far praepossessed by the determinations of venerable antiquity as to reject this new Doctrine and avowedly maintain this unseen fire I shall therefore adde 1. That this Flame can be but small through the defect of bodily exercise and freer ventilations these fasters being mostly close Prisoners as also of strong fermentations therefore the less the Lamp the less Oyl will sustain it 2. Through the defect of heat the pores are bolted and transpiration restrained whence a scarce credible quantity of moisture is retained which returning both by Veins and Lymphaticks gives no contemptible quantity of food to this fire 3. Through the restraint of Transpiration the igneous particles are secur'd from their excursions to the great increase of intestine heat for in feeders the loss of transpiration often kindles in the blood a feaverish fire 4. The Air as impregnated sometimes especially entring by the mouth the nose and pores in parts passing the various concoctions may be converted into a humour not altogether inept to preserve the lingring life of this dying flame 5. In pituitous bodies the abundance of flegme through the various concoctions which it undergoes in the body may become usefull in the room of more proper aliment to this analogous Lamp in its Table-supplyes which flegme though some reject as excrementitious yet I suppose they do it only when consideration is from home of its usefulness in the mastication of our food wherein as some say lyes the first concoction at least therein lyes the main preparation for the grand concoction in the ventricle the constant mixture of our food with our spittle in the Jaw-mill may enforce some considering men to think that 't is nearer of kin to our natural moisture than hath been formerly acknowledged 6. The colliquation of the parts of these emaciated bodies may yield Oyl to these Lamps as 't is usually affirmed in Hectick feavers besides if fire be nothing but an innumerable host of sulphurous atomes breaking the Prisons of their former compositions with other heterogeneities then certainly all fire is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for nothing of that Sulphur remains it leaves only the heterogenious Principles with which it was combin'd 7. 'T is probable that the moisture of these jejune bodies is much not only condens'd by their cold but also loaded with terrestreities through the

A Discourse upon Prodigious ABSTINENCE OCCASIONED By the Twelve Moneths FASTING OF MARTHA TAYLOR The Famed Derbyshire Damosell Proving That without any Miracle the Texture of Humane Bodies may be so altered that Life may be long Continued without the supplies of MEAT DRINK With an Account of the Heart and how far it is interessed in the Business of Fermentation By Iohn Reynolds Humbly offered to the Royall Society London Printed by R. W. for Nevill Simmons at the Sign of the three Crowns near Holborn-Conduit and for Dorman Newman at the Chyrurgeons Arms in Little Brittain 1669. To the deservedly Famous and my Honoured Friend Walter Needham Doctor of Physick as also a Member of and Curator Elect to the Royal Society SIR IT were a Solaecism of the first magnitude to entertain you with any thing like a Narrative of the Superennial Fast under all the Havooks and depraedations whereof the Derby-shire Damosell hath hitherto been sustained though emaciated thereby into the ghastliness of a Skeleton to the great astonishment of the Vulgus Your correspondencies are so faithful and your Circumstances so advantageous as wholly to supersede the necessity of my engaging in and the possibility of my gratifying you by such a Province However indulge me while bemoaning my self the liberty to tell you that concerning the Phaenomena's attending this prodigeous Abstinence my own thoughts have been so miserably ravel'd and my scanty intellectuals so much overmatcht thereby that I could not with any Complacency look into those nor with any delight consult these A just reverence to Reformed Theologues asserting a total Cessation of Miracles forbad me to immure my self in any such supernatural Asylum and a praejudicate opinion of humane bodies in this Animal State allowed me not to Eurefuge my fluctuating mind in Physical Causes clubbing together by an Anomalous C●pulation to engender so great an Heteroclite While thus lost in the Chaos of confused apprehensions and smarting under the Hirricano of my own tumultuary thoughts I hurry away to a very Worthy and Compassionate Friend who with a little deliberation runs through the Diagnosticks of my Malady pitieth my case and after some sharp Conflicts with his own Modesty affords the Relief of a Philosophical Elixir for so I call the ensuing Discourse wholly transferring the right which he had in the happy results of his own contemplations upon me Now Sir what by much importunity I extorted from him for my own private satisfaction I make bold to tender the world a view of under the Countenance and Protection of your great Name which is not only able to secure it from the Critical Pharaphrases of an Envious Age but also to command it the Iustice of an unpraejudicate perusal with such as know your worth To my own grief I have found it much an Anodyne or as a pleasant Lullabie to my whimpering fancy the issue of all hath been rest not knowing but it may minister the like seasonable relief to others who have not Wit and Philosophy enough to start any greater Objections than my self I judged it worthy to travail the World The confidence wherein I seek to entitle you to the Patrociny of it is no less than an assurance of your benign Nature singular Ingenuity and obliging goodness which have begotten and pupil'd in me that perswasion ever since I had the happiness and honour to know you Besides your clearer Intellectuals and your vast acquaintance with Natures Recondite Mysteries made it wholly incongruous to adopt any other the object of this Dedication I do still remember with the deepest resentments of a grateful heart the happy distinction betwixt parts Spermatique and parts Haematique wherewith in pity you relieved me when anxiously enquiring upon a Religious account after the principuum individuationis in humane bodies a Notion as to me it seems more able to rescue the Grand Article of our Creed concerning the Resurrection of the same individual Body from under suspicion and the many gross absurdities that some Phylosophasters and half-witted Atheists would ●ain clogg it with than any offerture of Humane Reason that I ever yet had the happiness to meet with Here methinks I could break forth into an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and congratulate my great though late felicity that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Origen in one sense or other calls it the Principle maintaining a Numerical Identity in Humane Bodies through the whole series of Vicissitudes Changes and Sanctorian Transmutations betwixt the Vterine Formation and the Vltimate Reunition of soul and body should after many a tedious search and frustraneous disquisition at last be suggested by an hand able in the maintenance of it to grapple with any Contradictor In this you have satisfied not only my reason but my curiosity too and therefore Sir so great is my opinion of your skill absit omnis adulationis suspicio that whatever Dogma steps abroad with your name written upon it I could almost surrender up my self as a perfect Captive to it were I not a Man and which is more a Protestant upon an implicit faith But I have I know not well how digressed and stept asid● into things heterogeneous to the purport of this Dedicatory Address I therefore return to my ingenious friends Discourse upon which were my judgement in these matters worth any thing I could afford to be liberal in the bestowance of my Encomium's But as 't is shrouded under your Patronage so 't is submitted to your Censure this I am bold to do knowing the Author so much an Admirer of you that he cannot reluctate whether more worthy your pity or your approbation none can better judge than your discerning and deserving self Therefore such as it is I leave it to your Mercy and beg leave to tell you that I should presently fall out with my self did I not upon a faithful Scrutiny find my self in the number of those that really love and honour you Farewell Worthy Sir YOUR requests to take into consideration the so much fam'd prodigious Twelve Moneths Abstinence of the Derby-shire Maid having the force of commands have produced these lean results of the imposed Meditations It cannot be unknown to a Person of your large endowments and hot pursuit after substantial Science that both Divines Medicks Historians yea Poets and Legenders have presented the Learned World with a great variety of wonderful Ab●tinents some whereof I shall briefly recite as well to reserve your sliding time for more Noble Employments as to manifest that our contemporary Derb●●se is not so sing●lar as some may imagine Most certain it is that the Learned Moses fasted 40. dayes and as many nights whilst he abode on the Burning Mount the great El●jah went as long in the 〈◊〉 of a meal and no less was the Fast of the holy Jesus Sword● Austin reports that in his time one survived 40. dayes fasting but most strange is the Story fathered on Nicephorus of three Brethren affrighted