and the discordaut on the contrary so offensive A. From this that the established order in every thing is very agreeable as the unestablished and disorder on the contrary is displeasing now the order and rules of harmony consisteth on the correspondency and Systeme of certaine tunes the which failing it follow with the irregular and disordered and by consequent such object is displeasing to the senee which it peirceth Hornes Q. WHerefore is it that those Animals which have hornes have no teeth in their gums above A. Because the matter and Aliment of the teeth is turned into hornes in such Animals Q. Wherefore is it that onely horned Animals chew the cud A. Nature foreseeing that these Animals have no teeth above in their superiour gums and that they could not well grind chew nor digest their pasture hath given them a vant stomack that the naturallists call Reticulum into the which they send their pasture ill chewed to parboyle it as wee say by our meat and to soften it and then drawing it up to their mouthes and there is rechewed more easily and that is called properly chewing of the cud Q. Wherefore is it that in the Regions Septerntrionall or Northerne the Sheepe have no hornes A. The cause is the extreame cold which shuts up the pores and conduits of the flesh and of the bones by the same means hindreth the hornes from budding and getting forth Q. Wherfore is it that the Goats which have no hornes have more milk then others A. It is because that the matter which should bee imployed to nourish the hornes turnes it selfe into good nourishment and into humour Q. Wherefore is it that amongst all horned beasts the females have no hornes excepting Cowes and Goats A. Because that the femalsare more cold then the males and their coldnesse shuts and closeth up the pores of the flesh and of the bones as it is sayd and so hindreth the hornes from going forth or else it is that the females being of a nature more weak flying and fearfull nature which makes nothing in vaine hath denyed them horns which would serve them to no purpose but to hinderancâ— and bee an unprofitable burthen in their flight neverthelesse having done all things for the use and commodity of man she hath given the particular Kine and Goats horns to the end that man might more easily take them stay them ty them and make them serve him as domesticke beasts Q. Wherefore is it that gelt horned beasts have their hornes longer then those which have their genitories A. Because that the humour genitall which they use not is imployed to the nouriture and increase of the body and particularly to the hornes because of their neighbourhood to the braine which contributeth most to carnall copulation Q. VVherefore is it that hornes fall onely from Deere of all other horned beasts although that they are not gelt A. Because that Deere onely have their hornes solid and massive and other Animals have them hollow by reason whereof Deere not having sufficient humidity to entertaine the heavy burden it falls out by necessity that they must fall off it hapneth not so to those others that are gelt because that they have more moisture to nourish their hornes Q. VVherefore is it that they plant imaginary hornes upon married mens heads if their wives play the wag-tayles A. Because even as horned Animals being gelt are strong great yet heavy slow and little worth in respect of the others they give the same title to them that are unable for the act of generation or that they be so sottish and stupid that they know not how to governe their wives Running Q. WHerefore is it that there is more paine in running then in going and walking softly A. The celerity or swiftnesse of motion is one cause but the most proper and nearest is that in running one is almost alwaies in the Ayre without easing and sustaining himselfe whereas in going softly we have alwayes alterably one foote fix't and stayed upon the Earth which sustaineth as by a counter poize all the body of which she is the true Center and place of rest not the Ayre as also that the celerity and swiftnesse of the motion hinders our respiration Q. Wherefore is it that running too soone after eating hurts our repast or feeding since that motion excites naturall heate A. Because that running is a motion too violent which making the meate to rise and leape within the stomacke troubling and hindering the digestion and and concoction thereof Manginesse French or English Q. FRom whence comes it that we have such pleasure in rubbing and scratching the part which is infected A. Because there is a certaine humour thick and grosse the which in rubbing and scratching issueth or dissipateth and in issuing or dissipating it pricketh sweetly the flesh or rather the skin for willingly this humour sticks ordinarily to the skin Q. Wherefore is it that the manginesse ceasing wee have no more pleasure to scratch that place but rather dolour A. Because that after the cause of the manginesse is taken away the place not being infected or affected as before it is offensive to the life if one rubbeth or scratcheth in like sort as when it was charged with the foresaid humour Q. From whence comes it that after a wound is closed or a little after healing it itcheth A. It is because the party which hath beene hurt being strengthened and neare well casts and thrusts out that which remaines of any evill humour within the which staying in the skinne makes it itch Q. From whence comes it that the scratchings and the itchings receive such pleasure and contentment in Baths Stoves and warme waters A. Because this itching and manginesse comes from a humidity grosse and cold and being mixed with a moderate heate such as is in baths and stoves gives the party contentment Q. VVherefore is it that old folkes are more scratching and itchie then the young A. Because that this waterish and cold humour is very abundant in some old folkes the like happens also to children and youth because of the abundance of the humidity which is in them and often also because of the boyling of their blood Teeth Q. WHerefore is it that the Teeth being of bones have feeling seeing that the other bones have none A. It is because of little veines that are fastened to them and from the roots also which enter within the flesh Q. Wherefore is it that the teeth although they are more hardy and solid then the flesh feele neverthelesse cold much more then the flesh A. Because as saith the Philosopher teeth are fastned and in-rooted with little and subtill conduits the which containing very little heate cannot make resistance to the cold as doth the flesh which is tempered participateth much more with the heate then doth the teeth Q. Wherefore is it that the first teeth fal from the little children A. Because of the over-much humidity that is
Philosopher that by comming old the naturall humiditie is exhal'd and the corrupt humours affect more easily their haire Q. From whence proceedeth the the divers colours of the haire A. From the divers temperaments of the humours whereof they are composed nourished for example those which have their humours much boyled have black haire as the Ethiopians Egyptians Moores Affricans and others those which have them indifferently boyled are red or deep yellow according as the matter is more or lesse boyled or according to the mixture of Phlegme with choler but these which abound in Phlegme and Crude humours have flaxen haire Q. From whence comes it that some have naturally their haire curled A. Galen yeelds many reasons saying that frizling of the haire is caused by the temperature hot and dry of the person as wee see that little long and straight bodies when we dry them at the fire they bend and reply or it may proceed saith he from the weaknes of the matter of the haire which cannot remain streight streached all a long but turneth up againe and frizells below or we may with Aristotle attribute the same with a double mooving from the matter of the haires which are but of sooty exhalations the which being something hot and dry and by the same holding of Terrestriate and firy quality the earthly fals downe below and the fire affects the height it falls then of necessity that by this double and contrary motion the haire frizels and curles all which reasons are sufficiently receiveable Q. Wherefore is it that those which have their haire rough grosse and harsh are ordinarily more strong robust and couragious then those which have it soft smooth and subtile A. Intruth the same may bee noted in many sorts of Animals as in Sheepe in Hares and in such other cowardly and flying Animals which have all their wooll or haire downish and lies smooth but in the contrary Lyons Boares and Bares have it rough and staring the which is found by experience also true amongst men and not without reason for haire which is harsh rough and grose testifieth that there is great aboundance of naturall heat mixed with the humiditie the which opening the pores giveth passage to the humours which are the matter of the haire to this purpose saies very well a Latine Poet A thick beard and curled locks Shewes a soldier fit for knocks Q. Wherefore is it that those which have curled locks are ordinarily camesd or the nose turning up A. Because they have the blood very hot and boyling and heat hindreth superfluous matter to strech and extend for the nose is of Cartilages and a Cartilage is a kinde of bony substance and the bone is of a superfluous matter for this cause also little children having boyling blood have their noses also turning up Q. Wherefore is it that such complexionated persons are more watchfull then others A. In as much that they are dry and the humidity dryed up hindreth the sleepe upon the contrary reason those which abound in moyst humors as little children women and drunkards and those which often wash and bath themselves are very much given to slee ping Q. Wherefore is it that those which have red haire are deemed commonly naughty boyes A. Because they are of a fiery nature hasty and cholerick but those which are well bred knowe how to moderate and rule their passions Q. Wherefore is it that those which have the haire of their head of one colour and their beard of another are ordinarily dangerous A. Because that it marks in them an inequality of their humours and complections which makes them naturally variable deceivers and disguised if they correct not their evill nature by good discipline from whence ariseth this common saying A black head and a red beard Take him with a good turne and chop ofâ— his head Dogges Q. WHerefore is it that the Dog excels in smell more then all other Animals A. The cause is that according to the proportion of his body he hath the Nerve of that sence more great then any other Animal And man in the contrary hath it very little so that he smells not very much Q. Wherefore is it that a dog of all other Animals remaines lynde or fastned within to the female after coupling without being able easily to unloose and undoe A. Alexander Aphrodeisea saith the cause is that the bitch in her native waies is very straiâ—â—â— and the verge of the dog being swolne within by the Ebullition of the spirits he is hardly able to withdraw it after the coupling HEAVEN Q. HOw is it that we have some small perceivance of the number of Heavens A. By 2 principall meanes the one is by the eclipses defaults or obscurity of the stars are eclipsed and hidden from us a certain time by others it is a firme argument that they finde betwixt our sight and those which they eclipse and make defalling of light to us that they are in some more low stage of the Heavens for if they were not below they would not robbethe other light from our sight The other proofe is drawne from the diversity and different mooving of the Heavens for all naturall bodies have one onely proper and particular motion yet neverthelesse they note divers movings in the Heavens and more great number in the inferiour Orbes then in the superiour for it is infallible that the inferiour receive this diversity of moovings besides their owne naturall from the superiour Orbes and therefore it is of necessity that there should be as many Heavens as there be divers motions Q. How is it that they have a little learned that the Heavens are round A. I have brought out to that purpose many reasons in my Physicke of which I will repeat heere the principall in few words First that the Heavens inclosing and containing all the other bodies of the universe ought to have the figure thereto most capable is round Sphearick or circular secondly that the Heauens being the bodies most mooveable of the world as wee may perceive by the continuall motion we ought therefore to attribute this figure to them as most proper to the motion thirdly that if the Heauens were of any other figure but round they would be jumbling and dashing or piercing and penetrating with their angles corners and extremities in turning and rowling the one within the other or â—else there must rest some vacuity or voydnesse betwixt the angles corners or extremities of their bodyes which were absurdities in and against nature fourthly that if they were of any other figure but round in one selfe day the Sunne the Moone and the other Starres which are carryed by the rapidity or incogitable swiftnesse of the primum mobile or first mover should make in foure and twenty houres the Center of the Universe to appeare at certaine houres more great then at other times from measure taken when they approach neare the earth which being not it must be concluded that the Heavens
being extreame hot it conceives easily his like and yet entertaines freely what he hath of matter Q. Wherefore is it that it is more light then any other liquour and likewise that it will swimme upon oyle A. It is because that it holds both of ayre and of fire which are the two light and subtill elements for all that is earthly and grosse in the wine whereof it was made and drawne by the Alembicke was separated from it Q. Wherefore is it that it being mixed with any other liquour it hinders it from freezing even during the extremity of thewinter A. Because that it is exteamly hot of it selfe and therefore it is called burning water the cause whereby it resists so the cold be it never so sharpe and vehement Q. VVherefore is it that it is not profitable to a leane and dry person A. Because it drieth and burneth the humours which be not superfluous but rather defailing in leane and dry persons it were better therefore they did conserve them then consume them Echo Q. WHerefore is it that the Echo reports more clearely to our hearing the last syllables then the first A. It is because that the first are broken by the last or that we are too neare or that wee speake the last in measure â—onger then the Echo giveth us the first and so we cannot so well understand them Elements Q. HOw can it be that the Elements which haue their qualities so contrary may be hoâ—den with so straight and perfect a bond together without destroying the one the other by their neighbourhood A. It is that their qualities are so justly and perfectly ballanced and proportioned that they themselves are the band which most strictly ties them the one being not able to undertake nothing too much upon the others for even as a consort of foure good voyces discordant in tone neverthelesse agreeing in their Systeme is much more harmonious then if they all agree'd in the unison likewise the accord of the foure Elements consisteth in their discord by the just proportion of their forces Infants Q. WHerefore is it that Infants which are borne in the 7 moneth after their conception many times live those which are borne in the 8 seldome doe A. Some attribute this to the order of the seaven planets and hold that the first moneth answers to Saturne the second to Iupiter and so according to the order of the Planets in descending towards us and although that the seaventh moneth bee past wee must beginne againe with Saturne which is a cold Planet and Symboliseth with weaknesse therefore children borne in the eight moneth cannot well live although that Aristotle and after him Pliny testifieth that sometimes they lived as well as the others and especially in Egypt because of the continuall serenity of the Ayre which is in that Region but the foresaid reason seemes to me more subtile then veritable Fracastorius the Italian thought better how to deale then others upon this question hee saith that the children of the seventh and ninth moneth may live but not on the eight in as much that as there are kindes of corne which comes in three moneths others in seven out of these times they are worth nothing so there is of the sorts of humane seed the one of seven and the other of nine and out of these times the children cannot live the which resolution is yet more impertinent then the precedent for even as the corne of seven moneths is worth nothing at three so to follow his manner of saying those that beget children of nine moneths know not how to beget for seven that may live on the contrary or to traverse it those which are begotten for seven moneths cannot beget for nine and neverthelesse experience every day sheweth us the contrary for my owne part I see well enough that neither the one nor the other sayes any thing of value neverthelesse I will adjoyne although it is possible enough that I shall say nothing to the liking of another but so much I love to attribute to the perfection of the Septenarie number the which by a certaine occult and secret vertue accomplisheth all things This number is very perfect because it is composed of the two first perfect numbers par and impar to wit of the third and fourth for the second being not composed but of an unite repeated the which is no number nor is perfect for his occult vertue I esteeme that it worketh upon all the things sublunary because that the Moone changeth her forme from seven to seven dayes that is every seventh day and shee is more apparent and manifest in man then in any other thing whatsoever For first being borne seven moneths after his conception hee may live in the seventh moneth after his birth his teeth beginne to come out at seven yeares hee beginnes to have the use of reason at twice seven yeeres hee enters into the age of Puberty and to bee capable of generation at three times seven yeares hee enters likewise into the flower of his Age at foure times seven yeares hee beginnes to enter into the Age of Virility and full perfection of his naturall vigor and manhood from seven to seven if wee take heed a man receives ordinarily some alteration and change in his spirit or body or in his temporall goods or in his fortune be it in adversity bee it in prosperity such a change is principally remarkeable in his complection and after all which is full of admiration the climatericall yeare which is the three score and third yeare of the age of man now count seven times nine or nine times seven the which is ordinarily reduced to some extreamity perill of his life which the Emperour Augustus well noting rejoyceth marvellously to have past that very yeare not without apprehension though without danger of his life then as by the number of seven and of nine multiplied the one by the other wee are in danger of death so the very same numbers are also happy for the prolongation of our lives now to cut short this question the Lawyers approving this doctrine from the Phisitians have judged that children borne the seventh month with perfection ought to be allowed as legitimate if by adventure the father had beene absent Q. Wherfore is it that children as as soone as they are out of their mothers wombs begin to cry A. The cause is they feele a great change in passing out of a place so close and hot to enter into an ayre free and cold together with clarity which dazeleth their weake eyes which causeth them to cry if we shal yet further enter into the profound mysteries of our beeing be it that they presage the miseries of their future life which is but a passage and a way not a life to goe to a true and immortall living Q. Wherefore is it that little children have their noses turned up A. It is as saith Aristotle that they have their blood boyling
and the heate hindereth the superfluous matter to extend it selfe now the nose is a Cartilage and a Cartilage is a kind of bone and a bone is a superfluous and insensible matter Q. Wherefore is it that little children have more heate and fire and naturall humidity then perfect men A. Because they are newly composed and formed of a matter hot and very moist to wit of seed and of blood Q. Wherefore is it that the little tenderling children have their haire very cleare and thinne A. Because that they have not yet the pores of the skinne open for to give passage to the humidity and likewise they have yet little or no smoaky exhalations which are matter of the haire Q. Wherefore is it that little Infants have their voyces small and sharpe A. It is because they have the Artery and pipe of the voyce more â—â—raite then perfect men together that having much humidity the conduit of the voice is stopped and the voyce by the same meanes is more sharpe For as the pipes of winde instruments expresse the sound more sharpe if they be straite and small so is it of the Arteries Organs and conduits of the voyce Q. From whence comes it that rocking provokes sleepe in little children A. Because as I have said before they being very moist this agitation and moving them up and downe moves also the humours which mount to the braine and provoke sleepe which comes not so to aged persons because they have not so much humidity Q. VVherefore is it that little children falling to the earth by stumbling against some stone or other hard or solid body takes no such bruises and hurts as great and old folkes that are strong and robust A. If they fall onely all along the reason is easie for being little and low they cannot hurt themselves so much as if they fell from an high but besides it may be sayd that they are more soft tender and flexible so that stumbling against any hard and solid body their flesh resists not as it doth with bigge folkes but yeelds and gives place the knocke and stumble is not so rude even as it is in a sponge that will not breake against the stone as another stone will or as the reeds which yeeld and wave up and downe are not so easily overthrowne by a violent and forcible storme as the Trees which refist it Q. Wherefore is it that the little Infants have their vitall functions so strong and vigorous and their animall functions so weake I call vitall functions their eating concocting digesting nourishing increasing and growing and the animal functions as their mooving and holding fast A. Because that the naturall functions exercise themselves by the meanes of the naturall heat which is in them aboundant and boyling and the Animal functions exercise not themselves but by the meanes of the Animal spirits which proceed from the braiee the which being yet very feeble and the grisly bones which incomposeth and covereth them being yet tender and fraile it is no marvaile that the Animal spirits have their effects lesse vigorous untill the braine bee fortified with age Q. From whence comes it that little children which have more of iudgement and use of reason then their age will beare or ordinarily pernut or promise which wee commonly call too forward children live not long or being too fat and too great become sots an d lubbers A. Truely Cato the Censor said very well that we could not looke for any other then a hasty death of children that are hastily prudent that is to say when it comes too much before the due time of mature age and the reason is taken from this that it is a certaine argument that such children have their braine dry out of measure and beyond the temperature of their age for the too much humidity which is ordinary in all little children hinders as a cloud that their interiour senses should not stretch so farre so clearely and so openly their functions as in persons of perfect age and the unmeasureable drinesse which is in some one extraordinarily is the cause that within a little time the body drieth alwayes more and more with the age so that the Organs of the Sences yea all the body dissolves and deth then follows or at least the Sences are so ill affected that the soule cannot worthily exercise his function neither more nor lesse then the best artificers can make no master-piece of worke with evill tooles though instruments of their Art Q. Wherefore is it that little children are ordinarily slavering and sniveling and have their heads all of a dandering scurfe A. Because their naturall heat exhales from their stomacke great quantity of vapours to the braine the which dischargeth himselfe by all his meanes as head mouth and nose Q. How comes it that children pisse their beds in sleeping without feeling it which comes not much to those which are arrived to the youthfull age A. It is because that children are very hot and moist as is above said and therefore they are very laske and discharge their bladders more easily as also being in a profound sleepe the bladder dischargeth it selfe without any feeling of it Q. But wherefore is it that they have no seed A. Because that they being farre from their perfection all their good nourishments turne into the increase of the corporal masse Pissing and sneezing and farting Q. FRom whence comes it that sometimes wee shake and tremble after we have pissed A. Because as sayes Alex. A. phrodiseus that there is a sharpe and biting humour which pricking the bladder moveth all the body by a strong convulsion to the end it should more forcibly thrust out this ill humour which fals most commonly to children because of their much and often eating and because they abound in excrements or better according to Aristotle it proceeds of this that although the bladder being full of urine which is hot it then feeles not the cold but on the contrary it being discharged for nothing can remaine void the ayre then filling it which being cold or fresh makes us to shake tremble the same happens to us sneezing when the veines void themselves of some humours or hot spirits and that the fresh ayre enters into their place Q. VVherefore is it that ordinarily we let fly winde in pissing A. It is because that as long as the bladder is full the great gut or Colon is stretched and that in voiding the bladder one holds his breath so as the bladder being after released and avoided of his measure the intestins which were banded and filled with ayre and winde are released alwayes by the same meanes and so voided Q. Wherefore is it that horses and many other kind of Animals and even men themselves pisse for company A. It is by the Sympathy of the Animal spirits or rather that the one thinkes of the other Q. Wherefore is it that in rubbing our eyes we cease to sneeze A. Because by that