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A43764	The history of generation examining the several opinions of divers authors, especially that of Sir Kenelm Digby, in his discourse of bodies : with a general relation of the manner of generation, as well in plants as animals : with some figures delineating the first originals of some creatures ... : to which is joyned, A discourse of the cure of wounds by sympathy, or without any real applycation of medicines to the part affected, but especially by that powder, known chiefly by the name of Sir Gilbert Talbots powder / by Nath. Highmore ...	Highmore, Nathaniel, 1613-1685.; Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665. Discours fait en une célèbre assemblée, touchant la guérison des playes par la poudre de sympathie. English.	1651 (1651)	Wing H1969; ESTC R11065	44,928	157

not trod in it A more particular Narration of the way of Generation Chapter the Fifth OUr noble Author hath laid this ground for us which I hope will easily lead us to the truth viz. That it is necessary the parts should be made in generation of a matter like to that which maketh them in nutrition Now what that is from whence every part receiveth his nourishment wee must search for in the blood Which is a tincture extracted from those things we eat concocted and separated in the Stomack Liver and Heart and afterwards by its circulating in the Arteries and Veins is pellicanized as the Chymists term it and becomes most pure and defaecated from all its excrements and is made a fit nourishment for every part The things we eat are not simple but compounded of as great a variety as the parts to be nourished can expresse What variety of Plants goes to the making up of one piece of flesh we eat What multitudes of differing Atomes are conjoyned in one piece of bread or draught of drink or Wine The extract then sure must be furnisht with as great a swarm of differing parts onely here they are more refin'd more subtiliz'd and separated one from another But how doth this variety of parts in the blood make it the fitter for nourishment by comprehending in it small indivisible particles cognate or similar Atomes which are of the same substance essence and nature with the parts to which they are to be adjoyned and assimilated and want nothing but separation and afterwards union and conjunction with to be part of those particles for whose nutriment they were provided which operation is called assimilation For then these similar or cognate parts are become like to those to which they are joyned And this is the matter and manner of our nutrition w ch if slightly considered may perhaps go amongst the number of falsities But if we examine from the Creation the product of Creatures from the confused first created Chaos or since that time the continual hourly decay or expiration of every part of us in so much that Physitians allow us clearly a new Body every seven years we shall soon discover the truth of this position How the great Architect fetcht from the bowels of this Lump precreated particles to supply him with fit matter for such bodies and appropriated forms for such matter will instruct us that there are such particles which being brought together constitute such bodies The continual expiration of particles from all bodies will more cleerly illustrate it The hourly decay is by expiration of material the last dissolution is both of material and formal Atomes Now as all agree that material parts throughout multitudes of nay all mutations remain incorrupted so also according to not onely the judgement but several experiments of knowing men diligent inquirers into the various works of Nature and mutations of natural compounds natural forms themselves also do not perish at their parting from their matters but onely are dissolved and dissipated lying after that in their scatter'd Atomes confused and mixt with some others constituting perhaps a quite differing bo●y so that the entity of the form continues after corruption though not in the formality of such a form If it be so then that the matter of every particle in every body and the Atomes of their forms likewise still remain though scatter'd into millions of several bodies what should hinder when these Atomes are again rallied an easie union with particles of the same condition and nature and why should not then the blood which is made up of many and distinct bodies be furnisht with the several Atomes comprehended in those bodies and those Atomes being agreeable to our parts be as easily united to them The way of nutrition being cleared let us see now how from the same matter generation is performed This blood that all parts might be irrigated with its benigne moisture is forc'd by several chanels to run through every re gion and part of the body by which means every part out of that stream selects those Atomes which they finde to be cognate to themselves Amongst which the Testicles destined to that office from their first creation as the Stomack and Liver were to digest abstract some spiritual Atomes belonging to every part which had they not here been anticipated should have been attracted to those parts to which properly they did belong for nourishment As the parts belonging to every particle of the Eye the Ear the Heart the Liver Stomack Guts the Hand every particular bone and muscle c. which should in nutrition have been added to repair the continual deperdition to every one of these parts are compendiously and exactly extracted from the blood passing through the body of the Testicles and being in this Athanor cohobated and reposited in a tenacious matter lest being spiritual and very fine they should lose their vigor at last passe from the body of the Testicles by certain vessels in which through infinite Meanders it undergoes another digestion and pellicanizing as in another place I have shown And from thence being now delivered from all its ex●rements and furnisht with Atomes fit for the making of every part and particle of an other Individuall is treasured up in certain Granaries till the seed time comes And this is the nature substance and manner of collecting the Seed This shall be further illustrated by the several wayes of Generation in severall Creatures and ●irst in Plants How Plants are generated Chapter the Sixth THese seminal Atomes are in the same manner separated by all Vegetables w ch are watered in every Region by a certain juice or blood which they attract suck from their Mother Earth which is nothing else but a confus'd Mass of multitudes of forms and substances fit for the nourishment and reparation of all things In which a Plant being ●ixt presently sends forth his Purveighers on every side his roots w ch supply the want of hands and mouth to bring in its provision who are finely palated too able to make choice of that tincture which most delights their palats best fits their own diet and is most proper to repair their decaying selves in every part This juice or blood they concoct strain through their finer parts and separate them from other earthly excrementitious particles or such as belong to another species till it becomes fit only for the repairing of that Plant for and by which they were selected and suckt out of the Earth From this quintescence this juice are selected parts of the same substance nature qualities and form with the Plant and agreeing with every particle of it whose blood it is and from it is the species propagated But not after the same method in all for in some propagation is made by this juice residing in part of the Plant pulled from the Trunk and fixt in the ground In others by part of the root transfer'd In others by

anticipating the other and continuing after the others decay When the hearts motion was almost spent the ears contracted themselves in due order and after five or six pulsations of the ears the heart would move once and then rest again till after such a number of pulses were performed by the ears The heart when it had emptied it self by its continual pulsation of all the blood and was become perfectly clear and transparent as before the blood came to it moved a long time after observing the same order following the pulsation of the ears as when it was watered from that bloody Fountain This Glasse shewed me the head too consisting of three bubbles as it were whereof one confest it self to be the eye by the manifest discovery of the Pupilla in the middle From hence the Spina was carried round almost to the head again which is that transparent white Circle without the red line From whence appeared some small obscure clouds fastned in the proper places of the wings and thighs which in the fifth dayes observation appeared to be so indeed without the help of Glasses Besides from this Carina were drawn some small streamings which were the rudiments of the succeeding ribs This fourth dayes observation may be seen delineated in the third Figure of the second Table The fifth dayes this transparent clear body together with the Foetus swimming in it sunk lower to the side of the Egg then in the day before and what was then clear and transparent begins now to thicken and grow obscure The head is beyond its proportion grown outstripping all the rest as if Nature made haste in finishing that part of which she should have most and sudden use The eye grown almost to its perfect bignesse and discernable in all its parts the greater divisions of the brain and Cerebellum easily to be seen The Carina or Spine discovers it self encompassing the red line or V●na Cava which was now scarce discernable by reason of that clothing it had by this dayes addition procured the heart too obscurely covered al●ost hid from view excepting a little in the forepart which seemed open or at least not so much hardned as the other but continued tender and cleer still The wings and legs easie to be observed without Glasses being much whiter then the rest The bulk of the body hardned into a visible form and obscurer then before yet not so darkned but that the pulsation of the heart being red with blood might be discovered through it which after it had layen still for three hours at least I afterwards layed it in the Sun whose vigorous heat renewed its life and motion again This thin body being opened from the great vein might be seen some rudiments of the Liver some small puttings forth of vessels which had some blood between them hardned This fifth dayes observation you may see in the fourth and fifth Figures of the second Table The sixth dayes observation shews every part more distinctly a●d what before even by the help of G●sses seemed but darkly adumbrated now begin to confess themselves by their visible shapes and actions The three bubles of the head are much enlarged the eyes perfected the wings and legs grow out the heart appears fleshy and corpulent the rudiments of the Lungs Liver and Guts appear more clearly The seventh day shews all more perfectly yet and it now appears in the shape and figure of a Chick perfectly accomplisht with all its parts wanting nothing but confirmation and hardning which every day now increases to the diminishing of the wh●te w ch about the tenth day is done there remaining little more then that thin clear liquor the Chick did swim in the yolk entire and appearing bigger then before being rari●ed and as it were dissolved by the heat of the Hen and brought into a fit condition to be by the continuing heat reduced into blood obtaining from that gentle Furnace colour and fluxibility After which time there is little observable till the fourteenth About the fourteenth and fifteenth dayes the beginnings of the feathers appear the skin being covered with little black spots which are the roots of the feathers The skull begins to cover the brains The umbilical veins plainly discover themselves of which the first that was spread through the white of the Egg passes through the upper part of the Liver perforating the Vena Cava near the basis of the heart The other coming from the yolk insinuates it self into the Vena Porta in the lower part of the Liver Which shews what disserence Nature hath made betwixt these two liquors the one the white concocted and fitted for present use is carried immediately to the Vena Cava and to the heart to be distributed into every part for their encrease and nourishment out of which every part might select cognate and appropriated Atomes separated from all excrements for their augmentation and nutrition As soon as this is done and spent because the Foetus is not yet strong enough to seek his own nourishment abroad neither is the Hen able to provide for it Nature hath ordained another reserve of provision which though it be not so fine yet having another Cook to dresse it the Liver being now perfected it will by undergoing another dressing or concoction there be made fit for the nourishment of the now hardned and con●irmed parts of the Chick And therefore Nature sends what is melted and dissolved by the external and internal heat from the yolk to the Liver by the Vena Porta to be there drest and cookt again From whence some excrements are separated as by the fulnesse of the Gall and the green excrements in the guts may appear To these two venal Umbilical vessels are added two Arteries arising ●rom the Lumbary Arteries Which accompanying the veins throughout the white and yolk make a perfect circulation here as well as betwixt the Mother and the Foetus in Viviparis by which means the new concocted blood mixt with this is without trouble or danger brought to the Foetus And therefore it is I suppose that the heart so soon before any other part performs his office that by his continual motion driving that dissolved clear liquor which is found in and about his vessels and melted by the external heat and forcing it into the white may melt and dis●olve that too and make it fluid apt to be carried along with it returning in other vessels back to the heart where it receives new vigor and an addition of heat By this means the liquor being increased the vessels are not large enough to contain it and therefore the heart thrusting it forth with the same continued violence hourly drives it further into the white first and afterwards into the yolk where it still melts more and the dissolved circle is still enlarg'd as by the daily observations will appear After this time you shall finde the white clear liquor in which the Chick did swim consumed too and the Foetus

transparent liquor as in the ●gg the other inclosing both that and the other parts of the seed from which these Atomes are enlarged and nourished This outward Membrane sticking to and about those asperities or papillar extuberancies which are caused by the orifices of Arteries and Veins opening into the cavity of the womb gives way to the gently distilling blood to descend to these Atomes to furnish them with store of cognate parts to be selected by and added to them for their future growth But that these yet tender parts may not be overwhelmed with too great a flux of blood and be stifled with too much nourishment before they are able to dispose of it a frequent cause of abortion Nature suffers it to wander through a Labyrinth of an infinite number of vessels dispers'd through this outmost membrane from whence by one chanel it is conveighed to this new Animal But not to remain all of it within the limits of this little frame but being conveighed to the heart of the Infant by its continuall motion some is thrown into every part according to the capacity of their vessels And because all parts of this too are not fit for the repair of these young Atoms but do require a greater choice therefore at every motion of the heart some of this blood is thrown out of this Infant by appropriated Arteries back to the Mother again So that by this continual circulation of the blood through this new Animal fresh and cognate moisture is supplied to irrigate and augment every part of it From whence as at the first cognate Atomes are selected adjoyned to every particle until the Foetus come to perfection and then breaking through those membranes it is brought forth a living creature It will be requisite I should here satisfie a doubt which may perhaps perplex some in the receiving this opinion of generation viz. why there should be a distinction of Sexes and why there should be a collection of these seminal Atomes by both Sexes and that without the admixture of both these there could be no generation The reason why there are distinct Sexes is because one of them must supply the part and office that the Earth doth to Vegetables which is to contain preserve and supply it with fitting nourishment which is done by the Female But why cannot all bee done by this one what need is there of another seed The use of these differing seeds is evidenced in the former discourse of Plants where I shewed you that these seminal Atomes were of two sorts spiritual and more material whose duty was to fix and cement the spiritual Atomes together that they might mutually cohere the one to the other the Masculine are to actuate enliven and to act for all the rest and this diversity of Atomes makes a difference in seeds and a distinction in Sexes The Masculine seed having undergone concoctions and separations by a greater and purer heat becomes more spiritualiz'd subtile and is like to those spiritual Atomes of the appearing and rising Plants out of the spirits of a former Plant corrupted as I before declared Which contains in it all parts fitting to constitute such a body as that was from whence it was taken and being thrown into a convenient pl●ce where it may have room and agreeable heat would by the disposing of every Atome into his pro●er place constitute a perfect body But not being furnisht with those more material particles it would soon vanish as the appearing supposititious Plants did these spiricual Atomes not being cemented and conjoyned together The feminine seed being extracted after the same manner from the same vessels by the female testicles containing the same particles but cruder and lesse digested from a cruder matter by lesse perfect Organs is left more terrene furnished with more material parts which being united in the womb with the spiritual particles of the masculine seed every one being rightly according to his proper place disposed and ordered with the other fixes and conjoynes those spiritual Atomes that they still afterwards remain in that posture they are placed in I shall forbea● the prosecution of this any further having sufficiently cleared the wayes of generation of perfect bodies I shall proceed to shew the causes of similitude in the Foetus to the generators and of mutilated and imperfect births How different Sexes and similitu●e of the ●oetus with the generators is caused Chapter the Tenth THe conjunction of these seminal material Atomes of both Sexes causeth this similitude of parts and marks with the parents that begot them For according to the exuber●ncy or power of the Atomes of either Sex so is the Foetus fashioned and distinguished If the Atomes constituting the Masculine parts prevail then is a Male generated but if the Atomes of the Females seed prevail either in quantity or energy over the Masculine then is the product a Female and those Atomes which were ordained for and belong to the Masculine parts being but few in number and lesse in power are obscured being scattered amongst the rest or else being of no use and having no parts to joyn with them to unite and cement them together are quite lost This is the cause too why the Foetus or Infant hath parts some resembling the Father some the Mother having sometimes the Mothers Lip the Fathers Eye c. according to the prevalency of the respective Atomes Besides by how much the more the Masculine Atomes abound in a Female Infant by so much the more the Foetus is stronger healthier and more Manlike a Virago If the Female Atomes abound much in a Male Infant then is that issue more weak and effeminate If either parent hath any extraordinary Mark or part more then usual as the Woman with six fingers whom our Author relates to have born all her Females with the like number of fingers It is caused by these seminal Atomes extracted from the blood carrying along with them Atomes belonging to every part communicated to the seed and so to the Infant especially if the Atomes in which these supernumerary parts or marks reside prevail over the rest As the example of that Woman illustrates who brought forth all her Males with the usual number of fingers all her Females with six upon an hand like her self The Sex shewed the prevalency of her seed which having the mastery of the Masculine all the several Atomes contained in her seed shewed themselvs in the same posture as in her own body In the Males those particles of her seed being weaker served onely to cement the masculine Atomes and no more The cause of defect of some parts or an ill disposition of them in places they ought not to be in may be from the avocation and disturbance of the imagination of the parent at that time when these Atomes are in disposing and ordering by the soul of the Infant in their proper places This I say is done by the imagination of the Mother disturb'd representing

cylindrical as the Trunks of Trees do The Fruit also and Seed which he calls a Button or greater quantity of those hot and moist parts collected and dust or parts dried into the form of dust by the external heat of the Sun and innate heat of the Plant are in a more orderly method framed and repos'd For not onely in qualities but in figure they much vary one from another One producing a seed inclos'd onely in a husk another a seed of differing figure inclos'd in a fruit and hard shell Is cold Air the fruitful Mothe● of this variety too Nay if we bu more seriously examine this dust w● shall finde it orderly set with nave strings affixt to some part of their in closing Matrix by which nourishmen is conveighed for their growth an● subsistance And if we shall further anatomize these dusts we shall find● laid up in them Plants the very sam● Identical Plants which first grow up after the seeds are committed to th● ground In which indeed resides th● nature of the whole And this youn● seminal Plant we may truly call th● extracted tincture or Magistery of th● whole Plant as shall more largely appear hereafter Neither doth his 25 Chapter wher● he endeavours to shew how this wonderful effect as he calls it is performed how a Plant or Animal comes by tha● figure it hath afford us any greate● satisfaction For if we examine his firs● principle viz. That the several figure● of Bodies proceed from a defect in one of the three dimensions caused by the concurrence of accidental causes we shall finde it extreamly straightning the most delightful variety of the Creation and the infinite power of the Creator For upon these grounds it must be supposed that the most perfect figure is to be cubical and all Bodies should have been cast into that mould but that some external causes stepping in hinder almost all from obtaining that perfection the Creator not being able to withstand their prevalency or by patching up that defect could not give perfection to all that which his own mouth assures us was good The examples also which he produceth teach us there is but little truth in this position for how can we conceive the watry drops of rain falling should suffer violence as to be pared round by the softer Air which is not able so much as to hinder it from falling The fashioning of Salts as he relates doth as little satisfie As for Alume it is not of such unctuous parts as he reports for how then could it so indiscernably be dissolved in Water and so much resist Fire which is not proper to unctuous Bodies Besides being dissolved and falling again what should hinder the parts from meeting all in a lump and conforming themselves to the fashion of the bottom of the Vessel in which they are contained as we see all unctuous Bodies do As for Salt if that should acquire his figure on the superficies of the Water as he informes us it should be only long and broad without thicknesse whence then come those exact cubical forms in Salts which are suffered to coagulate of themselvs Where you shall finde the most exact Mathematician out-gone by this natural Art Neither is this caused by the falling of parts one upon another as hee speaks be●ore of Alume ere the former are throughly hardned for then why should it not arise still in height by the continual addition of descending parts as long as there are any Attoms to fall by which meanes it should not become cubical but a long square But we finde the contrary while it most exactly casts it self into cubes the angles sometimes looking upwards sometimes transversly which were impossible if those squares were made by long and broad Bodies falling one upon another And vitriol though calcined to perfect redness if dissolv'd and fixt again not onely recovers his bright shining greenness but is squared out into various angles looking every way as if it had been fashioned by the hand of the Artificer The figure of Saltpeeter is almost neglected by him onely he tels us that by reason of its drinesse it is more difficultly figured and therefore is not equally increased But if we examine it well we shall finde it more unctuous then the other two and is more readily cast into that figure then the other For it doth not onely shoot forth presently almost in water after it is removed from the heat but we shall finde it oftentimes upon new Wals shot forth to a great length without the help of Water to fashion it in So that there seems to be some more particular agent to be found out that immediately imprinteth these determinable figures which should rather work by a conceived designe of producing such a figure in such a Body How else could such effects continually be wrought accidental causes working not still alike and therefore it were impossible to expect ●arce a similitude in the works The formation of Animals affords us little lesse perplexity How heat sending forth or how those vapours emitted should settle themselves in such and such method and form such variety of parts without some other di●ector cannot appear That there are in all Animals three sorts of chanels is an unquestionable truth but that there are distinct Bodies conveighed by them though taught us by our Masters is not granted nor by him received for a truth For in the next Chapter we shall finde him applauding the circulation of the blood and describing its motion through and from the Arteries to the Veins and from them to the Arteries again Both of these chanels then must be filled with the same liquor onely perhaps in the Veins it may be something cooler and thicker as our Bath waters are lesse hot in the gutters then in the spring That which is conveighed in the other chanel the Nerves we can scarce afford it the distinction of another Body it being only the pure and most subtile selected parts of the blood which was conveighed in the other two chanels Neither if it were granted that three distinct Bodies were continually traversing those three several chanels into the Bodies of all Animals doth he shew us how they put themselves into such various shapes and figures when they have escaped this conquering expelling heat as we finde them wonderfully exprest in every creature All things arising in fumes steams as moist Bodies wrought on by heat will do when they are freed from that which rarified them return to their own nature and forms again As Water rarified when those minute particles of heat that divides it into such small Atomes and mixed themselves with it are either lost or overcome by the watery Atomes returns again to water Or if those particles remain still active they do but further divide it and so it becomes more like Fire by having a greater number of fiery Atomes mixed with it yet is not made another thing either in substance or figure But in the generation

so that some Atomes shall bee received into po●es proportionate to them others excluded as the fire sharp and penetrating Salt creep into the pores of a Stone which the Atomes of Water cold and light cannot the infectious Atomes of that pestilential disease amongst beasts called the Murren insinuate themselves into Cows and Swine not into Horses or Men as the infection of the Pox or Measils in Men is not communicated to Beasts c. This agreement betwixt the pores and the Atomes makes that we call Cognation 6. No Atomes rest any where but in those cognate or proportionate pores They may be driven into other bodies or may accompany other Atomes into pores that do not exactly correspond with their figures but cannot rest there being still thrust out by those that do better sill up that place and correspond with the capacity and proportion of those pores and hence ariseth a natural inclination and tendency towards those bodies where such pores are For being once dislodged and thrust out of those cognate places they are still shouldered out and prest to give way for those Atomes whose figures cla●m a right to those pores they are now wandring in being thus thrust out prest on every side by other dislodged Atoms they are inforc'd to move that way where they finde least crowding and where the violence least urgeth and that is on the side where these pores are and perhaps from whence they were first disquieted For other Atomes not finding entrance into the pores of such bodies rebounding back cause other behinde them to rush into their place to give way for them rebounding who likewise not being entertained return too thrusting others into their room till at last it comes to the turn of those cognate Atomes who being violently thrust on by those behinde them are also now by these that were before them returning are prest upon these proportionate pores who in respect of their cognate figures sinding admitance by their entrance make way for others of the same proportion to follow them So that there is a constant necessitated motion of such Atomes this way forc'd by the impulsion of other Atomes Which motion is natural too in respect of the cognation betwixt the place and the Atomes though in respect to other Atomes and the force imprest by them it be violent and forc'd And this is that motion which they say is caused by Sympathy Such are all magneticall motions amongst which likewise m●y be ranked these Atomes curing at a distance 7. No distance hinders the motion of these Atomes towards their natural places For no pores agreeing with their figure but their own that are p●oportioned to them they will still be thrust out by those Atomes which are fitted for those pores in which they are so that being enforc'd by the pressure of others to move from one place to another they will still keep on moving that way whither they are th●ust till they come to a place proportionable to them where they may be freed from this violence So that as the large sphere of magnetical motions may not seem wonderful so neither rightly can this sympathetical motion of these curative Atomes be accounted magical if they cure the part they seem not to touch 8. The nearer these Atomes approach to their desired home the resistance is still lesse on that side and the pressure greater on the contrary and therefore their motion is swifrer in a shorter distance and also slower at a greater 9. There may be and oftentimes is a Conjunction of Atomes which in their Pilgrimage flie on the back one of another and may and do operate together as the Winde doth carry with it many infectious Atomes and sometimes rare and comfortable smels These things premised and layed as foundations of truth which can if examined with an unbiassed judgement appear no other they will demonstratively illustrate this way and cure of wounds without any topicall application It remains therefore that wee explain the manner of this operation what the Medicine is and why it workes more effectually at a distance then if applyed to the part First the Medicine is made of a Zaphyrian Salt calcined by a celestial fire operating in Leo and Cancer into a Lunar complexion The heat must bee such that it draws out all adventitious moisture leaving it intensly dry and in this condition it must be kept If at any time it meets with any moisture it loseth its energy and must to the aethereal fornace again it must be such a proportioned heat and not a greater for by excesse of heat all the volatile parts and sinest Atomes which onely work this cure will bee evaporated and onely the grosser saline parts remain which neither can be raised to accompany the Atomes of the blood neither if they could would they cure but by their sharper angles grate the orifices of the capillary veins and so procure an efflux of blood and not a consolidation of the wound The substance of this medicament being joyned w th other unctuous bodies is applyed to the wounds themselves in most cicatrizing and drying emplasters Which when the sharp angles are blunted by the unctuousnesse of the adjoyned medicaments doth dry up and unite the wounded parts most effectually as in the emplaster called Diapalma c. Much more effectual then must the siner active 〈◊〉 ●articles be when they are separated from those more earth● 〈◊〉 parts and conveighed into the remotest pores of the wounded part by the help of the bloody Atomes returning home upon whose score they finde a far greater and more welcome entertainment then if they came alone or joyned with any other Forrainers The manner of applying the medicine is in this fashion The blood or bloody m●tter taken from the wound on a cloath ●ust be lightly covered over with this powder kept very dry and afterwards wrapt up close from the air and so kept in a temperate heat neither must it finde any muta●ion to either excesse the wound in the mean time must be kept clean and clothed up with drie clean clothes If it hath been an old sore or ulcer that Nature hath found a convenient passage to vent the burden of her excrements that way and there be a tumor as necessarily there will be the first dressing doth most violently drein this Fountain and you shall finde the wound to run most strangly afterwards when the matter is lessened and is reduced to such a proportion as nature and the medicine may conveniently buckle with it then it turns it into laudably concocted matter which every day lessens and the wound closeth But if the wound be fresh the applied medicine presently stoppeth the blood and hinders an afflux of humors to the part So that there is nothing to be done but the uniting the severed parts which this medicine doth in a wonderful short time The way which these balsamical Atomes of the Medicine applyed to the blood take to come to the wounded