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let of his office in any wiſe for defaulte of influence of ſpirites, then opening and cloſing of the heart fayleth: and then néedes muſt the beaſt be ſtiffeled, as it is ſéene in Apoplexia, and in other ſuch cauſes. TREVISA. Apoplexia is an euill, that maketh a man léeſe all manner féeling. Alſo the ſame falleth by hurting of the heart, when the humours be voyded, that ſhould kindly be therein: for ſo the ſpirites be voyded, and the attraction of the aire hath no place. And it fareth ſo in ſodain ſmiting of the kind heate into the inner parts of the heart, as it happeneth in fearfull men in letting bloud, that other while ſayle and ſowne. And ſo it happeneth of the infection of the lyuer. For corruption of the lyuer taketh awaye generation of cleane pured bloud, that féedeth kindlye heate: and if kinde heate fayle, the ſpirite vitall fayleth, and conſequently the breath particularly or vniuerſally is let. And ſo it happeneth in ſearching & pearcing of the lunges, as it fareth in them that haue the Tiſike, in whom the breth ſtraighted, vaniſheth awaye by priuie hoales, and is not ſufficient to temper the beate of the heart. And ſo it fareth in all repletion, and ſpecially by ſodayne filling of the inner veynes of the body: as appeareth in them that be ſodaynlye ſtiffeled in the water: in whome the pores being let, the breath by a vyolent ouercomming and renting of the inner powers is ſtopped. Alſo by great corruption of the aire as in peſtilence time, and in corrupt aire, when the ſpirite vitall eſchewing his contrary, cloſeth himſelfe in the inner parts of the heart, and ſo being ouerſet with aire that is corrupt, may not rule the heart and other lymmes of the body, but faileth in himſelfe, and as it were, ſodainly vaniſheth alwaye: and then thereof commeth death. Alſo of infection and corruption of the humors of the breaſt, and of the breaſt plate and bone, as it is ſeen among thoſe that haue the dropſie, pore, ſcurffe, canker, woolfe, & leproſie. Alſo by the ſtopping of the organe & wayes that commeth from the langs, as appereth in them that haue the pirre & ſtifles, & be putrified and thicke breathed, and other ſuch. Alſo by ſpeciall corruption of the heart, as by biting of an Adder, or of anye other venemous worme: whole venyme pearcing to the heart, ouercommeth the kindly heat, and ſo ſtoppeth the way of the breath. Alſo by too much refraction of hot aire, as chaunceth in ouer hot ſtewes or bathe, or in the moſt feruent heate of ye Sun, that rerefieth & openeth the pores ouer meaſure, and ſo maketh too great exhalation and waſting of the kinde heate: and ſo the colde aire that is drawen in, ſufficeth not to ſlake the heate ſuperfluous, that is not of kinde, and ſo the breath is let. Alſo the ſame chaunceth of the ouer colde aire yt draweth together ye brawns and the ſinewes of the breaſt: and thereby the vertue of breathing is let, as it chaunceth in them that ſléep vpon ſnow. And the ſame other while chaunceth by ſtopping of a veyne of the heart, that is called Vena concaua, the holow veyne: when that veyne is ſtopped and cloſed, the way of the paſſage is let, by ye which way and paſſage, the bloud muſt go from the liuer to the heart, to féede and nouriſh the ſpirite vitall. For when the heate wareth abundaunt, and the humor is withdrawen, the beaſt is ſtiffeled: for the breath ſufficeth not to coole the hart. And ſo it fareth by ouerburdening of cholar on of other humors, in the moſt ſubtill, veynes of the heart, as appeareth in ſharpe feuers, in the which the breath faileth. Alſo by ouer vyolent ſtrayning of the throte and of the arteries: as we may ſée in them that be hanged & ſtrangled, in the which the breath being ſtopped, the heart ſodainly burneth, & ſo the beaſt dyeth forthwith. By theſe meanes and many other, the vertue, vitall in let by default of breath. Of the vertue ſpirituall, commeth wrath, fighting, indignation, ſpite, and ſuch paſſions, that ariſe in brute beaſtes through mouing of the ſpirital vertue with vehemencie, & without diſcretion: but in men ſuch paſſions be ordred and ruled by a certaine reaſon of wit. And of the vertue ſpiritall or vitall, that is ſaid ſhall ſuffice.