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A60269	Philosophical dialogues concerning the principles of natural bodies wherein the principles of the old and new philosophy are stated, and the new demonstrated more agreeable to reason, from mechanical experiments and its usefulness to the benefit of man-kind / by W. Simpson.	Simpson, W. (William), fl. 1665-1677.	1677 (1677)	Wing S3835; ESTC R25204	74,642	191

I have illustrated them to be in the production of Vegetables and that both as they are Principles lock'd up in some minute portions of epitomiz'd matter and likewise as they being by requisites duly concurring put into motion become fermental For we account of Generation of Animals no other than an evolution or natural expansion of the implanted seminal Principles contain'd in the minute Embrio and rendred prolific by the fermental odour if I may so say of a masculine Ferment we cannot otherwise reckon but that the noblest of fermental animal Juyces in order to propagation and where the spirits are most vigorous and fecund is the masculine sperm of Animals which is a digested spermatic Elixir capable of tinging those more crude feminine Juyces or a natural but highly prepar'd liquid Magistery circulated and brought on to maturity in its peculiar vessels yea the very efflorescence if I may further add of Animal Juyces impregnated at due seasons with such a stock of spirits emerging from a fermentation proper to it self as renders it capable of inspiring those feminine ovaria or uterine Vesicles with a subtile but very active Ferment which awakens those minute dormant and otherwise steril Embryo's sets them by its own vigorous action into a sort of if I may say vegetative or expansive motion It 's not the gross body of the prepar'd masculine or seminal Sperm or any visible juice or sensible part thereof however by circulation maturated which is admitted into the female Matrix as the worthy Harvey excellently shews in his Tract de generatione Animalium Nihil in utero saith he post coitum invenias generatura enim maris brevi vel elabitur vel evanescit tamen adsit aliquid quod foeminam foecundam reddat But it is a spirituous Ferment indolis contagiosae of which the seminal Liquor is but the Vehicle at seasons so heightened as it if meeting with an aptness of Reception in the Female breaths upon the oviformal Embryo invigorates it into activity putting those implanted and close shut up Principles into Motion For the aforesaid industrious Harvey tells us speaking of what is contain'd in the Female Matrix in order to Conception De generat Animal 278. Quod ad procreatio nem foetûs spectat omnia animalia eodem modo ab oviformi primordio generantur siquidem in eorum generatione hoc solenne est ut primordium vegetale ovi naturam referens praeexistat ex quo foetus producatur est hoc in omnibus vel ovum vel oviforme quid And as he farther adds Inest igitur in utero omnium animalium conceptus primus sive primordium quod teste Aristotele est veluti ovum membrana oblectum cui putamen detractum est So that in the propagation of all Animals the noblest and for whose sake the rest were made not excepted the Embryo anchorite or epitomiz'd Animal shut up within the walls of each of the uterine Vesicles or oviformal Membranes retains its just and proportionable form and shape how minute soever in that seminary oviformal original inclos'd in the Female Matrix and only waits for an inspiration from the active masculine spirituous and fecundating Ferment which is to strike up those dormant Principles into an actual Fermentation or animal fire whereby the little Embryo the seminal Principles being once put into motion begins from a supply of maternal Juyces by a fermental expansion and evolution of its parts to vegetate and grow bigger till from those rudiments by a continual and successive gradation the vital fire be struck up whereby the womb after conception by the inspiring of the pregnant male Ferment is forthwith close shut up nature being so solicitous in this great affair of propagation so wonderfully curious both to prevent monstrous Productions as also multiplicity of contemporary Births from frequent inordinate Coitions as that she doth after Conception seal up the Matrix as I may say hermetically that not the least of Air nor what is much more subtile viz. the Masculine Ferment can have the least ingress The Animal and Mineral Ferments herein conspiring that after impregnation of either viz. of the Animal Embryo Juyce or Mercurial Liquor by their peculiar Seeds the Matrix both Animal and Philosophical are I say both the one Hermetically to be clos'd up the other naturally seal'd up and kept from all heterogeneous assaults whether in the Air or else-where till in the one it be brought on to the maturity of an Animal Life and in the other be elaborated to the perfection of the Philosophic Elixir Concerning the progress of which in order to the Exit or Birth of the Embryo we have somewhat inlarged in our Hydrolog Chymica and probably may do more elsewhere But how the same Principles in their fermentative Collisions in the Animal Juyces are the cause other requisites concurring of the circulation of the Blood the source of all Animal heat and warmth the efficients of nourishment and growth The cause of the generation of Spirits and thence of Vital and Animal Functions viz. Sense and Motion of the Body how the Fountain of all the several Ferments in the peculiar Vessels and Conduits of the Body Hydroph But pray Pyroph be not too concise in these great Matters How in particular according to your Principles do you understand concerning the faculty of the Stomach you call the Ferment thereof which doth perform such wonderful effects doth it by its innate heat according to our Philosophy or by its acid Ferment as of late several Neoterics have thought or by some latent quality unknown to us For it seems to be of a strange penetrating nature as to be able to turn all the several sorts of Food into a Cremor and thence fit it for further preparation in order to blood and nourishment Pyroph True Hydroph the work of the Stomach let it be done by what Agent it will is wonderful and in that very thing Nature's path is very mysterious That it consists not in an innate heat is evident first because no degree of heat of what pitch soever imagin'd can perform the like Mutations or Reductions of Bodys And secondly because all heat is according to our Hypothesis the result of Fermentation and there fore wherever the heat of the body was which is the constant effect of the intestin struglings of the Principles contained in the Animal Juyces there would it necessarily follow that it should perform the like operation in every part where it 's found but constant observation contradicts the consequent therefore heat is not the cause of that dissolving action of the Stomach And that it consists not in an acid Ferment the more plausible of the two will be evident from the deposition of what we conclude it to be Lastly that it is not from an occult quality will be clear from what we shall afterwards discourse of the inexistency and therefore futility of qualities But how I say a pure subtiliz'd Ferment is

continually elaborated into a most depurate and refin'd Elixir containing the most defecate Principles of the blood and aliment whence blood is prepar'd is by circulation conveyed from the blood into the Stomach by the Gastric and perhaps other Arteries inserted into the Ventricle where through the congenealness to our every day receiv'd alimental Juyce can by reason of its subtilty of parts penetrate dissolve and unlock the compage of such alimentary bodys and at length put them into a similar motion by striking up their essential Principles into an intestin Collision which is that very thing we call a Ferment and is therefore here according to our Hypothesis the true cause of the stomachical Ferment that great and almost universal Alkahest of nature that can dissolve bodys though of many different sorts of Textures where the same Principles are to be found which essentially more or less constitute all alimentary Concretes and Liquids too For I must tell you Hydroph that the congenealness of Principles of bodys under very different Textures and various Compages give the cause of their more universal solution by Menstruums prepar'd analogically thereto yea and give the reason why the Principles of one are brought into motion by the action of the other that is by the congruousness of the Principles of the solvent to those of the solvend So that how the Ferment of the Stomach consists not in an implanted acid nor any other native Ferment peculiarly inherent in that part But how it chiefly if not solely owes its original to the circulation of the aforesaid highly prepared and much elaborated Elixir of the blood which communicated by the foresaid ducts by its great penetrability and agility easily mixeth with the assum'd aliment and by the assimilation of Principles sets the whole mass into a fermentative motion and thereby taketh in pieces its Compage by a genuine solution For the universal constitution of all alimentary bodys and by which they all agree in somewhat that is common amongst them consists in some texture or other of the two grand Principles Acid and Sulphur which fermentative Motion I say of the Principles by further solution percolation separation and afterwards by yet more intimate commixtion is carried on to the preparing the blood and spirits and thence to the elaborating the aforesaid volatile Elixir which conveyed into the Stomach compleats the whole round of digegestions and performs the whole circulation compatible to Animals in their great work of nourishment and preparation of spirits in order to Sense and Motion and other functions peculiar to animal bodys how I say all this is perform'd by the various collisions and elaborations of the aforesaid Principles what we only hint here we discourse more at large in our Tentamen Physiolog to which we refer you SECT VI. Hydroph WHat mean you Pyroph by those active Principles you spake of before viz. Fire Ferments Salts and Solvents by some of which all concrete bodys are taken in pieces and new textures or neutral Productions are thence made and by which great changes as you say happen amongst Bodies Pyroph I bring those mentioned Hydroph at present under the notion of extrinsic Agents which have a powerful efficacy in order to the effecting great changes amongst Bodies they are applicable to Hydroph What mean you Pyroph by fire according to your Hypothesis for we suppose it to be the most hot dry and lightest Element plac'd sub concavo Lunae Pyroph Your opinion Hydroph of fire will not be worth the while to refute and indeed I think will easily disappear of it self upon the displaying of ours By Fire therefore in this place I mean the vulgar viz. the fourth and sometimes the first complication of our Principles of Acid and Sulphur which consists in the highest collision and intestine rapid motion those Principles sowen or implanted in all combustible Bodies are capable of which although here we put amongst extrinsic yet may also truly be reckoned as the greatest intrinsic Agent in order to the great changes of the same Bodies from their own highly agitated Principles Hydroph Are there not many opinions concerning the nature and essence of Fire Pyroph Yes Hydroph Yours with the rest of your Hypothesis we reduce to six Classes as you may see in our Tentamen Physiologic where we undertake to shew the great extent of Fire enlarged to all its Dimensions not barely confining Fire within the ordinary limits of that which is vulgar and culinary concerning the illustrating of which as considered in it self and as applicable to other Bodies from our Hypothesis we are not sparing But also de industria do propose the consideration of Fire as extended to the solving the more general and universal apparences of Nature in the production of Bodies Hydroph Why how Pyroph Pyroph By supposing the Genesis of all specific concretes compriz'd in the threefold kingdom of Nature to be nothing else but a certain Evolution and Expansion of seminal Principles carried on by a gentle and mutual Collision of the mechanical Agents which are the very ground work of all natural Fire in Bodies or rather if you please to be nothing else which yet amounts to the same thing but certain igniculi or little Fires deposited and hid in so many minute portions or Urns of matter as there are variety of things giving motion and vigour to every Body wherewith it s cloth'd to the compleating thereof in all its numbers so that every thing we converse with in its existency from Creation or Generation represents somwhat miraculous to us viz. an igniculus or little Fire burning after its manner as made up from the very Principles of Fire mutually acting by a soft Collision and yet the thing it self wonderful and like the Bush which miraculously burn'd with Fire and was not consumed Exod. c. 3. v. 7. as the Divine Philosopher in his Pentateuch tells us so this is not consumed Hydroph But why Pyroph so lofty in your discourse and so curious in your so high speculations of Fire these are strange notions such as we read not of in our nor other sort of Philosophy I have yet met with Pyroph Because I find Hydroph by considering Bodies in their Generation or Production and in their reductions or unweavings and the various Metastases and changes amongst themselves I say by laying things well together and by putting them into their due Balance reducing them to their several Classes that there are seven complications or so many modes of Aggressions of the aforesaid Principles Acids and Sulphurs So that by searching into the depth of Bodies and into the various complications of their seminal Principles we cannot but suppose in Nature so many sorts of Fires hid in the bosome of things as there are modifications of the Principles by which they variously combine to the building of Bodies from their Rudiments and to the raising them up from their seminaries or radical beginnings also to the taking them in pieces or reductions