Part IP.

Which manifeftly appearech even from this,
chat the very bones when they are at any time fhaved yield forth Blood, which is their Aliment.
But now, that whichfome affirm touching thofe parts we cal Spermatick, chac they are nourifhed by the Seed, is a thing moft falfe, For how canfo great a bulk of the Body be formed, nourifhed, and augmented from fo
{mala Mafs of Seed? And then again, the
Seed isno where elfe generated but in its own proper Veffels. Yea moreover, Children (whofe bones neverthelefs arenourifhed and augmented) donot generate any Seed. Nei- ther is ic Sufficient, what Lavrentius' faich, that the blood varioufly changed, and fuf- fering many alterations, made white, and thickned, is nothing elfe but Seed. For this. ismoft falfe. For neither is rheSeed: any where elfe generated but in itsown Organs; neicher- are other fubftances Seed, al- though that in whicenefs they are like unto Seed.
Andtherefore albeit that thofe white and more dry parts (which they commonly cak Spermatick)be generated and nourifhed from the Blood fuffering many Changes 5 yet ne- verthelefs in very truth they are generated and nourifhed from the Blood. And there- fore it is true indeed that the flefh that is ge- nerated for the agglutinating of che Flethy part of the Wound 1s alcogether like unto the former, as being fuch into which the blood (by reafon of the neer alliance of the matter, and the ftrength of the Flefhy parts) is moft eafily changed: but-yec I fhallnoe rafhly affirm, neither ealily beleeve, chat the Skin andthe bones, andthe reft of the Sper- matick parts may -be united by any ching Heterogeneous 5 and yet without any abfur-
dicy I think ic may befaid, that the Cicatrice _
iga Skin, and the Callus a bone. For al- thoughthere appeareth fome kind of differ- ence between a Cicatrice and the Skin, and
wrought by the Formative faculty from and |berweena Callus andbones yer neverthelefs
out of the Seed, Whereupon Hippocrates Cin | his litle B. of Originals.) writeth, that the |
they are not of a different fubftance 5 bur that diffimilicude proceedeth from thence, that
Concaption bath in feven daies all whatfoever it \the blood needeth many and more laborious weobt to haves alltbe Member's, the Regions of |changes, chatit may be made Skin, Nerve, the Byer, the Bars; theHands, the Fingers, | or bone, then thar ttmiay be made flefh; and
the Thighs, the Feet, the Toes, tbe Privities, | ‘gard that ic was weakned by the Wound, | Wherfore the Formative faculty indeed ge- inerateth both the Skin,and the bone,bur fuch ‘as. are not offogreat accountas are thofethar therefore afterward the parts take noutifh- are generated inthe firft Formation, And yet
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may the more eafily effect chis, che Phyfitian Liniments that are adminiftred for the Curing
comes infor her affiftance, by adminiftcing of Wounds, Uulnerary Balfamis: ) Butwhat certain Medicaments both External, and In-/ this virtue is, they do not fufficiently ex- ternal. YheExcernalare Sarcotick, or fuch) plain; which ifit be rightly explained, chis as Generate Flefh; and Kolletick, or fuch as| Opinion will not then feem much abfurd, Agylutimate: Touching which we have al-| For Galenteachethus,(and fo likewife other ready treated more at.large, in the 4. Book! Phyficians very frequencly)that the Chirur- of our Infhitut.. Part t. Set. 1. Chap. 9. But| geons pains muft in this moft efpecially be although (as there we have fhewn you) they | imployed, chat the remperament of ..the may be propounded as divers; yet nocwith-| wounded part may be preferved. For fince ftanding, feeing that che Conjunction of the| chat the Agglutination of che Wounded parts wounded partsis wrought by means of the | is Natures work; and thar Nature, in this,as Fleth; the fame Medicament ( as is there |in all other Natural ations, ufech as her in-: faid) according to the diverfity of Bodies,and | ftruimenc the innate heac and temperament of difference of the wounded parts, is fomtimes the parc; if hac be asic oughc, and ifit be Sarcotick ,fomtimes Agglutinative, and fom-| vigorous and ftrong, then rhe Curing of the times likewile Epulotick, to wit, fuch as ge-| Wound is happily performed; and bythe neratetha Cicatrice. benefit of this Native heat it hath been ofren-
But now, let us fee and confider,| cimes known that many have recovered of by what power and virtue thofe| che moft dangerous. wounds. Bucif the cem- ! Medicaments do afford any benefic | perament ofthe part be viciated, and the part inthe curing of Wounds. Galenin his third| become weak,Nature can then neither rightly ®. of the ‘Meth. of Phyfickh, and 4. Chap. is | concoct the Aliment that floweth thereto, very large and ful in treating of chis fubject 5 | neither Affimilace itr, nor expel the Excre- and there he ceacheth us, thacthere are'cwo| ments; fcom whence it cometh to pafs, chae kind of Excrements produced in our Bodies ;| there happeneth a conflux of Humors unto the one more thins which for che moft parc {the part affected, chac there is an extraordi- is Evacuated by infentible Tranfpiration, | nary heaping up of Excrements inthe part, and fomtimes likewife by {weac: the other }and from thence many Evils and Sy mptoms more thick, that fticketh externally unco che | are attracted. .W hereupon ‘Hippocrates € in Body, and fuch as we cerm Filth and Nafti- | his B of Wounds) wricecth, that what is dry. nefs. And fo, that-whichis more thick, if | cometh the more nigh unto that that is found 3, ut ftick inthe Ulcer is wont to makeit fordid | and that by boro much the more moift any thing and filthy 3 buc that which is thin maketh | 7 theneerer it cometh unto th it that i witiated, the Ulcer over moift, and fo becomerh an | gnd not found, And ,~herefore ic f2emeth Impediment unto Nature in her generating of! unto me very probable, thac Medicaments Pleth : and therefore Cas he tels us) che filch| Sarcorick, and Agglutinative, and in a word,
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that many W ounds(if fo be the temperament of the part be fafe).may likewife be Cured without che help and afliftance of thefe like Medicaments; and Nature of her felf expel- eth thofe Excrements that are produced ina due and mean quantity. Buc ic feemeth pro- bable unto me, that thofe Medicaments are therefore ptofitable and expedient in the cu- ring of Wounds, inregard that they donot only dry, and confume the over great ftore of Humidity inthe Wound; bucin chat they likewife preferve both the temperament, and the innate heat of the parts (which fome of the latcer Phytitians cal Balfam) by their vir-. tue, neetly allied and familiar-unto every
art; which virtue chey femblably term Bal- |
Of ‘Praétical Phyfick.