Plut. Mor., Sentiments Concerning Nature 5.23 — Of Those Sentiments Concerning Nature With Which Philosophers Were Delighted

Plut. Mor., Sentiments Concerning Nature 5.23 — Of Those Sentiments Concerning Nature With Which Philosophers Were Delighted, Plutarch; served verbatim

WHAT ARE THE CAUSES OF SLEEP AND DEATH? Alcmaeon says, that sleep is caused when the blood retreats to the concourse of the veins, but when the blood diiFiises itself, then we awake ; and when there is a total retirement of the blood, then men die. Empedocles, that a moderate cooHng of the blood causeth sleep, but a total remotion of heat from blood causeth death. Diogenes, that when all the blood is so diffused as that it fills all the veins, and forces the air contained in them to the back and to the belly that is below it, the breast being thereby more heated, thence sleep arises ; but if every thing that is airy in the breast forsjikes the veins, then death succeeds. Tlato and the Stoics, that sleep ariseth from the relaxation of the sensitive spirit, it not receiving such total remission as if, it fell to the earth, but so that that spirit is earned about the intestine parts of the eyebrows, in which the principal part has its residence ; but when there is a total remission of the sensitive spirit, then death ensues.

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Of Those Sentiments Concerning Nature With Which Philosophers Were Delighted, Plutarch — translated by John Dowel (rev. W. W. Goodwin), 1874
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