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An Account Of The Death Of The Countess Cornelia Baudi, Of Cesena;
emanate from our bodies . Sanctorius observed , that of eight pounds of food and drink taken in a day , there is an insensible perspiration of about five ; computing with them those effluvia which g 5 out of the mouth by breathing , and which mi g ht be gathered in drops on a looking-glass : —See . sect t . aphor . 6 . ; as also , that , in the space of one nightit is customary to discharge about sixteen ounces of urinefour
, , of concocted excrements by stool , and forty and more by respiration . Aphor . 65 . He teaches also , that numbness is an effect of too much internal heat , by which is prevented such an insensible transpiration as in this
very case . The friction of the palms of our hands , or of any other parts of our body , may produce those fires , commonly called ignes labeittes . ' We learn of EusebiusNierembergius , that such was the property of all the limbs of the father of Theodoricus : such were those of Charles Gonzaga , Duke of Mantua , whom the celebrated Batolin took notice of . By the testimony of John FabriM . D . a noted
philoso-, pher who saw it , sparkles of lig ht flashed out of the head of a woman while she qombed her hair . Scaliger relates the same of another . Cardanus of a carmelite monk , whose head continued for thirteen years to flash out sparkles every time he tossed his cowl over his shoulders . Ezekiel a Castro , M . 'D . wrote a treatise , intitled , Ignis lambens , on the occasion that when the Countess Cassandri Bttri , of
Verona , rubbed her arms with a cambric handkerchief , all the skin shone with a very bright light , Eusebius relates the same of Maximus Aquilanus . ' Licetus , of Francis Guido , a Civilian : and that he knew Antoni Ciansio , a bookseller in Pisa , who , when he shifted , shone all over with great brightness : Libavius relates the same of a youth ; and Cardanusof a friend of his ; saying , that , when he shifted ,
, , clear sparkles of fire shot forth from his body . Father Kircher , a Jesuit , relates , how he , going in company into a subterranean grotto at Rome , saw sparkles of fire evaporate from the heads of his companions , grown warm in walking . Father Alphonso d'Ovale was eyewitness on the hig hest mountains of Peru and Chili , how men and beasts there seem shining with the brightest light from top to toe .
These flames seem harmless ; but it is only for want of proper fuel . Peter Bovisteau qsserts , that such sparkles reduced to ashes the hair of a young man . John de Viano , in his treatise intitled , De Peste Malagensi , p . 4 6 . relates , that the wife of Dr . Freilas , physician to Cardinal de Royas , Archbishop of Toledo , sent forth , naturally , by perspirationa fiery matterof such a naturethat if the roUerwhich
, , , , she wore over her shift , was taken from her , and exposed to the cold air , it immediately kindled , and shot forth like grains of gunpowder . * After laying together all these circumstances , I saw , that a feverish fermentation , or a very strong motion of combustible nutter , may rise
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An Account Of The Death Of The Countess Cornelia Baudi, Of Cesena;
emanate from our bodies . Sanctorius observed , that of eight pounds of food and drink taken in a day , there is an insensible perspiration of about five ; computing with them those effluvia which g 5 out of the mouth by breathing , and which mi g ht be gathered in drops on a looking-glass : —See . sect t . aphor . 6 . ; as also , that , in the space of one nightit is customary to discharge about sixteen ounces of urinefour
, , of concocted excrements by stool , and forty and more by respiration . Aphor . 65 . He teaches also , that numbness is an effect of too much internal heat , by which is prevented such an insensible transpiration as in this
very case . The friction of the palms of our hands , or of any other parts of our body , may produce those fires , commonly called ignes labeittes . ' We learn of EusebiusNierembergius , that such was the property of all the limbs of the father of Theodoricus : such were those of Charles Gonzaga , Duke of Mantua , whom the celebrated Batolin took notice of . By the testimony of John FabriM . D . a noted
philoso-, pher who saw it , sparkles of lig ht flashed out of the head of a woman while she qombed her hair . Scaliger relates the same of another . Cardanus of a carmelite monk , whose head continued for thirteen years to flash out sparkles every time he tossed his cowl over his shoulders . Ezekiel a Castro , M . 'D . wrote a treatise , intitled , Ignis lambens , on the occasion that when the Countess Cassandri Bttri , of
Verona , rubbed her arms with a cambric handkerchief , all the skin shone with a very bright light , Eusebius relates the same of Maximus Aquilanus . ' Licetus , of Francis Guido , a Civilian : and that he knew Antoni Ciansio , a bookseller in Pisa , who , when he shifted , shone all over with great brightness : Libavius relates the same of a youth ; and Cardanusof a friend of his ; saying , that , when he shifted ,
, , clear sparkles of fire shot forth from his body . Father Kircher , a Jesuit , relates , how he , going in company into a subterranean grotto at Rome , saw sparkles of fire evaporate from the heads of his companions , grown warm in walking . Father Alphonso d'Ovale was eyewitness on the hig hest mountains of Peru and Chili , how men and beasts there seem shining with the brightest light from top to toe .
These flames seem harmless ; but it is only for want of proper fuel . Peter Bovisteau qsserts , that such sparkles reduced to ashes the hair of a young man . John de Viano , in his treatise intitled , De Peste Malagensi , p . 4 6 . relates , that the wife of Dr . Freilas , physician to Cardinal de Royas , Archbishop of Toledo , sent forth , naturally , by perspirationa fiery matterof such a naturethat if the roUerwhich
, , , , she wore over her shift , was taken from her , and exposed to the cold air , it immediately kindled , and shot forth like grains of gunpowder . * After laying together all these circumstances , I saw , that a feverish fermentation , or a very strong motion of combustible nutter , may rise