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C H A P. III.

The Neck. The Thorax.

I: Oltting in some Company, and havingbecn but a little before Musical, UCmjeamtm

U I chanc’d to take Norice that in ordinary Difcourse Words were spokenin perfect Notes, and that lbme of the Company usi.d Eights, some Fifths, oftberotet ;someThirds: and that his Discoursc, which was most pleafing, his Words, t^ö’p'iöiö.*as to their Tone, consisted most of Concords; and where of Discords, of suchas made up Harmony. The fame Person was the most Aftable, Pleasant,and the bell Natured in the Company. This soggests a Reason, why ma-ny Discourses which one Hears with much pleasure, when they come to beRead soarce scem the some things.

From this Difftrence of Mustek in speech, we may conjecture that ofTempers, We know, the Dorick Mood sounds Gravity and Sobriety ;the Lydian , Buxomness and Freedom; the <-sFoUque, sweet Stillnesi, andquiet Compofure ; the Tbrygian , Jollity and Youthful Levity; the Jo -vitfue is a stiller of Storms and Disturbances arising from Pastion. And whymay we not reasonably sopposc, that thole, whoß (peech naturally runs intothe Notes peculiar to any of thesc Moods , are likewise in Nature hereuntocon-generous? So also from the Cliff', as he that fpeaks in Gam ut, to beManly;

C Fa ut, mayfhew one to be of an ordinary Capacity, tho good Disposi-tion ; G Sol Re ut, to be Peevifh and Effeminate, and of a Weak and Ti-morous Spirit; Sharp, an Effeminate, Fiats, aManly or Melanchohk Sad-nesi. He who hath a Voice which will, in some Measore, agree with allCliffs, to be of good parts and fit for Variety of Employments, yet somewhatof an inconstant Nature. Likewisc from the Times ; so Semibrkfs mayfptak a Temper Dull, and Flegmatick ; Almums , Grave and Serious; Cro-chets, a prompt Wit ; Jguavers, vehemency of Pastion, and Scolds uso them ;Semibrief-Reff may denote one either stupid, or füllet of Thoughts than hecan utter ; Alinum-Reff, one that deliberates; Crochet-Reft , one in a Pasti-on; So that from the Natural useof tMood, Nott, and Time, we may Coi-lect Dilpofitions.

II. Laryngotomy is highly to be valued, for that in the greatest Extremity ^ ^tumentwhen a Man is in most imminent Danger of Suffocation, and to ali ap-pearance within a very few Minutes of his last, by opening a new paffage & r ffor Breath, it gives speedy and certain Relief, and this when ali other Me- £™ ve - fthodsfail: and without any confiderable Injury from the Instrument. The 5Patient in a Minute or two, is brought from the Scruggles of Death, toa Stateof Complacency, Esso, and Security. In the latge Field of practical Phy-stck, perhaps there is not any one Method that works so great a Change, forthe bettet, in so (hott a . time. But we find this Operation very leldom

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