blood is continually and incessantly dri∣ven, and comes with force from the arte∣ries, and never flows back; if it be admit∣ted, that in every pulse all the arteries to∣gether are distended by the propulsion of blood, and that the Diastole of the arte∣ries, as the most learned man confesses, is from the Systole of the heart; nor does the blood once gone forth, return into the ventricles of the heart, by reason that the portals are shut, if (I say) the most lear∣ned man do beleeve these things, as it seems he does, it will easily be understood in every part of what region soever, by what stuffing or impulsion the blood in them contained is forcibly thrust down.For so far as the arteries beat, so far reaches the influx and the force, where∣fore it is felt in all parts of every region, for there is a pulse every where in the tops of our fingers, and under the nails, nor is there any part in our whole body, either sore with boil or fellon, which does not feel the pricking motion of the beating of the arterie, and its endeavour to dis∣solve the continuum.But further it is manifest, that the blood does make a regresse in the pores of the parts, in the skin of the hands and feet, for sometimes in great frost and cold seasons we see the hands and joints, especially of boys, so cold, that at the very touch they 0