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Against our Explication of these two, which our Author exa∣mines together, he objects nothing peculiar, but contents him∣self to explicate them by his Funiculus: Wherefore neither shall we need to frame any peculiar defence for it, especially if the
Reader will be pleased to refer hither as much of what we op∣pos'd to his Animadversion on the third Experiment as is justly applicable to our present Controversie. Our Author indeed endeavours to prove his Explication by saying, that the distend∣ed Air in the exhausted Cylinder draws up the Sucker with the annexed weight, Eodem fere modo quo videmus in cucurbitulis dorso aegrotantis applicatis, in quibus, extincta jam flamma, rarefactus aër se contrahens carnem tam vehementer, uti videmus, elevat attrahit{que} intra cucurbitulam. But that Phaenomenon is easily enough expli∣cable in our Hypothesis, by saying, that upon the vanishing of that heat which strengthned the pressure of the included Air, the Spring of it grows too weak to resist any longer the pressure of the ambient Air; which thereupon thrusts the flesh and neigh∣bouring bloud of the Patient into the Cupping-glass, almost af∣ter the same manner as we formerly taught the Pulp of the Fin∣ger to be thrust into the deserted Cavity of the Glass-Tube in the Torricellian Experiment.