Kenelm Digby (1603-1665) - A Late Discourse, 1658

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fir, a Book intitled,..4 difcourfe: made in a famous Affembly by

Cavalier Digby, tonching the cure of wounds by the Powder of” Sympathy, &c. And this during the time, and {pace of ten yeares,.

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An Information to the Knowing Reader.

ORY His Exquifite Fhilo[oX, phicall Di(ceur(e Was ad £ made lately by that és Zz Renowned Knight. Sir

“Kenelme Digby, in one of the

moft famous Academies of France.

It containsa: variety of many’ recndite and bigh myfteries of: Nature, which are all here unmasked. And as all that great Sci-

entifical Afembly, compofed of

the choiceft-wits.under that Clime, . flood then aftomifhed at the prom

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Gwhich were delivered by way of | (Oratson, and taken in port wri- | ting upon the place as ‘twas utter-

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“DISCOURSE TOUCHING: The Cure of Woundss.

By the Powder. of Sympathie,.

My Lords, EuBelieve you Will re-

. Main all in one: mind: “with me, that’to peYn. netrate, and know a: AOL Subject, itis neceffa-

Sees fhew whether it is fuppofed For weuld not

ry in the firlt place,to» the thing be fuch as. or imagined to bes: one unprofitably lofe :

both his time and labour, to bufie-

himfelfe in looking after che canfes« ofthat which peradvencure is but a-

of: Chimera, without any foundation

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I remember to have fead in 2 place ie Plutrch, where he propofech this quetuon, Wherefo-e thofe Hories ‘ who, while they Wete Colts » hive been purfaed by rhe Wolf, arid faved

themlelves by force” of running, afe

more fleet .chen other .Horfes ?

Whereunto he anfiers, Thor ic may.

bg: thatthe: fearing »and affrighie ment~ which che Wolf gives unto

the young “beat, makes hin try his utmolt {trength. to- deliver hinfelf

from the danger that follows hin ar

cne heels, therefore the-{aiq frish e doth yas.it were umsnicshis~joynts:s

and; firetch bis -Gnews: and takes

the. Jazamems, and orhar ‘pares ‘of his body, th2 more fu pK fotunne’; infomuch,;thie he refents it all his

life afterwards, /and. bee@aigs.2: good

Cou ter .Ow% iktmay, bz: fayes he,

thatthole).Colrs..which are, 1 uurally:

fife » ‘faye, themlelyes. by running; away; whereas’ others, wh are opoo: fo,.are, overtaken. bythe Wolf) and.

fo. bzeoine hig. prey. sand {oir is. nor. becautechsy hove.elcaed the Wolf;

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rbzit_natutall {Wifmeile which faves them. He affords alio othe: rea.on ¥ aud at lat concludes, chac it may be. the thing is noc crue... I. find ic

not toe (my Lords) to-rgply. here-

unto at a. jable-ducoune,..ivbere the chief deisen of convertation is to

paiie eway the tine ‘gency. and pieafancly, without medling: with the feverity of high ferche reafons, to

l* | Wind udi? the f.i irirs > and make. then

More attentive...

Bur in fo renown,

ed an Aulexbly as rhis, where there ate fuch judicious Perfons, and fo

profoundly learned, and who. u_os this. meeting. ex-eét. ‘fron..; me that |pay.th:m in folid-reafons; I

Mould be very. fory, -thac. haying done ny ucterno't ro make.i¢ clear,

| how the Powder,

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monly call the Powder of Sympathy: ,

} doch naturally, and -without any, | Magick, cu-ewounds withont- touch. ing thém,yea, wichour feeing of the /P.tiznt; I fay, I fhould be v2ry.forry i thicic fhould be doubred, Whether yi

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In matter of fac, the determina-tion of exiftence, and truth of a

thing, depends upon the report which our feafes make us, This bufneffe is of thac nacure ; for they

who have feen the effects, and had experience thereof , and have beett:

carefull ro examine all neceffary cit= cumftances, and fatisfied themfelves

afterwards, that there is no impofure jm the thinz, do nothing doubr but

But they riences,. | expe who-have not feenfuch to thre es felv them re refer eught to fuch , . | of y orit auth and ns, atio Narr who have feen fuch things ; I could produce divets, whereof 1 was an ecularwitneffe, nay, .Qwrum pars magna fui : But as a certain, andan- | accounted. example im che affirma--|

chat itis reall; and crue.

tive, is convincing to’ deretmine the.

potibilicy,, and truth of a mattet

- ‘whichis doubtfull ; I fhall content: ji

my felf, becaufe Iwould not trefpaffe roomuch upon your patience atthis time, tomake inftance in one onely 5 ofthe cleareft, the but it (hall be one moft perfpicuous, and the moft on

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the whole bufineffe paffed. For the cure of avery fore hurt was perfe@ed by this Power of Sympathy, upon aperfor chat is illufttious, as well for his many perfeGtions, as for his feverall imployments. All the circumftances were exammed , and founded to the bottom, by one of the -greateft, and moft knowing

| Kingsofhis time, oz. King Fames, | Of Eagland, who had a particular | talent, and: marvellous: fagacity, to | difcuffe naturali things, and pene| ttate them tothe very marrow ; as alfo by his Sonne, ‘the face Kine

| Charlesand the Duke of Backieghans,

their prime Minifter. And in fine, all was regiftred among the obfervations of great Chaacelor Bacon,

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adde by way of Appendix, unto his ig} WNacurall Hiftory: And { believe,

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when you. fhall have under-

jg Mood. this Hifory, you willvmot ac. |Sule me ofwvanicy, if] attribute unto my

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thy felffnbe cintroducing into tits: @oarter of che “World this way-of rs

curing.

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Mr. James; Howel, ( well known in: France, for his publicks wosks,

aad. putiew wlyfor. his Dewd-alogia, craniiated:inro Frenclp by 4492 sear Fa @ aad é

Bards) coming by chance.as two of his bet:friends were sighting a Duels be did. his ‘endeavout co-pate -] ee,

chem, ‘andsputting: himfcl:-berweer chem, fetredowichb his defe-b und uyon°| ies, of the: iwerd. of cone rofothe therhile Gonbirants,

-while swith his: righe

hind! hedaid holdvof.che blade.of the

etheri: they: beihg-tranfpe:tedewith fury one againit th: opher, dtrugled ro tidsthemfelves-of: the cchttieance | choir friend»

not kill! one

made that ehty fnoild fe

andcher + iandvone of Jy

themroighly drawing theablade cof |), his-fwords|; cucsto thevery: bone the |,‘ Haweéls merves

More arid muscles of

| hihdssandithen rhseother dings w :blo | eing hij bilts j gaveca) crofteh glan s J) whie

onhisadvatfaries:

head,

ced towitds his friend, who heaving

worhis fode hand tofave theblow; he was, ¢4

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on’ ‘the back of his

hand, as he had been before within.

Ic feems fome ftrange Conttellation | reigned then agaitit hin, ‘thae‘he

fhould lofe fo'muth blood by parting two fuchdear friends, who had they been cthemfelves , would: have ‘has garded borh’their lives to have pre+ (ferved his + but’ this unvoluntary

|-€ffufien of blood by them, prevented

that which they ffould ‘have’ drawn ‘one from the’ other: “For they feeiie Mr. ©Howels face befmeated \with blodd, by heaving up his’ wounded hand, they borhancoembrace: hin’;

and: having fearched his hurts, they | Bound ‘up his hand’ with one-of his

ei garters; to clofe the vemes which

Pwere’ cur’, and bled» abundantly, a) They brought him* homey and fent oof} for aSurgeon. But rhis being heard vat Court, the Kine fent one of his |Own Surgeons, for his Majefty much pafreted'the faid Mr. Héwel.

Pe was my chince tobe: lodged ) bord by him’;

and*four or five dayes

after, as Iwas making my felfready, he came tomy Houfe, and prayed ¢ me

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me to view his wounds, for I under-

fiand, faid he, thar you have exera- }) ordinary remedies upon fuch occa- -| fions, and my Surgeons apprehend. | fome fear, that i may grow fora | Gangrene, andfo the hand muft be | cut off. In effect, his countenance | difcovered chat he wasin much pain, | which he faid. was unfupportable, ta regard of the extreame inflammati- © on:1 told him that I would willing-: |; tyferve him, bucif haply he knew: |» the. manner howJ would cure him, | without, touching or feeing him , it | may be he would. not expofe himfelf |); totmy mannerof curing, becaufe he |.

would think it peradventure. either

ineffeCtuall, or fuperftitious : he ree |

plyed, That the wonderfull things |

which-many have related unto me, | of your way of curing, makes me:|

nothing doubr at all of its efficacy; | and all that I have cofay unto yoty |

iscom>rehended.in che Spanifh Pto- werb, Hagafe el milagre, y hagalo Aahoma , Lec the miracle be done:

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I asked him then for any ching.

thac had the blood i it, fo he tlyfor his Garter, whefeprefenfent

| it) ith his hand was firft bound >and 4} having called for a Bafon of water, 2s

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-ifJ would wash my hands’; I took

‘¢} a handfull of Powder of Vicrol, | which I had in‘my ftudy, and pre-

fently diffolved ir. As foon as the | | bloody garter was brought me, I put ir within the Bafon, obferving inthe interim what Mr. Howe/ did, who

food talking witha Gentleman ina

tomer of my Chamber, not regard-

ing at all whar Twas doing : burhe ftateed faddenly, as if he had found

fome firange alteration in himfelf; Lasked him what he ailed ? I know fiot what ailes me, bueI find thacT

feel no more pain, methinks that a

pleafing kimd of frefhneffe, as it were awet cold Napkin did fpread over my hand, which hath taken away the inflamation rhat cormented me before = Ireplyed, fince

that’ you feel already fo good an

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effec of my medicament,

you to caft away alt your playftets; ~

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lictte afer vo.che King, who were both very cuifous- to’ know the cir~cumftante of the *buGinelle 5. which was , thar after dinner { took the garter out Of the water, and put.it

to dry before-a great. fire 5 1t was fearce dry; but: Mr. Howe/s-fervant

came, tinding, ‘thar his-Mafter felt.as much ‘burning’ as ever he had ‘done, | ,,’: ifnot more, for. the -heat was -fuch, as if his- hind were betwixt coales-of fire’: Tanfwered, chat alchough that

Had: happened’ at-~prefene, .yet he fhould find: eafe in-a ‘thor tine: for I knew the reafon of chis new. accident,

and I would provide. accordingly, for shis.Maftéer Should -be free from

that inlanmnaten, it-may-be,- before she could-potibly:return“unto him, : burin cif he found no eafe,.E withed

shim roscoe! prefenrly back again, rf hot, he mighe:forbeate comming.

“YTherepmn. he -vvent, and “at ‘thé in-

tant I did: put :again the garter dato

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Mafter without any pain atall.

To

be brief, there was no fenle of pain afterward - but .within

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dayes ‘the wounds wee cicatrized, _ and entirely healed, . Kingg James feo

quired a functuall informnation .of ‘ft whathad pafled touching this cure ; f and after ic was done and perfeed,

*} his Maiely would needs aie SE tn *} how it was doney having drolled “FE with me frt (vy‘bith he -could do with a -very eood grace } about a Ader ee anda Sor cerers Lanliveredy Thac.E fhould: be alviayes tf read

Neto what his’ Marefty dhoulc command + but mot! humbly dé4fed , before I fhould paile. further,-ro cell him white ithe Aurhor, of whom Tchid the Secrecy: fhid to the erehe Duke of Tufcany, weonthe hike -o¢eaGon. Ic wis. a felicious Catner lize, that came fron the Indies and Perfa to Florence, hz had alfo been at Chiza, who having done many matvelfous cures with his row-

det; after his arivillro Tufcany’, che Duke fiid be would be very cladto Sitinof hin |: Ic was the fatner of ’

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the Great Duke who governs now.

The Carmelite anfwered him, That it was a fectet which he had Jearne

in the oriental parts, and he thought there was not any who knewirin &#-

repe but himfelf, and that ic deferved not to be divugled, which could not

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be done,ifhisHighnefs would meddle with the practile of ir, becaufe he, |Kym was not likely to do it with his own

hands, but muft trufta Surgeon, or fome other fervant, fothat in a fhot

time divers others would come to know it as well as himfelf. But a

few moneths after I had opportunity to do an important courrefie to the faid Fryer, which induced him to

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| las i fame year he returned to Perjfia ; 1 oud i hi infomuch, chatnow there is no other lcha | knows this fecret in Europe but my felf: The King replied, That he Filf9 needed not apprehend any ferr thar fe Dy aifcover unto me his fecret, and the

he would difcover, for he would nor

truftany-body inthe World ro make experience of his fecret , but he would do it with his own hands, therefore .he would have

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Aracting him in all che circumftances, Whereupon his Majefty made fundry at | Proots, whence he received. fiagular jy, |fatisfaction.© Intheincerim, Do&or ALayerne,

hits firgt Phyfitian yyat@hed to difco-

ever what was done. by chis fecrer, _and at lafthe came to know that the 4, |King made ufe of Vitriol. Afterwards , | he accofted me, faying, he durt noc _} demand of mz my fecret, becaufe{

| made fome difficulty to.difcover it to

the King hinfelf. But having learnt

|wich whac matter ic wastobe done,

| he hoped that Iwould communicate -unto hin all the circumf@ances how it is to be ufed s I anfwered him, | That if he had asked. me before, I ~ | avould have frankly coldhim all, for ' | in his “hands there was no fearethae

| fucha fecret fhould be grofticuted, ‘| and foLtold him all. A little after the DoSor went to France, to fee * | fome fair Territories that he had

"| purchafed neat Gexeva, which was the Barony of Asboxne.

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| Voyage he went to fee the Duke of | Mayernes who had been a long time his

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After the Dukes death, who was +o

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«waited upon him in

doing cures; fold this fecrer to divers Perfons of Qualicy,-whe gave hin con‘iderable fummes foric, fo chiche became* very~ ich thereby. “The thing” being’ fallen thus into many hands, rém.ained rot long in terms of.

a Secret, bur‘by désrees it cane to

be fo divulged j/thir now there is fearce any Country-Barber -bue

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knows ‘it.

Behold now, Sirs, the Genealogie of the Powder-of Synpathy in this parc of the World, with a’notable Eiftory of a cure performed by ir. Te is time nowcro comerothe difcuffi-

on, which is) to know how it is made.

Ic muft be ‘avowed thit, iris a marvellous thing, that’ the’ hure of a wounded

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| Wounded perfon fhould be cured by

4 the application of aremedy put to a uy

3, } tag of cloth, or a weapon, a: a great {4 diltance. And it is notto be doubt-

i |ed, if after along and profound fpe-

yr. (Culation

of all the aeconomy~

~'fjconcatenation

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caufes

fwhich may be adjudged capable to

- PHitherco they have been Wrapped: up gi

darkneffe, and adjudged fo inac-

,, peethble, chat they who have under‘qv (taken to {peak or write of them, (at pleat thofe whom! faw) have been » contented to {peak of fome ingenious “. Igencileneffe, without/diving into the ,., Pottom, endeavouring rather to fhew “he vivacicy of their fpiric, and the force of their eloquence, than «to Matisfe their Readers. and Auditors now the thing is really tobe done. plhey would have us take for ready ‘mony fome terms whichwe under. and not, not know what they figniié. They would pay us’ wich conye“Biiences, with

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Sympathics, with Magnetical virtues, and {uch terms, without explicating | “Whatcthefe rerms mean. They think | they have done enough, ifthey feebly perfwade any body that the bufi-

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-nefle may be performed bya naturalf way, without having any recourfe to the intervention of Daemons and fp1rics :but chey pretend notinany fo-t

to have found out the convincing

reafons, to demonftrate how the thing

is done.

Sirs, if Idid not hope to gainotherwile upon your fpirits; I fay, that if Ididnot believe, rhacI fhould be

able to perfwade you otherwife than

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ken this enterpife : I know coo welf - Duid valeant humert,gquid ferre «

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recufent :

fuch a deGen requires a great fire, and. |

vivacity of conceptions , volubiliry | oftongue, aptneffe of ex re‘fions to infnuare asit wereby furprifall, that | which one cannot carry away by a) firme foot, and by cold reafons,} thotichfolid. A Difcourfe of this) tate0

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difplay his. fenfe’ ina language wherein he can hardly expreffe’ his ordinary conceptions. Neverthelefle; thefe confiderations fhall not. deterre me from engaging myfelf in an enterprifé, which may feem to fome

much more dificult than that which lam now toperforme, wz. to make good convincing proofs, that this Sympatheticall cure may be done naturally, and to fhew before your eyes, and make you touch’ wich your finger how it may be done. You 2} know that perfwafions are made by | Ingenious arguments , which being

| expreffed with a good grace, do ‘rathertickle the imagination, than fa| tisfie the underftanding : Bur Demox| frations are built upon’ certain and approved principles, and though ‘ig they be buc roughly pronounced, yer

‘he

gg they convince and draw afcer cheng

neceflary conclufions..

They.’ pro-

ceed asa ftrone Engine faftned to

agate to barter it down, or as a

Lig)

place of metall to-imprine the mark

it Of the Money,-at every turn thac Ba2

truth

(18)

truth makes, theapproches but firtle, and asit were infenfbly, and makes not much noife, andthere is no fuch

steat force required, to turn her;

but’ her firengch, though icbe flow, 1; foinvincible, that atthe end, fhe

breaks dewn the gate, and makes a

= they Er

deep impreffion on the riece of gold

or filver: whereas the ftrokes of hammets, ot bars, (whereunto may be compared the witty difcourfes, and flourithed conceptions of Ingenious Wits) require che armes of a Giant, makes a great noife, andat the end

produces but litle effed,

To enter then into the matter ;f will, accotding to the method of Geometricall Demonftrations, |ay fix

ot feven. Principles, as foundation. ftones, whereon I will ere@& my ftruéture. Bue Iwill lay‘them fo well, and fo firmly, that rhere will’ be no great difhculey to grant them; Thefe Principles fhall be like che wheels. of “Archimedes

-,. by

the

advantage

whereofa child might: be capable .to

hale--afore the biggeft Carack, of

King, Hieron, which.a hundred pat

/

:

0

Bea &*as

—eJ ay -- vw -~a

oFNgee Bees, aa.* e eee .

(79)

of Oxen, with all che Ropes ard Cables of his Arfenal, were not able to ftir: foby the ftrength of thefe Principles: I hope to waft my conclufions to a fafe Porr.

The fir Principle fhall be, That the whole Orb or Schere of the Aire is filled with light. If it were needfull to prove inthis’ point, that the Eightis a materiall

and corporall

fubftance , and not an imaginary and. incomprehenfible quality, as

many Schoolmenaverre,

I could do

ehisin another Freatife;

which

it Is no: New ozinion;

‘for many of

jt evidently enough-but I have’ done

hath

been publifhed not long fince..-And

the mot efteened Philoforhets among the. Ancients hive: ‘advanced it; yea, the Great Saint _Aueu/ins in his Third Epiftle to: Volefan, doch alledge s~thic

it is his

Opinion

But touching our prefenr bufinefle,

whether the light be the one or th2 other, it matters nor, ‘tis enough to

exolicate her courfe, and th: jour: nies fhe makes, whereunto-our fenfes

bear witnefle, *Tis clear, chat iff B3 ing

| (20). mg continually our of her fource, which js the Sun,ard lancirig her felfe

bya marvellous celerity on all fides

.by fiteight lines, there where fhe meets any obftacles in her way, by the-oppofition of fome ‘hard, or opaque body; fhe refle&ts, and leap. ing thence to equall angles, fhe takes asain hercourfe bya fireight. line, untill fhe bandies. fome other fide upon another folid body, and fo fhe continueth to make new boundings here and there; untill ac the end,

being chafed en all fides by the bodies which oppofe her in her paf-

fage, fhe is ryred ,and fo extinguitheth. In the like manner we fee a Ballin a Tenis-Court, being ftruck by a {trong arme again the walls, leaps co the oppofite fide, that fometimes

fhe makes the circuit of the whole See acca!

AIS

Fi,

Court,.and fintfhech her motion n2ar

4

|

the place where fhe was firtt ruck, Our very eyes ate witnefles: of this progtefle of the light, when by way of reflexion fhe illuminates fome ob{cure place, whither fhe cannot direGtly atrive; Or when ifluing im- 75 mediatly

is tae

Ces SEE * RRC NE EES

as

atid

C21) mediarly from the Sun, and beating

upon the Moon, ot fome other of the Planers, the rayes which cannot find entrance there’, bound upon our earth, otherwife we fhould nor fee them; and there the is reflected, broken and bruifed by fo many bo-

dies, as fhe meets in her diveriity of reflexions.

The fecond

Principle fhall be,

that the light glancing fe upon fome

body, the rayes whiclr enter no futther, and which rebound upon the fuperficies of the body, loofen them-

felyes, and carry with

them

fome

{mall particles or atomes ; jut -as the ball, whereofwe havefpoken, sould catry withsic fome of the moulture

of the wall, -agamft which fheis .ban-

ded, if the plafter thereof were alfo moitt, and asin effe&, fhe carryed

away fome. tincture of the’ black , wherewith the walls are coloured.

The ‘reafon whereof. is-, that’ the light, that fubtill; and rarified fire,

coming with fuch an imperceptible haft, for ber darts are within

our

eyes, as foon as her head 1s 'aiabove

B4

our

——

(22)

“our Horizon, making fo many million of miles in an inimaginable {pace of time, I fay, the Aghe beating upon the body which oppofech her, €annot chufe but make there fome fmall incifions propertionable to-her raricy and fubtilicy.

And

thefe:fmall’ Atomes being cut, and

Joofened from their trunk, being compofed ef the four Elements, (as all bodies are) the heat of the light

doth tick, and incorporate ic felf with the moft humid, vifcous » and

Sluing parts of the faid Atomes, and btings them along with her, Experience fhews us this as well as Reafon ; for when one puts a. wet clothto dry before the fire, the fier

tayes beating thereon, thofe which

find no ewtrance , reflect thence, and

catty away with them fome {mall

moilt bodies; which make a kind of

mitt betwixt ‘the cloth and the frre.

In like manner the beams of the Sun at his rifng enlightning the .earth ; which is humified either by rain, or the dew ofthe night; ‘raife a mit, .

which by little and little afcends hn 3 |

the

|seb eC. Cane

(23)

the tops ofthe hills; and chis mitt doth rarifie according as the Sun hath more force to draw it upwards , untilbat laft we lofe the fight thereof,

and that ic becomes pare of the aire, Which in regard of its tenuity is invifible unto us. Thefe Aromes

then are like Cayaliers

mounted on

winged cou fers , “who.go very far, untill thar the Sun fetting, takes

from them their Pegafus,and leaves

them unmounted ; and then they precipitate thenfelves in crowds. to the earth, whence they fprung, the

preatelt part of them,.and the moft heavy fall uzon the firt retreating

of the Sun’, and chat we call the

Sera, which though it be fo thin: that we cannot fee it,. yet we feel it | as fo many fmalf hammers . which:

} fttike uson our.

heads and. bodies,

§ principwly on thofe that are ancient =: } for the young men, in regard of the | boyling of their blood, and rhe hear: of their. compl2xion,. thru out of”

| them abundance’ of fpitit .which s, being Rronger

thon thofe thar fall

| fromy the. Seraiz,. te ule Be, .

them,. and:

(24

aa

and hinder them’to overate upon the bodies whente thefe fpirirs came forth,as they do upon thofe that being grown cold by age, arenot warwranted by fo trong anemanation Of the f{pitits which come out offthem.

The wind which blows, andis tofled

|| , | thy | fy) | hi

to and fro, is no other than a great — rent River of the like Atomes ,° drawn

out of fome folid bodies, whichere |>4 upon the earth, and fo are banded | jy, here and there, according as they find eaife for that. effect. i Frememberto have once fenfibly feen how the wind is ingendred : I pafled over Mount Cenis, to go for Italy . cowards ‘the beginning of Summer, and.I was advanced to half the hill, asthe Sun did rife cleer and. luminous, but before Icould fee his

| |} ,

body, becaufe. the Mountains inter. _

pofed , I obferved his rayes, which did guild the top of the Mountain.

Vifowhich is the Pyramid of a Rock, a good deal higher than Mount Cen, atid all the. neighbouring Mountains. Many ate of opinion,

gaat it isthe higheft Mountain in the 3 World,

|

seAOL DROP Samar |gills

TES”

SH

TRESS

(25°)

World, after the Pie of the grand Canary; and Vifo.1s alwaies covered I obferved then ,

OG

.

T enariff, in this Mount with {now ; that’ abouc

that place, which was illuminated. bythe Solar rayes, there was a foe which at firft was of no: greater-exrent then an ordinary bowle, but by

degrees ic grew greater, thac at laft,. not onely the top of that Mountain. but all the neighbouring hills, were

canopied all over with: a cloud.. I was now cone to the top of Mount Cenis, and finding my felf in the fircight line which: paffethfrom the Sun to‘Mount Vifo, 1 ftayed awhile to behold it, while my people were

coming up the hill behind, for having

mote men to catty my chair than they hads'I wasthere fooner. It was riot long thie*l might perceive the faidfog defcend gently to: the place

where ¥was, and 1 began’ to feel'afechneffe thar came over my face’,

when [ turnedvit thac' way.

Wher

all my ‘Troos wis come-about me, we went defcending the other fide of,

Mount (ens, towards Saxe; and the lower

Ot

(26) lower we went, we fenfibly found that: the wina began co blow hard

fofte etn Dein befy

behind our backs, for our way obli-

ged us to go toward that fide where. the Sun was. We met with Paffengers that were going up that way we. went down;they cold us thac the wind Was very impetuous below, and did much incommodate them by. blowing in their faces and eyes, bur rhe higher they came, it was leffer and fefier : and touching our felves, when we came to the place where they

- faid: che wind blew fo-hard, we found: a kind of ftorm;. and it increafed Mill che lower we went, untill the

Sun being well advanced, dreweno

more by that line, but caufed a. wind

infome other place.

that Country

The peovle of |

aflured)

me, that ir

was there alwaies-fo, if fome! extra.

erdinary and: violent

accident did

not intervene; and divert. its -ordi. mary courfe,. which is, thar uron a

cetram hour of the day, the wind doth: raife-ie felf to.fucha rumb,” or-

point, and when the Sun is conc toa-

zesher point, another wind nfech, and: {oy

!

|

the}

|ste.le: “aaa

Emi

SEE

“Hg HE: Gg

(27) fo from hand to hand ic changes the point till che Sun fet, which alwaies

brings with ita calm, if the: weather be fair, and thac alwaies-comes from

the Mount Vifo, oppolite to the Sun, They told us alfo,thar rhe daily wind

is commonly ftronger towards

the

bottom of theMountain, than towards the cop;whereof the reafon is evident, for the naturall motion. of every body naturall doth increafe alwaies in fwiftnefle, according as -it moves forward to irs center, andthat in an unequall number, (as Galileo hath ingenioufly demonftrated , ‘I did ic alfo in another Treatife) that is to

fay, that if at the -firl! moment

it

advanceth anell, in the

it

fecond

advanceth three, inthe third five, in the fourth feven, and fe: it contmu_ethto augment inthe fame manner;

which proceeds from the denfity, and ficure, of the defcending body acting upon the ceffibilicy of the medium.

And thefe fmal bodys which caufe the: wind from Mount Yifo arethick and terreftrial; for the fhow being’ comyofed of aquaticall and. earthly parts | united by the cold, when: thé heat of

.

(28),

of the Solar beams doth difunice parts flie wichthem, while the- terreltriall, being too heavy to fly upward, fall prefently downward. This

alm nets.

Flee | tock | anu

makes me remember a very remark-

et (

and feparace

them ,

che vifcous

able ching, which befell me: when was with my Fleet in the Port of Scaneron, ot Alexandrette, towards the bottome of the Mediterranean Sea : there they ufe to difimbark, whenthey goto Alepps,or Babylon.

I had done already what: J had inten: ded to doin thofe feas, and ‘happily: compafied my defign,foit imported me much to return to: England as foonas rotibly I could, and the rather becaufe my Shiss were battered’

i}

I

and t

i fo

felve: ad;

| Eat)

| fore

We f

pon Novy

eithe

| for.

1 Warr

bya gteat fight, which I’hid had “a- | hud

little before

again® a ‘formidable

abroy

power; which, althoughI hid ob-. had

tained the better, yet info furious 2

difpute, my Fleet was in fone dift

order, and my Ships full of wounded’.

men.

To advife therefore

‘of the

mo't expedient road to cometo fone harbour, where I might repaire umy: Ships, and be in {urery ; [ affembled | j all’

|tho

Nan |

| lites ae peal

OSE SE: SERS:

Gag

(29) all my Captains, Pilors, and’ Mari-

nets, the moft experienced of my Fleet ; and having propounded unto chem my-defign, they were all of an unanimous opinion, that che futet courfe was towards. rhe South; and to coaft upon Syria, Judea, Egypt, and Affrica,-and render our felves at the Stretght of Grbraltar ; and failing fo near the body of the Earth, we fhould have every night

fome {mall briezes.of wind, whereby

we fhouldinafhore time make our Voyage.. And befides, we fhould notbe in any great danger to meet either with Spaza/o ot French Fleets s for England was at that time in open

warte with borhthofe Kings, and we had advice that they had great Fleets abroad, to vindicate fome things we

had done in: prejudice of them:.both: thofe fixteen

months that we te-

mained Matter of thofe Seas ; therefore it-concerned us tomake towards

fome fafe Port, where we might bot hi os ee eT

cD mw co a ty = —TS

J

nl

refreth our men, and repaii our bac~ eered Veffels.

= . wee.

5a _~—

re ae =

My opinion. was clean contrary ©

(30)

to theirs, for I believed

way.

Was

to

fteer our

our bet

courfe arth Weftward , and to faile along the. coaits Coatis of Cilicia, Pamphylia, Lydia, iNot

Natolia, or Afia the léffe, and to Upon

traverfe the mouth of the Archipe- late tho fago,"o leave the AdriaticSea k on the tallth tight hand, and pafleby Sveily, Zra- -(etent,

ly, Surdinia; Corfica, the Gul ih of “Buty, Lion; andf{o coat all Spaim; telling herber

them thatit would bea great difho- elleby

nour

unto us to forfake our be and by road for fear of the enemy, being that. our chief buGnefs thither was to find’ them out,and the protection which it had pleafed God to afford us all along

in fo many combats

in going, was

Providence

vouchfafe

caufe to make us hope that the fame would

to “Mii

guide usas we fhould be reruming, That there was no deubr bur that the roid which TI protofed unto rhem, confidered fim»ly in iw felf, was ,

Without conparifon, the better, and

the more expedire to faile our of the

Mediterranean

Sea ,. and gain the

Ocean, becaufe,faid f, that althouch’

We have the’ briezes from‘off ‘he | each

10m th

Onthey

hig

Hoy

atarag

mt yy | | MyW

w3t)

th as long as we were upon the mejcoalts of Syria and Egypt, we fhall i, Mot have them atall while we faile

upon the coafts of Lybé:a, where there fure.thofe fearfull fands which they ta frall the Syrtes, which ate of a great .pxtent, the faid coaft having no hu-

finidity, for thereis neither tree nor ing erb grows. th. r2, there being nought

. (fe but moving fands;which covered wt {ad buried heretofere at one glut tt fhe puiffant Army of King Cambyfes. indyNow where there is no humidity, fae Sun cannot attraét to ‘make a Wind, fo that we fhall never find

; there, {pecially in Summer-tine, any ye fther wind buc that Regular wind ihich blowes from Eaft to Welt, aclordine to the courfe of the Sun, who

» the Fatherof winds, unlefle fome 4, wxtraotdinary wind happen, either ) ew

vom the Coaft ef Italy, which lyes North-ward,

or from the bortom of

s Pthiopia, where the mountains of the j and the fource of the

ataracts of Wyle: therefore if we ere neer the Syrres, the winds of be moft dangerous unto ‘aly would Us,

(32)

ceaufes, while they of my Council of * |

Warre ker chonfelvestirme to thei! '

experience ; which was the caufe tha

I would do nothing again& the unalbm

nimous fenfe of all ; for althougl l the difpofing, and refolugion of af/M' things depended abfolutely upon nyt felf, yet IthoughtI might be jufth/*' accufed of rafhnefs or wilfulnefs, 4/¥¢0 I fhould preferre my own advice be)! fore that of all the ret : fo wetool*i i that courfe, and went happily as fajf™ as the Syrtes of Lybia : but ther. our Land-briezes failed us, ahd fo feven and thirty dayes we had niéste other but a few. gentle Zephirg{4 ter

which came from the Weft, whithel# We were fteering ‘our courfe, ~Ww)!

Were conftrained to keep at anchgjiie all chat time, with a great deal of ap}! prehenfion of fear, thx the win might come from the North, accom"

panied wich had hippened becaufe our able to hold |

a tempelts for if chal tle , we had beerrall lof anchors hid not beei among thofe now {and

| ll: i

ae

ER LOE

BE

CORPS

(33)

i,

ajtatads, for under water they ate’ of jithe: fame” nature as they aré ‘upon iaety land’, andfo we might be in rhwdanger to‘ be (nipwrackt! upon that hath nycoatt. But God Almighty, who I

vupbeen pleafed I fhould have theho-

yijnour to wait upon you this day, did

,yfucliver me from that ‘danger.

And

sagt the end of feven and thirey dayes, “awe obferved the courfe of the clouds

Jyivery high, which came from Southgeal at firit bur flowly, buc by de-

igerees. falter and’ fafter, infomuch » ‘Mlthat in the eompafie of two dayes, the wind which was forming it felf

" a great way off in Erhwpia, came in

‘aga Cempelt tothe place where werid

hat anchor, and led us to the place

Iwhither we intendedto go ; bueche

“fl Force of it was broken before, coming

“nj fo Jong a diftance. © in“9 Our of this difcourfe we may e wher every that and conclude,

og tets ifyi Wherefoever there 1s any wind, there iy be alfofome {mall bodies, or atoms, ate drawn fron the bodies ; | Peawhich

Ss

- y

i

K

a

Now fa e

}

which lye in the bodies,

whence

they come, by the virtue of the ey an ,

(34)

.

and of the Liehr, and that in effegiit

cis winds nothing eli burethe fid P

atones,azirated ,.and.chra@ on. b ny a kind of inpecuofity ; and fo thal

Winds do partake of the qualities | ‘of the place from. whence they come; ‘ C

as for example, if they cone from ith

the

South,

they are

hot;

if. fro} o

the North they are cold: if from the

Earth alone, they. are dry.; if from!

the Marine, or Sea-fide,.they are}™ umid and moit 3 1f from plac es Hel

Which produce

aromaticall fubRan.| ces, they are odoriferous, wholeforg itin fi and

pleafing; as they fay thofe which fc

come fron Arabia Fz 14, Which pro|

Max

duceth Spices,Perfu-nes and Gunmes enc of {weer fayour;and this which comes pln fron F axtenay, and. Vaxgirard «tof lon

Lares, in the feafon, of -Rofes, Dh are all perfumed : on the contrary, fe n

thofe winds thir com> fron ftinking fit |

places, as fron the ful shureous foil Pitted of

Pozsulo,

do

ifmel| Wl:

and yet

thofe that cone fron infected places, fi {x bring the contagion along with th=n, ie My third princiste thal| be, thac Pus the Air

is full throughout with fnalt: P tod badiz $.or atenes, or rather thre §

ree

Which

% ) ae

;

|

; he BPS tay) pts

Ae

PARI AOAN.t

sia

ee

LAWN C HURON Ug

.

nies

i

<i

—

,

ee

| ts. le Sea a ».

ASE ° Rene =tag

|

|

(35)

ealhich we -call our, air, is no. other ig

oe

S

°

jaa a mixture, or confufion of fuch

y}OmMes, wherein che aereall parts do Jo¢cominate, viog} 4. is Well known, that in nature

mapere cannot be actually. found any esate Element, without being blended pith others); for the outward fire ,

LV)

shot the light acting one way, and

ae | , r e ‘og Internal fireeC of every body puthice lg on another way, cauferh this arvellous mixture of all things in

i things.

In that huge extent, nferein we place the air, there is yhpaicient fpace, and liberty in which wf Make fucha mixture, which Ex‘detience. as well as Reafon doth

aearme. .-Ehave feen-little Vipers, sl foone

as they. came out of the

jagegs Wherein they were ingendred ,

ofS net an 3 inch long,Do having. ; ven. kept, in a. large. Gourd ,

wipweted with. paper-tyed: round. awe hut that they; might not cet out, tag?

Let aS oF WAY,

(td.

13

little. .holes

|

;

safus,

ms

:

made + with 5

(thacithe.,air might’

enter,

i pereafe in fubtance. and .bignefle orten Es fe) fly .in Gx, eight, nul prodiciou )

months

(36)

|

months,that it is‘incredible,and more did fenfibly, during the feafon' of theelk (, quinoxes, then, whet che ait is fuller ond of chofe ethereal and balfaintcall a-tithy

tomes which gavethem their balfa-te ty; mick vittue,which they-drew for thei ny nouricures

Hous

Hence ‘it came that the Cofmopoctens Jites had teafon to jay, EftIn ACre OC-lhyh.

cultus vite cibus.-

There is a hiddemyye

food *of life inthe air. Thefe fmallly ¢; Vipers had but the air onely fot hus their fuftenance, nevertheletle by thisth

thin viand, they came in fefle thanttyy: a yeartoa foot long, and proporti-he +, onably big and heavy: Vitriol, Salty | peter, and fome other fubfances, do! aay augment in the fame manner, oni inVe f

t by.attraction of air. he P Iremember, thar upon forne occas] ens

fion , eventedh or eighteen yeares it»,

ago, I had. o¢cafion to ufea pound)Ry,,

of Oyle of Tartar ; it was at ‘Parayyp hyd

where I had ‘then! no Opeticoryati, Then I defired ALexfeur Ferrier,a

Ha.|

mati univerfally known’ by all fuck}...

\ \

(

that are curious; to make mefomej} Wh de{

for he had none’ then ready “a A, ue

|

se ae. “SRA? ESR

|

OS”

Oe

peer

*

(37)

int didic expreffely for ‘me, and for

keene Calcination

of Tartar,

twenty

ilgjound may be as eaiily made as two,

lrichout increafe of«charge, therefore ula? took occafion hereby to make a imuanticy for hisown ufe. When he

Houchrit me, the oyle did {mell fo nscone of the Rofe, thar Icomplained

pat he fhould mingle ic with that eater, in regard I bad defired him

nll do it purely, by expofing it to fife humid ait, ie I verily thought var iin Rofe- water ; he fwore unto

wtiae thache hid not mingledit wich

vidi ny Itquor, bur thar he had left the

Partar calcined within his Cellar, to oes of iI Self. Tt was then in ee ae

Ie

| 2 atomes, whieh ¢come fotg fe Rotes : ann being changed into wa-

imer Sy the poweerfull attrastion of the alt‘of Tarcar, théir fmell became ve-

My Jenfble inthe place where they jmivere gathered ; as the beams of the sapun do barn, being crowded together andva Bu,ning-glats.

There

(38)

bod

There happened alfo another mar- Pun

vellous thing touching this oyle of Mich}

Tartar, which may ferye to provea Hoth (

propofition which we have not yet ipire if couched: but not to interrupt ie istat courfe of the ftlory, TZ wall cell: 1c }peysc, you by way ofadvance. It was, thathur,. as the feafon of Roles was pafied, ie th the fmell of che Rofes did vaniih Jpg ) WAL

away fromthe faid oyle of Tartar, jhnit',

{o that in three or four months it }q.4,,i was quite gone. - But we were much jy... furprifed, when the next year the: Hee)i faid odour of Rofes returned as Rrong jin \ as ever it did, and‘fo sent away Ahi fo. again, towatds winter, which courle jj; ». .

it flill obferves. VVhich made Afor- Min.

fear Ferrier to keep it asa fing lar Hei, i rarity, and the laft Summer I found Bese. the effet of it ih his houfe. _WVe havein London an

Theta, unlucky } ‘io

and troublefome*confirmarion of this ‘ nh doSrine , for

the air ufeth to beg

full of fuch, atone:.

i

~The materiall®

whereof they make fircin thar great City,iscommonly of pit-coal, which jj, is brought from Meweajtle, o Scot-

land;

this coal hath in it a great)...

quantity) tt ‘4 ,|

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Wefyuanc.ty of volatil falcvery flaarp x ivhich being carried on by chefmoke woth. diffipate ic felf, and fill rhe ayire, wherewith “ic doth ‘fo incorpolate, that alcliough we do not feeic,

yec we find the effects, for it fpoiles uieds, Tapittties,and all other houfhold-

ltuff chat is of any beautifull fair ilhfolour, for the fuliginous aire doth

i, Armith ic. by degrees: and although jf Jme fhould' lock up his Chamber, and uitjomeé nér chithéra good while, and it Jeep icnevet. fo. clean, yet at_his ree nay Ht ag

Yb La

rial |

cilird that-ic is this aire which the jiines draw for- refpiration among

wale 1 habitants ,thereforethe flegne Od fitcle which comes from then

ye

teas

OA.

1s ¢

pahert

:

C40y

|

4s commonly blackith and fuliginous. |!

Moreover, the actimeny of this foot |whic produceth ‘another funeftous effect., eels

forit makes the people fubje& to |"

inflammations, and. by degrees to |)flied ulcerations in‘ che lungs. Ir is fo}! cortofi e, and biting, chat. if one ‘ian

put. gammons of bacon, or beef, or) #5 any other flefh -within. the chim-| My of _—

ney,itfo dries icup, that it {poiles) "to

it. Wherefore they who have weakj#t 1 dunes; quickly feel it, whence ig Lede

comesto pafle, that almoft the one Mp

halfe of them, who die in Leadon jiiiv

di¢of ptificall, and pulmonicall diejlvid:

flempers, {pitting commonly blood) «

from their ulcerated lungs... But attic, che beginning ofthis malady, the regppitieh

medy is very eafie;_ It is but to-fendynirh them toa place where the aire stu good: many. do, ufually. come

& alle

aris, who haye meansto pay thelitel;

charge of fuch a journey, and cheptn,

commonly ufe .to recover; rheih}tger healchs in perfection. The fame ine} yj conveniences are alfo, though: cheval f operations. be not fo frong in che} nd

City_of Liege, where the COMMON Fly

|

people;

are

«people burn no other than pic-coals,’ ep iwhich they call Aoville, Paris her felf alfo, although the circumambi-

gent aire be paling good, is yet . giiubject to incommodities of char nature. The exceflively {linking dirt and channels of that vaft City, mingleth of ill allay with the puI, Of 4 great deal jrity of the aire, ftufing itevery where siqwvith corrupted Atomes ,. which yer \s rhe ALL

are

not fo pernicious

as thofe of

qLondon. We findthat the moft neat

n@and polifhed filver plate, expofed to

j athe aire, becomes. in a fhort time

\ alivid and foul; which proceeds from

iwino other caufe, then from — thofe ,

plack Atomes,

(the true. colour of

» qpucrefaction which ftick unto them. ¢qqind the more polifbt and bright the ., #metal -is the. more viGble are they pil.I know a perfon of quality, (anda f@angular friend of mine) who is. lodgaed in a place, where on the one fide “ymtgteat many poor people do inkapit, where few Carts. ufe to paffe, ind fewer Coaches: his neighbours ychind his thoufe empty ther filch ad ordure in the mi ddle of the C2 fircet,

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{treet, which ufeth hereby to be full

|

|. ™ of mounts of filth, whichis ufed ro Beam be carried away by Tombrells;

when they remove “you cannot imagin

thefe ordures, ie

what a ftench, glancl

atid’ kind oF infectious aire is {mele |

thereabout every where. The fer- Ht

‘wants of my faid friend, when this |"

happens, ufeto cover their: plare, | and andizons of rolithed braffe , and |}: other of their faireft houfhold-ftuff, | with cotten, or courfe bayes, other- hss

wife they would be all carnifhed ; ac

yet nothing

héreof is feen

wirhin |"!

che aire: though thefe experiences do} |" manife(tly convince, that the aire is |"

ftuffed with fuch atomes. I cannot |* omit to adde hereunto ‘anorker ex. |Mtl

periment, which is, that we find by if

the effects, how the rayes of the} Ilned ‘Moon are cold:and moift. It is wich- |ts ei

Pe es

Hoots

out controverfie, that the luminous | parts of thoferayes come from the}

Sun, the Moon having‘ no light ac)} alfwithin her, as Her eclipfes bear witneffe,* which happen when the eatth isoppofite ‘twixt her & rhe Sun; Which ‘inter‘pofition fuffers’ her not

Jtyp }they 9" t } Mt

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ino have light from his rayes..

The

q

,,.foeames then which come from the »(Moon, are thofe of the Sun, which .4 glancing upon her, refle&t upon us, a

« |e

imnd fo bring wich chem the atomes. of. ithac cold and humid ftar, which par-: eae

fiticipates of the fource whence they

Beo-ne : therefore if one

fhould ex-

“mpofe a hollow bafon , or glaffe, to ,¢uaflemble them, one

fhall find, thar

whereas thefe of the Sun do burn by

“ifuch a conjuncture , chefe

clean

‘contrary do refrefh and moyften in Janotable manner, leaving an aqua‘ck , and vifcous glutining kind of

feat upon the elaffe.. One would } think ir were a folly that one fhould sig offer co. wath his hands in a well-po. oh lifned falver-bafon, wherein there is

MI) not adrop of water, yer this may be

Wl) done by the reflexion of the: Moonwn beams onely, which will afford a

1" competent humidity. to doe it ; but

it

|

they who havé tryed this, have found

ie their hands, after they are wiped, sto be much moifter than -ufually:

SIME uc chis is an infallible way to take MB) away warts from the hands, if-ic be

often ufed.

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Letus then conclude out of thefe

pats, end

Premifes, and experiments, that the

aire is ful of Atomes,which are drawn from ‘bodies “by meanes of the light which refleé&ts. thereon, or which fally out by the interior naturall heat of chofe bodies, which drive

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healy

_ fente

quan 1ser with eflen qua (ivi

them forth, It may haply feem impoflible that there can be an ~ €Manation of fo many fmall bodies,. that fhould be fpread up and down: tec the aire, and be fo carried up and | down, and {6 far by a continuall Aux, |, GI may fayfo) and yee the body | i

whence they come receive no

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Minution that is perceptible, though |

fometimes ’tis vigble enough, as by

the evaporations of the fpirits of | wine, musk, and other fuch volatif |

fubftances. Bur this objeGtion will | be null, andthe two precedent prin-. ‘ ciples will render themfelves more |

credible, when we shall fettle ano- | ther, wz. That every body, be it 4} never fo little, is divifible ad infni- |)

tum, not that it hath infinite. parts, "|

for the contrary thereof may “be demonttrated, but it is capable tay| Cau

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parts,. without ever coming to the lend of the divifion. And it 1s in this fenfe that out Mafters teach us that | quantity isinfinicely divitble. This is evident to-himwho fhall confider with a profound . Imagination.

Neffence,

te

and the formal! ceafon of

MG ‘quantity, which is nothing elf> Buc H diviobilicy. Buc i regard char this

i fpeculation

is _vety fubtile.

metaphyficall, I will ferve

and.

‘my ‘elf

-with fome geometticall ‘demonftta they for , truch this e prov tions to accommodate beft with the imagina‘tion. -Enclide doth, teach: us in the

tenth Propofition of his fixth book, char if one take a: fhert line, and

another long one, and that the long be divided to: divers equall parts

ewixt themfelves,.

the

little one

may be divided alfo into as many equall parts among thémfelvs,&& every one of thofe parts alfo into others, and thefe lat into fo many more, an

fo confecutively, withour being able ever to come to that which is not di- -

yifible, |

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But lets {uppofe ( although ic be impoflible) thar one might divide ,

and fubdivide a line, fo that at laft we fhould come to an indivifi ble ,

and lets fee what will come of its fay then, that fince the line dothI

refolve it felf into indivifibles, flie

ought to be compofed of them ; lets | fee whether thar may be veriSe d, 4}...

To which purpofeI take three indi~ vilibles, and to diftinguith the m, lec the

m be A.B. C. for if three Ons ofindivifibles make 4 lon millithree indivifibles will make ag line. one. I put them then-in a fhore Firft, I putA, then B, foneer rank; , that they touch one another: ] fay that B. mutt neceffarily poffeffe the fame Placeas A, or that it doth nor fefle it; ifit dorh poflefle the of. place, they both together . ame mal ho

extenfion, and by che fame r fon. neither

3, NOL

Co, de haat

Joco will doz

bur all the indivi bles. wi! unitet it, o..”

gether, andthe refyft of all thallb2

but onely one indivisble.

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t ‘be then that being not both in muf the fame place, yet touching one wy : ther,

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‘ither, one part of B muft touch one

*)} part of A, and che other part touchltVerh icnot. Then Tadde the indivi. i bble C, whereof one part fhall touch 1} 4 pare of B which touches not A, and tl} by this means B is copulant, lying bei itween A and.C, to make the extenfi‘fon. Todothis, you fee that we mutt ds Hadmit thac Bhath parts.as the other i Hewo, which by your fuppofition are alff

kt Jindivifible; which being abfurd, the

ll fuppofition is impoilible. But to rens Ider che matrer yet more perfpicuous,

jlets fuppofe *that chefe chree indi lvifibles make one extenfion, and icompofe one line; the propofition tfalready ciced from Euchde demon-

¢Wiftraces charchis line may be divi ied

‘Minto thirty equall. parrs’, or-into: as i I/many as you pleafe: infomuch that «

iemuftbe granted that eve-y one of

« Ithefe three indivifibles may be divi+ i, §)ded into three parts, which is pomt0 @) blank agaimit the nature’ and’ denis hy Micion of an indivi%ble.

Bur-without

it M)dividing into fo many parts, Gaclide

ie Ml) Shews' by: his tenth propoficion of his

.

fir Flemene, that every line may Se

4, BM patted into two -equall parts : bueCc ..

this

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this being compofed of indivifibles of unequall number, ic muft necefla-| tily follow, that being parted intoy two, there muft be an indivifible more}

onthe one fide than on the other, ot

that chat of the middle be parted in-

to two halfs:infomuch, that he who | denies that quantiry may not be)

divided ad infinitum, doth entangle

himfelf in abfurdities, and incom. prehenfible impoffibilities. And on the contrary, he who affents unto it, will find ic no impofhibilicy , or

inconvenient, thac the-Atomes of all

bodies. whichare in rhe aire may be divided, ftretcht and carryed to a Marvellous ‘diftance. Our very fen-

fes vetifie it in fome fort : there is no body in the World which we know fo compat, fo folid, and weighty as gold, yet neverthelefle_unto what a ftrange extent and divifion may itbe broughr> Eets take an ounce of |this mafly metall, ic fhall be buta burton as big

as my fingers end. A beater of gold will maake thoufand leayes or more

a

‘oft his ounce; one half of thefeleaves ers 9) is te

it

{hall

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aks:

le fur(hall fuffice to guild the ofwhothr ee of face of a lingot of filver,

guilded four ounces : lets give this prepare who m, the to lingot of filver e lace s gold and filver thread to’mak oreatelt eadiet them. drawit tothe let them, Jengcth and fubtilcy they.can,a hair, and draw it to the chinneffe of r of 2 fo this thread may be a quarte more + if not league long in extent, re will not the gth len this ayidin all which, 1s me be the {pace of, an Ato old a Beh d. gol not covered with dilacation! of © ftrange and marvellous the like co al this half leaf : let us do gold , it will rhe reft of the beaten this {mall appear thatby this meansfo extended be button of gold may this City of that it may reach fromand far beyond Montpellier to Parity n millions ‘-: into how. many millio lded Lins, aui s ‘of atoms might novthi Vly be cucavith (mall cifers’?

preherid thie « Now, tis ¢alie to com made:

divifibilicy this extenfiom, and ts, as bert by fuch orofie inftrumen compar aby ete mers.and cifers, isnot ang

the light hat whichis made by

*

: 50) Fayes of the Sun.’ For it is certain, that if this gold may be drawn into any our fuch a great length by{pindles , or | fel wheels of iron, fome of thefe parts |one may eafily be carryed away by thofe winged Courfers ”we fpoke of be- |wh ‘fore,I mean, by the rayes that flie |fou ‘Here ana moment from the sun to the “ Vigo earth. : *~ Tf I did not fear it would prove

tedious unto you by my prolixity, 1 would entettain you with the

ftrange

fubtiliry of

little

bodi

es which iffue forth from living bodies,

y ‘means whereof: our dogs in

Ey. Slasd will purfue the fent of a mans fieps, of of a bealts, Many mile and not onely fo, but they will s: in agreat heap of flones thar whifind ch aman hath touched with his han d: Therefore it'muft needs bethar ‘the earth,or upon the ftone,fo upon me material parts of the body remain whi ‘hath touched it,yetthe body doth ch noe fenfibly diminith, no more than Am: bergrife , and. the Spanifh skins, which willfend out ofthem an odour

during: an hundred years, withoue

any

pi it |slow

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any diminution of skin or fmell. In

}our Country they ufe to fow a whole

field with one fort of grain, to wit,

ts J one ‘year with barly, the nexe with |wheat, the chitd with beans, and the

. /fourch year) they ler it reft, and

i: § ftercorize it, that it may tecover its

: J vigour by arcraction of the vitall {,1| ric ic receives from theair , and fo

plow it’ up again after the fame de-

| grees.

Now, the year that the field

| is covered with beans, the paffengersby doe ufe to fent at a good diftance off, if the wind blow accordingly, the {mellofthe Beans,’ if they be: in

|flower: Ie‘is a fmell that hath a

| fuavity withic; but fading, and at | afis unpleafant and heady. But } the fmell of Rofemary which comes | fromthe ‘coalts of Spain, goes fat | further: I havé failed by fea along | thofe coafts divers times, and I have | obferved’ alwayes, that the Mariners

know when they are within thirty or forty leagues of the Continent,

| (Idoe not exa&tly remember the di-

| ftance) andithey have this: knowledg

from the {mel of the Rofemarys which ‘ : ie

( (52) which fo abounds in the fields. of | | Spain shave {melcic as fenfibly, .as ifI had hada branch of. Rofemary 7 in my hand, and this was a day or”

two before we could difcover fand.; tis true, the wind was in. our. faces , ©

i»

and came .from the fhore.- Some | Naturalifts write that Vultures have

come two orthree

hundred leagues 7

y the fmell of carrens, off, by

.and | dead bodies left.in the field, afrer | fome- bloudy: battle; and ic was | known that thefe birds came from afar off, becaufe there was none ufed te

breed neerer'; they have a quick 7 fmelling, and it. muft be: that. the rotten atomes of thofe dead .carkafes were tranfported by the aire fo far;

3Tar FS EoA Ps 5. eget €;%eee ee wa. eoy :

weet =<4=Vi, ort nie ke ¢ge54aePee ~2 s=e>%. ; an

and thofe birds having once caught the fent, they purfue it to the very fource,and the neerer they come to it, the ftronger it is. /Wewill concludehere that which weshad to fay touching the great extent of thofe little bodies, which

bythe mediation of the Sun: beams; and of the light,-.ufe to! iflue-forth

put of alli bodies that are eanpoled }Sad hen ee I ee aoe ne oe Sa esa=Sar: Tee ee bale ar ‘a7:« wits, .bwe) eres on amr mr=itfFvy. ce tf,

me em gem ROR Shieh ar a 28 June are alia ee |S eee S>..: &einer PP eeogencape a

xml

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(53) of the four Efemenrs, which throng the air,and are carried a marvellous diftance from the place, and from the

bodies whence they have their origen and fource; the proof and explication of which things hath been-the aime of my difcourfe hicherte.

Now, my Lords, I muft, if you

pleafe, make you fee how thefefmall bodies that fo fill, and compofe the air, ate oftentimes drawn toa road

alrogether differing from that which

their univerfall caufes fhould make them hold;and that fhall be our fifth | principle.

One

courfe

may

remark .within.

the

and ceconomy. of nature,

fundry forts of attractions 2 as that

of {udion, or fucking, whereby I have feena

ball of lead at che bottom

of along feel exaktly wrought, fol-

tow the air, which one fucked: out ofthe mouth ofa Cannon, with that

i

=——e

2] £o >"

impetuoiry and ftrength , that it broke his teeth. |The’ attraCtion of water.or wine that is done by the

inftrument; Scyphon: is liketo:this, r 1s for by meanits of char, one. liquo made

:

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made to paffe from one veffell into . another, without changing any way

the colour, or rifing of the lees, There is another. fo: of artraction; which is called magneticall, whereby theloaditone draws theiron.

Ano-

ther electrick,whereby the Jett-ftone

draws untoit ftraws

There is ano-

therof che Flame, when the fmoke ofa candle put out, draws the flame

of that which burns ‘hard by, and

makes it defcend to light that which

is out.

There is another of. Filirg.

tion, whereby a humid body mounts upon adry body, or when the contrary is done. Laftly, when the fire,

or fome -hot body draws the air; and’ that ‘which is. mixed there_ with, We willtreat onely here of the two laft fpecies ofattraction,! have fufficiz ently fpoken of the reft-in another place. Filtration may feem to hiny who hath not attentively confidered it, ‘norexamined by what circum. ftances fo hiddena fecret of nature comes to pafle, and toa perfon of

@ mean and limited.underftanding., .

fo

;

2?

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, |tobe done by fome occult vittue, or |proyetry, and will perfwade himfelf,

|lthac. .

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within the Filtre, or {trayning Infirument, there is fome fecret | Sympathy , which makes water to | mount up contrary to its natural

% motion.

But he who will examine the buH finefs as it ought to be, obferving

afl that is done, without omitting Hany circumflance, will find there

is nothing more. naturall, and that it is impoiibleit fhould be otherwile.

‘And we mutt. make che fame Judge-

ment of all the profound and moft myfterics. of nature , if hidden ene would take the (ainsto difcovet | them, and-fearch into them with judgement.

Behold then how Filtration 1s § made, they ufe to put 2 long roung eS

§ of cloth, orcotten,

or f ongy mat-

ter, within an earthen pot of water

or other liquor , letting hang “upon: the bri» of the pot a good

part ofthe clorh, and one. fhall fee the water prefently mount up, and paffe above the brink of the vefiell, an

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and drop at the lower end of the_ piece of cloth, upon the ground, or within fome veffell - and the Gardners ufe chis way “to water their plants and. flowers in’ Sum-

mer by degrees: As alfo Apothecaries , and Chymifts fepgrate their liquors. from regs and refidences.

To comprehend the, reafon,

) ther

the , to Dyi their i ovat

| A, 5,

eth 4| why 8 Je they the water afcends in this manner,

Tet us neerly obferve alf that is done.

That part of the cloth whichis within the water, becomes wetted,to wit.it receives

and

‘imbibes

the

fo

1) of th |fh ;

water’ | ane

through its parts chat were at firft al fporigy and ‘dry. This cloth fwells in bye receiving the water, for two bodies

joyned together, require more room than one. of them would by it felf, Let us confider this fwelling, and augmented. extenfion in the laft ' thread of them which touch the wa-

ea

| ther

cat 1 pre | Nate

) hub

tér, vz. in that on the fuperficies, § dhe which muft be diftinguifhed ‘from che .reft, and marked ar rhetwo

ends,

(as a line) wich A. B. and the thread which immediately ae

follows,

Ht,

ae

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) 4 follows,

and is above it, muft be

C.D. and the following E.F, then wich

G,. H,

and fo to the end of

* Wiche roung :, I fay then chat the thread ng A.B. dilating it felf, and {welli enters which. watet che | by means of

_Bcwixt ics fibres or ftrings, apptoch-

W ethby little and little to C.D. which: His yet dry, becaufe ic toucheth not

n TD the water ; but when A.B. is growon reaf “by , ling fwel and fe ) fo grof it "Ty of the water which enters , that. dithe all a) fills all the vacuity, and . hy) Rance which lies twixtit and C.D, C.D ft again ech preff it jg) as alfo that "| by reafon of its extenfion, whichis greater then the {pace was betwaxt them. both, rhenit wets C. D. be-

caufe the thread A.B. being comprefled, the exterior patt of the be water which was init, coming to

a pufhed on upon C.D. feeks there ads, thre the in with place,and encreth and wets them, inthefame manner as at firt the exterior and higheft g fo ti) pare. became wet. C.D. bein B. A. s felfa irc e dilat : i wetted,it(hall

2equently prefling, lf| did, and conf gaintt |

on , |

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gaint E.¥F. ic cannot chufe bnt work ; the fame effect in it, which before | the it had received by che fwelling and | pot dilatation of A.B. andfob

gentle

a DY ae degrees every thread wets its neigh-.

||

bour,untill che yery la@ thread of the ona tounge of cloth. And it is norto be fae

feated that che continuity of the wa- ayy ter will break, afcending this fcale of |. cotds, of thatirc will recoife back wards.for thofe little ladders,fo eafié

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to be mounred, rendet the afcent he more eafie, andthe woolly fibres

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pace ; and fo the faciliry of ger. ting upwards together with the fluidneffe of th: water, and the na

lies 1 fo

Wayes to the uniting of fubitances,

| bs

of every thread feen to reach their |He. hands to hel» hem up at every*}

|i

ture of quantity, which tends ale

— tie

and of bodies whichir-clothes, when there occurs no other sredoninans

caufe to break and divideit, caufeth

that che water keeps it-f:lf in one

_

|

piece ,and paffeth. above the brink

”

| @

i

ofthe pot. After that ics voyage is . fi™ made more eafie, for it goes after its

“naturall panching , alwayes down.

wards,< |

| ae

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(59) pot,the water fpills on che earth,oron fome veffel placed beneath,as we fee that aheavier cord being hung upona pully, rhe longeft and heaviett es falls upon the ground, and carrieth — —

Co

ae .

=

= Pn ————

—=S&S =

away the fhorteft, and lighteft, ma-

aeens oe

coe ea!

king it paffe above the pully. eae aT

<vo

=

Se

hfé the outward

But

end of the cloth

which is without the pot were hori-

_

zontall with the furfaceof the watet, and did hangno lower them, the water would be. immoveable : as the two fides ofa balance, when

———

-

there is equall weight in both. the

ee en

fcales.

And if one would

poure out

the water thatis inthe pot, in fuch

fort that the fuperficies did grow: lower then the end of the cloth,; in

thar cafe the afcending water becoming mote heavy then the defcendant on the other fide without the pot , would call back thac which iN] yas gone out before, and was ready to fall, and would make ic thruft on, ee

4

| and return to its former pace, and enter

(60) enter again into the pot, to mingle :

again with the water which lyes, therein.

You fee then all this myftery,which | at firft was fo furprizing, difplayed

and made as familiar and ‘natural: as to fee aftonc fall down from the air. |; Tis true, that. tomakea demonttra-!

tion thereof by an exa& and com- | pleat rigour, we mutt adde other circumfanc es, which we have done at length in another Difcourfe,wherein I:

have expreflely treated of this fubje&.

But that which I now fay is fufficient. | upo this occafiO.to give a tinCturehow | this fo notable an aera

is made.

The other attraction which is made |

by fire, and draws *untoic the am-, |

bient air, withthe fmall bodies there- | in,is donne rhus ; The Fire acting according to its

own nature, (whic histo puth ona continuall river, or exhalation. of its

parts, from the center to the circum-

ference, and ourofits fource, )earriech away wich it the air Svhich yis ad~

Joyned, and fticking to. it onvall

fides, as the water of ativer drawes along,

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(61) i*Iong withicthée earth of that chan.

mel or. bed through which ir glides.

‘For the aire being humid, and the

fire dry, they cannot do leffe. chan i} embrace, and-hug one another.

Bur

there mutt anew aite come from: the

atl

places circumjacent,to fil che

room

fell Of char which is carried. away by the

=aJ=

fire, othe:wife there woulda vacuity

happen, which nature abhors. This | new ait remains not long in the place § whichit comes to fill, but the fire,

Pa

which is ina continuall carreer, and

emanation of its parts, carties it prefently wich him, and draws .the ade. new. aire,and fo there is a‘ perpetuall, hows !

oe

atti and confant current of che aire, as aia long as the action of fire continues. el We dayly fee the experience hereof, ) for if one makes a. good fire in, ones

Chamber, indraws the. aire from the re) | door, and windows, which though is | one would-fhut, yer there be crevi-

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Alt | yes | ay

cesand holes for the aire to enter,

and coming near them, one

fhall

hear a kindof whifling noife, which

the aire makes in preffing .telenter, and’tis the fame ‘caufe chat producet

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ceth the found of the Organ and

Fluce ; and hewhovould ftand be-

tween the crevices andthe firé, he fhould find fuch an impetuofity of that artificiall wind, chat he -would bereadyto freeze, while héig teady to burn the other fide nextthe fire, And a candle of wax being held in

this curreof ntthe wind would mele by her flame blown againitthe wax, and wait away in avety fho:t time: Whereas if that. candle ftood in. a calme place , that her flame might burn ‘upward, it would ‘lat much longer. But if there be no paflage whereby the air may enter into the Chamber, the one part then of the vapour of the wood: which fhould

have converted

to flame, and fo

Mounted upthe funnel of che chim: hey, defcends downward .againtt its Nature, for to fupply the’ defeat of

air within the tid Chamber, «aiid

fills ic with fmoke, but at lat the fire

choaks, and extinguifheth for want of air. Whence it comes to paffe that

the Chymists have reafon

to fay,

thac the air is thefife of the fre, as well {

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‘dwell as. other animals. But if one Nee jpucs abaion, or veflell of Water be. fore che firé upon the hearch, chere will be no fmoke in the Chamber,

alchough it be fo clofe fhuc chac ithe air cannot enter, forthe fire ats tracts parts of the water, which is a ‘in fliquid-fubftance, and eafie ro move ek out of its place, which aquatick parts 4, prarthe themielves into air, and there-

e: by cerform the functions of the air.

,;uThis is more

evidently feen if the

st) Chamber be Jiccle, for then the .air

i WWhich is there penned in, is fooner

we Wtaifed up, and ¢arryed away.

And

ie by reafon of this atcraétion, they ufe 2 to make great fires, where there is {i §oufhold-tiuffe of men chit died of ( the Peftilence,to dit-infe& chem. For pty

this. inundation of air which is

criwn.the fre doth asit weréfweep

ithe walls,

the planks, wich other

iplaces of the Chamber, - and takes

away thofe liccle putrified, thar, Bicottofve,

and venomous bodies,

Swhich were the infeCions. that. -d(i hered unto it, drawing chem into

§ the fire, where they are partly burner, |

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and-partly fen. up into che chimney, accompanied isvith the atoms of the fire and the fmoke.: It’ is'for this reafonthaethe great: Hippocrares,who dt- 4}dod

wed fo far inco the fecrets of Nature,

disinfetedjand freed from the plague

awhole Provincesor entire Region,by

cauGng them to make great fires every where.

Now., this: manner of attraction

is. made, not onely by a fimple fire, but by: chat’ which: partakes of it, viz,by the heated fubftances : and char: which, isithe: reafon and caufe ofthe one;

other,

is alfo che canfe of the

For:the fpirits, or ignited

patts evaporating from fuch a fubftance, orhovbody, carry away with | chem theiadjacent aire, which ought

neceffatily to be nourithed by fome other aire, or by fome matter which keeps othe place of the aire, as we have fpoken of the bafon, and tub of water put before the: fire to: hinder fmoke. Ic is upon this foundation, that Phyfitians do ordain thz hot” application ef Pigeons, or young’ |

i do3s,osfeme ether hor animals, rel to’ the

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(65) the foles of che feet, or the hand. writs, or the ftomacks, ornavills of

i

.}) their patients, to extract out of rheir

| bodies'the wind, or ill vapours which e § infe& chem ; and in time of contra-

| cion, ot univerfall infection of the

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aire, pigeons, cats, dogs, with other

y

..4 hot animals, ufeto be killed; which

|make continuallya great cranfpira-

os | Cion of evaporation of fpirits, becaufe 4 |) the aire by thofe attractionsirmales,

i, taking the room of the fpirics, wi, Which iffue forth of evaporation, the

wel, peftiferous’ atoms which are fcattered ‘em inthe aire, and accompany it, ufe wif to flickto their feathers, skinz, ot ah. furres. ii@ And for the fame reafon we {ee

a em ich yh

that bread coming hot from the Over, draws untoitthe muft of the

cask, which fpoiles the wine, if they pueichor upon the bung. And that | onions,g fuch hot bodies which per-

) petually exhale unto them the fiery ot Parts, which appears by the ftrength

jot Of theit fmell, are quickly taken with infeCtious airs, ifthey be expo-

feduntothem, which is one of the °

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fignes to know whether the whole mafle of the air be univerfally infe-

nat fety

éted.

an Hil

And one might reduce to this

head

the. grear attraction :of. air,

which is made by calcin’d bodies, and particularly by Ta:tar, allignited by the violent action of the tre

upon it, which is heaped cogether, and bodified. a~ong

ats falc: for I

have. obierved chacic attracts unto. it hine times more air then ic weighs it felf.. For af.ene fhould expofe ro

the air a pound: of fale of Fastar well calein’d, and burnt, it willafford youten pound of good oy! of Tartar,

drawing unto it, and io bodifying cbh2-circumiacent air, end chac wherewich tis mingled ; as it befell thae oyl-of Tartar. which Adou/iesr Ferrier

made me., whereof. I {pake :pefore, .

Buc: methinks. thac ll this is but lictle compared to the attraction .of

air, which was made by the body of a cerrain Nunive at Rome whereof Pe-

trus Servia, Orban the bizhch’s Phyfician,mikes mention ina bookwhich

whe hath pablifhed,, touching the |

Mare

fell a 90 facy afly

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(67) marvellous accidents which he ob-ferved in his cine. Had I not fuch an Author, I durit not produce this

Hiitory , alchough the Nunne her felf aid confirm it untome; and chat a good number of Doétors of the faculty of Phyfick- at Rome, did affure me of che cruch rhereof: There was a Nuane, chat by exceffe of fating, of watchings, and mental

orifons, was fo heated in herbody; that fhe feened to be all on fire} and her bones dryed up, and calcin’?d ; This heac’ chen, chis ‘internat

fire, drawing ‘the air fo powerftlly; thts air did: incorporate within her

body,

as it ufeth to doe in fale of

Tartar, andthe paflages being all’ open, it got to thofe parts -where there is mot feroSty., which is the’ blader, and thence fhe rendred it~

in water among herurine, and’ thac’ in an incredible quantity, for fhe: voided during fone weeks, more thin two hundred rounds of- water every foursand twency hours. With: this notable example I will puc.an: end to the experiments I have-ur-D 3 ged:

(68) ged to prove and explicate the attraétion whieh 1s made. of aire, by hoe.

and ignited bodies, which are of the mature of fire.

My fixth Principle fhall be, thac when fire, orfome hor body attracts the aire, and. that which ts within rhe

att, if it happens. that wichin that air there be found fome difperfed atoms of the fame

nature

wich the

body which draws them, rhe ateracti-

on of fuch atoms is made mote powerfully, then if they were bodtes-of a different nature , and chefe

atoms doe ftay, flick, and minele witk

more willingneffe with the body which

draws

them.

“The

reafon

hereof ‘is the refemblance and Sympathy they have one wich the ether. If I fhould nat explicate wherein this refemblance confifted, I fhould expofe my felf to the fame

cenfure and blame,

as that-which I

taxed at. th3 beginning of my Dif.

courfe,. touching*thofe who fpeak but lightly and vulgarly of the Powder of Sympathy 5 and’ fuch mrr2

vails of nature, -But -when-I thall have

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for byfuch a refemblance and conveniency , 1 hope then you will reft

fatisfied.

1 could make you fee that

there are many forts of refemblances which caufe an union between bodies, but I will content my felfe to

declare ones.

Th

here .onely.

three fignalk

firt refemblance

fhall be

touching ‘weight, whereby bodies of the fame degree of heavineffe doe affemble together, the reafon wherewi ofis evident, for if one body were

more light, it would poffeffe a higher

Gruation thin the heavier body, as

onthe contrary, ifa body were more weighty, it would defcend lowet thar that which is leffe heavy, but both hwing the fane degree of heavinefle, they keep compatiy together in equilibria, as one may fee by experierrce in this gentile example, which fome curious fpirits ule to” produce, for to ‘make us underttand

how the four elements aré fituared

one above the other , according to’

rheir weight and heavineffe.

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ufe to put in a viall the fcirit of 2

wine tintur’d with red, to reprefent

the fire; the fpiric of Furpentine

tinctured withblew, for the air; the

fpiric of water tinctured with green, to reorefent the element of water;

and to reprefene the Earth , the Powder of fome folid metal’ ena-

Mell’d; you fee them one upon the

other ‘without mixing , and if you

fhake them together by a violent agitation, you {hall fee a Chaos,

fuch a confufion, that it will feen

there’s no particular atomes that belong to any of thofe bedies, they ate fo. huddled pel{-mell_cogether, But when this agitation is agitated, you fhall fee prefently every one of

thefe four fubftances go to ies natural

place, calling again, and

labouring

counite all their atoms in one ditingt mafle, that you fhall fee no mixture

at all.

The fecond: refemblance: of bodies which draw one another, and unite,

Is among

them

fame degree

which

are of the

of rarity and> denfity.

The nature and effe& of Quantiry bas!

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isto reduc2tounity allchings which? it finds , if chere interpofe nor fome other {trenger power, (as the differing fubftanciall- forme,

which doth

multiply ic) doe not hinder.

And

the reafon ofthat is evident, for“the effence of Quantity isa divifibilicy,

or capacity to be divided, which 1s°: 4s much to fay, as to. make ic many; °

whence it may be inferred ©thac: Quantity it felfis not many, there‘fore fhe is of-herfelf, and in her own’: nature , 4 continued extenfion '::

feeing then that the natureof Quan-' tity 1 generall tends to tnicy, and continuity, the firft differences of

Quantity; which are rarity and den-fity, muft produce the fame effect of unity and continuity: in thofe’ bosdizs which convene inthe tame de-

gree with them. we

Forproof whereof,’

find thar water doth unite and

incorgorate

it felf frongly and ea--

fly with waterjoyle with oylé,the foi-

rit’ of wine with: {ptric’ of wine; but Water andoyle can hardly unice, nor

mercury with the friric of wine, and other: bodies ofdiffering denfiry and cenuty. .

dD. &

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The third refemblance of bodies which unite and keep themfelves,

{trongly rogether,is that of Figure : I willnot ferve my felf here with the ingenious conceit of a great perlo-

nace. who holds that the continuity

of bodies. refulss from fone fmall hookings ot clafpings, which keep them. together ,. and are differing in bodies of a differing nature. Bur not to-extend my felfe too. diffufiveJy. inevery particuloricy, Twill fay 1 erofie, as an apparent thing, thac every kind of body affects a particular figure. We fee it plainly.in the feverall forces of Salt, peel and fiamp them feparately, diffolve, coi-. gulate, andchange them as long as you pleafe, they come again alwayes

csbe ~~

to; their own: naturall fioure > akter

every. diffolution, and coagulation.

The ordinary fale doth. form. it felf alwayes.in cubes of four-fquare faces,

falr-perer in: formes of fix, faces> eArmomac fale in Hexagons of fix

points, as the {now doth, which is

fexangulary, Whereunto Mr. DaWifon. attributes the pentagonary fiours

oe >

fj gure. of evety one of thofe. ftones

which were found inthe bladder of the number of tor, | Min eur Pelletie

fourfeore ; for che fame immediate eficient caufe, whichis rhe bladder ,

had imprinted its aétion both within

the ftones, andthe falrof the urine.

The Difillators obferve, thar ifthey rowre upon the dead head of fome

difillacion, the water which was di-

filled, ic imbibes ir, and*re-unites incontinently, whereas if one would: powre any other water of an hereto-seneous body, it fwims on the to»,. and incorporates wich

«> i —_ =oe

much: difh--

culty. The-reafon is , that rhe di-fif’d water which feems tobe an homogeneous body , although it is compofed of fmall bodies of difcre-. pint figures, asthe Chynsi/sdo plait

= ———— : eee

Ss

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ly demonfirate,and thefe atoms be-

eee ee oe

€-n = ~s < aia >< = —_—-.

ing chaced by the aétionof fire... outoftheir own chambers, or beds,

which appropriated

unto. them by:

an exact jufineffe, when they come: back to their ancrene habications,.

viz, tothe pores which are left in the. dead heads, they aecommodate:

ay

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date themfelves, and amiably.rejoyn.

and. commenfurare together. The fame happens when.it rains after a Jong drought; for che. earth immediately drinks up the water, which ‘had been drawn up by the Sun, whereas. any, other - ftrange.. liquoz would enter with. fome- difficulty...

Now, thar there are differing pores in bodies which feem to-be homogencous, Monfieur. Gafferdus affirms it;and undertakes to prove it by the

difalutio of.falts n of differing na-.

tures it)..common water, and {ayes he to this effeat; chat when you have

diffelved common falt, as much as

cat bear, ifyou put onely.a feruple more, it, will leave icentire in

the bottom,

as if ic were fand, or.

plaifter*; .neverthelefle, it. will dif, folve.a good quantity of. Salt-peter, and thoughit toucheth not chis falc;

itwill diffolve as much of Armonia.

calf falc, and fo others of different

figures.

Infomuch..as I have obfer.

ved ‘elfewhere, we fee plainly by the @coregy of Nature, chat bodies of

th fame figure ufe to mingle more

ftrongly,

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(75) frongly,.and unice themfelves wich: more facility, which is the reafon why thofe thar make a ftrong glue to gue together broken pots of Porcelain, or C hry al, or fuch fluff, do

alwayes mingle with the glue the powder of that body which they endeavour to reunite -* And. the Goldfmichs themfelves,

when they

goabout cto folder together fieces of gold, or of filver, they mingle thofe bodies alwaies in their own duit.

Having hitherto run through the reafons and caufes why bodies of the fame nature draw-one to anes ther with: greater faciliry and force than others, and why. th2y unire with more promprtitude; lets now fee; according to: our method, how experience, confirmes this difcourfe5

fer in naturall chings we muft have recoutfe, e# dernier reffort, to expe-

sience., And all reafoning that is not fupporced fo-onght to be repudiated, or ar*leaft fuffedted to bs illegitimate.

Tis; any ordinary thing, when one finds

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7

finds himflf burnt as in the hand, he holds ita good while.as near the

fire as he can, and by this.means the:

ignited atomes of the fire, .and of.

the hand mingling together, and

drawing one another, and the ftrong-. er.of the two, which are thofe ofthe

fire, having che maftery, the hand finds 1c felf much fammation

eafed of the in«

which-ic fuffered.

Tis:

an: ordinary remedy, thougha nafty one, that they who have iHbreaths,

hold their mouths open:at che mouth:

ofa Privy, aslong as they can, and by the reiteration of this remedy, they find themfelves cured at laft ,. the greater ftink ofthe Privy drawing unto it, and carrying away the Jefle , which-is that of che mouth.

They who have-been: pricked, or bit bya Viper, or Scorpion; hold ovet

the bitten; or pricked place, the héad ef a Viperor Scorpion bruifed, and‘ . by this means the poyfon, by a kind: of filtration way, going onto gainethe heart of the party, returns back. to its principles, and fo leaves. the party well recovered, In time of” ‘eommon:

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common contagion , they ufe to carry about them the powder of a toad, and fometimes a living toad or

f-ider (hur upinabox ; orelfe they” catty arfnick, or fome orher venomous fubtance, vehich draws unto-

it the contagious air, which otherwile would in-eét the party > and the fame powder of a toad draws unto it rhe poyfon.of a peftilentiall cole.

The Scurf or Farcy ts a vyenomous and congagicus humour within the body of a horfe; hang a toad: about the neck of the horfe, ina lircle bags.

and he will be cured infallibly ; the: coad, which. ische ftronger foyfon,

drawing to it, che yenome which was nichin the Horfe. Make water to: evaporate outof a floye, or other room, clofé fhut, ifthere be norhing: chat draws this vapor, it will flick tothe walls of the ftove, and asit cools, it recondenfeth there into warer: burifyou put a bafon or buc-

ker full of water. into-any part of che Rove, ir willattract allthe varor

which filled the chamber, and fo doing , mopart of the wall‘will be

wetted,

wetted.

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If you diffolve mercury;

which refolving into faoke , doth pafle into the recipient, pur ito the

head of the Limbick a little thereof,

and all the mercuryin the Limbick

will. gather there; and nothing will

pafle into the recizient. If you ditill the fpicic of falt, or of vitriol, ot the baume of Sulphur, and leaving the paflage free betwixt the {pirie and the dead head whence iciflued forth, the {piries will return: to the

dead head, which

being fixt, and

not ableto mount: up, drawes them unto.it. . |

In our Country, and. I think tis.

fo ufed here, they ufeto make rrovifion for all the year of Venifon:

patties, atthe féafon chat their fleth is beft,and moft favory, which is ta July and Augutt ; they bake ic in earthe en pots, or Rye-eruft, after they have

well feafoned it with falc and frices, and being cold, they coverit fix fingets: deep with freth butter, that the ait May not enter.» Nevertheleffe is obferved after all the diligence that one can make, that when thz Fes

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| beafts which are of che fame nature | and kind, are in Rur, che fleth which

| is in che pot fmells very rank, and | very much changed, having aitron| ger cafte, becaufe of che fpints which come ar this feafon from the living - beafts, which f,irits are ateraéted , @ naturally by the dzad fiefh ; and

then one hath much ado te. prefetve

it from being quite fpoiled : butthe

faid feafon being paffed, there is ne

danger.or difficulty to keep it guftfull all the year after.

The wine-metchants obfetve in this Country, and every whereelfe where there is wine, that during the feafon that the Vines arein flower,

the wine which is in the Cellar makes akind of fermentation, and pufheth forth a‘little white-lee, (which I think they call-che mocher of ‘the wine ) upon the. furface of the wine, | whiclcontinueth ina kind of diforder, untill che flowers of the Vines be fallen; and then this agitation or fermentation being ceafed ,. all the Wine returns tothe fame. ftate it wes 1 before.

No.

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Noris it lately chat this obfergaci- on bath been made, but befdes divers ||

others,.who {peak hereof, St. Ephrem riz Syrian in his'fa@ Wilkand Tefta-

ment, fome 1300 years ago, reports

this very fame citcumfance of wine,

which fenfibly fuffers an agicarionand 7 fermentation wichin the veffel the. fame tims that che Vimesfeen to ex-

ale their {pirits inthe Vineyards.He

©

makes ufe of the fame exam “fe in dry

onions, which bud in. the houfe; when: thofe in the garden begin to come out of the earrh, and.co embalme the air

with their {pirics ; faewing thereby by thefe known examples of nature, the communication between living per= fons,and the fouls ofthe dead.

Now,

thofe winy. fpirics chat iffue from the buds.and flowers, filling the air, (as the fpirics of _Rofemary uferodo in: Spaiz) they are drawn into the veffels

by the connacurall and attraQtive vem tue of the wine within:and thefe new volacil fpirits entring; do excite the

mot fixed fpirits ofthe wine, and fo

caufe a fermentation, as if one fhould. |

powre.therein new or {weet wine: for

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tie || an al! fermentations, cheré igafepara-

as I]. eion made ofthe cerreftrial parts trom

m | the oily, which come out of the effeni | tiall pares, and forthe lightelt mount 6 |)up to the fuperficies, the heaviett nt, | become Tartar Lees, which fall mto the bottom. Buc in this feafor, if te |. onebe not very carefull to keep the ) wine in a proper, and teinperate

Ht | place, and keepthe Cask full, and

iy )-well bungd, and -ufe other ndeavours , which are ordinary with

|) Wine-Coupers, ome tuns:a ‘hazard to

& -s

iit) have his wine impaired, or quite fpoi-

Wl) Jed, becaufe thatthe volatil fpirtts

e}| comming to evaporate themfelves., {| they carry away with them the fpiWi, {)‘tics of the wine thatis barrelled by def) exciting them, and mingling with them. As in like manner the oyle of i) “Tartar, which A4oxfieur Ferrier made,

ok

otenacting tot felfithe volatil.

fptrics

ef of Rofes, diffufed inthe airin theit at}. feafory, fuffered fuch afermentation, ie} and made every year new artractie

ous of the like frirics, in regard of the affinity which this oyle had con-.

| cracted withothofe firies ac its firtt

births.

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birth , whereof ic was deprived as’ the {eafon paffed. And tis for the) yety fame reafon that atable-cloth, 7

or napkin, fpo:ced with mulberries, or red wine, 1s eafily whirerred again

at the fe fon chat the plants do flower; whereas at. any other time 7 thefe {pots can’ hardly be wafnedaway. “Bur tis not onely in Pranee

and other places, where Vines-are 7 near Cellars of wine,that this fer nen-

tation happens *; in Exgland, where

we have not Vines enoughto make wite , the fame thing i; obferved:,

yer and fome particularities beyond.

Aithough

they make

mo.

wine

(in:

our Country to any .confiderable prosortion, yet we have wine there In great abundance, which is brought over by the Merchants : Ic. ufeth to cone principally from three places, wiz. from the (azaries , from

Spain,and fron Gafcony. Now thefe Regions being under different desrees and Climates in point of Ilatitude, and-confequently one Country is hotter ot colder then the other;

or that the fome vegetals grow’ to niaturity 5

| ipa Ee Seer nee SONG EES

| |

(83)

|

lat iimaturity fooner , ic comes te paffe ie thac the aforefaid fermentation

of

ih, Jour differing wines advanceth ic felf e, more orlefle, according as the Vines

ain iwhence they proceed do bud and dfiower in che region where -they miigrow + ic being confenrneous to ie|jreafon, that. every fort of wine atoe itratts more willingly the fpirits of ye} thofe Vines whence they come, than

em] Of any other. vel)

;

1 cannot forbear but I mult make

ie fome digreflion here, ro unfold fome

of.) other elects of nacure, which we fee

ni often, -and-are netiefie

curious.than

inf the moft principall which we creat of,

Welland will feem to be-derived from se more obfcure caufes, notwithtand-

ot} ingin Many circunitances they de-

of endon the fame principles, and in

{-§) many much ciffering, Iris couching mf molesor marks which hap; en toin-

{of fants, when their mothers, during the pf time.of their pregnancy , have lon-

ti: ged afterfome particular things. To nf}, proceed after my accu!tomed manrf ner, Fwill falbto exem:lifie, AcLady

of, of high condition, which many:of i . this

(84)

this Affembly know,. at leait by re-

mitation , hath upon her neck the.

igure’ of a Mulberry, as exactly as

‘ny Painter, or Sculptor can poflibly: -eprefent one, for it bears not onely

he colour, but rhe’ juft proportion sf a Mulberry, and is as it were -mboffed upomherflefh.. The Moher of this Lady being with childy he hada great mind to eate fome

Mulberries, and her imagination bes ng fatisfied, one’ of them cafually ‘elf upon her neck, the fanguine Juyce |

vhereof was foon wiped off, and

that time. “The ng he felt nothiat +hild being ‘born, the perfect fioure’

f'a Mulberry was’ fee upon her creck, inthe fame place‘where it fell

won the mothers, and every year, im Mulberry-feafon, thisimpreffion, or rather -excreflence of flefh did fwell, crow big, and itch.

Another maid which had the like

mark

of a Stawbetry , was

more

incommodated therewith, for it ins. flamed and itched in Strawberry-

feafon, but it broke like an Imro-

flume, whence ifived forth’ a fharg> colpetive

| iene

} |

nas antivir cate Sees

Ses

ak

(35)

® ffcorrofive humour. Buta skilfull Surit geon tookall away to the very roots, Woy cauterizing ; fo that fince that rime y Whe never fele any pain. or change =

y lim: that-place which did incommo-

on date herfo much, it being become a

nt Hample fear. (i. | Now then, lets endeavourto pe-

ld) aetrace five can che caufes and rea-

nt) fons of thefe marvellous effets, But y/ te go the moze hanfomly to work, iy oo within the ations of all our we Wfenfes, there is a‘materiall and cor-

it |porall participation, wiz. that fome

tr atoms ofthe body operate upon the |fenfes, entet inco theiro:gans, which

wij ferve them as funnels, to condu&

{(/] and’ carry them to che brain, and'to 7 the imagination. ‘This appears evii,|)dently in vapours and favouss. And | eee the hearing,5? the exterior Se air being agitated, doth caufe a

(s/ Motion within the! membrane,

or

ef tympane ofthe ear, which gives the

.§ like dhaking to the hammer: which . |is cyed thereunto, who beating upon his: Anvil) caufesa reciprocal! moti-

lenin the air, which is fhut wee

4

| |

i

aie

the

(86)

the crannies of the ear, and this is that. found.

which

we

ufually

call

Touching the fghr, tis evident — chac the Light reflecting upon the

body, enters inco the eyes,

and

cannot avoid , but ic muft_ bring with ic fome emanations of the body whereon ic reflects’; as we have .

eftabkiihed

chole.

in

the

fecond

Prin-

;

It remains now to fhew that the like is made. within che groflelt of our. fenfes, which is the Touch or

Feeling : Forif it. be true,

as we

have fhewn, that every body fends forth a continuall emanation of atomes- out of it felf, ic makes much for the affertion of this truch. -But to render this truth yet. more mani-

fet, and take away all pod.biltyof doubt, I will demonfirate it fo evidently to the eye, thot every one may make an exvetience thereof in a quore

cer of an hour, if he be fo curious, yea ina lefle compaffe of time.

1 believe you know the: notable

affinity which is betwixt. gold and quick-

saa

tle Boma andi pti

seitSK.

aie estat

( $7)

quick-filver; if mercury toucherh

golditticks clofe unto ir, and whii tens it in fuch fort, that ic fcarce ap-~ } peareth gold, but filver onely; if

|

nt

you cat this blanched goldinto the

i

hre, the heat chafech,

' =a)—_= cod

away che mercury,

and

drives

and the gold

returns. to its form2rcolour;* bue if you do this oftner, the gold calcines,

Io .

and then you may pound,and reduce it to powder.

Now there is no diffolvane in the

5< == is

World

that can well calcine,

and

4) tf) | ‘) if,

burn the body of gold, but quickfilver. I fpeak of that-.which 1s af. feady formed by nature, withouc engaging my felf to fpeak of that whichis fpoken of among the fecrets Of Philofozhy. Take then a fpoonfullof mercury in fome porcelan, or other dith,' and finger ic with one Handif fouhave a ring of gold on

wi 0 4

thzother, ic will become white, and covered with mercury, though ic -doth not any way touchit. “Moreo-

"iW

ver, if you puta leaf of gold, or a crown of Gold in your mouth, and

a

Oo=

en a an ill CNtN a iS

4)

if you put but one of your toes ina EY.

thing

(33°)

‘thing where mereuryis, the gold which isin your: mouth, though: you {hut up your lips never fo clofe, fhall

curn white, and laden with mercury :

chenif you put this gold into the firetomakethe mercury evagorate, and. do reiterate the fame thing, your gold, -wilk becalcined , as at you had. by -amalgation —joyned ‘mercury therewith corporally. And all this will yet be done. more f{pee-

dily ;and efre@ually, if in lieu “of common: mercury, you make ule

of mercury of antimony, which 4s much hotter, and more penetrating, and: though you drive it away -by force offire, it will carry away with it-a good quantity of the fubltance of rhe gold; in fuch fore; that reiterating often this operation, there will no more gold remain for you to continue ‘your experiments. If then that cold mercury doth fo penetrare thewhole body, swe ought not to chink it (range, that fubtile: atomes

-of fruit compofed of many ignited

_ parts will patfe wich more :facilicy and ‘quicknefle.> Iwill further make rs

you

itse e

journey

h. The eteat Archicect.of nature in the fa.

‘brick Of humane body,. the mafter«

piece of corporall nature; hath placed there fome intern fpiritts, to

fetve as centinells.,. to bring their difcoveries to their General, vizs to the imagination, .which,is as it were

the Mi reffe of the whole family, wheteby a man may. know. and underftand whatis done without the Kinedome,, within the great wo'ld’s and thar ic may {hun what is noxious, and feek .after. that which. is profitable... For .thefe centinels, or

antern {pi its, with allth einhabirants of the! fenfitive organs, ate not. able tue

E2.

to

(90) to judge alone : infomuch, that if

the imacinition or thought be’ di-

firated

f{trongly to fome

object ,

thefe intern fpirits do not know whether a man hath drunk the wine which he hath. fwallowed, if ferchince feting a petfon who-’comes tofalute him, he fixeth his eye u,on him all the ’while, or if he fiftens attentively to the aire of fome melodious fong, or muficall infrument ,

for the inward ‘{ irics bring all their acquifitions to the imagination ; and if fhe be not more ftrongly tent upon another object, fhe falls a form-

ing cettain Icey’s and Images, be-

caufe that the atones frén_ without being conveyed by théfe ~inrern {lirits to ‘our imaeingtion, erect there the like edificé, or elie a mo-

del in fbort. refembling the great body whence they come'forth. And if our imagination ‘hath no: more ufe of thofe fieniffeativeatomes’ for ‘the prefent, fhe’ raneéth them in fome

prover place within * her,“Magazin , which is the memory ;4where fhe ean

repeal, and:rebuke them’ when’ fhe =

pleafeth.

pleafeth, And if there’ be any objeét which caufeth fome emotions in the iMagination, and toucheth her more near thai common objects ufe ro do , fhe fends back her centingls, che in-

ternal! {pirits; upon the confines, to bring her more particular news. And thetice it proceeds thata man being fursrized byfone particular man, or’ other objeét, who hith already fome

emmenr placein his imagination, bz

it of defire, or avérfion,

then that

man fuddenly-chingeth colour, and beconés red, thén pale, then red ‘again at divets times, according

as

the minifters; whichare thofe intern: {picits, do go quick or flow ‘towards their objets then ch3y return. wich their reportsto their Miftrefs, which is the imagination. .But. ‘befides

thefe paffages we fpeak of, which go

from, the brainto the externill parts

ofthe body, bythz miniftery of the

netves ; rhere is alfo a great road

from the brain to the heart, by which the vital fririts‘do afcend.fron the heart to thebrain, to be animated , and hereby che imagination fends :

E 3

unto:

(92). wntothe heart, thofe atomes which fhe hath, received from fome external objeg&t, and there they make

an ebullicion betwixt the vitall {1-

rits, which according to the

inter=

vening atomes, either caufe a dila-

tation of the heart, and fo eladden: it, or they do centrac&t it,and fo fad-

den it, and thefe tyyo differing and contrary actions are the firft generall effects, whence proceed afterwards the particular paffions, which require not that I purfue chem too far in this place, having done it- more par~. ticularly elfewhere, and more exprefflely.

Befides thefe paffagec” whih: are common

to. all men

and women,

there is another that’s peculiar onely

to females, which is, ftom the brain:

tothe matrix, whereby it often falls out that fuch violent vapours mount upto the brain, and tho in fo great

a number, thar théy

often hinder

the operation of the brain, and ofthe imagination, caufing convulGons and follies, with other ftrange:accidents, and by the fame channel the {-irits

:|Siig a eePeenie Ee es Se SE

C93)

{sirits or atones pafle witha greater liberty and fwiftnefle to the womb or

muatrix~

when.

the

‘cafe:

‘re--

quires.

Now lets confider how the ftrong imAgination of one man doth mar-

velloufly

act ulon~ another ,min

who hithic more feeble and paffive..

We fee daily, that if-a petfon gape , thofe who fee him gaping are exciIf one

ted to do the fame.

come

perchance to conyerfe with petfens

chat are fubje& to excefle of laughrer, one can hardly forbear laughing, although one doth ‘not know th

caufe why they laugh.

If one fhonld

enter inco a Houle where all’ ‘the World is fad, he becones’ melan-~ choly,for as one faids Si vs me flere

dolendum eff primwm ipfitibi: Women

and Children being very moit and pative, are most fufcepuble of this irpleafine contagion of the -imagt-

nition. I have known a very melancholy woman, which was furbje& to»

the difeate calledthe Morher,

and

while. the continued in that’ mood ,

fhe thought her felf poffeffed, and F4-

did

(94)

did. ftrange things, which

among

thofe that knew not the caufe, pafled

for fupernaturall effedts,

and of one

pofiefled by che ill fririt:the “was a perfon of quality, and all this happened, becaufe of. the deep refentment {he had for the death of her

Husband :-She had attending her four or five young Gentlewomen :

whereof fome were her Kinf women,

and others feryed her as Chamber.

Maids. All thefe cameto be poffeffed as fhe was, and: did prodigious aétions. Thefe young Maids were fepafated from her fight and communi-

cation ,and as they had .nor yet - contracted fuch profound roots -of the evill, they cameto be all cured by their abfence ; ‘and° this Lady Was alfo cured afterwards by a Phyfitian, which purged the era

bilious humors , and reftored her Mattix toits former eftate: there was neither impofture, or difimulation ij this. ; ae

I could make-a notable. recitalf of fuch pafions that happened to the

Nunnes at Ledux ;but havinz done

EC

Pee Fe reohhiigscon a aeeaiaeaa

a

(95).

i ina particular Difcourfe ac my rerun ftom thac Country, where £ as exactly asI could difeuffed an point, I will forbear’ fpeaking’ chereof at chis time, orherwife then to pray you to-remembéer, chat when two ‘Lutes, or two

Harps, near one

another, both fer to ce fame cune , if you touch the ftrings of the one

the

other

confonant

harp

will

found at rt fane*

time , though

ro. body touch it,

whereof Galileo

hatch ingenioufly

rendred

the rea-.

fon,

Now,

to make application to our’

ptrvofe of all po hath “been po duced to this effe& » Ufay thatfi iris impoNble chat tivo feverall set fons fhould be fo near one another ; as the mother and the infant when:

helies inthe womb, one may thence conclude, That all, the effets of a ftrong aaa vehement’ imagination, wor! king upon another ‘more> feeble : pafive, and tender, oughr to. be. more pai Hani us in che Mother act=-

ing upon her fon, then’ wher the:

imaginations of other perfons: act

Es;

upom:

(96) “upon them who are nothing to them.

And as it 1s impoffible thar.a Mafier of Mufick, let him be never fo ex-

pert and exact, can tune fo perfectly any two .Harps, as the great. Mafter ofthe Univerfe doth the two bodies

of the Mother andthe Infant; fo it

follows. by confequence, chat the concuffion of the principall ftring .of the Mothers, which is the imagina-. tion, ought to- produce a greater {baking ofthe confonant {tringin the Infant, to wit, hisimagination, then the fitting of a. lure being touched,

upon the confonant. firings of another: and when the morher fends {pirits to fome parts of her body, rhe like muft be fent to. fome part of the childs body.. of corporall atoms, which come fiom the Malberry, or Strawberry, which fell upon the neck, and breaft, and het imagination being then. furprized ivichan-emotion b* the fuddennefs:‘ofthe accident, it: follows

ne-

ceGauly chat fhe_muft fend one of © ne

Sa

~&

thefe

ea s el s aieAcsA Sak ean cie Fe tggeice

0977)

thefe atomes alfoto the brain of the: Infant, and fo to the fame pate of the body where fhe took the fain firt, *cwixe which-and

the brain

there paffe fuch frequent and {peed y* meffengers, as we have formerly fec

forth. The Infant alfo on his part, who hath his parts alfo tunedin an: harmonious confonance withthe mo- thers, cannot faile to obferve: the ame movement of fpitits “cwixt his imagination

and his neck,.

and his

breaft, as the mother did ’ciixt hets : -

and thefe fpirics being accompanied

with atomes ofthe Mulberry, which :

the mother conveyed to” his imagination, they make a‘profound "1n- reffion, ‘and lafting mark, upon’ his

. delicate skin, wheteas that of the mothets was more: hard. Asif one fhould

jet fy a Piftol’ charged ‘with powder~

onely againfta marble, the’ powder -

dothnothing but’ fully it a lirele, which may quickly be’ rubd off ;buc

ifone fhould’ difcharge ficha Piftol ata mans face, thé graities of the pow- der Would pierce the skin, arid fo flick

and dwell there all his. life-tame, and ! make

«ys

C99) make ‘themfelves

known

by their

black-blewith colour, which. they alwaies conferve.

In'like manner the {malf etains- or atomes of the fruic which. pafled from the mothers neck to the inagiaation of the Infant, and thence

to the fame place-uron his skin, do lodge, and continually dwell there

for the future, and ferve as a fource

to draw the. atomes. of the like. fruic

difperfed in the aire., according to their. feafon, (as the wine in the Tunne ¢raivs unto it the volaril fpirits of the, Vines) and in. drawing of them that part of the skin where

they: ref de: ferments,(wells,eats, and Anflanes,and fometimes breaks, Bur to. render yet: more confiderable, thefe marvellous. marks of longing ,

(fince we are. upon, this fubjed) I cannot forbearto touch alfo another

hie

circumfance, which might {eem at {rit to. bea miracle of nature, -beyond

che caufes.

which

J

haye

ailedgcd:. but having well. eventilatediit, we hall abfolutely find chac

inde, ends upon the {ame principles:

le

ee iee ro eee eRe Peheen il, ono Atae ns a ee a S 4FER on

ji

Tris, that oftentimes ic falls our, chat the impreflion of the thing defired, or longed for, by the mother, falls upon the child, although fhe touch

it not, or thar it falls upon her body; Tis fufficient that fome other thing do fall, or unexpétedly beat upon fome part ofthe woman with child,

while fuch a longing doth predominate in her imagination; and the feure of the thing fo long defired after, willbe found at laft imprinted uron the fame part of the body of the Infant, as it was upon the mother who received the blow.’ ‘The reafon

hereof is, that the atomes of the thing |

longed for being raifed up by the Iight, go to-the brain of rhe: mother with child chrough-the channel of the eyes, as wellas ocher more materiall

atomes, proceeding fromthe corpotall touch, would go thither by the euidance of the nerves. And of thefe petty bodies, the mother forms in her imagination a complete model of that whence they flow forth by way of emanarion. But ifthe women be not attached but inwardly,

si

peo

thefe

(100°). thefe atomes which are inher imagination, make no other voyage than to her heart, ahd thence to the imagination, and to the heart of the Infanr, and fo-caufe a reinforcement

ef the paffion inthém borh, which may be moved to fucha violent impetuoity, that if che mother doth not enjoy her longd-for object, this paffion may caufe the deftruction both of rhe one and ofthe other, at

leaft prejudice her notably in their health, and fo make a gteat change

inthe body. In the mean time, if fone unlooked-for blow furprize the mother inany part of her body, the foirits which refide inthe brain are immediately fent thither by her imagination, as it happens often in this cafe of longing. _But in all other fiich fudden furprizalsy either among

women-ot

men,

tranfported

with

thefe ffirics. are the

impe-

more

the. patlion -is

tuofity , che more violent. As when one loves ano-. ther paffonately,

he -runnes’

fud-

of that ——Hylax

ve lintine latrat,

denly tothe dore when any knocks, nay

hoping

af,

ca EeePare thinSumitSoS: a ee wei Ss

(Tor) hoping alivayes us the party which entirely pofiefied bus thoughts, (for Gut

aMmant

who comes thefe

fpirits

ipfe fibs [omnia finguat )

co give him wift : And being

moved

by this

fudden affaulc, being tthen mingled

with the petty bodies or atomes of the longd-for thing which roffeffeth

fo Fowerfully the fantafie, t Be tead them alone with them{elves to. the parc of the body which is firuck, as al-

foto the fame part of the body.of the Infant, as well astO his imagination.

And after that all which ha ppened is bur che fame in order to the mother and the CBC WE nthe Mulberry or Strawberry fell ucon the neck or brea of the Ladies with whom I have entetrained you.

Permit me > my Lot ds, to enlarge

my- digreffion ‘alittle further inone

word, to declare unto you a mat ve ae accident, known all over the Court of England, in confirmation of the activicy and impreffion which “the imagination of the Mother makes upon the body of the Infante

whereof ‘thewas big.. A Lady that was

ON ITNT RENT Ta ANT BT4s ey

(102) was My Kinfivoman, (fhe. was the

Neece of Madam Fortefeu,the Dagh-

ter of Count edrvdel) came to vifit me fometimesin Losdon s {ne was fiir, and‘of a sood feature, andfhe

knew it well, taking great com: la-

€-ncy, and not onely to keep her felf

fo, but to adde that which fhe could

furthe s:thereu; onthe was perfwaded that the patches and flies which the put ubo1 her face, cave’ her'a erear

deal of ornament, therefore the Was

catefull to wear che mo curious fore of them:bur as itis very hatd to keep a moderation in things which depend,

more uron Opmmozthan Nature, the

Wore them. in exceffe, and patched

mot of her face with then; al: though that did not much adde

to her beaucy,*

which TY took

the

Tiberry to. rel her; yet I thoughr it no oportunigy then’ to do any” thing thar might give her the feat diftafte, fincé with fo much ClVilicy and fwveerneffe fhe came to

vifit'me.

Nevercheleffe ,6ne day

T thought good, in a kind of

dot

ling way, (fo that fhe might not

apa

aria eihtnipessane See SSS

apprehend

ae

(103)

any

difcontentment )

and Ridemem dicere rerum. quis verat 2. to tell her of it ; fo I Jer

fall my aifcourfe upon her big bel-

ly, advifing her ro have a care of her health, whereof fhe was fome-

What negligent,

according to the

cuftome of young vigorous women,

who know not yet what it is to be fubjeé&t to indiftoftions ; fhe gently thanked me for my care herein, faying,

Thar the could do

no more for the prefervation of her health than fhe did, though fhe was

in that cafe : you fhould at leaft,

replyedI, havea care of your -child,

O for thar, faid fhe, there is nothing that canbe contributed more.

Yer,

I told her, fee how many fatches

you Wear upon your face, are you

not afraid chat the Infant in your Wonb may haply bebo n with fuch i-marks on his face >? Bur

faid fhe,

What danger is there that my child

Should bear fuch marks, though I put

them on artifcially 2, Then you have not heard, replyed { again, the mar-

vellous effe&Xs that the imaginations of

(104)

of Mothers work upon the bodies

of their children, while they’ ate. |

yet big with them, therefore I will. relate unto you fome of them : and fo I told -her fuadry: fortes

upon chis fubje&, as that of the Queen: of Erhiopia, who was delivered of a white ‘boy, which was attributed toa Picture of thé Bleffed

“Visgin, which the had alwaies near

the Teafter of her bed, whereunto the

bore great devotion. I urged anothet of a woman who was byought..

to bed ofa child alf hairy, becaufe of a portrait of Saint John Baptit in the Wilderneffe, where he

wore a Coat of Cammels hair. 1 related’ unto. her alfo the ftrange

antipathy which the late King Fames

“Had to a naked fword; whereof the

eaule was afcribed , in regard fore Scoteh Lords hid entred once viofently into the bed-chanber of the Queetr his mother, while the was with child of him, where het Secreta= ty, an Italian, was difpatching fome ettets for her, whon they hacked, and killed with naked (words before her

J

=

SIE IO

SARS

EE

EE

————

n

—

€ 105) her face, and threw him at her feet; and they grew fo barbarous,

that

there wanted but little bur that they o

°

3 \ihad hure the Queen her felf, who "| endeavouring to fave her Secretary, " |’by incerpofing herfelf, had her skin "| rafed. in divers places; which. BzCaan

himfelf

makes

mention

of.

Hence ic came..that her fon King James had fuch an averfion all his —_

life-time after. to. a naked fword , ghat he, could nor fee one without

| a-great,; emotion of his fpirits; alcouragious _.€“| though otherwife nough , yet he could never ovet-

<vo —

mafter his ‘paflions in this particular.

I remember when he dubbed me Knight, in the ceremony of puting the point of a naked {word upon. my fhoulder, he, could ‘hot endure to look uron it, but turned his face another way, infomuch, that in lieu of touching my fhoulder, -he had

almoft

chruft

eyes.

had

Buckingham right.

the point into my not.

euided

the

his

Duke

hand

of

a-

(106) T alledged her divers fuch florieef!y)! to make her. apprehend thar a ftro ng}fien imagination of the mother might} pct caufe fome norable impreffion the body of her child to its upon fem: pre= let jJudice,

ie "3

ig ti

‘how

you are of your Pate [toin ches, and thar you have the tinually in your im-gination m ¢o:4. jeive ; for, I Janty

ae

it

have obferved, that you hive upon them ten times fince Youlooked |hha| came Mure into this room, inthe Look ing-olafs, Pring Doe you nor therefoe feare thot the] “your

o a

|

I |

of

; '

Moreover, I Pray confid e poy

carefull

‘Moons

|

child may be born with Half . Patch

upon his face> or rather | Noy that all the black patches whi ch you oy bear np and down i {mall Portions , | cy ‘May affemble in one, and-ap ‘in the middle of its forehead,peare roo ‘Molt apparent and’ remarkable the hs, Of the vifage, and may be as part i)Mark bro asa Jacobus; and then what a gracad qlver e ]w,. do you

think > Would it be to-tke child? O: me, faid {ne, rath er then that fhould happen , I would wear

}4 lo i Hh.

ho ‘more patches while I am | nar : Thereuvon® at that with ftant fhe pulled them all ofin.’ the > Wthiy child

and

|

tsjand hurld them ‘ng friends faw her iit} patches, they: iyonjeame to pafle,

away. Whe her afterwards witkou demanded bow it chat fhe who was

pe jefteemed to be-one of the moftcu~’ idet}fious beauties of the Court). in fat} point of patches, fhould fo fuddenly vk | give ‘over the wearing of them: fhe

anfwered, thather Uncle, in whom

fhe had a great deal of confidence, aftured her, chat if fhe wore them du‘ring che time that fhe was with child

space i in the mid{t of his foreh: vn | Now, this conceit was fo lively en-

gtaven in her ymagination, that fhe éould not be rid of it : And fo this

j roor Lady, who was fo fearfull chit I her child might not bear fome black

|.mark in his fice, fhe could not frevent, but that it came fo into th2

" World , and had a {pot as large las a Cw of: Gold in the rata: j-of its Forehead , accor ding as fhe a. before ficuted in her Imacimation : it was a Daughter that

| thebrought forth, very beautifull ‘throughout; ‘this "excepted, And

tis

(108)

tis but few month s ago thatI fayy!

|

her bearing the faid mole or {por, which proceeded. from, the force

of che imagination of her Moather.

I'need notrell you of your neighbour of Carcaffona, whe lately was| brought to. bed. of a prodigious| Montier', exactly refembling» an} Ape, which

fhe took pleafure ro|

look u on during the time the| was with child, for I conceive. you |

know the fiory better than I... Nor

| ai

that‘ of the woman of St. Maxient, who-could not. forbear going to | fee an unfortunate Childe of .a | poote woman, which was borne | Without

.armes ;. and: fhe her felf|

Was ‘delivered afterwards of, fuch | a Monfter ; who nevertheleffe. had if)

fome

fmall

exerefcencies

of fle(h

upon the fhoulders ,..about..the place .whence the armes fhould | have come forth. .As~alfo of her who was defirous to fee: the ex. ecution of a Criminall; svho: had

isi neck broken -according...co. the

laws of France, whereof the.took 'W

EY

te Peers nie |Sigs

(109)

an affrighment, which madedo de¢p /-a print upon her intagination, that prefently. fhe fell in about of her child , and before they could carry her toher lodging, fhe was brought | to bed before her time of a child | which

had his. head

fevered’ ftom

| his body, both the parts yet fhed| ding-~“frefh’

blood.,

befdes

that

tt} avhich was abundantly fhed in the et. Womb, as if the Heads-man. had jot} -dorie.'an' execution alfo upon. che Not} tender young body within che many trix of the Mother. . Thefe three 0} Examples, and many othe:s ‘truly

fal

alledged,

which

I could produce,

Wi

the Rrength of, the 'Imagination,

uci

would: engage me roo far, iff fhould

hdl’ eh@’ eg id]

-undertake to: cleer che caufes, and unwrap the difficulties which would, -be-found greatet then in any of -thofe inftances wherewithI- hive

ef} although they .manife(tly

prove

et] © -entetcained you, becaufe thar thofe

of °farts had the power. to caufe {uch sig .Cflentiall changes,and fearfull effects,

lem

«Upon.

ok

brought to their fhapes of perfection,

bodies

that:

were.

already and

andit may be well believed, that in fone of them there wasa tranfmu-

|

tation ef one’ fpecies to another, and rhe introduction of a new inform-

ing form inthe fubject :matter, totally differing from: that which_

hid been introduced at firft, ac leaft

if chat be crue which mot Naturalifts tell us:of, at the animation of the Embryointhe womb: but this digreffi-

on hath been already too lone.

Eft mods inrebus, {unt certi denique frnesy

Duos ulira cirrague mequit confistere retum,

To retutnthen tothe great channel, andthreid of our, Difcourfe; the examples and experiments which I have already infifted* upon in con-

firmation of the reafons which I have | alledged, do clearly demonftrate, chat the bodies which draw the

a- |

comes difperfed in the aire ,. artract unto themfelves with a greater power and energy fuch as are of their.

own nature,then fuch as are hetero- |

geneous ,and of a ftrange nature; As

wine doth the vinall fpirits ; The oyl

of

j [paix Sait

ee RT 4

eA

SE

ee

aa

ae ews ee es: oes hs a

> eee poe

.

Saas

Cary

W

of Tartat fermented by the levain of Rofes,the volatil {pirics: of the rote’; The fleth of deer, or venifon buried in

ctult,che ‘{pirits of thofe -beafts; and

contequently all the other

chings

wheteot Ihave {poken, The Hiftory of the Tarantula ia the Kingdom of .Naples is very fax mous ; you know how the. venomie of this animal afcending by the hurt thatthe party hath received, being pricked therewith towards the head and

the heart, doth

excite in -hig

Imagination an impetuous defire te hear

-fome

melodious

aires, and

molt commonly they. are -delighted with differing aires Therefore when they liften to an aire thar pleaferh them, they begin ro dance in-

ceflantly, and thereby they fall a

{weating in abundance, in: fuch fore thar this {wear makes a ereat part

of the: yvenome to evaporate, beGdes the found of the mufick doth raife a Motion, and caufeth

among the aerean

an agitation

“and vaporous

fririts which are in the brain, and

about the hare, and diffuled up and F

down

Ke !

(112) @ownthrough the whole body fro-

portionably according to the nature,

‘and cadenceoffuch muiick ;as when Timotheus tranfported Alexander the Great with (uch a vehemency to

Such and fuch paflions as he pleafed ';.

Inthe like manner alfo ic happens, thar when one Lute

doth found, it

makes the firings of the other co fhake by the motions and tremblings

whichit caufech in'the aire, though it be not touched otherwife at. all: We find’ alfo oftentimes’ that the

founds which are no. other things than rhe mocions.of the aire, caufe the like motion in the water ; as

the tharp found: whichis .caufed by rubbing hard with ones finger the brim of a claffe full of water, dork excite a noife,a turning, and boun-

dinginthe water of certain drops,

asit the water did dance according tothe cadence of the found: The harmonious found aifo of bells-in chote Countries where they ufe to be

rung to ‘particular tunes<doth make the like imorefion uvon the fuper- |

Gcies of the rivers'that ate nigh the | fieeple, .

ig e eey S i

_ |

; |.

.

, | . | ¢ |

,

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4 4)

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SESS

SS

Y

Sere

Ss

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oo.

kre

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fteeple,-efpecially in the night time

when

)

, , : ; s y '

=

there is no

other

motion,

which ftops, or choakes the orher fupervenienc one ; For theaire being

contiguous,

or

rather

continuous

Wich the water, and che wacer being fufcestible of motion, there’s the dike motion caufed in rhe fluid parts of the warer as began inthe aire, and

| | |

|

the fame contrast which is betivixe the agitated aire,and che water which Asbychis meanes alfo moved: hap. pens alfo to be betwixt the asitated air,and the vaprous f,irits which are in thole bodies who have been bit by the Tarantula, which {-iries by confequence are moved by the agitated air, chat is co fay by the found ;snd

thatthe more efficacioufly, thac this agitation or found is prosertioned to the nature and temperature of the «| . party hurt: And chis intern agira1. |- tionof the ns its and vapours hlps ,| them to difcharge the varourous venone of the ‘Tarantula whi-h

is

je | . Mixt among all their humours; In | - the like ‘manner ’ ftariding puddie

waters, and

corrupted aires. being F2 putrifiec

<114) ‘Purified by lonz repofe, and the mixture of-other nokome fubitances

are refin’d and purit’d by motion; ‘but. wintér approching,

which de’

voures thefe-beafts, people are freed from this malady; but at the recurne of the feafon when they were pricked, the miuchisf comes again ,

and rhey muft:dance again as they.

did the year before: The reafonis; that che heat of fummer doth ia: and ratie us the venome of the beaft , whereby ic becomes as malignant vas it was before ;* And and furious

the poyfon being heated, and evaro-

rating it felf, and ‘difperfing in the

aire the Ievamof the fame poyfon, which remaines in the bodies of chem wwho-have been hurt, drawes ic unto

ic felf, whereby fuch a fermentation is wrought, which infects the other.

humours, whence a kind of {moke

ifuing,and mounting to the braines

of thefe poot

fick

bodies,

doth

“hfe! ‘to;.pioduce fuch ftrange effeats,

.

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ti

5

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« ‘Tris alfo well) known, that where

aheré are great dogs , or maltifis, as Shine

Cae

in

1

ER

et gyDP igi

EE

ee

RE

iti

RESAS

Reis

Cae

On xe

stand.

(115)

in England, if any be bitten» peri chance by any of thefe dogs, they,

commonly ufe co kill chem, though

they be not mad,for fear chit the

Ievain of the canine.

choler

which.

ematnes within the body of the party bit. draw unto it che malignint fpi-. rts of the fane doz, which. mighe cometo diitenper th2 fpirits of the. patty: Andchisis not onely praétifedin England,where there are fuch dangerous d 3, burvalfo. in Fravce ,. according to the report of Father Cheron, Provinciall of the (Carmeljres in this Country, in his Examen de. /4 Theologie myfirque, newly, imprinted,and which I have lately read, Twill fay nothing of artiiciall nofe-,. that are made of th: Geh of other

men, for remedy of the deformity of

thofe who by an: extrene exceffe of. cold have lo% their own; which. new noles do purrife as. foon: as rhote perfons out of whofe fubtance they, Were taken come to die, asif thar {mall parcell of fleth engrafted. upon the face did five by the

{irits ic

drew Gonitsfirt root. and fource s , F 3

For -

Sti

(116) For alchough this be conflantly avouched by confiderable authors, yet

I will not infift more upon ir, and de-

fire you co think chac I offer nothing. unto you which is not verified by folid

tradition, fuch, asir were

a

weakneffe to doubt of ir.

Buc ic is high timetharI fhould come now tomy feventh, and lait princi Je; ic is the lat cutn of che engine, andas1 hope will quite batrer down the gare which hinders us anentrance to the knowledge of this fo marvellous a myftery, .and.

Which will imprine fuch a lawfull matk upon the doétrine which I hold forth, that icwill paffe for current money. This principle 1s, chat the fource of thefe fpirits or the body which attracts them to it felfe,

draws likewife afterthem that which accompanies them, as: alfo that which: fticks, and is glued, and united unto them. This conclufon needs not much proof, being evident enough ofic felf, if there be nailes, pins or | ribands tied tothe end of a tong cord or chitin, and if there

:

be a

knurle

ge

hig

,

a ee er nie a Oe

tee,

> Sn eS ee

yO

eer

C1r7): kimirle eicher of wix, gun, or glue, and that1 take this cozd or chaim

by onz end, and draw it after me,

until che other laftend come to my’ hands, it canaot-be otherwife bur

—thirdtake into-my hinds at che: fame tine the naile, the pins, the ribands,

the knurle, and aff that is applied thereunto : I will therefore relate: unto you onely fone experiments thit hive bzen. nade in confequence of this princizle, whtch> will moft

ftronzly conirm the oth2rs ptodu,

ced before.

,

The great fertility, and ‘riches’ of-

Enaland, confifts ‘chiefly in patturage

forthe nourifhment of beafts.. We: have che faireft in che world , with: abundance

of other

aninals , and

principally of Oxen & Cowes, Ther’s

not the meanet Cortager but “hath a

Cow to furnifh his finily- with milk.

Iris che orincwiall futenince of the poorer fort of peosle, as ’tis’ alfo in” Switzerlacd, which makes ‘them ‘very carefull ia the good keeving, and

health of their’ Cowes; Now, ft happen that insboyling the ‘milk ic fells: Fa

tens bb

( 118 } FY.

{wells fo high rhat it fheds over the bam of the skillet, and fo comes to fall into the fire; the good woman, of

maid, doth prefently give over whatfoev-r the is.doing,.and, runs to the skillerswhich fhe takes of the Gre, and at «the fame ':time «takes (a hindfullof fale, which ufeth to be

commonly in the comer of che. chimmey to keep it dry, and throws: it upon the cinders whereon the’ milk vras fhed: Ask her wherefore fhe doth fo, and fhe will ell you, that it is to. prevent, that the Cow which gaye ‘ehis milk may not have fone hurt upon her udder, for wichout this re-

medy it would.come to be hard and ulcerared,and {ne would come to piife blood, and fo be in. danger to die: Not that. this. extremity ‘will befall her the very firft time, but, fhe will grow ul-difzofed, and. if this Should happen often, would in a fhore

time.

mifcarry.

It might

feem that fome fuperfticton or folly may fie herein, but che infallibilicy ofthe effe@ .doth. warrant -from the laf; and. for-the fir many belicne that

[i a

sa MLR “eR f

5 ox

SES ane

aaa ea Re

:

—abetie

ants Ue, eS ¥ co Soa See ae

shai

7

( 119)

"1. chat the malady of che Cow.-is funpernaturall, onan effect of forcery5

. | and confequently chat the remedy , | whichT have alledged is fuperftici-ous; but it is eafie to difabufe any man of this perfwafion, by. declaring | “how the butineffe goes according to the foundations which.I have laid; | The milk falling from the burning

Aw oe .—=

coiles is convetred.ro vapour, which

difperiech, and filereth.it felf through : the circumambient aire, where it |

meets

che

Sayes, which

light ,

and. the: folar

cranfpore _ it.furcher , ,

augmenting: and extending ftifl far+ |

ther the {phere of ics activiry : This vapour of the milkis not alone. or.’

fingle, but is. compofed. of fiery atones which accompany the fmoke &. vapour of che milk, which mingles ° unite themfelves therewith + now the

{,here of the faid vapour extending ic felfunto. the place where the cow -

Sn

is, her udder, which is the fource

whence the milk proceeded, attracts

| ! unto it the {aid Malignant vapour, , ftaying, and fiicking it {elf there: °

s

°

ar eeSoe:

s

F

soo)PogeMa.c

=

< sk,

: Pe

(120) together withthe fiery atomes that accompanied it. The udder is in: part glandulous, and very tender, andfo confequently very fubje& toinflammations, and this fire doth. hear, infame, and make it {well,. and in fine makes ic hard and ulcera-

ted; The

inflamed, and ulcerated

udder is near the bladder-, which. ‘comes likewife to: be inflamed, ma-

king che anaftomofes, and communication whichis betwixt th: veines and the arreries toopen; and to calt forth blood, and to regorge into the: bladder,whence ordinarily the urine

ufethto come forrh, and empty it felf: But whence cones it, you will: fay that-the falc- remedies all chis ?

It is becaufe ic is of a nature

cleane

contrary to ‘the fire, the one being: | Fos, and volaril,; the other, cold and

fixed; Infomuch’ that- where they ufe to. meet, thefale as ic were;. knocks down the fire; by preci_ita-. | ting and deftroying irs action, as it~

may be obferved in a.yery ordinary accident; The chimneys which ars

Fulliof foot. ufeto take fire very

eahily

ET bien, Ee eee

Gy

anes EE EE

— Ee FY ee

—

(x21)

eafily, now; the ufuall- remedy, for” that is to difchatge a musket into the. funnell: of the chimney which loofneth. and brings down with ic the fred foot, and then the diiordet,

cea-

feth, but if the-e be no musket of

piftoll, or other mirument to dgay ° down the toot, they ufe to catt a’ great quantity of falcon the are below, and that choakes,:and hindreth : the afomes offre,

which otherwile

would inceflanrly mount up, and joyn with them aoove, which by this meanes «wanting nouriture confume th=mnfelves, and come

to ‘norhine $°

The fame thing befalls the atomes: which are in a train toaccompany the

: vapour of the milk, for the fale «doch

precipitate and kill ic upon the very place, and if any do chance to {cape y and fave themfelves by the greit firuglings they make, and go along with the faid vapour, they ate ne-yertheleffe’ accompanied with» rhe atomes and fririt of che falr, which Ricks unto them:

which like god |

writers never leave their hold uhull the better <of theif, ad- they hive got

verfary|

Sa 9 Gl

a

dea

od

aR

re em

eam aca

uy €122)

“verfary : And you ‘fhall obferve-by

the by, that there is mot amore -excellent balme for a burn, than the

{; Lic of falc in-a moderate quantity.

‘Ieis chen-apprent, chac: ’tis impolli‘bleto employ any meanes more efficacious to hinder theill effets of

‘the fire-upon the udder of the cow,

thin to calt upon het milk,bsing fhed Over upon the cirders, a fufficient

“quantiry of fale. This effe@ touching

the confervation of the cowes udder

Im order to the burning of. her milk, “makes me call to mind that which divers hayetold me to hive feen both In -France and ‘England, viz. when

the Phyficians do examine the milk

of a nurce for the child of a perfon -

of quality, they ufe to make proofs fundy Waies before: they- cone to. judge~definitively of the goodneffe thereof, as by the tafte,-by the Imell, by tha colour, and confftence thereof; -And fometine they -caule-irte be boyled-untill iccome to: an -evaporationand , fee its refidence, with orhet accidents, “and ci-cumPances

which may |

bevlearne »and teested , y

1

a ROLE ance ameetin BEEsite aes

he BS sa “eases EOE, | EAE BE

ER eeoS oan GS Sak sa Serer

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by thefe means : Bue chofe of whofe: milk this laft experiment hich made, feel themfelvyes. tormentedbeen in their papps and duges, while theit milk 1s. a boyling; therefore. ha. vinz once endured this pain 5 they will never confent chat their fhall. be carried away out of milk their fight and prefence , although. they wil willingly fubmie to any proof then that by-fire. «Now other .-to confirm this experiment of the attra étion which the Cowes. Udder makes ofthe fire, and vapour of the.burned milk, Tam going ro declare unto you another of the fame nature, whereof I my felf have feenthe. truth more ‘than once, and whereof any one may eablymake tryal. Take the excrements of a dog,and hurle it-into the fire more then once, at the begin-

ning you fhall find him heated,.and moved, bueina thore time

you

{hall fee him as if he were burned all ever, panting, and ftretchino out his

tongue, as if he. had run , courfe : Now, this alteration. a lone befalls

- him. becaufe his entrailes .drawing ee

unto

oC r24)

|

burn’d anto them the vapour of the our rhe vap t tha h exctetnent, and wic ompante aromes of fire whieh did acc lam’d, inf and d nge cha it, they ateio s a fevet thar che dog having alwaie e ro take upon hin, and not being abl

do lock any nourifhm=nt, his flancks at lait. th dea “his up, which caufeth e this ulg div to. per Jt were not pro ons as experience among fuch-cerf thing any are fubsect to make ufe of

the fame~ for doing of mifchief, for

, would effests which happen to bealts thoul ne ifo , ies falf upon mens bod it ex-the n upo n fio ctu con try fucha artrem a crements : There hippened ‘a to ofe kable thing to this pur the d lan Eng in neighbour of mine He re: the d nie our fat time f faj te child, hada very pretty, atrd detica his eyes e and because he would hav ained' ert ent he alwayes upen hin, ofhim w Pfa e, houf the nutfeathis man, ten, for he was a pragmaticall

and I had — and. of good addreffes, day occafion to ule fuch'a man ; One e a wif his and ‘J fouad hin very fad, ‘the

ing weeping 5 whereok demand reafon

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(125)

reafon, they told me that their fittle

child was veryill, and thacheh da Burning-fever, which inflamed all

| kis body over, which: appeared by

|

|

the redneffe of his face, that he for-.

ced himfelf to.go-to-ftool , but he

| could do little, and that lictlé which he did was covered with blood, and that he refufed alfo rofuck : And that which troubled them moft, was.

that they could not coniecture any caufe how this indifpofition fhould:

~ | |

befall him,* for his nurfe_ was very well, her milk was as good as could be wifned ;- and in all-orher things there was as much-care had of him as could be’; I rofd them that rhe Jat time Iwas wich them, I obferved one particularity whereof I thoughy fic to give them notice , bur fomething or other (till diverted me, Ic

was, that their child making a fiene that he was defirous to be fet on his feet, he fet fall his excrement: on

the ground, and his nurfe-prefenrly took the Fire-fhovel, and covered it with embers, and then threw ali’

into the fire, the mother began to make

‘“

:

EM,

:

(126) make -her excufes, chat they were

not fo carefull to correct chis ill habicof the child, faying, that as he ad-

vanced in years, he fhould be:corrected for it; | replyed, that twas not

for this conSderation that I held this difccurse wich her, but I was curious to know the reafon of her

childs diftemper,. and cenfequently to ind fome remedy;..and thereupon I related

unto them the like acci-

dent, which had happened two ot three years beforetoachild of one of the moft iluftrious Magiitrates of the Parliament of Paris, who was

‘bred upinthe houfe ofa Door af Phyfick .of great. re>utation in th2 fame town: Itold rhem alfo what have now. relared unto you touching the excrements of dogs ; and I made reflexions unto them upon that which they had often heard, and which is often practifed in our Country, which 13, that within: the villa-

ges, which are alwayes dirty in the Winter, if ic happens that there bea

Farmer who. is more cleanly thin others , and keeps. more neatly, rhe ap=<|

approcshes to his houfé than his neighbours do, the boyes ufe to come

thither in che night-time,

ea s5 > cra —=

or when

it begins to be dark ; to difcharge

} their bellies there , becaufe that in

, | fuch Villages there is not much

} commodity of eafements:

befides

that in fuch places,fo fitly accom-

modated,thefe gallants,

the boyes,

até out of danger to fink into the

" | dic, which othenwife might rife up a > pTL_==--

| higher then their fhooes.; but the

good Houfwifes in the motning when * |they open their doors, ufe to find | fuch anill-favoured {mell,that it tran| {ports them with choler :. but they * | who are acquainted with this trick

¥ }go frefently and make red-hot a

I |broach. or fire-fhovel , and then » |thruit ic into the excrements all hor,

* jand when it grows cold, they heat

" |it again oftentimes to the fame pur-

| pole : In the mean

time the boy

I pwhich made the ordure feelsa kind

" }of pain and collick in his bowels,

ie pwith an inflammation in his. funda-

fe pmenr, ind.a continuall. defire to go ito fool, and he is hardly quir of ic | : cll:

€ 128’)

tilt he fuffer a kind ‘of fever all chat day, which is the cause that he returnes thither no more : And thefe wonen to be freed from the like affronts. do: paffe among the

Fenorit for Sorcereffes, and Witches, betng -chey caf torment — people in thar fithion without feeing ortouching then. This Gentlemin did not difallow whie I told

him, bet wis conirmed farther when I bid» hint look into: the: fundanent “of his child, for wich-

ouc dowbe hs would ‘findit very red, and indamed ; and that vifting hin, he fhould find chat ic |

was full of pinveles, and excozta- | ted ; It was mot fong after rhe|

this poot liccle languithing child with much pain ant picifull cryes, |

voyded fone {mall matter, which | in ftzad of fufering ic to be calt] wich) into the fire , or covered

embets, I cauiéd to be put in-| co a bafonof cold water whiclr was fet ina freth place, which!

was continued to be done every}

|

time |

|

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| time chat the child gave occafion, | He began to amend the very fame

hour, and within fouror five dayes | he was perfectly well recovered.

But fearing ro ctrefpafle coo much upon your patience ; I will in| tertaine you but with” one expe‘| riment more very familiar i our | Countrey ; and afterwards I will | make a fummary of all thac hath been faid, to make you perceive the

force, and yalue of this whole Di. courfe,

We have in England (as I touched efore) excellent pafturage which

1) nourifh

and fac che Cartle, fo a-

bundantly, that ic falls out often,

that the Oxen have fo exceffive fore of fac, that ic doth extend

it felf m a great quantity to their legos , as alfo to their feet,. and hoofs , which oftentimes

caufech

Impoftumes in the bortom of their feet, which fwell, and.caft out a ereat deal of core,

and

putrified

matter, which hindrech: the beaft to

go ; The Owners are very forry when

they obferve ir, though che beef be

never

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nevet the worfle for rhe Shambles? yet are they daniniaed’ thereby, in at egaitd that not being able ro bring | YW them to Lexden, (where the bet | Welt market is for fac Beefs through all © oA Exglana,

as “Paris is for eAuver gue,

Normandy , and other of France,)

being. able don, they them upon fiefh is not

I fay the

Provinces Grafiers nor

Mar

|M Creal

to bring them to Lox ft aré coniraimed to kill Me the place, where their tt worth half the price — /toty

tac chey might have got in Lon-

0%

don. Now there is a remedy for this inconvenience, which is, that

|i “tr

one mutt obferve where the Oxe,

ory

Cow,

oth

of Heifer, doth fet uvon

the Earch.

his fick foot,

th2 firit . Mee

time char he rifeth up in the morning, and in that very place one mult cut out a Earth Where the that foot, and a tree, or upona

inh, {ti}

green. curf of thir fit bealt hath trod wich © Wplce, put this turf uvon {i te hedge lyinz oven told|

to the North wind + and if chac (mi wind coneto blow uponthe curfof | Earth, the beat will be cured. within

three of four dayes very perfealy; 3 ue

pag le “DR

Smite aE ie

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fhouid puc thac Turf South-wind, or Sourh-

which in /holouxe is called

aunt, here in Montpellier te

iz, and in Italy le Scirocco )

) diftemper in the Oxe will int we |creale.

Thele circumfances will

mot feem fupetftitious unto you pwhen youwill have confidered how that by-che tepofe of the night the cofrupe

matrer, or core; doth ufe

fo gather in a great quantity un-

der the foot of the fick Oxe,

and

comming inthe morning to fer his foot upon the ground, «he’ prefferh

forth the Impoiume, the Matt er Iwhereof fticks to that part\of the

makes impreifiens |Each: ,Nowand this curf of Eart

upon

h being | and exrofed in fome proper place to receive the dry cold blatts pf the Northern winds ,° the dry told blats of chat wind do int ermingle with the. faid corrupted :}mpoRumated- marcer,which ftre tchJogats {pirits all along the air, the ulferated foot of the animal, which is ‘We fource of all, draws them unto HY | an

132)

|

and with them ic attra&ts alfo the theb cold dry atomes. which caufe the tts cure, the malady requiring no other Vitn help, than to be well dyed, and bilo refrefhed.

Butifone fhould exyole | ten

this turf to a moit hoctifh wind, it. itn

fuch would produce contrary effe“ts. ls whee my all nth s, Lord my ld, Beho

formed, I confeffe they are ill fil’d, |natu and: solidhed , but let us try whe- der, cher-being put together, and moun- quite ted they will make the Engine g°3 | buh

but if thefe wheeles

being well

joyned, and placed to draw the conclufon , or this unfhaken cat, raque to a good port, you will e nefl good the hive , I prefume

t0 th Oe

to catdon the groffe, and rude exprefions of my languags, and paffing by the words you will content your {elves with the naked

ih trurh of rhings.Let us therefore apply) that thar which hath been fpoken to

which is pracul’d whensa wounded erfonis cu°ed.Let us concder Maier

Howe! wounded upor his hand, anda}. great inflammation hapened upon his! hurt, his garteris taken covered a _Wh the

‘the blood that iffued fom the wound, ir is fteeped in abafon of water where Vitriol was diffolved, one keeps the )bafon inthe day time ina clofer, in | the moderare heac. of the Sun » and )tpatnight in che chimney comer, in |fuch iort thatthe blood which is upyon the garter way be alwaies ina good iG} naturall temperamenc ineither cols | der, nor hotter thanin the degree re. quired for a healchfull body, what

eught then. to refule , (accardmg

to the dodtrine that we endeavour ¢} to eftablifh,) from all this 4 In the | firt ylace the Sun, ©and the light wili-atcra&t from a greatexrent and

if ditance the fpirics of the blood Which are ucon che garter, and

Jthe: moderate heat of the hearth , which acts ‘gently uvon the com-.

wi} pofition (which comes ro the fime thing, as

if one’

thould

catry ic

fdryin his gocket to makeit fee] }the temperate hear of the body)

j-J fay’ the moderate

hear

of the

P-hearch doth puth our the aid arames,

Mas the water which

gatlers ir l¢

i round in che filtration: or Rraininss

drives

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dtives on that Which mounts up,

to make it go falter, and more -ealily, making it alfo to ailace ir felf,; and’ difill, and fo march of themfelves a.

good way in the air, to help thereby: the attraction of the Sun and ofthe light.

Secondly, the {,irit of the Vie triol, being incorporated: with the blood, cannot chufe but make the

fame. voyage together with the; aThirdly, tomes of the blood.

rhe wounded

hand expires,

and

exhales in the mean time continu-

ally abundance of hot fiery {pi:its ,

which gufh forch as a tiver out of the inflamed hurt; which cannot be

but chacthe wound muft confequent-

ly draw unto it the air whith is next ir. Fourthly, this air -drawes unco it the other air which is nexcit, |,

and that the néxt- to it alfo, and fo there is a kind of current of air drawn round. about the wound.

Fifchly, wich chis air come ro incorfo-

rate at lait the atomes, and fpr tits ofthe blood, and ofthe Virriol tie and fred) which were diffufed : | ;

rae

4 |

|

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4 good way offin the aire’ by the. ats

Cractions of the light, and of the

Sun. Belides, it may well be that

from

che beginning, the orbe and

{rhere of thefe acomes, and {pirits did extend it felf.in’ fo great a diftance without having need of the

attractions of the aire , or of the lioht, co.make them come thither,

Sixthly,thef2 acomes of blood,finding the proper fource, and originall roor Whence they came, do ftay:, and

{lick there,-and

fo

reenter

Into

their natu-all beds, and primitive receptacles, whereas the ether aire is bie a paflenger, and evaporates away as foon as it comes,even as when j 1 is carried away through the funnel “T of the chimney, fo foon’

“y drawn into the ‘chamber

as’ it is

by the

Ki door, Seventhly ,the atomes of: the | blood being joyned infeparably with

ih) the fpitits of the Vitriol, both the

il} one, and the ether do joyntly } imbibe together within all the ty corners , fibres, and

orifices. of

Hy the vemes: which: lye oven -about i

tO

the wound |of the | G

party . hurr, which

(136)

which hereby are comforted, and in | fine imperceptibly cured. fuch e Now to know wherefor an effe& and cure is fo haprily’ performed, we muft examine the nature of Victiol; which is compo-

fed: of two parts, the one fixed,”

the

other

-volatil.

The ~ fixed,

which, is the fale, is fharp and biting , and cauftique in fome

gree.

de.

The volatil is {mooth, fott,

balfamicall,

and aftringing-,

and

‘tis for that’ reafon that vitriol is made ufe of as a foveraign re~ medy in the medicine for theinflammations of the.eyes, and when they are’ corroded, and fcorched by fome fharp and

or defluxion.

As

burning humot

alfo in injedti-

ons where excoriations and fecalCings ufe to happen, as alfo in the beft’ plaifers to ftanch the

blood, and iwcarfiare the hurt. Bat they who well ‘know how-to draw

the fweer oyl of vitriol, whichis the pure volatil part thereof, know alfo chat in the whole clofer of nature

there isno balm like this oyl. re (Ms

(137)

this balm‘of {weet oy! do h heafe

in a very fhort: time all kind of hurts which are net mortall,. ic cures, and confolidates the brok en

veines of rhe breaft, as fat as the } ulcers of the lungs, which is an in| curable malady without this balm ,

| Now ‘tis the volatil pare of } Vitriol, which is tranfported the by | the Sun (the great Diftiller of naj ture) and which by that meanes | doch dilate ic felf in the aire, and jthac

the wound,

or

part

which

jtecelved the lefion-, drawes > and | incorporates wich the blood, to-

|gether wich ics humours and {pie yfits.

And tharbeing crue, we canmot expe& a greater effe& of the

volatil vitriol, but chit it fhould , Wfhuc the veines, fanch the blood,

e/f2ad fo in a fhore compafle of time

(mon fort, as itcame from the Drug .

<apuis, without any preparation G2

or

addition

(158)

|

addition at all’, and

-to.. difolve

u Ml

It in fountain’ water, or rather in raine water, in fuch a proporiion,

Ha

that puting’

therein a. knife, _or

fome polifbed tron,it fhould come out

“ ae ee ii | Aiea

changed

into the colour of

copper: And ‘into this. .water they did pur a clouc or rag-of cloth embrued with the blood ef the party hurt (the rag being firlt dry,) but if ic was. yet frefh , and moxt |

with the reaking blood, there was

no need but to powder ir with the fmall rowder of the fame vitiol,; in.

ii

fuch fort, that the powder might in-

corporate it felf,and imbibe the blood.

remaining yet humid; and keep both. the one andthe otherin a temperate,

heat,and place, viz. the powder in.” .ones pecket,and the water (which. ad- ? mics not of this comodity) in a chamibér where thé héat was temrerate,)_ and eyery-tine that on2 put. new.wa-!

..,

tet of victiol with frefth powder and new clorh,or other bloudied ftuff che patient’ fnould feel new eafementas atthe wound hidbeen then dreft wich

“= gone foyeraign medicament.

And for

a

‘(189 )

:

for this reafon they wied to reitérars: chis manner of dreifing both evening and morning: But now, the mot part of chof:

who make ufe ofthis remedy of the

Powder of Sympathy,do endéavour to have Vitriol of! Rome, or of C‘IprUs,

and

calcine-ic white ih the Sun?

And befides,: fome? ufe to -adde the Gumme! of Tragava:tha, ic Vee

ing eafie to adde unto things alread ¥ Invented, Touching my felf, I have feen fuch great and admirable effedts of plane Vicriol of eighteen pence the

pound; as of thie’ Powdér) Which is ufed to be prepared ‘now at a greater price : yet notwithitandin¢ I donotblame

th2 prefent, practife;

on th: contrary’ I commend it, for ir 13 founded ugon reafon.

Fift, ic feems that che pureft and béft fort of Viriot doth produce 'th2 beft-operation:

ih

Secondly, ic feems alfo rhat the moderate calcining thereof! ac th2 rayes: of the Sun doth cake ©away. the fuperfluous humidity of the G 3

‘Vitriols:

(140).

Vicriol ;and this calcination

doth not touch any -pare but that which is good: as if one fhould boyle broth fo cleer. that ic comes to be gelly, which certainly would renderit more nourifhing, | Thirdly, ic feems that the expoling of the Virriol to the Sun

to.

receive

calcination,

renders

its’ fpiits more ficly .difpofed to be cranfported- through © the aire by the Sunne quires, i

when need re-

For it owght not to be doubted but thac fome pare of the etherean fire of the Solar rayes doth incorporate withthe Vitriol, as ‘tis plain. fy difcovered by calcining: Antimony with a burning-elaffe, for ic much augments the weight of it. almo& half in half; and in» this cafe the

part of chat luminous

fubftance

which remaines

Vicriol,

in

the

thus is made apt ,.and difpofed to be carryed in the aire.by a

femblable light, and Solar rayes. As we fee that to make the tongue ,

:

of

(147)

of a pump draw the warer

the

eafier from the bortom ofa well, one dethufe to caft a little water from.

above upon it. Now, the ‘light -catrying with ic fo eafily the fubftance that is fo. connaturall to it, carries alfo with the more - facility that which is incorporated with it, Fourthly, thefe Solar rayes being embodied withthe Vitriol,

are in

apofture to communicate unto it a more excellent vertue than ic hath of ic felf, as we find that Anumony

calciti'd in the Sun, becomes (wheteas it was rank’ poyfon before) a moft foveratgn and balfamical medicament, and a moft excellent firengthner of nature.

Fifthly, the Gumme of Tragagantha, having a glutinous faculty5. and being for the reft very innocent, may

watds the wound, My

contribute fomerhine to-

confolidation .of the

Lords, I could

adde. unto:

what is fpoken many moft inaportant’ confiderations. touching the form G4 and:

‘

(142))

and effence-of Virriol, whereof the fubftance is fo noble, and the origen

fo admirable, that ene may avouch

with good reafon, that ic is one of

the moit excellenr bodies: which nacure hath produced.

The Chymists do affure us thar ic isno other chen a corporification of the univerfall {pirie which animates and perfeSs all that hath ‘exiftence inthis

fublunary World, which

fawn in thacabundance by a Lover

is

fo appropriatedby. , meanes whereof I my felf have in affiort time, by . expofing it onely unto the oxen aire; madean-attraction ofa celeftiall Viz triol cen times more in weight, which Was Of a muvellous pureneffe and vertues a priviledge which hath not been given but todt, andto gure virgin falt-peter. | But to anatomife-as we ought the nature of this tranfcendent individuall; which nevertheleffe in fome fathion may be faid to be univerfall, and: fundamentrall co all bodies;

it

would require a Difcourfe far more

ample then I have. yet,made,

Bur as

(143)

as I' perceive I have already enters tained. you fo longa tine, it would prove. avery g ereat indiferecion to crench further |upon your goodn-fe, . who have hitherto liQhed unto me -

wich fo much attention ‘and pati-ence, 1 fhould go about*ro enter | into any new: matter, and embark my felf for a further’ voyage.

Whe: fsre remitting ‘divers: matters ro fone <other time, when you fhall pleafe vovorder me, comming now

again co the senetall confideration of this Sympathericalf cure, I will’ puta period rocthis Difcoutlfe, after chat k.fhall hive’ cold yo two. or three words, which

fmallimio:tance

will nor'bé‘of |

forthe bagi

tiod of all which hath bee ralledged* by.me hitherunto, P have deduced unto you the> admirable caufes of the operations,’ and ftrange effe&s ofthe Powder of* Sympathy from: their firlt® root.

Thefe fundamientall “caufes. are fo” erichaining one within che other, that it feems ‘there can beno defaulc,*.

fiop ,.of interruption,’ in-thxir pro-+ G 5. ceedings >

(344)

eeedings. .But we thall berhe bers

ter fortified in. che belief of their vertue and efficacy, and how. they come to produce the effe&ts of {.

-Many fair cures, if we confider thar

then when fome change is practifed in. one of thefe caufes; orin all-of

them together, we fee and perceive immediately an effect altogether differing from the former: If I had never feen'a Watch o; Clock, I thould be juflly. furprized.,. and: Should remaine afionithed to-fee a. hand ,. or a needle, fo regularly.

marke the journall hours, and mo»

tion of the Sun, upon: the fat of a.

Quadrant; and thatit fnould turn, and: make its round every four and! twenty hours , there being no» thing feen that fhould puth on the: faid needle : Bur. if I look-on-the

other fide, I fee wheels, refforts;: and counterpoifes , which are in: petpetuall’ motion: ; +which~ havingEY Bie, ee well’ and foberly confidered , I prefently fufpe& that. thofe wheels: are: the- caufe of rhe Motion, and?

tumings: of. the: faid. Needle, als

iD at aDy ra eS aan aes oie en ee tes

~

fi)

he

though:

|

Ain

CS iia T ne amet SO loge a OE gilts Sate ies. TH

aig

+

Oe

rat Wee

# eee SS

E

¥

a

+

et

a 42

(245°)

|

. | echough*I ‘cannot prefencly difcernes | or know how thofe moving wheele do caufe a motion in the needle of . the quadrant , becaufe of the platethar lyeth interpofed berwixt them.

Therefore

1. reafon* thus

within

my felf ;:That every effec wharfoye ever mutt have of pure necellic fone caufe, and therefore that rhe

body moved there oughe necefla-. rily to. receive. ics motion from fome other body which‘ts contigu-. y ous to it. “Now I fee no other bod the of dle Nee the es which mak quadrant to move and tum,

then:

the {aid wheels; therefore Imuft of: force be perfwaded tonattribute the , motion untothem. But afterwards; mothe d ppe flo e hav when 1fhall taken: tion of thofe ‘wheeles ,. and away

the Counterpoile , and obs

: {erved that fuddenly the Needle ng lyi app chat and e, ceafed to: mov ng: goain the Counterpoile, and givithe ne, jiberry for the wheel to tur ry’ ina ord her Needle returnes to train, oc by making one wheeleto go’

t,. fahter By putting my finget-untoiore

bo

Up

746)

er by adding more weight to the Counterpoife, the needle do th halen, and advance its Motions Proportionably.

Then: I gtow to be:convinced and enurely: {at isfied ; and fo I abfolutely conc lude thac thefe wheels and counter; oifes are

the ‘true caufe of the mo tion ofthe needle.

In‘the fame manner ‘ye If interes rup

ting the action of any of

caules which I. have-eftabli thofe thed for

the true foundation of the.

Sym

vathetical] ‘Powder, I alre-, retard or kinder «the cure of the wound; [ may

voldly conclude, rhat the

fores faid caufes are-the legiti mate. and genuine true caufes of the cure, and

that we need nor amufe o-f to. make indagarii ns for any eth felyes er, Letusthen examine our buf ineffe by that bias, I hie affi rmed thar pane a

the Tighe Cranfporting the atomes of the Vitriol,and of the blood, and’ dis Jating-them toa great extent in the ate

,the: woundo: place hurt; .dozh attract'them, and thereby is immedi *

ne ee =

ately folac’d and eafed, and con fequently

= =

a> \

aaa om | ~ e

—

ie

ee

ee

eS

(147)

quently ‘comes to bz healed by the {riries of. the Vitriol , which is of

a Balfamicall’ virtue.. Bur. if you put the bafon, or Powder with the

cloth embrued with blood » Within an Armory, Of inro'a co:ner of fone

cold roo; or into a Cave, where the light never comes, ner freth 2 ir,which makes the-+ lace co‘rurted; and to hive il felis; in thir cafe the wound can-receive nov amendments

hor any good effet from the faid

Powder. And ir will fay] oucin the fame manner, if having: pur the: ba‘fon, or Powder, in fome By-corner,;

‘and that) you> cover. iewith: fome

thick ,. ftufing , and {fongy cloth ,

which may-imbibe the aromes ‘thar ufe tocome forth, and which retain

the light: and

rayes

which enter

therein, whereby they are ttoored 3 and. quire. loft. Moreover, if you fuffer the water’ of Vitriol> to cone

geale into ice’, wherein the eloch

is dipped,

the

patty

hure>fhalt

be.-fenfible at the beginning: vety great ‘coldim his wound of a ; but when it isiced allover, he thall fee neither

: neither

(148), heat nor

cold, an regard:

thar congealed coth doth contitpate ° the pores of the water, which. nevertheleffe doth: not ceafe to. tranfpire, and fend forch fpiars.

If one fhould wath.the cloth, {pots eed with blood, in Vinegar, or Lye, (which by their penetrating acrimony tranfpore all the fpirics of the biood ) before the Vitriol- be applied, ic will produce no effect; yet if ic be wafhed but with pure’ f&mple water, ir may nevertheleffe do fomething, for that water carrie’

not away fo much; but the effect will nor be fo great, as if the blood{potted piece had not been’ wafhed at all, for then iris full ofthe f{pirirs of the blood. The fame cure 1s per-. formed by applying the remedy to: the blade of a fword: which’ hath: wounded aperfon’; ific come not to paffe chat the fword be too much’heated by the fire,for then ic would make alf the {pirics of the blood to evapoerate,and in that cafe the fword would?

ferve but alittle ro perform the cures.

Now: the reafon why the fword aa® ; |

| aa

cS

“perr es

Oe

ae

e

a

(149)

be dieffed in order to the cure,

Is, becaule the fubtil fpirits of blood

do penetrate the: fubQance of the blade , as far as the extent

which

the {word made within the body of the wounded party, where they ufe to: make their refidence, there

cing nothing to chafe them away,

unleffe it be the fire, as I faid before,

Forexperiment whereof, hold it over a Chaing-difh of moderate fire, and you fhall difcern: on the fide oppofice to: the fire a fittle humidicy Which refembleth the {pots that ones breath makes upon looking. glafles, or upon the burnifned blade of a fword: If you look uron it athwart fome glafle which makes the ob/ect feem_ bigger, you fhall find that this foft dew of the fcirits

confifts mn little bubbles, or blown

bladders; and when once they are enturely evaporated, you fhalf difcernno more upon the wearon, unleffe it were thtuita: new into the body of ai living perfon. Nor from the beginning fhali you difcover any fuch’ thing, bur precifely upon that part = thi

C150) the blade,

which had ‘entred

wound: This fubrill.

penetration

the-

of the

f.irits into the hard fteel,, may confirm the-beligf of che entrance. of fuch {.trits into-the skin of'a Woman

big with child, as I remind to have: rrosofed unto. you ins my |fixts Principle remarkable inv its own places . Now then, avbile the Apints lodge in’ the iword, .thzy, may. ferve as grere helss forthe) cure, of che Patient;

but: when the fire nach dri-

ven them a'l-away, the remedy ap»

plyéd-to the fwo ‘dy will not: avarle ° any) thing ar all. Furthermore 5 af

any violent heat.accompanics thefe

atones,it indames the wound; -buc

common fale may: remedy that, che

hunidity. of water humectates. the hare, and che cold cawleth a chilneffe in the oarty wounded.

To confirm: all thefe~ partreulirs, I could-adde to thofeI have already related.» many notable Examples: T have: already more, bue I-feir teo much exercifec

eur parienee:,

therefore I will induitrioully. prerer-: Trait:

Cony

Ht

toad

Patte Teal (

sR

CTSE YY

mit che mentioning of them at this time, but I offer to entertain i parti-

culiany ofthis Honovrible A ffembly therewich, if they have the curio fity co be informed of them.

I conclude then,

Mefheurs , by

reprefenting unto you that allthis my teryis guided and governed all along by true naturall wayes and citcumttanc:s , although by the agency and reforts of very fubril fpirits.

Tam perfwaded my Difcourfe hath convincingly fhewed you, that in this Sympatheticall cure, there is no need } to admit of an action diliant from the

| Patient.

I have traced unto youa

real Communication twixt the one and the other, wz. ofa Balfamicall

fubftance, which corrorally mingleth } withthe wound.”

| .Now tisa poor kind of pufilfa-

}nimity

and faintneffe of hea-t, or

rather a groffe Ignorance of the | Underfanding , co pretend any ef| fests of Charme or Magick herein, of toconfiine alf the actions of Nature | to the groffeneffe of our fenfes, when iwe have not fufficiently confdered,

nor

(152) flor examined

the true caufes aud

principles whereon tis fitting we

fhould ground our judgement : we need ner have Fdoubien toa Demon or Angel in fuch dithculties,

Nee Deus interfit, wifi dignuns vindice noaus

2

ru iaerit, SERRE,

TEAOM

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add

~

A Tableofthe mof excelfent things delivered in this difcourfe,

N

introdu€ion.

into the difcourfe.

Pt ,&e.

Whether horfes have their fwiftnefle by nature,or do gain ir by accidentorart, -p 3 That Sir Keselm Digby was the frft that

introduc’d into this quarter of the world

the curing of wounds by the Powder of Sym-

pathy.

me

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A rate hiftory of acure performed by the Powder of Sympathy, pé An excellent difcourfe of light, P9

By what means the wind is ingendred.p24 That young Vipers have grown toa great bignefle, being nourifhed onely with the air, A relation of oyle of Tartar, thar fel. as

ifithad been calcind in Rofe-water, ahd why.

P37 The incommodities of Sea-cole, that it is the caufeof inflammations and ulcerations of the lungs, and of confiumptions, P40 To wath ones hands often ina filyer bafon in the moon, anin fallible way to rake away warts from the hands, P 43

_ Way our Enplith Doggs- will purfue a

pso fentmany miles.

An experiment of beaten Gold. p 48.

Beanes and Rofemary when they are in flower may be {melt many miles,

That Vultures have come

pst 200, er ho miles

The Table. miles after a batrle by the imell ofthe dead ¢arkafes. $2 An experiment of a ball of lead, &c. and of wine made by the inftrument

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‘Examples,ofa Wiman who was deliycieLof

2 child refembling an Ape, of one that b ought forth.a child without armes, and of another that was brought robéd of a child

whofe head was newly fevered from ‘his bo-

dy. | / pros & ig The diftory of the Tari:ntula withthe cure

thereof,

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Why the Ringing ofBells caufe the fame found upon the water. pir3 Nofes made of flethdecay, when the party

dies from whom the ficfh was taken, plrg Milk boyling ‘over into. the fire without prevention caufesan inflammation in the Cowtsuddér.

P 120 S:verall waies to try whether the milk of a nurfe be good or no, pr23 The cafting of ones excrcments into the fire will caufea feavorin the party, p24 The hiftory of a ch'ld cur’d of a feaver by purting its excrenttntsinto water. p 126

After what manner country people ufeto

make children Icave fouling of their doo’s in the night. ~play

A remedy for Oxen thar are troubled: with

‘umpoftumes in the bortomes.of their feet,

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The manner of applying the powder of Sympathy-for-the cure of wounds... p133

Seven

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