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abour, of the Oyl of {weet Almonds three drams 3 | tharge, of each half an‘ounce; Rofe water,as much afcerward pour thereunto of theOy] of Tartar by |as wilfuffice, and fo lec chem ftand:iniche, Sun in
draining two drams 4 and chen,moreover add of |a Glafs clofe ftopped.., Or,
che Yelks of cwo Eggs, and, mingle chem wel, to- Take one whol Egg, and put it into'the f{con- gether, ., After this add of Saccharum Saturnt, ox jeer Vinegar for four daies, uncil the fhel be fof- Sugar of Saturn, halfadram; mingle chem with | ctened 5 afterward take forch the white, and fill ic al poflible care, and then acthe length pour in |up with Frankincenfe, Maftick,and.€eruls, of untoal the aforelaid, ¢ by.a litgle.at once) the||each one dram minglechem,&cus ; boo! ; Water of Bean flowers, of whice Lillies, and of :
Sirawberties, of cach two OUNCES 5 and fo mingle | a ee : them al wel cogethér. Ox, | Chap. 32.. Of Cra/ta Lactea, Achos Take Litharge one ounce 5 Allum chree drams; res, Favi, Tinea, Ficus, Feleydris um, Pfydracia, and Phthiriajis.”
Ceruis half an ounce ; Vinegar, cwo-ounces;, the Water of Rofes, and Plantane, \of each four oun- ces; boy them until a chicd pare be wafted away, | | asa chen ftrainthem ; and co the ftraining adda lucle Uz of che Humors mingled together cherejare of the Juyce of Lemmons ; ,and with this mixcure likewife generated both Tumors.and Ul- let che Face be anointed in the Evening. Or, lcets in Infants, chat,feize efpecially. upon their Take the Kernels of Peaches clean pecled, bic- | Heads 5 couching which we bave already, greated rer Almonds Slanched , of each in number fix; lin the fourch Book of our, Practice, . Part 2. beat them Wellin a Mortar witha luclemilk 5 and Chap. 3, 4, 5. where we handled the Difeafes of rhen lec chet miky Juyce be prefled forth 5 unto Infanes, and therefore I conceive 1 alcogether which add of burnt Allum asmuchas a.Nuc. Af-)neediels here co repeat any thing of, what was rerward rake of Quick-filver as: much as a great there at-large delivered. . I fhal. only therefore Peafe in quanticy 5 which cogether with Spit- here further acquaint you with thefe few. chings tle fhake wel, and ftir ic about in the Morcar uncil following. The firft whereof 1s chis, ‘That.thele scbecome black, and be a3 ic were mortified ; and Affects here propounded, aslikewile thofe-which then mineleit carefully with the former Liquor, | W€ have next of al explained, are indeed by rhe with which abouc bed-cime lec the Face be anoin- moft referred unto Tumors:.. and yer notwith= ced; and then in the morning following ler ac be fkanding (becaufe there is here an Ulcer evermore wathed wich Rofe wacer, or the Water of Bean conjoyned with chefe Affeéts, and the truth bes flou:. Or, ing thac che Ulcer feemeth rather cohavein it the Take the whiteft Tarcar, Allum, and Nitre, of| Nature of a Difeafe,than the Tumor hath, which is eacb tour parcs 5 Sulphur one parc; bruife chem indeed but very {mal and inconfiderable) wejudg wel, and then Calcine chem andima Cellar from | that they may alike ficly and properly be referred them make.an Oy! per deliquium (as they {peak)) waco Ulcers: . Buc yet however our purpole 1s co or by draining. .Q:, ,,,, continue the fame Method (and as imay foday,te Take Kernels.ot Peaches hulled four ounces s {pin the fame thrid) char we find begun by moft che feed of Gourds peeled cwo.ounces , lec chem Authors, and according totheir guidance and di- be bruifed, and then che Oy! preffed out of them 5 rections And moreover, 28 for what concerneth with which lec the Face. bs wel-anoimced both | the Affects here propounded, what we are to un= morning and evening, and afcerward wafhed wich
derftand by Crufta Lattea, and what,we mean Rofe water, and Bean flour Water,and che Water | by Achores,; Pavi,and- Linea, we have already of Solomons Seal. Or,
tald you, inthe place before alleadged: as. for
Take Camphyre, Licharge, burns Allum, of Helcydria, Pfydracia, and other che hike Affects each halfadram; Jive Sulphur adram and half; /of che Head (comprehended under the general White Vitriol, and Frankincenfe, of each, one|natne Bxanthemata_) they ate al together hand- dram 3 lec chem be powdered, and carefully min-
ied by Galen is his ficft Book of the Compofition pled with Rofe wacer, and Bean flour Water. | of Medicaments, according tothe places; affected, Or,
Take Live Sulphur one ounce; Choice Franz kincenfe three drams 3 Myrth cwodrams ; Cam- phire one dram; Ceiufs halfa dram; Pouder them alvery {mal, and pout thereto of Role wa- ter one pint, mingle chem 5 and when the Patient goes into his Bed lee his Face be anointed with the faid Liquor 3 and che morning following: Jet ic be wathed with the water of che infufion, of Brans Or, . | f
Tahe Oy} of Tartar one dram5. Sulphur ¢wo. drams3 Gamphire half a drain 5 Ceruls and Li-
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THE | THIRD DISCOURSE: : Of eA tomes and “Mixture.
Chap. r. Of Atomes.
OT only Words (like Money ) are current by ufe, but alfo Opi+ my ions; and chofe Opinions of Philofophers which were in requeft in daies of old, have been by the {pringing up of other Opinions banifh« ed wich che Writings of the faid Philofophers. There were ancients ly (by the Teftimony of al Antiquity) moft wife hen, Pythago- ras, Empedocles, Democritus, Socrates, Anaxagoras, Parmeni~ des, and very many more, whofe Opinions neverthelefs are: either alcogether unknown, or fuck are atcributed cochem as feem more like old Wives Fables, chan Opinions becomiaga wife man, as Fr. Titelmannus {peaks, Lib.s.Philof. nat. cap. 15. which if they were by us rightly under» ftood, pecadventute we fhould chink them not altogether cobé rejected ; which. neveccthes lefs now at che fir& a ppearance, when they are not underftood, are Jaughed at asabfurdicies, and rejected as unworthy of Philofophers. Truly Ariftotle in his Works, every where re-
caunts the Opinions of che Aacients, and fhatply oppotes che fame; but Pererias ingenu-
oufly confefles in Lib. Comment. de rer. natur. princip. cap. 16. That he cannot detiy bu thac Ariftotlein making Inquifition inco, and judgment upon the Opinions of the Ancients, was Coo hard and fevere a Judg and Arbitrator, And inthe fame place herelates che Opie nion of Simplicius, whoconce ived that chofe ancient Philofophetswexe acauftomed to hide their Opinions under znigmatical and allegorica) ob{curicies: ancbflicveforé Plato and: Ari- fiotle, fearing left rude pecfons as were too dul-headed co underftanditheit abftrufe: fence, widdtal inco Eccorjsdid: fo ha theit Opinions as char they might feem co common Readers co diflike ane fame. Not tofpeak ofochers, Democritus who lived. when Hipposmater Viv
Ons, not only of Anaxagoras (whole junior he was by forty yeers, as is reported) bur al- £0 of che Qutlandifh Philofophers, and many years cogecher (to attain Witdomy he travel. led ftrange Councries, Cvaldea, India, Perfia, Ethiopia, Egypt, and heard and conful- ced wich the great and wife men of chofe places, asic is tobe teen in Elian, de varia Hi- floria, Lib. 4. cap.20 Diogenes Laertius in bis Life, Ctemens Alexandrinus, Lib. x. firomat, and Eutebius, de preparat. Evangel. Lib. 10. cap.2- Plinyy Lib, 30. C4p..to And during the long time of his Life (for he died in che hundred.and ninth year of his age) he diligently examined al things, and did foexcel in Philofophy chat he was called: common- ly Pentatblos, the Champion at five Games, viz, Becaufe he waseminene m Natura l, Moe ral, Machemacical, and other Difciplines; cermed by Hippocrates in his Epiftle co Dama- getus, che Wifeft of Men, the moft Wife Man, and inhis Epiftie co Democritus, The: moft excellent Interpreter of Natu re and the World; andby Arifiotlemméelf. in 4. de generat. © corrupt. cap. 2. tewt. 5. he ss preferred before al other ancient Philofophere in the Science ofNature And by che Senate and People of Abdera he was to highly: efteemed,: chax H
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Lib. 30. cap. 1. was a man moft ftudious of Pailofophy, and diligently weighed: che Opins- critus,
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446 Natural-P hilofophical Difcourfes. Book Il. chey write in their Epiftte to Hippocrates, Thatchey feared it Democritus thould be fick che Ciry of Abdera would become quite defolate; and inthe fame Epiftle he is cermed che Body of Wifdom. Yea, chey calledhim Philofophy 3 ir (elf, asW/Elian relates in rhe ‘place fore-aileadged. And this alone argues his great care withe ftudy of Nature, that Pliny writes Lib. 14. cap. 2... Whereas there are innumerable and almoft infinice forrs of Vines, and-almoft As many as there are Fields, -yec Democritus was the only man chat conceived cheir kinds might be numbred, profefling he knew al that grew inGreece. It is not chere- fore credible that fo fagacious a Phuofopher,: amott wife man Cas Hzppocrates called him) one fo ufefulco Humane Life (as Pliny calshim, Lib. 28.cap.8.) thould encercain fuch abfurd Opinions as are ac this day fachered upon him 3 nor is 1 (indeed) likely (ro use the words of Pérerius, L4b.4 Phyficap.4.) thatfordi{creer'add wife aman, fo mihy wares commended.by Ariftotle,thould beleeve and reach things fo evidencly falié-and abfurd, roc only fecretly contrary to Reafon, but likewile openly againft che very Verdict or the Senfes.
TheDe- Now amoneft ocher Opiwions afcribed to Democritiis, Empedocles, and other moft no- Grine of ble ancient Philofophers, 3s this That they bela Atomes or individual Bodikies co be the Atomesa Principles of Natural chings, from the various mixture whereof. other Bodies have cher moft anti- Orioinal, And chis Opinion was a moft ancient Opinion, and is ‘now attributed co one hier SMochus a Phenician, whots reputed co bave flourithed before rhe deftiuction of Troy ;
yea, and chat it was the common Opinion of Philofophers before Ariffotle, 1s apparenc from the beginning of bis Second Book. de Generat. & Corrupt. Ariftotle was the firft chac re- linguithed this Opinion, andsheld that chole Atomesor {malleft Bodikies were nor only united. in mixture, but allo by mutual action and paflion-one upon another fo alrered. and wrought upon; that they ceafed co be what they were before cheit mixtute,, and were chaa- ged inio a: Body: fo fimilar, chat every fimalleft pare imaginable could be no Jonger Called
Bie; Wacer,: Air, or Earth, bucamixt Body., Of which we thal {peak more latgely when
"Tis foun: wecome to{peak of Mixcute.; And although the Doétine of Acomes and Indivilible Badi-
ie o” jes be commonly. fet out after an odious manner 5 yet 1f rightly explained 1¢ feems not ab-
cae furds « Yea;theReafons brought for chis Opinion ate not: Jighe or foolith, but. ftroog.and
urging, and which can hardly be anfwered, as Ariftotle bimfelf confetie: , Lib. 1. de Generat.
do Corruptycapi2. text. 6. .ard which he cannot certainly promife toan{wer, buthe would
cry whathe:could do: » Anddoubelefs be knew he could noc lollidly refute'this Opinion, “and
therefore heufed not proper and Phyfical Reafons asihe ought to have done, buc Mithema- ticalandexcravapant ones. ©’ |
The Do-~,; Now :E conceive the Doétrine of Acomes may be thus explained. “In Nacural things drine of fnbje& to-Generation and Corruption, becaufe chere isa. perpecual Interchange of Genera~ ape ial ting and corrupting,’ there muft needs be cercain fimple bodies, each of ‘a nature by it elf, ex PIAA. oucof which the Compounds may be generated, and into which Compounds are apain re-
folved. For Democritus feeing that Bodies Natucal were nertber made of nothing, nor
a
nade of Points, he was forced to holdthey were made of the {malleft Bodikies. Wheteicts . |
cobe noted, ‘That Democritus did novenquire, Whether thete were an individual Mache-
matical Magnitude; buc whether there were Natural Bodikies of an indivifibie {malneis, our
of a mulcitude of which gathered together a certain fore of natura! Body does arife. -Thefe
the mas- Bodikies are thereforecermed che {malleft particles. in Nacute, Atomes, Atoma corpufcula, ney of indivifible Bodikies; becaufeia che refolucion of Nacural'Bodies chere1s no turcher progrels Atowes- oy be made beyond thefe into any ching {maller.; and contrariwife Natural Bodies have cher original from thefe.. Which Bodikies are indeed reaily in Nature, but are fo {mal as they
_ cannot be difcerned by che Senfes, Of them Plato in his Timeus chus writes: Touching thefe {0 fmal Bodikies we are thus to chink, Thatif you cake only one fingleone of a kind,
chere is none of them can be feen by us in regard of its fmalnets 5 but at many are colledted
cogecher, their bulk and magnitude is difcernable. For neither are thofé litcle Bodikies we
fee floating up and down: in the Sun-beams fuch Aromes as we {peak of, buc compounded
May (Bodies. Alche:Learnedeft Philofophers have acknowledged «hat there are fuch Aromes, bave beld noc cofpeak of Empedocles, Democritus, Epicurus, whole Doctrine 1s fulpected, pechaps chere are hecayfe yt is not underftoody’ »And Galen makes mention of chem 1, deElemens.cap. 9. Atoms pvdindeedevery where amongft Philofophers and Piyficians boch’ Ancient avd Moder, mention i,giade of chefe liecle Bodikies or Acomes, chat I wonder the Dottrine of Acomes
fhould be ttaduced asa Novelty. . ThacI may not {peak of others befides thofe whom I have already praifed; who may betufpected as Gorremners:of the Ancient Phtlofophy, and detr. rous of Novelties; ‘PrancifcussAquilonius, Lib.5Optice dein. 5. thus writes: Amonztt eae Elementary
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Elementary Q 1alities, che two which are termed paflive ace exceeding far from the Nacure of Light. For neither does Humidity fignifie a Quality, nor Humectation an alceration. For humidity in che fubftance of Wacer_ is the fame ching thac factinefs is in che {ubftance of Oy]; and as fat makes Greafie by being {meared upona ching, fo moifture motftens on- ly by fticking coa thing. Again diinefs 1s only che defect of moifture, and exficcarion the confumption.of Humor. And among the active Qualities Cold tends forth no coldnefs ous of ic felf which hough it may co fome teem ttcange, yetis it agreeable to realon, and exe perience manifeftly demonftraces che fame. Forche coldeft body chat is (co feel co) as Ice; does fend forch no fenfe of coldnels to ones hand chac is neer ic; but al cold chings are percei- ved cobefo only by handling thea. Which (co fuchas denied the fame) I have often made appear by a pleafant expecimenc: fortheir eyes being blinded and their band held forth, I would ask them if they fele che coldnefs of the Ice neer their hand. For fomrimes chey would fay chey fele fomwhat when there was nothing near chem 5 and otherwhiles they would fay they felc nothing when the Ice was fo neer shew hand as ict did almoft rouch the dame. Anda while atcer he faies; Heat feemsto diffule ic felf abroad like Light. More- over, Laccount ic Ccruly)} moft hkely chat from the kindled fewel a kindled vapor does flie abroad, which being fecrecly conveighed through the Air does heat every. thing ic touches; and alfo burns che fame if ichave any chicknefs.. Hence iccomes to pafs thac things fec near a blazing fire are buined though they do noc couch,che vifible fire it felf, which 1s often feert in Paper and Tow but much more apparently in Naphcha, Afphalcum, Amber, and fnch like, which draw the flame co chem trom afars Hence alfo ic comes to pafs chat che fire heats more ftrongly and fiercely alofe than beneath oronthe fides, viz. Becaufe the infla~ med vapor attenuated by Heat endeavors co mount upwards. Which cruly does not pro~ perly agree toa qualuy,burco afubftance. Nor can you rightly fay Heat is Light, buc chaz which ys hor. Forchat being by the force of heat rarefied becomes hghcer 5 as chat is heavier which by condenfacion of che macer is brought 10to a narrower compafs. Hence al- jo che crue caufe may be rendred, why inthe Wincer flames do blaze. more luftily : for che furrounding cold binders the heat from fpreading it felf abroad in the Alte And inthe fame Book, Propofit. 2. Wemuft calcomind what was faid, definit, 5. of this Book, how thar she Heat ofthe Fire isnot carried along by a continual action, buc is fecretly conveighed through che Air, juft as fmels which bieach out of odariferous Bodies, and being received in the chin Air, and founded ina fectét exhalation, are carried this way and chat way by bab nab. So CI fay) che fiery beac. being carried in a certain kindled Spirit is chruft ftcaic along, as much as che power of the fire isable ; very {peedily upwards; bucthe more flowly by how muchthe more downwards. But being fec at liberty i¢ wanders more freely through che Air, and is driven any way by the lighteft marion, and by its {ticking to chem things never grow warm, as thofe which are placed by odoriferous bodies do {mel {weet only by exhalaci- ons fixcking co them. . Soldiers in thei Camps find chis by experiences when having cut down a pteat deal of Wood they pile ic up and {ec ic on fire.in the middle ofa field, and ftand round about the fame. For they chac have che wind on their backs do feel hardly any heat alchough chey ftand clofe by the fice, che fiery {picics being thereby carried unto the oppoficte
fide; whichthe wind could not do if only a quality were carried through the Air 5 for chat ~
being no body would give the wind a tree paflagechrough che Air.. Thus far Aquilonins. But whar need we Authorities when the matcer is plain enough of ic felf? For if wecon-
{ule with Experience, which Arifiotle {o commended in Democritus, we thal find both che “ee that | Ai i there ave Me
Generations and Corruptions of things co be. made by Aromes, and chat there are every where in Nature examples of the umicing and feparating of Acomess And fince there is noc only one kind of Atomes, but thac they are various according co the variety of Bodies, I conceive at wil be beft co confider chem both in refpeét ro the Elements fo called, and in re= {pect co bodies compound. ee
For inthe fictt place, The Elements chemfelves are refolved into fuch Bodies, and che {aid Bodies joyning again do make up not only Compounds, bue alfo che bulk ic felf of che Elements. Now hele Acomes or tndivifible Bodikies of che Elements doarife both out of the refolution and corruption of Compounds, and likewife ouc of clie Terrene Globe
(wherein are al Elements) and ate carried up incothe Au ;’ whence proceed fundcy mutati- ° '
ons of the Air,and Generations and Cortuptions,which varioufly affect both Man and Beatts, and Plants. For itis very crue of the firft Atomes or indivilible Bodikies, chac if we take bur one Atome ofa kind there are none of chem vifible : but af many of them be gathered cogecher cheir magnitude and bulk is difcernable, which ¢as, hath been faid) Plato alfo feaches us in his Tzmeus. Sines chetetore thele Bodies are moft. {oval and {ubcile ;
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they do both eafily pierce into.other Bodies, and afford matter alfo to others,
Torun through al kinds of Natural Bodies; and firftasto Elements; Fire infinuates. ic tomes o {elf into Tron'and Water. The fame being infenfibly in che Summer mixt with’ the Air Bodikiess ates foulery hot weacher5 yea, and (asExperience thews) hach burnt up Woods tonie-
times. eis varioufly mingled alfo wich other things, and according co its various commix- cure makes fundry forcs of chings. Fire'indeed of it fel (as Ful. Caf. Scal.' teaches) nei- cher fhines norburns 5 but chat a¢fhines and burns it comesio pats by the admixcure of another Body, and the propinquity of the parts, by whofe co-action in a fmaller {pace che f{ubftance is greater, and theretore the force is greater. But being rarefied ic burns nor, nor does it fhine. That fmoak which afcends hath much fire in it. Nor yet hath it any burning Faculey, nor fhines ic ac al: with any light: and fuch chings ‘as are'roafted on Spies are noc couched by chat fire which we fees yet are they fo couched by fice, as that they are fomtimes burntcoaCoal. Yetasnorchat fire vilible which burns them. And che fame Scaliger, EBxercit. 325: Se%. 7. Fire is much more tranfparenc than che Air, becaufe’ ir ts chinner. The Fire which we ufe is yellow becaufe of mixcure. For chere's fire in a'vapor, in {moak, in burning coals, in a flame 5 and Ariftotle cals a flame burning {moak, and that noc amis, For che flame feemis to be no other thing than the meeting cogether andunion of the parcicles of fire, che hecerogeneal {ubftances being feparated. For whereas by reaton of diftance and commixcure of Contraries the {mal bodies of fire could not joyn cogecher, the obftacle be- ing taken away they begin tobe united. Hence ic happens that if che chamber where fire is kepr be clote fhut che fire wilnot-flame, but asfoon as the Air is let in, and thofe hererope- neal bodies are difcuffed, che flame breaks forth. Nor yet is flame abfolutely pute, but con- tains in it felf {ome heterogeneal Matter, which the color alone does fhew: _ But chat fire which is above the flame is purer 5 and cherefere.is not feen. - For by reafon of the diffe- rent concourfe of the Aromes divers bodies feem to arife which yerare of one Nature. The Fire isbut one thing, yet undergoes divers names, according to chedifferent concoutfe of its {mal bodikies. The Concourfe of many homogeneal bodikies of fire is requifite co make fire in {uch a condition as to fhine and bucn 5 which two things though fire does nos, yet is ic fire ftil.
Now Air is inal bodiesalmoft.’ For fince moft Natural Bodies are porous, Air fils chofe empty {paces naturally. Nottofpeak of other things, fome Metals are founding, others not. And thofe which found have Air in cheir pores, which is che fubject of found. So Woods are apt coadmit found, which happens only by means of che Aix contained in them. And this is moft frequent in dried Woods $ becaufe the watry moifture being confumed, which was unfit ro receive founds, Air comes into its place by ics quality more fic coteceive and advancefounds. Andifamantoucha ftick at one end, and puc che other end to his ear, he fhalbear'a found. Which comes to pafsby means of che Air which 1s contained incthem, feem they never fofolid. And Soldiers are wont co cry whether their Enemies are coming by clapping their Ears clofe co the Earth. ,
Water or moift Air Cwhich is nothing but Air ful of che vapors of warer) does fo infinuate it {elf into wooden things that they wil even be thereby {wollen in bulk. And cherefore fol ding doors many: cimes when the Arr is moift, wil nentheropennorfhuc. And cubs cthac leak being laid in;wacer come co hold again, becaufe che boards which were contracted and made chinks, are by the water diftended.
SerthyA- Finally, TheEarch chough it be chick, yeeit infinuates it felf by ics {mal bodikies inca sc odivtes: other thinps, and is mixed with them. So we fee in Baths, Icefickles, and ftoney fubftances a grow:co the Channels, fo that aman might wel wonder how fucha body could he fo long con- cealed inclear and eranfparent Water. If therefore Air and Water can {o infinuace them- felves inco folid Bodies, and Earch‘can be fo minpled in cranfparent Water as not co be dif- cerned by the fight, why therefore may not fire do the fame whichis muck more fubrile? So chat there is now noneed to difpuce how red hot Iron burns, finice really i¢ contains 1h ic the