AS one vertue doth not make a Man happie , nor one Swalow shew Sommer to be at hande , after the iudgement of the Philosopher : Euen so likewise one Exploite , Learned acte , or Valiant attempt , maketh not a loyall Subiect , How reward , renoune & glory , is gotten . a prosperous Regent , a politique Captaine : Nor one shew of seruice , proueth a Man an industrious trauelour , a vigilant agent , a faithfull seruaunt . But the persisting , doing , and proceading of the one , and the other , purchaseth , kéepeth , and deserueth present praise , dayly reward , and euerlasting renoune , and glorie .

Nothing so godly and profitably deuised , that som will not abuse & misconsture . Therfore , as J was ( Right Noble and Constant Earle ) entised , by reason of the bountifull liberalitie of your goodnesse and great clemencie extended at Buckstones , for the better benifit & ease of Legends , to publish Buckstones Bathes benifit , albeit some abuse it : So now likewise , that it may wel appeare vnto your Honor my willing seruice , J haue procéeded a step farther : Discoursing vnto you moste briesely , ( right trustie Magistrate ) for that the estate of so waightie a Monarche which so faith fully you do assist with sayient coumsel , politique power , & mature diligence will not permit any large or ample volume to peruse ) of the naturall begunning of all growing and liuing things , heate , generation , effectes of the spirits , gouernment , benefite and abuse of Phisicke , preseruation , &c.

Life defined . Death befined . But as the original of things endewed with life , folowing is discoursed : so is life defined of Galen , lib . de tremore & rigore , to be naturall heate or temperate heate . And Death quenching of the same , lib . 2 de temp Right briefly handled in our Epistle of Life and Death , giuen to the most honorable Lady , & my very good L. the Lady Katherine , ¶ The countes of Huntington , a gret fuuorer of learning and vertue . the elder , Countes of Huntington . And that now and then is ouer hastely haled on , by lewde kepers laying the sicke patients furth of the bed , before they be earthy colde , then dead and not before of infirmitie .

Agreable & consonaunt truely to the iudgement of Arist . the of contraries be had one , & the same doctrine . Supposing that it shal not be vnnéedful , but most behoofful after we haue shewed what these heates are , & how things naturally are begon , When dead to shew likewise how they may be preserued : laying this by the way for a principle , the is , the vnlesse ther be againe another like substance restored for the which dayely and ourly departeth from our bodies , by reason of that naturall heate , we should quickly perish , as Galen testifieth , lib . 6. de sanitate tuenda . the which addition must moderately & prouidently be don of al them desirous that lyfe , health , strength , &c. should be preserued or prolonged , as he very euidently proueth , lib . 1. de Element and plainly teacheth , lib . 1. de tuend . valet .

Wherfore it is apparant how we ought ( that be not desperate ) next to the diuine vnderstanding , séeke the meane which onely the arte of all other most noble , as Mont . affirmeth , lib . de comp . curat , Phisicke yeldeth , how to preserue and prolong that naturall heate , seing that not only without that temperate heate to all growing things withering age soone entreth : but also dreadful death to all liuing things byandby ensueth . For the better consideration , doctrine and preseruation wherof , as longe as the naturall constitution will admit , ¶ The cause of this discourse . this discourse and preseruatiue water is deuised . And that your Lordship may well perceaue and iudge , how that J couit nothing so much as the good , sound , and prosperous estate of your noble , valiant , and worthy person : nor esteme any trauel so wel employed , as that which may benefite my natiue countrie , de●●tie the same binding in all that we maye , as Cicero affirmeth , 1. de Offic . and that especially if for Christians we will be counted , as Erasmus proueth in Enchirid . milit . Chri . How be it ther be that insimate to the contrarie all that they can , No wryter can please all Readers . such is their zelous deuotion , and that conster and accept our wel meaning in sinister sort ? depraning but not amending our trauail as well taken for the benefit of the ignorent as for the setting forth of the needful coumsel of the Learned , of whom we haue better deserued , if they remember their aduancement , dayly profit , and continuall health : so likely and possible is it that we shold please al wits , as yet hetherto no wryter hath done : contenting vs therefore with the well lyking of all such that fauour and further the common profit and vtilitie of their state , the godly spirited , for in that affection ( although want of power and assistaunce may let , ) we meane ( through gods help ) to spend our dayes . Let them notwithstanding that say they are our friends neuer so often lay in our dyshe , how that all this great trauaill , knowledge and industrie , purchaseth smal profit or preferment , for not they the beate the bush , but that haue the nette , do catch the birds , and the Readers haue the gaine , the makers the paine : forgetting with what abundant treasure the contented is rewarded , minding onely priuate profit , a trade to much coueted , wherin they say , if we would haue vsed like diligence in séeking for it , we could not haue wanted condigne benefit , seing others of all sorts of worthy offices and callings , lesse of value and Science by many degrées , want not theyr merit . And therfore to your Honor , right prudent and most affable Eare , The Earle of Shrewsbery right affable , euer trustie , and alwaies noble . I dedicate it , albeit Zoilus , with his confederates , Do lyttle , Finde fault , & Neuercontent , doe ennie , vntill their bowels burst . For vnto whome should such things ( as be néedeful to be known , and right beneficial for the common weale ) be consecrated , if not vnto those which be descended of vnteinted stocke , through the excellent and loyal nature wherof be giuen most highly to fauour and aduaunce the same : Expressing first the originall of all growing and liuing things , and then to the rest .

The natural beginning of al growing & liuing things , is heate , Elemental heate not in acte . gods ordinary instrument , ( as Hip . testifieth , lib . de car . which we cal Elemental , & this heate with moist colde and dryth , frameth our parts : I say this , taking the elementall force for the whole Element , as if I should say , following him worthely as prince and cheife leader in all naturall and phisicall causes , that the elementes what , colde , moiste and drye , doth constitute our bodies . But because this heate is not in act , as Fal . affirmeth , li. de cal . it cannot be touched or felt , albeit deuisible in the compounds , that is although it be , it cannot be knowne by any sensible reason .

The parts of the bodi do represent the elements It is contained in very déede in the fleshe , bones and all the parts , but so altered and changed , that by sighte , feeling , or any such like meanes , it cannot be knowne . And yet if you compare the heate in liuing bodyes to Fyer , the breath to Aire , the fleshe hard parts to Earth , and the moist to Water , as Galen sheweth , 1. de Elementis , you shal finde a great resemblaunce of the second Elements . And as for the first , you cannot finde vncommixed in the whole world . Albeit of olde Thales , Anaximenes , Anaximander , Heraclitus , Asclepiades , Epicurus . &c. sought to proue the contrary , as of late , Theophrastus Paracelsus , with some sort of Alcamists , but they and all their sectaries , be most euidently confuted . As in the works of Galen , de Elementis , Read Eras ▪ contra Paracel . most excellently doth appeare , and therfore hereunto may very fitly be annexed .

This is that heate which maketh our temperature with the other Elaments : for onely heate tastes of the nature of lyfe as Fernelius affirmeth , Lib de spir . et in nat calido . And therfore hath the reason of couiting and f●urme , being vnited , it bringeth forth composition , heate cause of all growing and liuing thinges . the heate being chaunged , all things are dissipated , or disseuered , all things decay , which thing hapneth not in other qualities , and therfore this heate is as it were a knot or band of our composition .

We haue a nother heate called naturall , which is knowen by sense as the vnuaturall also . For ther is no man if he will feele that may not easely perceaue heate in all liuing creatures , growing or not growing , Naturall heate is in acte . albeit it is found differing in degree , in some it is strong , in some slacke , in some it is knowne rather by reason then by sense .

Some haue it most strong as Lions , some weake as fishes , some more slacke as plants . Of which some men might doubt , yet we can , following Ga . fal . althogh very hardly attaine it by sense . Neuerthelesse we know it rather by the effectes , reason , and authoritie of wryters . That it may be knowne by sense , it may be proued in the Winter season , Sense iudge of heate in plantes . if you cut a Trée about the partes next to the ground , the heate may be perceiued . Further more , if Snow fall , that part of Snow about the trée is first melted , & this is through heate being in the plantes in acte .

Thirdly , we sée in plants such effects as we sée in liuing creatures , and those be the effects of heate , we sée they swel , grow , and are nourished , therefore that heate is present , which thing is confirmed by the authoritie of Theophrastus primo causis plant . testifying in many places , that naturall heate is found in plantes , and growing things , and he calleth it the heate of the seede naturall , Aristot . proper heate , primo metheor . Gal. naturall , & implanted heate . 1.2 . de sacult . of vs ( not altogether improperly ) life , and that is it of which we nowe speake .

But we haue our first heate of Elements , and whence haue we this naturall , either of seede , or else of blood by which sperme is nourished , Naturall heate whence . or else of the womb in which liuing creatures are engendred . And therefore it is called generatiue , naturall , and proper , bicause it is in the beginning of generation and matter of sperme , as Fernelius very learnedly sheweth , De hominis proc lib . 7. But the creatures engendred of egges , whence haue they it ? of the egge heated of the heare of the damme , or by some arte ? and that young ones are hatched of egges heated in an Ouen , or by heate of doung , or sande : it is dayly proued , especially of those which trauaile to Perow , and America . Neither ought this to seeme meruailous , seing we sée infinite creatures breede of egges , and otherwise , Briede without damme . vpon which the dammes doe not sit , nor engender , but they grow only by rottennes as do Snailes euery wher , yeles in muddy diches , Bernacles in Scotland , Mise in Libia , and diuers other sorts by the Riuer of Nile , as Plime testifieth in Histo . and Cardanus in lib . de rerum var.

Fourthly , plantes or growing things haue their beginning of this heate , through seede heated of the earth . For when as the earth waxeth hote by Antiparistasis , & by light shining & mouing of the plants , Heauenly heate cause of earthelie increase . it giueth heate to the seede , and the seede to the plants , and thereof rose that Astronomicall & Philosophicall saying of Ptol . and Aristot . that is , that al inferiour things are ruled by the superiour , and that the Sonne and Moone engendreth man . This is therfore the beginning of this heat , which hath these conditions and properties , that it may continually , flow , slyde & be dispersed , wherfore it must haue a cause alwayes preseruing , which failing , lyfe must perish . In plants it is kept of the heate of the earth , which in those places is hote : But it may be demaunded how can the earth , of it selfe colde , communicate heate to the plants ? seeing we haue proued in our second booke of Bathes ayde , that it cannot giue that actuall heate to the waters of Bathes , that it should make them hote . The earth truely waxeth warme accidentally , not naturally , nor actually , neither potentially , but either by the heate of the Sonne , and starres reflected , or else through their mouing , heating , and therefore the Sommer is hote by reason of the beames of the Sonne which fall directly vppon vs , as affirmeth Mont . lib . de sa . tu . How be if Auicen attributeth more heate to the tariaunce , why the fōmer is whote . then to the direction in . 1. & 2. But wher the nerenes , direction & tariaunce is greatest , ther no doubt is most heate , as in Hispame ; & Affricke , the same also yearely in this clime we proue , for in Iuly , August , and September , by reason the Sonne commeth not only nearer vs , but also bicause as then it is of good tariaunce , the season is hoter then April , Maye , and Iune , which be of as long course and rather longer and directer , but not so neare . And yet in October , Nouember & December , although it be then nearest , as in the opposite of his axell , by reason the abode is so smal a while , and the beames laterally cast , it is then more colde . All the which approue aswel by reason and authoritie as by experience , the hot season to grow of all the thrée aforesayde causes concurring together , and not of one onely . Notwithstanding we must know , that the Sonne hath not his heate in acte which it sendeth to the lower parts , for it is not Elemental , The son hath not his heat in acte . but by reason of the rowling of the Sonne and Starres : for all mouing is heating , as affirmeth Aristot . lib 2. de calo et mundo et . 1. met . Neuertheles it heateth & that per . fe . of it selfe , as Mont . auoucheth , lib . de sal . tut .

Fiftely , when the earth hath conceaued these séedes , they are encreased by Antiparistasis , saith ●allop . Therfore it is no m●ruaile if it kepe this heate in the rootes of plants , but in creatures which be engendred through pu●r●faction and be on the earth continually the heate is preserued of the earth , but in those liuing bodyes which are in the ayre , this heate is preserued of a commune cause , and what is that cause ? it is a mouing and shining , we may not saye shiuing , as Mer . trist . and others did , light , because ther is no shininge or lyght in our bodies causing heate , therefore by mouing heate is preserued in liuinge thinges by what mouinge naturall or voluntary , mouing preseruer of heate in liuinge thinges the voluntary mouinge is not perpetuall , it wilde wearied , therfore ther was required a naturall mouinge perpetuall as longe as liffe endureth , as testifie the Arist . lib . de mundo . and which is that , it is the mouinge of the harte diffunded or spreade by the arteries , termed of the Gréekes Diastole , the opening , Sistole the closinge , Vitall heate . the efficiente cause wherof is the vital vertue , the liuinge strength , as Galen affirmeth , lib . de vsu puls . et 1. de caus . puls . or els the boilinge of the moyste substaunce in the harte and arteries , when the fume , spirit or breath is expelled , The cause & vse of the puls . it causeth Diastole when it is attracted Sistole , if we credit Arist . lib . de morte et vita . Vnto this opinion Drusianus doth agrée coment . 3. in art . par . Gal. of which Forlinus , as sheweth Montanus , lib . de comp . curat . hath fully disputed . And the whole sacred sentences of the Phisitions , doth affirme as testifieth Fuch in institut . Mont . in com . cur . and Fernelius , lib . de puls . how that the mouing of the heart is contrary , for when the heart is closed , it powreth forth the spirit by the great artery , and when the heart is opened , it receueth Aire by the veniall arterie , as is at large expressed of Galen lib . 6. devsu part . the which being neuer so little depraued , impedited & lost , the party either fainteth , coith , or soundeth . &c.

Furthermore , Galen saith , lib . de Faet . formatione : how that the heart is as it were the Fier and hearth of naturall heate : The hart of all the body the warmest For it of all the partes of a liuing creature is most hote , as he sheweth , 1. de temperamentis , the which also Hippoc . affirmed long before . lib . de carnibus . And sée how , when as the heart is hote in acte , and doth receiue this heate either of the sprime , or of she mothers wombe , of necessitie it hath this natural heate in it selfe in acte , which stirreth vp the heart , this stirring vp and closing kepeth the heate , there is faculty of mouing and heate , heate kepeth the faculty , faculty engendreth mouing , mouing heate as oft as the faculty or operation of the heart ceasseth , by reason of poyson receiued or any otherwyse , furthwith the heate ceasseth & the mouing is hindred , the heate ceassing the faculty is destroyed , the hart being colde the facultie cesseth , hence the heat being altered all things are altered , whervpon the heate of the heart being encreased , all thins are encreased , and the heate of the heart being diminished , the mouing becommeth weaker , I say therfore that this second heate is naturall and engraffed , and hath his beginning of beginning , or of seede , or else of the birthe place of of both , as Hippocrat . sheweth at large , lib . de natur . puer . et de nat. hom . and Fernel . de funct . et hom . lib . 6. Naturall heate springgeth the sperme or seede . how the faculties are preseruid .

This heate requireth perpetuall preseruation , plants and growing things haue the earth preseruing , liuing creatures haue the fier in themselues , which truly hath a preseruing cause , bicause it is continually a oued by the facultie , the faculty is preserued by heate , hence it is that such heate is sayd to be infunded , flowing , and running , bicause seing it is continually preserued as Galen testifieth . 1. de vsu partium . It would not be preserued except a vapour hote in acte did flow to the partes , whervppen Fernel . very learnedly affirmeth , lib de spirit . et in nat. calido . in paparilla . How that the societie which is beswene them is such , that they alwaye conspire and agrée mutually , so that the one doth nothing the other absent , therfore consider these things effectually , with these termes that Philosophers and Phisitions to vse , for by the flowing and running heate , is alwaye vnderstoode that naturall heate which can no more containe life without the radicall moisture nourishing , then the sight in a candle can remaine without moisture therishing the fyer .

If is deciffered ( noble Earle ) how that in the hodies of liuing creatures ther may be found a certaine heate hote in acte , Life what and howe . which being present , life end dreth : it being lost , life is lost , and therfore it is called of Aristot . lib . de anima , of Auicen . 1. fenu . prima , and of Cardanus lib . de homia , natura . the vitall , bicause by reason of this naturall vertue & faculty , all things haue life , seing that with out it , and wher it is not worker , the is death , ther can be found no life , which is not only dayly proued in plants and growing things but also in all liuing things as Fernel . very excellently confirmeth , lib . de spir . et imiat . calid et Cardanus de sub . lib . 12. We haue discoursed also that it néedeth parpetuall preseruation and maintenaunce , bicause it hath a thin subiect to which it cleueth . I saye therfore ( right honorable ) that is standeth as heate in a torch , Asoyle in a lā●e feedeth the light so dothe the radicall moistur conserue liuing thinges . Brethe the subiecte of heate . or cresset kindled , for as the heate consisteth of that qualitie , and of the matter subiect , which is not but a whot and drye exhalation and fume kindeled , and of this fume and quality , the light in the torch or cresset is kindeled : so also such heate as I haue named vitall hath a matter subiect to which it is knit , & of it is made one which is called natural heate And as in a burning torch smooke is supposed , so the proper subiect of this heate is breath , which Phisitions call the vitall breath , of Moses the liuing soule , Gene . cap . 2. and it of the Philosophers is sayde to be the true subiect of this heate .

This spirii or airy substaunce , of heate and faculty , the seale and band & first giuer of offices to the instruments as Fernel . testifieth , lib . de spir . et mirat . calido . suffereth that which al exhalations do suffer , as Galen affirmeth Lib . de Facult . subst . For some are moister , some drier , if the drier exhalation be kindled , it maketh the flame sharper , if the moister , it maketh it more gentle , so this spirit if it be oryer , the shaper heate is conceaued : if it shal be moister , a more gentle heat is made , a misder fier . And hence it is that in some creature there is perceued a gentle heate , in some a sharper , as Galen witnesseth , li. 5. de sanitat . tuend . And hence it is also that some ages haue a strong heate , some a milder , as also he proueth , lib . 2. de temp . And hence againe to cenclude , Diuersite of maners , of diuerse temperatures groweth some he hastie , some gentle , some bound , some fearful , some bashful , some impudent , as the same Galen expresseth , lib . de anima morum et corp . temp . imit . cons . we affirme further following him , lib . 1. de vsu partium , that the Lion is hoter then man , bicause the naturall heate of that beast by reason of the vapour subiect is become more hote , so the airy substance in a young man is more sharpe then in a childe , as it is most mainfestly proued , lib . 1. de tempe ram . But this spirit is easely dissolued saith Fallop . therfore it is necessary that there should be some matter of which this spirit should be ioyned and preserued . And what is this matter ? if we shal search it out , following him as we doe , obseruing the nature of things , and not onely the authoritie of wryters , we must saye that it is more then one , although ther be one heate onely . Diuers spirites in the body and yet but one heat For if you marke the sperme of which liuing creatures be engendred , ther is no doubt but as it is moyst , so it is hote in acte as auoucheth Arist . 2. de generat animal . and Fernel . lib . de hom . procreatione . For that which is colde in acte engendreth not , whence ( not vnworthely ) may be gathered that law , concerning diuorse , toke his original , that is , that those whose sperme is colde of nature , may be seperated , as if they had neuer ben maried , as in the Canon law , in titulo de frigo , et mal . A natural cause 〈◇〉 diuoise it appeareth at large , the subiect of this natural heate we call the vitall spirit : If I shall demaund wherof this vital spirite in the sperme is made , saith Fallop . no man will deny , but it is made of humor contained in the same , Vital spirit whence . which is of one & like substaunce with it , hence commeth that saying of Hippoc . that the foure humors be the matter to engender man , as Gal. also testifieth in 17. de vsu partium . 2. de Element . if this heate be so , if is necessary , that in liuing bodies it endure perpetually euen to the ende of lyfe , of which matter the spirit is engendzed in whom the heate is preserued , and this is the humiditie which we call radicall , which naturally endureth vntyll the last withering in the parts , Radicall fumidite hole as Arist . proueth . lib . de long et breuit . vitae ▪ which they graunt to be receued of the sperme . And therfore Galen . li de . semine , saith that the vitall séede is full of spirit , & it is encreased by nourishment , as proueth Hip . 1. de dieta . Also we liue so long as we are nourished , as testifieth Arist , lib . 2. de anima . for what soeuer liueth must néedes haue nourishment , as Fernel . teacheth , lib . de anime facult , and Galen affirmeth , lib . de mar . that olde age maye be stayed by a moist trade of diet . The effects of nourishmentes . Hereunto also Auerhois vndoubtedly doth subscribe , she wing how those be of longest lyfe which haue plenty of heate and moisture , in Paraph . de long . et bre. vitae . I gather therfore that the matter of the seede is moist , of which the sperme and radicall humiditie is engendzed which of them is called oyly or vnctuous : not bicause it hath that kinde which other fattines hath ? but is as it were oyle which soone catcheth fyer , for whatsoeuer be oylye and airy saith Galen , do soone degenerate into fier . 3. de temp So bicause this sperme dothe easely produce spirit in which heate is conceaued , it is called oyly , and both it and the bloud saith Galen , is hote and moist , seing whatsoeuer is naturally softe , & meanely hote , the same is moist . 2. de temp . the which moisture and sweate , nature , when it is emitted , the vitall spirit is deliuered , as he also sheweth , lib . 1. de sem . et . 14. vsu partium , and Fernel . lib . de hominis procreat .

But let vs enquire of the spirit which is caried by the arteries , which is that heat in acte , I demaund saith Fall . of what matter is it made ? not of any oyly or vnctuouse matter , bicause that is not found but in the sperme , but this is not in the séede , except that after the membranes be made in the wombe , it be spred out of the arteries into the arteries of the infant , but it is made of bloud very well prepared and very well altered of the hart , and this is not it wherin life consisteth , consider this , it is not the immediate instrument of life , Life aryseth of the sperme , and not of the heard & many thinges wanting heart hath life for the sparme is the efficient beginning as Galen sheweth lib . 2. de nat. facul . and is the naturall cause also why the birth is like father or mother or both , as Galen affirmeth . li . 2. de semine , & Cardan . lib . 12 de subtilita . Howbeit Farnel . a , voucheth , lib . de homi . proc . that it proceedeth rather of the imagination of the parentes in the generation : and yet in the same place forthwith he willeth vs , to note & iudge otherwise of the cause of monsters , wherin certainly he doth well , seing that in the matter and temperature is the cause aswel of the one as the other , as not only hereditall sicknesses doth shew , but also deformed persons doth proue , séeing nature doth nothing euilly , nothing in vaine , nothing hurtfully as Aetius teacheth li. 3. But by reason of vitious state of body & rude education they be euell , as Plato sheweth in Timeo , God and nature , doth nothing in . vaine . and therefore Damascenus doth affirme that euel life , deformitie of body and dissease of a principal parte , do discend from the graundfathers and parentes & are inherited . Hence commeth that saying , that such as is the trée such is the frute . Hence agayne is it sayd that such as is the father such is the son . Albeit , al sons be not like their fathers , nor all like trées of one kinde . But through education & imping . &c. they be altered , whereof in another worke more shal be shewed . But séeing the spirit of the arteries is not the first instrument of life , it is then the resulting of that sparmatick matter the efficient , for so from henceforth we shall call it most . And when a sinew engendreth a sinew , it engendreth it by that actuall heate cleauing to the former spirit , cleuing to the oylie matter the efficient , seeing in the temperature of it the reason of the maker doth consist , as Galen witnesseth lib . de foet form●t . ●f the spirit of the arteries wer the imediate instrument of life , by which the partes do work ( as some vnderstand the Philosophers a misse , ) Aristot . misse vnderstode all the partes should doe one and the same thing , as Galen affirmeth lib . de anime nime morum &c. But euery particle hath a proper instrument which is the spirit of the efficient . 1. de vsu part .

Hence it is that this naturall moisture fayling , lyfe doth faile , natural death doth folow , & not thorow bloud fayling in the arteries , the which thing , Chauser wel considered , saying , wher nature wil not worke : away with the body , and cary it to the Church : for the efficient moisture fayling the fire doth saile , the fire fayling death ensueth .

Hence agayne rose that saying , get a childe kill an old man .

¶ Sparowes shorte liued by reson of venery . Herehence also proueth Aristot . howe that sparrowes be of short life because they be prone to wast the radicall humidite through continuall vse of venery . Wherupon Mont . fourth of Menapius affirmeth that the vse of venery is not naturall : yet of them the females be of longest life , by reason it is thinner in them and therefore they waxe not so soone dry thorow it , as the males nor so sone olde lib . de long . & bre. vita . Wherof Hipp . de Genit . hath notablie sayd .

But for the stirring vp of this louely swéete heat in the partes , the spirit of the arteries was made , as we gather by Hipp . lib . de cord . & Carn . why the arteriall spirite was made . Which is the subiecte of the heat : and is dispersed through the whole body that it may kindle the heate in all and euery parte . And therfore the Philosopher writeth that anima , the spirite and life is in all and euery parte of a liuing body . Yet this I wishe constantly to be noted , that as the aninall spirite proceding from the braine is Prince in geuing of sence as Galen techeth . 1. de vsu par. et 1. de plac . Hipp . et plat . so also was it not made for cooling of the heat in the harte , as the philosophers suppose , which is no lesse absurdity then to saye the héele was made for the hartes sake , Aristot . error , confuted . as Galen sheweth lib . 6. de vsu part . For howe can it be I pray you ( saith he ) that the hart cooled by the dayly imbrething of the aire shuld seeke any cooling from the braine , which is not only very far of , and preuented with most thick bones : but also is cooler thē the aire . 15. de vsu part . This is to make trusty and loyall Earle , of a long discourse a short as Galens iudgement with the rest excellent in naturall Philosophy , who witnesseth that the spirite subiect of the naturall heate , doth arise of matter en graffed in the partes . 2. de nat. fac . & 1. aph . 14. which hée calleth watry , agréeable vndoubtedly to the iudgement of the old prince Hipp 1. de dieta . where he saith : If that which is moistest in the fiery Element , whence natureall wisdome proseadithe . and driest in the watry be embrased in a temperate body they shall be wisest . Again he saith there , that all liuing creatures asswell as man are constituted of 2. faculties contrary concording and commodiously vsed , that is to say , of the fier and water . For the fier he affirmeth all by al can moue , the water all by all can nourish , and in the water there is aire as the table of Hermes trismagistr . Mois . proueth as Fernel . affirmeth , lib . de abditis rerum caus . cap . 18. And Moses declareth that in the beginning the spirite of God moued vppon the waters . cap . 1. Gen. but it shall not be materiall whether we call it watry or oylie . And if we count that the spirit of the arteries is that vitall , it is not therfore contrary to his own nature : for it is not the immediate instrument of life , séeing the arteries and deines spring of the efficient , as Galen testifieth lib , de foet formatione , but it runneth to cherish that spirit spronge of the efficient that sperme , in which life doth consist .

Therfore heat is preserued in vapour which doth euaporate continually , ther is therefore required matter , Heate , wherein if is preserued . & bicause the spirite is two fould particuler in euery part , and vniuersal in the arteries , this vniuersal is alwayes kindeled of the mouing of the heart and arteries & nourisheth that efficient humiditie that perticuler spirit . The spirite particuler & generall .

I his discourse aswell perhaps by reason of the briefe arbguments , as also strangenes of the matter , and manner of style ( which sundry others of greater studie and longer experience in a larger volume as I suppose , and they pleased coulde much more brauer haue bewtified ) may seeme to the vnexpert in Philosophy and phisicke a paradoxe at the first view , Reason and experience iudges of all naturall Causes . but after it be claboured & examined by the docters of both faculties , reason and experience , it wil be very manifest , séeing ther is no other third thing to iudge by as Arist , affirmeth lib . de somnijs , neither in any part of life as Gal. proueth most excellently as he doth all things lib . 1. de Eleurent . 1. de sanit . tuend . 4. Ther .

Therfore of the spirit subiect & heat the natural heate is made , and not of euery matter which is in the body moist or dry , to be altered and perfected , can be accompted the subiect of naturall heat , for although of it meate , drink and bloud be altered : they be not therfore the subiect of naturall heat , but rawe bloud saith Gal. ● de nat. fac . is said to be the subiect & froth of this heat lib . de ple . et 3. art . par . not made to perfection , because only the spirit is pure of alteration , that is the subiect actiue & passiue , and this wise the iudgement of writers are to be vnderstanded : ¶ Good accion whence they proceede of this second heat or spirit of the hart sprong of the former in the sparme , good actions do procéed in our bodyes : as of the heat contrarie to nature euel actions or operations do come to the partes .

Of heate contrary to nature . The third heate in liuing creatures is called heate against or contrary to nature , as Montanus also affirmeth 0153 V 3 in com . de simp . medic . qualit . And this may easly be perceiued by sence : for as often as this heat is in the body we know by féeling in liuing things and also in plants . And this doth not differ in qualitie from the former : for there is the same fiery qualitie on some part . But in this they differ because they be contrary . And the heate contrary to nature destroieth the naturall , and contrarily . Now if they destroy one another , what is the cause of this contrarietie , it appeareth not : bicause both be hot . Heat consisieth in the intendid degrée , or in the purchased , or els in the matter subiect : for in euery growing and liuing thing the naturall heate hath in it self a certaine degrée , which it can not passe or excéede : according to the which life endureth . According to the natural heate natural lyfe lasleth . Albeit through infinite accidenses it may be shortened : which also being withstanded , life is proroged , as folowing shal be proued . And the height of this naturall heat is termed of the Gréeks Acme , state . 1. de sanit . tuend . & . 6. In a Lion it is stronge , in a man more slack , in a Dogge not so weake neyther in any one kind of liuing creatures all a like stronge . For in the kind of liuing thinges ( if we shall speake of valiante beasts ) one horse is hotter , another colder , one swifter , another slower , &c so in the kinde of resonable creatures best tempered , which of al that haue life ( & subiecte to death ) are only endeued therwith , as Carda . testifieth lib . 7. de rerūvariet . Man of all creatures of best complexion . Throgh which mean temperature in the similier partes , plasing , number , shape , and gretnes of the instrumentall , all functions procéed , one is whotter , another colder , on wiser , another foolisher . 2. de caus . symt . on lighter , another sadder , one fatter , another lener , one bigger another lesser , one naturally longe liued , another shorte &c. as we may gather by Galen , tem . in samt . tuend . in Therap . and in sixe hundreth places else . If this heate shal be kindled beyond the degrée , then they striue betwene them selues .