Of not Sleeping in Feavers.
THE reason those that are in great Feavers, or the like hot Disease, cannot sleep, is, that the Heat being too strong for the Moysture, it rarifies it so thin, as it is like the forementioned
The worlds olio written by the Right Honorable, the Lady Margaret Newcastle.
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- The worlds olio written by the Right Honorable, the Lady Margaret Newcastle.
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- Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.
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- 1655.
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Wind, which, instead of stopping, causeth Waking Dreams, that is, Frantick Fancies; for there is as Natural a Degree of this Vapour, as there is a Natural Temper proper to every Animal Body; Or else it burns the Body, and dryes up the Na∣tural Moysture so much, as there can arise no Vapour therefrom: for it is to be observed, that the dryest Constitution sleeps the least, and those sleeps they have are short.