being the cheifest part of my Study and most delightful of late years And having approved in practice what in reason they promised at the veiw enticing to experiments I may with confidence commend to your use being a witness to all that belongs to them made choice of their Druggs saw their due preparation and Composition and not only a spectator but an agent sometimes where the strictest care and nicest curiosity is required being the best recreation I know or can desire For my part I desire no other weapons to oppose any Herculean disease where the capacity of the subject will endure the contest and be conformable to the commands of such a discipline I shall require to be observed The Patient must bear a part or no good to be expected there must be a conspiration consent and agreement between the Physician the Patient and the Medicine against the disease or the design will fail The Physician cannot oure without a good Medicine the Medicine cannot cure except prudently appointed by the Physitian in fit Doses at due times with the requisite circumstances and yet neither shall prevaile if the patient be disobedient intemperate and careless For if by good medicine you prevaile against your disease get ground one day and lose it the next or soon after by an unfit improper ordering your self the labour is in vain as by too often experience we finde it in practise with peevish unruly imprudent patients who thinke the taking of the physick is sufficient let themselves live at the old rate and customes which first occasioned the disease You must not therefore expect these medicines to take that effect as is promised declared in the enumeration of their vertues appropriate use if you by an irrigular course and daily common practise in eating drinking sleeping passions of minde rest and motion or other customes whatever improper and unfit for the condition of your body and distemper act with a Counter motion and repugnancy to the efficacy and vertue of the Medicine and also cherish indulge and strengthen the disease Therefore remember that a duty is required incumbent upon you and impute not your miscarriages improper unseasonable insufficient use of the means to the deficiency of the Medicine and that you make a difference between a chronic inveterate radicated disease to which you are propense by hereditary nature constitution or constant bad customes and a slight accidental infirmity The former requiring a more serious prosecution continuance and repetition of Medicines if you have been many moneths perhaps years contracting a disease you may well allow some days for a parting And that these Medicines may not receive a prejudice in their reputation undeservedly and for want of knowledge in the proper choice and use of them especially in such cases and persons where a subordinate use of Medicines is required for the eradicating of a contumacious and chronic disease such I say who desire a methodical and exact course in the use of these Medicines more at large and peculiar for their complicated diseases and condition of body then what is exprest and provided for in this book I shall upon their application to me whether by letter if far distant or otherwise give them my advice and directions in the choice and use of any Medicine or Medicines as their particular case requires according to the true account and relation I shall receive of their infirmities at my dwelling next to the Blew-Bore on Ludgate-hill London OF Life Health and Sickness AFter the praevious disposition of formation and effiguration of seminal matter in the wombe by the innate spirits thereof the chief actors in vegetation having prepared fabricated and made ready for animation the Soul then exerts her power animates and gives life and as supreme moderator and governor disposeth and orders all for future conservation and perfection of operation The seminal Spirits which before were chief and principal in preparation and fabrication of this mansion are now after the souls assuming the Government but instrumental and subordinate immediately acting by vertue and power from the soul received neither can the one act without the other the soul cannot act the body in its operations but mediately by the intervening Spirits there is so great a distance between the spirituality of a soul and the corporiety of bodies but the Spirits being of the most refined subtile volatized material substance are the fittest Intermedium of conjunction conveyance and commerce between the Soul and body nor can the spirits act their parts in any Vital operation but by the energy command and power derived from the soul These spirits have their residence in every part of the body as principal assistants and excitors to the performance of the office and duty belonging to the several parts and are the approximate immediate agents of the soul and they are preserved maintained and supplied by the additional spirits extracted from the bodyly aliment daily received There is also a ferment or transmutative quality peculiar to each part or office for concoction resulting from the particular nature property and temper of each part being the author of alteration and transmutation by vertue whereof the food received is digested volatized and receiving various impressions according to the disposition of the ferment of each part by which it passeth until it be fit for assimilation into the substance of the body In the vigour and rectitude of these ferments and the aforesaid spirits consists the sanity and integrity of each member in its office but the diminution alienation and depravation of either vitiates and imbecillitates the parts indisposeth and incapacitates them to their office and duties from whence various morbifick effects are produced answerable to their several causes and the variety of organical parts in their principal or ministerial functions These Spirits and ferments are preserved and maintained in their natural purity and vigour by a temperate sweet Air wholsom and regular dyet seasonable sleeping and waking moderate and constant exercise due evacuations and retentions tranquillity and ease of minde But these irregular unnatural disproportionate or unsutable in matter manner times or order destroyes the regular oeconomy and peaceable Government of the body raiseth discords introduceth and begets morbifick causes abbreviates and shortens life Of which particularly hereafter This I have premised as a ground work for the superstructure intended and for your preparation and clearer apprehension of what shall be delivered in the following discourse knowing upon what bases it is founded The life of man consists in the Conjunction of soul and body mutually embracing each other with the bands of Love and desire of continued Union until the incapacity and unfitness of the body by its ruinous and decayed condition or other impediments and deficiency enforceth the soul to desertion and departure Spiritual and Corporeal substance are now knit and interwoven one with another by an extraordinary curious artifice and contrivance so that you can not say
here is the soul there the body but soul and body are joyntly extended throughout the whole in every part there is both soul body life is the result of this connexion as by the meeting and attrition of flint steel fire is produced so by the reciprocal contact conjunction of soul body life is generated being of a luminous influential nature diradiated through the body from whence vital motions and heat as the product and concomitants thereof do give a testimony of its virtual presence and efficacious energy and as the Ratio formalis of life is in lumine so the vertue power and emanations of life are manifested in actione in operation action and although the soul cannot by a reflex act in this life see the face of its own being nor can we see it in another being invisible a priori environed vailed and hid by the interposition of a dense opacous body yet we may see the back parts and behold what it is in operation and effects and as Operatio sequitur esse according to the axiome we may judge of the purity radication and durability of life by the integrity strength and constancy of its actions and functions and this integrity or perfection of vital operations is that which we call health or sanity and it is the free indisturbed unanimous performance of all the faculties in the rectitude of their duties being the prosperous serenity mutual enjoyment and happiness of soul and body in their conjunct state The benefit and excellencies of this health is best known to those that have lost it Carendo magis quam fruendo quid valeat cognoscimus you that have it and know not how to prize it I le tell you what it is both positively and privatively that you may love it better put a higher value upon it and endeavour to preserve it with a more serious and strict observance and tuition Health is that which makes your meat and drink both savory and pleasant else natures injunction of eating and drinking were a hard task and slavish custome Health is that which makes your bed easie and your sleep refreshing that renews your strength with the rising Sun and makes you chearful at the light of another day t is that which fills up the hollow and uneven places of your Carkase and makes your body plump and comely t is that which dresseth you up in natures richest attire and adorns your face with her choicest colours 'T is that which makes exercise a sport and walking abroad the enjoyment of your Liberty 'T is that which makes fertile and encreaseth the natural endowments of your minde and preserves them long from decay makes your wit acute and your memory retentive T is that which supports the fragility of a corruptible body and preserves the verdure vigour and beauty of youth 'T is that which makes the soul take delight in her mansion sporting her self at the casements of your eyes 'T is that which makes pleasure to be pleasure and delights delightful without which you can solace your self in nothing of terrene felicityes and enjoyments Having taken a breif survey of natural life in the best estate graced and adorned with the society of health and its great attendants the coucomitant benefits priviledges and enjoyments now take a view of your self when health hath turn'd its back upon you and deserts your company see now how the Scene is changed how you are robd and spoyled of your comforts and enjoyments the want of health makes food to lose its wonted relish and is become disgustful and unsavory the stomack now refuseth to receive its dayly charge no longer able to perform the task but desires a quietus est from the office Sleep that was stretcht out from evening to the fair bright day is now broken into peeces and subdivided not worth the accounting the night that before seemed short is now too long and the downy bed presseth hard against the bones Exercise now is toyling and walking abroad the carrying of a burthen The body that moved so light and readily obeyed the steerage of the Pilot is now over ballac'd with its own weight and slowly tugs as against the stream Conjugal imbraces are now but the faint offers of love the shaddows and representations of former kindeness The body that had the magnetisme and secret attraction of souls may now be approached without loss or danger of being snared and fettered as a bondslave the lilly and the rose that nature planted in the highest mount to shew the world her pride and glory is now blasted and withered like long blown flowers The eye that flasht as lightning is now like the opacous body of a thick cloude that rouled from East to West swifter then a Celestial orbe is now tyred and weary but standing still that penetrated the center of another microcosme hath lost its Planetary influence and is become obtuse and dull the hollow sounding breast that echoed to the chanting bird and warbled forth delightful tunes now runs divisions with coughing straines and pauses with a deep fetch 't sigh for breath to repeat those notes again The Veins those rivulets that ran with vital streams bedewing the adjacent parts with fruitfull moisture is now drunk up with parching heat or muddied and defiled with an inundation of excremental humors The want of health converts your house into a prison and confines you to the narrow compasse of a chamber t is that which sowers the sweetest and most beloved injoyments t is that which disunites and breaks the league of copartnership between soul and body alienates and makes them at jarrs discomposeth their harmony and weary of their wonted sweet society The Prolongation Abbreviation of Life MAn Consisting of soul and body and this body compounded of heterogenious and dissimilar parts destinated to various actions and offices and not independent in being and conservation will necessarily require variety of assistance and supply proportionable and suting to their several purposes faculties proprieties and temperatures in matter manner times and order for their maintenance and sustentation in the integrity of their actions offices and duties Constitutional dispositions and temperaments peculiarly conservative of themselves respectively and consequently of the whole And by the Law of nature being subject to corruption and dissolution through the fragility of constitutive principles connexion and fabrication is bound to observe rules orders and customes most consonant for preservation continuance in being Now if there be a disproportion or unfitness in the matter and quantum or irregularity in the manner times or order of the auxiliary requisites and conservatives contrary to what the Law or necessity of his nature requires and commands there ariseth distempers ataxjes and disorders the praeludiums to ruine and dissolution And this body being in a continual flux and reflux conversant in vicissitudes and variations of opposites dissimilars contraries and privations as heat and cold siccity and humidity filling and
Sorrel Orange Lemmon Apples Goosberies Currans Prunes pickled Cucumbers as boiled Veale and Green-sauce rost Veal and Orange holled Mutton with Verjuce and its own juce rost Mutton and Lemmon or Cucumbers green Geese and Goosberries Stubble goose and Apples Pigg and Currants Pork and Green-sauce boiled Chickens with Goosberries or Sorrel-sops Calves feet stewed with Currans and Prunes and your meat thus cook'd is both food and Physick Take a lawful freedome and please your self with these fruits Citrons Pomegranats Limes Oranges Lemmons Quince Pearmains Pippins red Cherries Mulberies Grapes Damsins Bullaces Prunellaes Respass Currans Barberies Strawberries they cool and quench thirst contemperate and aswage Choler and give a great refreshment to the parched spirits Eat sallads of Lettuce Sorrel Purslane Spinage and Violet leaves they are medicamental aliment Butter milk Whey and Sider allays preternatural heat checks the effrenation of raging Choler and are like water to fire Refuse the fat and brown outside of meat also the crust of bread Butter and Oyle adds fuel to the fire Sugar and Honey hath alliance and friendship with Choller being soon assimilated and converted into its nature Mustard Salt and Spices exasperates Cholet and makes it more fierce and biting Vinegar checks it Avoid wine spirits and strong liquors they agitate Choller and rouzeth up a sleeping enemy Fast not but satisfie the stomack when it vellicates and calls for meat biting Choller must have something to feed on or it will prey upon the body Cherish and indulge sleep it cools and moistens but let it not exceed in length which puts nature by her due times for necessary evacuations Use little and gentle exercise be not laborious or toyling but take your ease avoid violent motion it fires the spirits and enrageth choler Frequent Venus is most pernicious Cold bathes is profitable and refresheth much by cooling the blood allaying the spirits concentring them Bannish anger immoderate care peevishness and fretting which discomposeth the spirits heats and wasts them angments Choller dryes the body and hastens old age Refrain Tobacco as an injurious custome it exasperates Choler by heating drying and evatuating dulcid Phlegme which contemperates bridles and checks the fury of acrid sharp bilious humors Melancholy Complexion THe Melancholy person naturally so from the first principles is cold and dry but a Melancholy temperament acquired by Education Customes and Accidents by Degeneration and admixture of other humors adust is hot and dry which make the signs and symptoms of Melancholy to be different and various and a difference is to be made in dyet and customs The common symptoms are a pale black or high Sanguine colour given to be watchful sad solitary and suddain laughter a flow pulse troublesome sleeps and dreams Cold Melancholy hath milde symptomes if hot and adust the effects are more churlish and furious For cold Melancholly let the dyet be hot and moist for the hot Melancholy person let dyet be cooling and moist in both let their meats be of light digestion affording good nutriment and not windy as Mutton Lamb Veal Capon Chicken Partridge Phesant c. Abstain from Venison Bull-beef or Ox hanged Beef or long salted Goats-flesh Hare Bacon Goose Duck Swan Crane Heron Bittor and most water fowl Peacock Quaile Blackbirds Pidgeon Red Herrings salt Cod Ling Sturgeon pickled Scalloâ—s and salt Fish dryed Meats fryed or broiled old Cheese Beanes Pease Cabbage Coleworts Rye Bread and all meats hard of digestion or windy Capers Broom buds and Sampire are good sauce they open Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Mustard and Vinegar bad and all sower sauces they make Melancholy more contumacious and fixed Spices not good if the person be hot they cause adustion Use Borrage Bugloss Endive Succory Baume Fumiterry Lettuce Marigold flowers Violets Clove-giliflowers Saffron they alter and qualifie the humor and chear the spirits Use Barly brothes with Prunes Raisins and Currans If Melancholy be adust and your body hot and costive eat Pippins Permains Cherries Respass Strawberries and such like fruits to cool and moisten Drink Whey Sider and small White-wines Refuse black wines and stale Beer Keep the body soluble your head will be more free from pain fumes and heaviness Cherish sleep it refresheth the spirits pacifieth a troubled minde and banisheth cares Fly idleness the Nurse of Melancholy exercise often and follow business or recreations Walk in the green fields Orchard Gardens Parks by Rivers and variety of places Change of Air is very good Avoid solitariness and keep merry company Frequent Musick sports and Games Recreate the spirits with sweet fragrant and delightful smells Moderate Venus good Banish all passions as much as in you lies fear greif dispaire revenge desire jealousie emulation and such like Opus est te animo valere ut corpore possis Cicer. Tobacco hurtful espicially if Melancholy be adust and a hot body it heats and exhausts humidity makes Melancholly more contumacious Give not your self to much study nor night watchings they both dry the body and make humors adust two great enemies to a Melancholy person Hygistic Praecautions and Rules Appropriate to the various discrasyes or passions of Mind THe Soul and Body are so linked and conjoyned as Partners of each others ill and wellfare that the one is not affected but the other is drawn into consent mutually acting enjoying and suffering untill death seperates and breaks the bands of union assunder Hence it is a diseased body makes a heavy drooping mind and a wounded disturbed or estless mind makes a youthful healthy body to decay and languish Who therefore desires the health and wellfare of the body must Procure ease rest and tranquility of mind Siue Animo Corpus nec sine corpore Animus bene valere potest SHun Melancholy and sadness as very dangerous and destructive occasioning and producing variety of diseases suffocates and choaks the spirits retards their motion and agility of operation imprisons and cloggs them in their Stations darkens their purity and light debilitating all the faculties of the body their cheif operator being indisposed and disabled fixeth humors incrassates and begets obstructions and debilitates the Speen alienates and subtracts its ferment from the stomack which decayes both appetite and digestion procures scorbute Hypochondriac Melancholy pains and tumors of the Spleen Dropsies Jaundice c. A great Enemy to beauty soon changeth florid blooming youth into a pale withering countenance and makes the whole body to languish and decay Mirth subtiliates purifies and chears the spirits puts them upon activity that before were torpid dull and heavy and excites them to operation and duty in the several faculties volatizeth rarifies and attenuates gross feculent obstructing humors preserves youth vigour and beauty makes the body plump and fat by expanding the spirits into the external parts and conveighing nutriment Whose wholsome effects are much the same with those of exercise and may well supply when that is wanting Dum fata sinunt Vivite laeti Sen. ANger is the beginning
of madness which fires the spirits raiseth an intestine tomult and disturbance agitates and inrageth Choler and exasperates Cholerick diseases raiseth hystericall apoplectic and epileptic fits in those subject to them causeth tremblings of the nerves palpitations of the heart discomposeth and disorders the whole body but more especially infirm parts are made sensible of the prejudice and Cholerick lean bodies Maximum remedium irae est dilatio Dis proximus ille est Quem ratio non ira movet qui facta rependet Consilio Claud. FEar suddenly surprizing enervates and chaseth the spirits to and fro from their residency and faculties sometimes compressing and driving them to the heart causing violent palpitations and suffocation or scattring them from the fountain of life into the external parts making a dissolution even to exanimation A long predmeditated and constant fear in a remisse degree produceth the same effects with Melancholly Plura sunt quae nos terrent quam quae Premunt saepius opinione quam relaboramus LOve desire being inordinate and impetuous seldom goes alone but is attended with fear anger Melancholy dispaire one or more for its consorts with which the minde is racked and torn and variously affected as the several passions acts their parts by turns notwithstanding difficulties and sufferings the soul is led away with an ignis fatuus of fervent zeal deserts her own mansion and follows after with an eager prosecution of enjoying never at home but as a prisoner and prisoners are but bad house keepers the body needs must languish and decay when the soul thus delights and strives to run away For a check to the impetuousness of this inordinate effection and immoderate desire take these considerations to calm allay and regulate your passion First that you cheat your self in setting too high a price upon the object of your affections and lay out more in expectation then the income of your desire obtained can possibly make a return that it is far greater in non habendo then it will be in fruendo it will be much less when you have then it seems to be now you have it not Secondly that the Delirium and fervency of your desire does not hasten the accompishment of your aymes but rather retards or frustrates for the extremity and strength of passion debilitates and suppresseth reason the cheif contriver and manager of your design puts you upon inconsiderate immature and rash attempts and makes you more unfit incapable and unable to effect your purpose for passion is alwayes spurring but reason hath its stops and pauses keeps due times for onsets and progress Thirdly that prudent and vigorous action not innane hungry volition or thirsty desire though never so great must or can acquire the satisfaction of your hopes Fourthly that the ardency and heighth of desire will not imbetter sweeten or add to the heighth of your injoyment when obtained but rather abate and lessen it in your account and esteem for what thing soever you purchase and are mistaken and deceived in you will not vallue at that rate you first prized it but at the worth you now finde it Vehement lofty desires screws you up to such a heighth of expectation mountain high but you must descend into fruition that 's in the valley and when you find your self in a bottom and your Sails not so filled and puft as formerly by the fresh gailes and blasts of a strong desire your top-sails then begin to flap and flag when you come into the still calm of fruition and your lofty spirits and high thoughts will lower amain when you Anchor in the Harbour of injoyment for in appearance it was great when at a distance seemingly but now you are come nearer it is much less and inconfiderable really and what swelled you full in the prosecution of attaining will not fill you now with satisfaction but prove aery when you grasp it and soon emptied in injoyment Thirdly that statutum est it is appointed you must or you must not obtain the thing desired which to a rational creature is sufficient without other arguments to qualifie moderate and blunt the keen edge of desire and curb the violence of an impetuous affection but not to cowardise daunt or stop a laudible active prosecution to attain a noble vertuous and lawful end with a moderate submissive desire quisquis in primo obstitit Repulitque amorem tutus ac victor fuit Sen. Qui blandiendo dulce nutrivit malum Serò recusat ferre quod subiit jugum CAre immoderate and constant denies the animal spirits their due times for refreshment rest and ease disables them from duty and the true performance of their Offices being weary and tired for want of respite heats the spirits and dryes the radical moisture which changeth a fresh countenance into paleness and pines the body most injurious to thin lean and Cholerick bodies Si diis Curae es quid tua cura potest Revenge jealousie and envy are the Ulcers of the mind continually lancinating corroding or inflaming introducing a secret consumption wasting the spirits and radical moisture and infeebling all the faculties Multis se injuriis objicit dum una dolet Sen. That you may the better know and rightly understand how the passions of the mind redound and reflect upon the body to the decay and rune of it and abbreviating life First consider that the body without the soul â—s dead and moves not at all by vertue of the â—oules conjunction with it informing and assuming it the body acts with various motions and opperations and according to the activity â—f the soul organical aptitude and fitness of the â—ody is the exquisiteness and perfection of their â—perations the Soul then is agent the body assive receiving the influx vertue and power â—rom the Soul who is Rectrix and Gubernatrix â—o whom the rule and government belongs it 〈◊〉 evident therefore since the body cannot act â—ny thing of it self for its conservation withâ—ut the energy and assistance from the Soul whose care is the regulating and moderating the body in all actions external and internal then the distractions inactivity wandrings and neglects of the soul does tend to the subversion of the due order and government and consequently the ruine and dissolution of the body which requires a constant supply of daily reparation and regular tuition for its support and maintenance Now the Soul transported by passion from its genuine Crasis of placidness and tranquility and reduced into a turbulent unquiet and distempered state is that condition of incapacity and unfitness for the government for that time being and many damages arise thereby as in each passion particularly is enumerated In a threefold manner the Soul is put besides it self in the regularity of rectory and is incurious of the welfare of the body First the Soul is either carried away by some delightful object as for some thing vehemently desired deserting as it were the body to follow after that thing
desired and coveted extending her power and strength out of the body to lay hold if possibly to obtain and bring within the Sphere and Circle of her enjoyment Or secondly the Soul is in fury and disquiete within by the apprehension of some thing assaulting and disturbing it to which the Soul hath a contrarietie and antipathy against as in the passions of fear hatred revenge anger and the disquietude and disturbance is continued by representations of their Causes in the phantasie which still present themselves to the soul by way of a fresh assault which feeds the passion and continues the distemper Or thirdly the Soul is languishing heavy and inactive altogether indisposed to the government and tuition of the body and perhaps desirous to be discharged and shake it off being weary of the burthen taking no delight in their partnership and society as in melancholy despair and grief In all which cases you shall find the body to suffer great prejudice and detriment But first you must consider how and by what means or instrument the Soul does act in the body the Soul acts not immediately but mediately by the spirits which are the Souls approximate and chief instruments in bodily actions and motions and are appointed their several Sations Offices and Duties peculiar to the several works as Concoction Separation Distribution Excretion Retention Assimilation Sensation c. Now it will manifestly appear how the body is damaged and consequently the life abbreviated In the first Case when the Soul alienates her self wanders away with a vehement desire to procure and obtain any thing most agreeable and delightful at least so seeming the Soul as it were contracts it self and unites all her force stands at full bent after this beloved dischargeth all her thoughts upon it and spends her strength in desire and longing untill at last she pines away with a tedious and starving expectation In the interim the aeconomy and government of her own mansion the body is neglected the spirits at least a good part are enticed away and called of from their proper and peculiar works and duty perhaps to enlarge and increase the vigour of some other faculty more immediately subservient and attending the Souls new design and business preferred far before a good concoction due excretion nutrition seasonable rest or what else and those spirits remaining which have the burthen of these duties incumbent on them have so small and inconsiderable support and supply of influence from the Soul to direct and back them in their performance that the functions are executed so weakly and depravedly to the great prejudice and damage of the body Concoction now is not so good nor the appetite so quick the Stomack calls not for a new supply as yet not being well discharged and quit of yesterdayes provision the Stomack now is weary of dressing and preparing long Dinners for the body Lenten and fasting dayes are its vacation from trouble and best contented when least to do Separation now is not so good the excrementitious and nutritious part walk hand in hand together and pass without contradiction or due examination the watch now is not so strict at the Ports and privy passages to discern what is fit to pass this way and what the other and what to reject and keep out but promiscuously receives what presents it self Distribution now is not so good aliment tires by the way wanting spirits to convey and bring it to its journeys end and exercise to jog it on through the angust Meanders and more difficult passages Sanguification is now degenerate and vitiate the preceding requisites and fit praevious disposition being wanting Membrification or assimilation is now changed for Cachectic and a depraved habit Excretion and evacuation of what is superfluous and and unfit longer to be retained in the body is not sent away in due time but stayes for a pass the governess is now taken up with other matters neglects due orders and commands to the expulsive faculty for their emission Necessary and wholesome Customes are now neglected and disregarded the Soul too oft is wandring and gadding abroad and best when she is from home but neglects the airing of her Cottage and perfuming it with fresh aetherian breath The Soul is now alwayes restless and disturbed nor shall the sences her attendants take their due repose but keeps an unqiet house at midnight In the second Case the regular and due order of government in the body is subverted and changed when the Soul in the forementioned passions of fear anger hatred or revenge is disturbed and a arum'd by the assault approach or appearance of some evill or injury the Soul then summons the spirits together from theiâ— common duties and calls them to her aid and assistance for security from danger to repulse the violence offered or revenge the injury hurrying them here and there from one part to another in a tumultuous manner if the assault be suddain and surprizing sometimes inward to support the heart to give courage and resolution which by their suddain concourse and confluence to the Center causeth great palpitations and sometimes suffocation or else commanding them to the out-works into the external parts to repell the invasion and violence of the evil presenting or approaching or to revenge the quarrel the hands and arms then receive a double or trebble strength the Muscles being full and distended with agile spirits for their activity and strength in motion the eyes then are staring full and stretcht fourth with a croude of inflamed spirits darting fourth their fury and spending their strength upon the adversary and object of their trouble the tongue then is swelled with spirits and bigg words that wanting a larger room for vent tumbles out broken and imperfect speeches and scarce can utter whole words The Leggs and Feet then have an Auxiliary supply and double portion of spirits conveighed in to their sinews to increase their agility and strength to come on or off but in the mean time the heart perhaps is almost fainting so long being deprived off and deserted by those lively vigorous spirits which did inhabit and quarter there for its Life-guard protection and support are now called off their Guard and common duties imployed in Forreign parts commanded here and there as the emergent occasion presents it self to the governess of this Microcosme In the third Case mentioned the due order government and necessary execution of offices and duties belonging to the welfare and maintenance of the body and preservation of life is neglected and weakly performed When the soul being darkned and overspread with a cloud of sadness betakes her self to a sullen incurious recumbency and retiredness willing to resign and cast off the government and tuition of the body and as a burthen which she delights not now to bear about begins to loose her hold who before had embraced and clipt so close suspending the vertue of her energy and vigorous emanations but now acting faintly and coldly