Psychrolousia: or, the history of cold-bathing, both in ancient and modern : In two parts . a French Coek, with Spirit ofMutton,Six Drops in Water makes a Soup on afudden. Flefli is but the earthy Part you is the Spirit thats the Soul dth* Meat. And although this honeft, well-meaningDivine is a great Friend to fafe and fim-ple Medicines, the Euporifta, fuch as mayeafily be prepared ; yet Chymiftry muftnor, therefore, be infulted and run down:For what wonderful Medicines have been prepared Part II. The Dedication. 43^ prepared from Mercury, and Antimony^ & no other Ait, bu
Psychrolousia: or, the history of cold-bathing, both in ancient and modern : In two parts . a French Coek, with Spirit ofMutton,Six Drops in Water makes a Soup on afudden. Flefli is but the earthy Part you is the Spirit thats the Soul dth* Meat. And although this honeft, well-meaningDivine is a great Friend to fafe and fim-ple Medicines, the Euporifta, fuch as mayeafily be prepared ; yet Chymiftry muftnor, therefore, be infulted and run down:For what wonderful Medicines have been prepared Part II. The Dedication. 43^ prepared from Mercury, and Antimony^ & no other Ait, but that of the Ere,could produce? Which muft be ownd, asa (landing Evidence; for, where Fa£t is clear,the Truth bears down all before ic, and isnot only pcrfuafive, but compulfive alfo,upon our Belief. Perhaps there may be, inthe vegetable Kingdom, Plants, whofe Ver-tues are unknown, which might (if difco-verd) anfwer all the Intentions of Pjro-Produdlions; but until then, theycome within the Reach of the old SchoolAxiom, De non Exiftentibusj & non Ap^a-rentibus eadem eft Ratio,. F f 4 THE THE APPENDIX. Some farther Ohfervatiom and Re-marks on Hot and Cold BathingsPumping;, Drinkmgy 8cc, S Water is, in chief, the univcr-(al T>rink of all the fVorld^ both Animals and Vegetables, io it is the beft, and moft faliibrioLis; for with^out it, no Plant nor Creature could longfubfift; nay, even the Air we breathewould deftroy us, were not the keen Par-ticles of the Nitre fheathd and invelopdin aqueous Ijamina and Teguments, as ithas fometimes been fatally experimentedby Confumptiue Perfons, Cent into moun-tainous and over-dry Airs; befides the Ac-counts we have fo often had, from thofewho have afcended and climbd the Alps^and other fteep and almofl: inacceflible
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