Volume 2

Fumifugium : now reissued as an Old Ashmolean reprint in the year of the refacing of the Old Ashmolean museum / by John Evelyn.

  • Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.
Date:
1930
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Fumifugium : now reissued as an Old Ashmolean reprint in the year of the refacing of the Old Ashmolean museum / by John Evelyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t >• ] FUMIFUGIUM} O R, The Inconveniency of the Smoake of London PARTI IT is not without fome considerable Analogy, that Sundry of the Philofophers have named the a Aer the Vehicle of the Soul, as well as that of the Earth, and this frail Vef- fell of ours which contains it; lince we all of us finde the benefit which we derive from it, not onely for the nccef- fity of common Refpiration and functions of the Organs; but like wife for the ufe of the Spirits and Primigene Hu- mors, which doe moft neerly approach that Divine particle. But we Shall not need to infill, or refine much on this Sublime Subjeft; and, perhaps, it might fcandalize fcrupti- lous Perfons to purfue to the height it may poSlibly reach * Anima, quafi (as