The angel of Bethesda, visiting the invalids of a miserable world [Seven lines of…

XIV. HAVING at some time or other felt a Considerable Smart, or been Considerably Sick, from something that we have met withal, we have an Abiding Horror for that thing perhaps all our Days. Tho' we Certainly ⟨p. 9⟩Know that the Thing will now do us No Hart, but rather do us Much Good, yet no Conviction of Reason will Overcome our Abiding Horror, We cannot Swallow the Pill, or take the Meat or the Drink, & do an hundred Things, which we have heretofore been horribly frighted at. Our Nishmath-Chajim has an lncurable Aversion for them.

XV. TIS the Nishmath-Chajim, that is the Strength of every part in our Body, and that gives Motion to it. Here perhaps the Origin of Muscular Motion may be a little accounted for. And this is the Spirit, and the Balsam, & one might almost say, the Keeper, of each part, which is Occupied and Befriended with it. Yea, what Construction shall we make of it, when People have Lived without any Brains in their Heads, & after the Destruction of almost all the Bowels in their Bodies? We are supplied and surprised with many most Credible Relations of such Things. And I Question, whither any thing will do so well, or go so far, as our Nishmath-Chajim, to account for them?

XV. TIS the Nishmath-Chajim, that is the Strength of every part in our Body, and that gives Motion to it. Here perhaps the Origin of Muscular Motion may be a little accounted for. And this is the Spirit, and the Balsome, & one might almost say, the Keeper, of each part, which is Occupied and Befriended with it. Yea, what Construction shall we make of it, when People have Lived without any Brains in their Heads, & after the Destruction of almost all the Bowels in their Bodies? We are supplied and surprized with many most Credible Relations of such Things. And I Question, whither any thing will do so well, or go so far, as our Nishmath-Chajim, to account for them?