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A60020	A philosophical essay declaring the probable causes whence stones are produced in the greater world from which occasion is taken to search into the origin of all bodies, discovering them to proceed from water and seeds : being a prodromus to a medicinal tract concerning the causes and cure of the stone in the kidneys and bladders of men / written by Dr. Thomas Sherley ...	Sherley, Thomas, 1638-1678.	1672 (1672)	Wing S3523; ESTC R10626	59,268	160

happened amongst the Carini a People of Germany which similitudes or Images of Men and Beasts were seen both by him and the Chancellor of Austria To the like purpose Helmont tells us of a whole Army consisting of Men Women Camels Horses Doggs with their Armour Weapons and Waggons which were all transmuted into stone and remain so to this day a horrible spectacle And this saith he happened in the Year 1320. betwixt Russia and Tartary in the Latitude of 64. degrees not far from a Fen of Kataya a Village or Horde of the Biscardians which he very rationally concludes to have happened from a strong hory petrifying breath or Ferment making an eruption through some clefts of the Earth the Land being stony underneath and the Winds having been silent for many dayes He that desireth more Examples of this kind let him consult Gorgius Wernerus de ungaricis Godfrid Smoll in lib Princip Philosoph Et Medic. antiquitatis Cap. 10. F. Leander Albertus in descript Italiae Andreas Laurentius lib. 2. de strumis Cap. 2. Georgius Agricola lib. 7. de Natura fossil Cap. 22. Johannas Wigandus in libell● de Succino Lobelius in fine Observat. Caelius c But I suppose what I have here related sufficient and therefore I think it now time to inquire into the Causes of Petrification and the Efficients of these Transmutations SECT Section the Second THe Doctrine of the four Elements with their qualities concutring as is suppos'd to the production of Bodies which was intorduced by the Authority of Aristotle and hath since prevailed with most Men even to this Age of ours hath been the cause why we have hitherto received but an unsatisfactory account not only of the Origine of all concretes but more particularly concerning stones and that not only in Relation to the Material Cause but also to the Efficient of Petrifications in general For they seem to think it sufficient to have crudely told us that Stones and all other Minerals and Metals are made of Earth with a slight mixture of the other three Elements as the Material and by the assistance of Heat Cold Moisture and Driness as the External and efficient Cause For perceiving the weight of Minerals and Stones to exceed the weight of water they therefore assign the matter of Minerals and Stones to be chiefly Earth and without any further Controversie or search after the matter they are content to believe and would have us do so too that all sorts of stones are nothing but Earth from which the other three Elements are forced by heat by which means it becomes baked into a stone And this they viz. the Aristotelians think they prove by alleadging the Example of Potters Earth which being burnt gains a stone-like hardness And because neither Stones nor Earth do commonly melt in the fire they therefore conclude stones are made of Earth But there being on such heat in the Superficies of the Globe much less in the bottom of the Water where commonly stones are bred I must confess I can receive but little satisfaction from this account And I find the Learned Sennertus is as unsatisfied with this Doctrine as my self for he will by no means allow the Elements or their qualities to be the Primary Efficients of Stonification His words are these Licèt vulgò multi é qualitatibus primis Calculorum Concretionum Coagulationum causas deducere conantur tamen frustrae laborant Nam neque exsiccati● nec calor nec frigus hîc locum habere possunt ut primariae causae nam ut causam sine qua non concurre posse non negamus dum scilicet aquam quae concretioni obstat absumit neque à quoquam hactenus commonstrari potuit quomodo calor nudus talem Concrescendi dispositionem generare succum Lapidescentem producere possit Imo fit hoc etiam ubi omnis Calor abest in frigidis etiam membraneisque locis item in Infantibus ubinullus concedatur Caloris excessus sed manifesta potius cruditatis indicia deprehendantur in vesi●a generantur Calculi quomodo quaeso in fontibus frigidis in quibus ligna immersa in lapides transformantur succus lapidescens à Calore producitur Deinde frigus quod attinet non semper in loco frigido vel minus calido Calculi concrescant cùm in capite in pulmonibus circa basin Arteriae magnae in Cordis arteriis imo in Corde reperti sint uti Legimus in Observation Cornel. Gemmae lib. 1. Cosmocritic Cap. 6. Anton. Beniven de abdit Morb. Sanat Causs Cap. 24. Fernel 5. P●tholog Cap. 12. Hollerii 1. de Morb. internis in schol Cap. 29. 50. Et in balneis etiam Calidissimis Trophos at stirias saxeas concrescere ubi frigus nullo modo admitti potest experientia compertum habetur in English thus Though it hath been much endeavour'd by many to deduce the causes of the concretion coagulation of stones from the first or primary qualities yet hath their labour been in vain for neither can drought heat or cold be here allowed as a primary cause but we do not deny that they may concur as a cause sine qua non so that it may for Example waste the water which hinders concretion neither could it hitherto be demonstrated by any body how heat of it self could be able to generate such a disposition of compaction and that it could produce a Lapidescent juice Nay this is performed where all heat is wanting and that in cold and Membranous places as also in Infants who are not allow'd to have any excess of heat but are rather found to have manifest crudity the stone is generated in the Biadder and how I pray is the stonisying juice produced in cold Fountains into which wood being cast is changed into stone Then as to cold stones do grow in the Head in the lungs about the basis of the great artery in the Arteries of the Heart nay they are in the Heart it self Also there grows in hot Baths as experience sheweth sandy stones stony Isicles where cold can by no means be admitted Thus far he by which you see he is clearly of opinion that neither heat nor cold can be the primary or chief cause of Petrification contrary to the Axiom which Aristotle layes down to this effect Of those bodies which adhere together and are hard they are wont to be thus affected some by the fervour of heat some by cold that drying up the moysture this pressing it forth Let us then inquire what the Chymical Philosopher's opinion is in this point and the rather because it is constantly affirmed by most of them that the Art of Pyrotechny is the only true means of informing the mind with Truth and acquainting it with realities and we shall find that they hold Salt to be the principle of solidity and the genuine cause of coagulation in all bodies as also of stonification For say they if you consult experience