The history of man; or, the wonders of humane nature, in relation to the virtues, vices and defects of both sexes / With examples antient and modern. The whole work being intermixt with variety of useful and divertive relations, never before publish'd.

Date:: 1704

Credit: The history of man; or, the wonders of humane nature, in relation to the virtues, vices and defects of both sexes / With examples antient and modern. The whole work being intermixt with variety of useful and divertive relations, never before publish'd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$ver Eat or Drank, but continued in perfedl Health to the Day of his Death; which happened on St. BcneditVs Day, in the Seventieth Year of his Age, Anno 1470. The credible Report of his Failing, tempted the Curioiity of Conftantia, Bifhop of the Dlocefs wherein he lived, and divers Princes of Germany and France to vifit him, and difeover whe¬ ther his Abftinence was real or feigned; who after making (everal Experiments, found the Facl agree with the Report to their entire Satisfaction. All Men look’d upon fuch a continued Fail as a Mi¬ racle, but Vnderus Ipoke mor€ moddliy of it, and attributed it to the abftemiqufhefs of his Nature. He foretold feveral Things of moment that after¬ wards was verified, and the ftrnStnefs and feverky of his Life, gave Reputation to the Report of his Abftinence, beyond doubt or poflibilky ofContra- Zacch. ^ didlion. \acchias Reports that he had teen the Qu, Mcc. p0yrtraiture of this Switzer, as it was drawn to the legaV' 4‘ Life; but lays, it was fo foul and frightfully Meagre, ? 21 ' that it rais’d an unexpreiiible Horror and Amaze¬ ment in all thole that viewed it. The Daughter of a Smith, by name Jone Balaam, Born in the City of Conflance, bordering upon the Province of Limofin in the Kingdom of France, fal- Francis. ‘ling into a Rapid Fever when {he was about Ele- Cites. * ven Years Old, Anno 1509. and was attended with opufe. very dangerous Prognciiicks, that depriv’d her of Med^.64. her Speech, the ufe of her Limbs, and threw her into a Frenzy; which continuing near a Month, all the parts below the Head extreamly languifh’d, and the Mouth of the Sromach and Pailages thither were fo loofened, that fhe peremptorily refufed. all kind ofNourifhment, and tho’ about half a Year afrer, fhe recover'd the ufe of her Limbs and Moti¬ on, an impoflibility of Swallowing ftill continued, from whence grew a perfedl Averiion to all forts of Food, whether Solid or Liquid, imomuch that the lower Belly w;;s fhrunkup, while the other parts oft her Body were in a tolerable thriving Condition,, She voided no Excrements, nor had the benefit of i Purgation by Sweat, or by her Nofe, Eyes or Ears; the Skin that covers her Flefh appeared very cold and dry, nor could any violent Exercife or Labour add$