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A46234	An history of the wonderful things of nature set forth in ten severall classes wherein are contained I. The wonders of the heavens, II. Of the elements, III. Of meteors, IV. Of minerals, V. Of plants, VI. Of birds, VII. Of four-footed beasts, VIII. Of insects, and things wanting blood, IX. Of fishes, X. Of man / written by Johannes Jonstonus, and now rendred into English by a person of quality.; Thaumatographia naturalis. English	Jonstonus, Joannes, 1603-1675.; Libavius, Andreas, d. 1616.; Rowland, John, M.D.	1657 (1657)	Wing J1017; ESTC R1444	350,728	372

too heavy Hence it comes to passe that all Seas purge themselves in the full of the Moon Not that the attraction of the Moon is the cause of it but because the wind that was in the interim collected in the hollow places under ground strives to fly upwards or being heaped up about the putrefactions of the Sea breaks forth Lydia● de orig s●ntium attributes it to subterraneal fire That you may know the grounds of his opinion I will set it down in a few Propositions I. The flowing of the Sea is not because of the Moon by the nearnesse of her light and of that especially which she borrowes which breeds exhalations whereby the waters swell and run over For in the full Moon her light is thwart the earth and yet there is a tide great enough II. The Sun and Moon do not by their beams cause the flowing of the Sea 1. When it flowes in one hemisphear and both the Luminaries are in the other what is the cause of that For it hath not equall forces in both 2. If Sun and Moon cause the flowing of the Sea wherefore elsewhere in the very Ocean and that between the torrid Zone where their power is extream are there no Tides at all or very small ones III. When we enquire concerning the flowing of the Sea we must suppose 1. That there is a wonderfull plenty of water in the bosome of the Earth 2. That water which is in the bosome of the Earth is not onely continued to it self but to this we see in the Sea and is joyned with it by the channels or open chaps of the Earth First it is probable from hence that it is a part of the same body Then the deeps of the Sea that were never yet certainly known are a token of it 3. When two most vaste Continents on this side Asia Africa Europe on that America divide CHAP. VII Artic. 1. Of the New World and Asia by which the passage was open to other neighbouring Islands and from the Island to all the continent which was in sight and neere to the Ocean but in the mouth of it there was said to be a Haven with a narrow entrance c After this by a wonderfull Earth-quake and a continuall inundation for a day and a night it came to passe that the Earth clave asunder and swallowed all those warlike people and the Island of Atlantis was drowned in the deep But Aristotle lib. de admirand c. 8. relates that in the Sea beyond Hercul●s Pillars an Island was found out by the Carthagenians which had Woods and Rivers fit for shipping but it was distant many days Voyage But when more Carthagenians allured by the happinesse of the place came and dwelt amongst the Inhabitants they were condemned to death by the Commanders he adds by those that sayled thither Let us also hear Seneca lib. 7. quaest c. 31. The people that shall come after us shall know many things we know not many things are reserved for after ages when we are dead and forgotten The World is but a very small matter unlesse every age may have something to search for And again quaest 5. c. ult Whence do I know whether there may not be some Commander of a great Nation now not known that may swell with Fortun 's favours and not contain his forces within his own bounds Whether he may not provide ships to attempt places unknown How do I know whether this or that wind may bring Warr Some suppose Augustus extended his Empire so far Marianus Siculus is the Authour that there was found in the new World old Golden Money with the Image of Augustus and that it was sent to Rome to the Pope in token of fidelity by Johannes Ruffus Bishop of Consentia That is more wonderfull that the Spaniards write that there is a Town in the Province of Chili in the Valley called Cauten which they name Imperiola for this cause because in many Houses and Gates they found the Spread-Eagle as we see now a dayes in the Arms of the Roman Empire Animlanus l. 17. observes somthing not unlike it that in the obeliscks of the Aegyptians there were ingraven many Pictures of Birds and Beasts also of the other World What shall we say to these things We say they knew them but scarse ever travelled thither But if those relations are true that Plato reports of which Tertullian also speaks Apolg. c. 39. and Marcellinus l. 17. we add farther That the praediction of Seneca sounds rather of the British Islands in favour of Claudius That is false which is said of Augustus We have all the Acts of this Noble Prince if there be any thing buried in silence it is some mean matter But Novelty easily gains the name of Antiquity if there be fraud in him that forgeth it Artic. 2. Of the miracles of some Countrys PLiny relates and we out of him There is a famous Temple at Paphos dedicated to Venus into a Court whereof it never rayns Pliny l. 2. c. 96. By Harpasa a Town of Asia there stands a hard Rock which you may move with one finger but thrust it with your whole body and you cannot stirr it There is Earth in the City Parasinum within the Peninsula of Tauri that cures all wounds In the Country Ardanum Corn that is sowed will never grow At the Altars of Martia in Veii and at Tusculanum and in the Wood Ciminia there are places where things fastened into the Earth cannot be drawn forth Pliny l. 2. c. 94. In Crustuminum Hay that grows there is hurtfull but out of that place it becomes good Some Earths tremble at the entrance as in the Country of the Gabii not far from Rome about a 100 Acres when men ride upon it and likewise at Reate In the Hills of Puteoli the dust is opposed against the Sea Waves and being once sunk it becomes one stone that the waters cannot stirr and daily grows stronger also if it be mingled with the Caement of Cumae Plin. l. 35. c. 13. Such is the nature of that Earth that cut it of what bignesse you please and sink it into the Sea it is drawn forth a stone In a Fountain of Gnidium that is sweet in eight Months time the Earth turns to a stone From Oropus as far as Aulis whatsoever earth is dipped in the Sea it becomes a stone Tilling of the ground was of old of great esteem amongst the Romans they found one sowing and gave him honours whence is the surname Serranus As Cincinnatus was ploughing his four Acres in the Vatican which are called Quintus his Meadows Viator offered him the Dictator ship and as it is reported that he was naked and his whole body full of dust To whom Viator said Put on thy Cloths that I may deliver to thee the commands of the Senate and people of Rome Whence Pliny l. 18. c. 3. answers to this question Whence was it then they had so great plenty The Rulers at

upper parts being the sharpest they take hold of the ends of the weeds and are fast shut in the broader parts which afterwards open that the fruit may come out to flye Thus a thousand at least of these shell fish are fastned to the weeds at the ends which as I said are fastned to the pitcht Wood with the other end in such plenty that the Wood can hardly be seen yet those weeds do hardly exceed 12 fingers breadth in length and are so strong as thongs of leather somtimes they are longer and are some-feet-long This is the whole external description For you can see nothing but a piece of a Mast full of rotten holes and Sea Weeds thrust into them having at the other end shell-fish like to the nayle of a Mans little finger But if these shells be opened those small Birds appeare like chickens in eggs with a beck eys feet wings down of their feathers beginning and all the other parts of callow Birds As the young Birds grow so do the shells or covers of them as they do in all other Oysters Muscles shell-fish snails and the like carriers of their houses It may be asked how they get their food I answer as other Z●ophyta do partly from the sweeter part of the water or else as shell fish that breed pearls and Oysters do from the dew and rayn partly from the pitchy fat of the rotten Wood or the resinous substance of Pitch or Rosin For these by the intermediant grass as by umbilical Veins do yeeld nutriment to these Creatures so long as that Wood is carried by the ebbing and flowing of the Sea hither and thither For were it on the dry land it would never bring forth the said shell fish An example of this we have in places neere the Sea where those shell fish are taken alwaies with black shells sticking to Wood put into the water as also to the woodden foundations of bridges and to Ships that have been sunk And they stick either to the wood by some threds like to hayrs or Mosse or else by Sea Weeds whence it is evident that some clammy moysture is afforded to shell-fish sticking to any Wood whatsoever though it be Oke but much more to firre Wood full of Rosin whereof Masts of Ships are made For this Wood is hotter than Oke and hath much aeriall clamminesse and therefore takes fire suddenly and when it is wounded while it is green it sends forth an oily Rosin but when it is dry it will easily corrupt under water but the Oke will not because it is of a cold and dry nature It longer resists corruption and under water grows almost as hard as a stone If any man will consider the abundance and diversity of fish and living Creaturs which are bred in the Seas every where he cannot but confesse that the Element of water is wonderful fer●ill which breeds not only the greatest living Creatures as Whales whereof some as Pliny writes l. 32. entred into a River of Arabia that were 600 foot long and 300 foot broad and that in such abundance and variety that the same Authour reckons up 176. kinds of fish in the Sea only besides th●se bred in Rivers But one would chiefly admire the great diversity and beauty of Sea shell-fish for I remember that I saw a● ●e●terdam Anno 1611 with Peter Carpenter a very famous man above a thousand severall kinds of them in such plenty that he had a whole Chamber full of them which he kept as the pretious treasures and miracles of nature No doubt but these are the Ensign● of Natures bounty for they rather serve for the ornament of the world than for mans use wherein you may see a kind of an affected curiosity in the variety of the forms of them Hence we may conclude the great fruitfulnesse of the Sea which doth exceed the Land in breeding of living Creatures and vegetable animals which the Antients observing they ascribed to Neptune who was god of the Sea great multitudes of Children begotten from divers Concubines call'd Sea-Nymphs amongst these were Tryton and Protheus whereof he sounding a shell-fish is his Father Neptunes Trumpeter but this is changed into various forms as into fire a Serpent and such like clearly teaching that the Sea breeds divers forms These causes seemed to move them who ascrib'd the generation of these Birds in the Orcades to the Sea alone as being the Authour of fruitfulnesse and of diversity of Creatures But how rightly they did that shall be seen We deny not but that many pretty shell-fishes are bred of the Sea onely from the influence of omnipotent nature so that the Ocean affords the place and matter of them but not the form and the cause efficient All the fish except a few are bred of the seed of other fish naturally and here can be no question of these Yet we may doubt whether so many kinds of shell-fish do breed from the seed of other shell-fish It is manifest of the foresaid Bird that it breeds neither from an egge as other birds do nor yet from seed Whence then From the Ocean or must the cause be imputed to the Ocean Not at all For though the place be said to generate the thing placed yet that is understood of the matrices that are the cause of generation sine quâ non but not the efficient cause much lesse the formal material and final and not concerning every generall thing containing But to search out more exactly the nature of this wonderfull Bird we will run over those four kinds of causes not doubting but having searched out these as we ought what why and from whence it is will easily be resolved The Efficient cause therefore of this generation is external heat such as the Sun sends forth into sublunary bodies as also in the internal hea● in the matter corrupting For without heat nature produceth no generation but useth heat as her chief Instrument whereby homogeneous things are congregated and heterogeneous are parted the parts and bowels are formed in living Creatures and are disposed in their orders and figures In Artificiall things that men make they use divers Instruments as their Hands which may be call'd the Instrument of Instruments Hammers Anvils Files Sawes Wimbles and the like In natural things there is onely Heat as the efficien● cause and Nature moves it as the Artificer doth them The outward heat brings the internal into Action Without which this would be uneffectual and shut up in the matter as dead as it appears in some living creatures which when Winter comes and the outward heat fails they are as it were asleep and lye as dead as Swallows Frogs Flies and such like But so soon as the Sun beams heat the water and the earth presently these little Creatures revive as owing their lives to the Suns heat And as the heat is greater so is the efficacy thereof and their flying about and crying as we see in Flies and Frogs As for

Ayre is contrary But examples will hardly make that good In the Navigations of the Portugalls some Marriners under the Equinoctiall had allmost breathed their last though it were in the middle of the Sea and a in a most open ayre And when we were present saith Scaliger Exercit 31. some Italians of Lipsia in the Stoves were like to swound and you may remember from Histories concerning the death of King Cocal Wheat in Syria laid close in Mows corrupts not but is spoild shut up in Barnes if the Windows be open it takes no harme Artic. 2. Of the Infection of the Ayre The Ayre doth not allwaies retain its own qualities it is infected somtimes with hurtful things They that go out of the Province of Peru into Chila thorow the Mountains meet with a deadly ayr and before the passengers perceive it their limbs fall from their bodies as Apples fall from Trees without any corruptions Liburius de Origine rerum In the Mount of Peru Pariacacca the ayr being singular brings them that go up in despair of their lives It causeth vomit so violent that the blood follows it afflicts them most that ascend from the Sea and not only Man but Beasts are exposed to the danger It is held to be the highest and most full of Snow in the World and in three or four houres a man may passe over it In the Mountains of Chilium a Boy sustained himself three dayes lying behind a multitude of Carcases so that at last he escaped safe from the Venomous blasts In a Book concerning the proper causes of the Elements it is written that a wind killed the people in Hadramot The same Authour reports that the same thing hapned in the time of King Philip of Macedo that in a certain way between two Mountaines at a set hour what horseman soever past he fell down ready to die The cause was not known The foot were in the same condition untill one Socrates by setting on high a steel Looking-Glasse beheld in both Mountains two Dragons casting their venomous breath one at the other and whatsoever this hit upon died Liban l. cit But the true cause of this mischief was a mineral ayr stuft with nitrous and other metallick Spirits Such a one is found in some Caves of Hungary and Sweden and we know that the Common Saltpeter is full of Spirits it is moved dangerously and forcibly if fire be put to it and cast into water it cools them much But that bodies corrupt not that we ascribe to cold but it may be attributed to the Spirits of cold by mixture such as are in some Thunder-bolts for the bodies of living Creatures killed by them do not easily corrupt and they last long unlesse some more powerfull cause coming drive it out Artic. 3. Of the Putrefaction of the Ayr. THe Pestilence comes from putrefaction of the ayr which in respect of divers constitutions is divers It is observed that there never was any at Locris or Croto Plin. l. 2.99 So in that part of Ethiopia which is by the black Sea In Mauritania it ruins all It lasted so long somtimes at Tholouse and in that Province that it continued seven years It perseveres so long and oftimes amongst the Northern people and rageth so cruelly that it depopulates whole Countries Scaliger exercit 32. It is observed in the Southern parts that it goes toward the Sun setting and scarse ever but in winter and lasts but three months at most In the year 1524 it so raged at Millan that new baked bread set into the ayr but one night was not only musty but was full of Worms those that were well died in 6 or 8 hours Cardan de rer varietat l. 8. c. 45. In the year 1500 it destroyed 30000 at London somtimes 300000 at Constantinople and as many in the Cities of the Vandalls all the autumne thorow In Petrarchs dayes it was so strong in Italy that of 1000 Men scarse ten remained Alsted in Chronolog But that in divers Countries it works so variously on some men and severall Creatures that proceeds from the force of the active causes and the disposition of the passive Forest. l. 6. observ de Febre If the active cause from the uncleanness of the Earth or water be not strong it only affects those beasts that are disposed for such a venome but if it be violent it ceazeth on Mankind yet so that of its own nature it would leave neither Countrey not Cittie nor Village nor Town free This layes hold on men in one place only But if the active force be from a superiour cause or be from the ayr corrupted below Mankind alone are endangered by it But if both a superiour and an inferiour cause concur then may all living Creatures be infected with the Plague yet it must be according to the disposition of their bodies Artic. 4. Of Attraction cooling and penetrating of the Ayr. NO man almost is ignorant but that the Ayr serves for the Life of man for the branches of arteria venosa drink in blood from the whole Lungs brought to them by the arteria venosa and it is made more pure in them The Ayr drawn in at the mouth is mingled with the blood and this mixture is carried to the left ventricle of the heart to be made spirituous blood Ludovi du Gardin Anatom c. 40. But being drawn in heaps it strangles Zwinger Physiol l. 2. c. 23. For if you compasse a burning Candle in the open ayr with wine from above you put it out because it cannot attract the Ayr prepared on each side by reason the wine is betwixt and it cannot from below draw the crude and unprepared Ayr. The desaphoretick force of it will appear in an Egg when that is new a pure spirit sweats through its shell whilest it rosts like unto dew What will this do in the body of man It will make that full of chinks if it be touched by a small heat otherwise it fills and penetrates all things It pierceth thorow a brick and there it inflates the concocted lime so that the quantity of it is increased till it break it We see that the Ayr entring by the pores of a baked brick doth swell a stone that was left there for want of diligence and is turned into Lime and so puts it up till the brick breaks Zwinger Phys. l. 2. c. 25. Farther it is concluded by certain observation That a wound is easie or hard to cure by reason of the Ayr. In Fenny grounds wounds of the head are soon cured but Ulcers of the Legs are long Hence it is that wounds of the head are light at Bonnonia and Paris but wounds of the Legs are deadly at Avignon and Rome There the Ayr is of a cold constitution and is an enemy to the brain here it is more hot whereby the humours being melted run more downwards Pa●ae●s l. 10. Chirurg c. 8. It may be cooled 9 wayes by frequent ventilating of it with a fan

butter of Antimony Some impute it to the native heat of the earth or to a certain hot spirit so that these natural spirits of exhalations heating not violently but naturally in some places the secret channels of the Earth grow hot that this heat is communicated to the Walls of those concavities by reason whereof a sufficient and continuall heat may be communicated to the Baths even as in an Oven heated when all the flame is gone the bread is sufficiently baked Horstius de natur Thermar Others ascribe it to subterraneall fire but whether it be so may be known by what proceeded Bartholin de aquis Farther it may be shewed by an Example Mingle salt-water with Clay make of this clay or mud a ball and hollow it within then stop the orifice with the clay and put in a narrow pipe into it and put this ball to the fire the pipe being from the fire when the ball waxeth hot out of the ball by the pipe hot water will run Sennert l. 4. scient natural c. 10. Baths have a taste by the mixture of Earths and so have things in the Earth Hippocrates l. de natur human saith That there is in the Earth sweet sowr and bitter and in the bowels of it there are divers faculties and many humours l. 4. de Morbis Every thing drawes its nourishment from the Earth in which it is Hence in Ionia and Peloponnesus though the heat of the Sun be very sufficient yet Silphium growes not though it be sowed namely for want of such a humour as might nourish it Yet there are in that earth juices not onely for the vaporous but also for the moyst and solid substance Juices condensed are dissolved by waters the moyst are mingled Earths are dissolved and scrapings of mettals are found The goodnesse of them differs sometimes because those that in Summer are beray'd with the Suns heat and attenuated are the best In Autumn they are lesse beat upon by its beams because he is nearer to them so in the spring For the Earth is opened the waters are purified the healthfull light of the Sun approaches but in the Winter they are worst for they are heavier thicker and more defiled with earthly exhalations That they suffer changes we may learn by divers examples Fallop de Therm c. 11. Savanarola saith That the Bath waters in the Country of Pisa cause great diseases in those that drink them and the Inhabitants are warn'd of it For in March April and May when they see the waters look yellow and to be troubled they foresee they are dangerous Alcardus of Veroneus a Physitian who writ of the Cal●erian Baths saith That the water of Apponus is sometimes deadly by the example of one Galeatius a Noble man who with his Son in Law drank of it and dyed The sharp waters of Alsatia are sometimes so sharp that they cause the dysentery and sometimes they are feeble and are deprived of their wonted vigour Sebizius de acidulis diss 50. s. 1. The causes are divers amongst the ordinary a rainy cloudy dark Southern constitution of the Ayr too violent flowing of the Sea inundations Earthquakes It is wonderfull that is written concerning some hot Baths in Germany that they grew dry when there was a tax set upon them Camerar horis subcis cent 2. c. 69. Something like this fell out in shell-fish at the Sluce for when a kind of tribute was laid upon the collecting of them they were no more found there they returned when the Tax was taken off Jacob Mayer in Annal. Flandriae CHAP. VI. Of the Sea Artic. 1. 〈…〉 Artic. 2. 〈…〉 and Hercules Pillars about Spain and France in his dayes But the North Sea for the greatest part was passed over by the happy successe of the famous Augustus We find in Velleius that Germany was surrounded by sailing so far as the Promontory of the Cimbri and from thence the vast Ocean was discovered or known by relation as far as Scythia and the parts that were frozen by the command of Tiberius The same Pliny tells us that Alexander the Great extended his Victories over the greatest part of the East and Southern Seas unto the Arabian shores whereby afterwards when C. Caesar the Son of Augustus managed the businesse the ensigns of ships were known to belong to the Spaniards that had suffered shipwrack there But when Carthage flourished 〈…〉 from the Gades to the furthermost parts of Arabia and 〈…〉 writing that Voyage and Hamilco at the same time was sent to discover the outward parts of Europe Moreover Cornelius Nepos is the Author of it in Pliny that one Eudoxus in his time when he fled from Lathyrus King of Aegypt came from the Arabian Coasts as far as Gades and Caelius Antipater long before him affirms the same that he saw him who sailed out of Spain into Aethiopia 〈…〉 Merchandize The same Author writes that the King of Sweden gave freely to Quint. Metellus Celer Pro Consul of France those Indians who sailed out of India for Traffiqu● and were by Tempests carried into Germany That Voyage hath been attempted of late but with extream danger of life men being hindred continually by Ice and extream darknesse If these things be so then was all our World sailed about It is further questioned whether there be any passage through the North Sea to the Kingdom of Sina and to the Moluccos Jovius report● that he heard it of Demetrius Moschus that Duidna with many Rivers entring into it ran into the North a wonderfull way and that the Sea was there open so that stearing the course toward the right hand shore unlesse the land be betwixt men might saile to Cathay Those of Cathay belong to the furthest parts of the East and the parallel of Thracia and are known to the Portingalls in India when they to buy spices sayled to the Golden Chersonesus through the Countries of Sina and Molucco and brought with them garments of Sabell skins Petru● Bertius a man that deserved well for his learning but ill for divinity reports in descrip no● Zembliae that he saw a Table described 〈…〉 the Russes wherein the shores of the Russes Samogetans and Ting●●eri with the North Sea nere unto them and some Islands were ●●●ely set forth In that the Duina River was farthest West but others Rivers followed towards the East and in the first place Peisa Petcho●a Obi● Jeneseia and Peisida Therefore the passage must be open from the River Obii to Peisida The Histories of ●●e Russes report● that when the Moscovites and the Tingesi were curious to search out Countries farther toward the East they sent out discoveries over Land who passed beyond the River Obii and Jeneseia so far as Peisida ou● foot and there they fell amongst people that in their habit manners and speech were farr different from them There they heard the found of Bells from the East the noyse of Men the neighing of Hortes they saw say is foure square such as

exceedingly and makes men drink out of measure Also divers sorts of men eat bread wherein there is contain'd Nigella seed Darnell when they eat brown bread or mingled with Millet seed For these cause heavinesse and a passion like to drunkennesse by grosse vapours Canonher l. 3. de admirand Vini c. 1. Hitherto appertains refined wine poured from the Lees. For this though it be weaker to preserve it self and having no lees will sooner grow sowr for the Lees are the root to preserve the Wine yet because it is moyster and pierceth into all the Veins of those that drink it it sooner inflames the blood makes men drunk and overturns reason Jason Pratens de morb cerebri But women come not into this consideration nor such as drink sharp Wine after sweet or such as delight in new Wine For women are of a very moyst body are often purged have very open passages Macrob. in Saturnal Yet because they have a weaker brain and narrower sutures of their skull it is better to say with Alphonsus Lupeius that they are seldom so drunk that they rave but they are often sottish in their drink Sweet Wine stops the pores through which the Vapours of sharp Wines might ascend to the head Lastly sweetnesse so resists drunkennesse that Physitians cause such that are too much inflated with Wine first to vomit much and then they give them bread with honey to eat to repell the fumes that remaine of the Wine Macrob. Saturnal What concerns their divers gestures that is founded in the diversity of the parts and humours Fumes from Wine flye to the forepart of the head and fumes of Beer and Ale to the hinder parts Those that are drunk with this fall backwards but these with Wine fall forwards Those are clamorus and talkative these sleepy and forgetfull Lemnius l. 2. de occult c. 19. They see things lesse a farr off because the optick Spirits are made more thick The sanguine tempers laugh the cholerick prate and are mad the phlegmatique grow stupid the melancholique sad And because all of them have their opticks troubled with Vapours they all see a divers colour'd circle about the light of the Candle Gordon Libro Medic. part 2. c. 21. If they weep they delight in so doing Rhodig l. 12. c. 4. Moysture makes them stammer for by this the tongue is extended as a sponge with water and being swoln and thick cannot speak plain Jacob Pratens de natura vini Moreover experience hath found that Coleworts resist drunkennesse exceedingly chiefly raw and above all the red Cabbage Lemnius l. 2. c. 11. de occult But Galen saith L. 2. de composit medicam c. 5. hot Cabbage macerated and bound about the head And so great is the antipathy between it and Wine that if one powre Wine to it whil'st it boyls it will not boyle much If you desire a reason some say that by eating of it grosse Vapours ascend that thicken the Vapours of the Wine Aristotle saith that it draws the moysture of Wine down to the belly and cools the body Weckerus attributes the same force of the Ivy and Alexander saith that smallage nuts Lupins will do the like Pumanellus saith powder of Pumex-stone drank in water will do it Gratarolus speaks the same of Saffron de vini natura c. 5. Africanus of a Goats Lungs Amandus de Sancta Sophia l. 1. de veris secretis attributes as much to new Milk drank fasting Platerus prax medic Tom. 1. c. 3. prescribes pap made of Milk and Barley meal taken with Vinegar And he describes a certain powder thus Take Colewort seeds 1 dram Coriander seed 5 drams camphir 10 grai●s make a powder and give one spoonfull in sharp Wine But the dung of swallows powdred and drank will maka a man sober Pliny Rue eaten Merula The humour that first drops from the Vines at the beginning of the Spring bread that is made of darn●l dried and made into powder But that is superstitiously said That whosoever shall rehearse this verse before the first glasse of Wine he drinks Juppiter his alta sonuit clementer ab Ida. shall never be drunk Artic. 6. Of Bread THe chief foundation of mans preservation and nutriment and the staffe of life is bread well ordered Hence some say Panis Bread comes from pasco to feed some take it to be so call'd from Pan that is all because it answers all meat It is made of divers things The Aethiopians made it of the seed of Orindium The Icthyophagi made it of fish dried in the Sun Plin. l. 7. c. 1. The Aegyptian shepherds made it of the Lote-Tree seed Pliny l. 22. c. 21. Neer the Mountain Vogesus about the Town Burcken there is a fine white meale dug forth of a Mountain the Inhabitants make Bread of it and all sorts of Cakes Claudius Diodatus l. 2. Panther Hygiastici c. 4. But I say that can be no true meal but it must be miraculous I think it is some thick juyce that proceeds out of the earth and in time is congealed by heat of the Sun and so becomes fine meale Divers Medicaments are made of bread Aqua-vitae the most noble treasure of life is thus made Take the best bread cut into thin sippets what is sufficient put them into a hot Furnace that by degrees they may dry like red Bisquit then bruise it grosely and put it into a wide cauldron and for every pound of this Bread put in five pound of Fountain Water flowers of hops one handfull of anniseeds one ounce boyle them together till one part be consumed let them coole a little and then powre them forth and pass them through a basket or sieve then powre on some leaven first dissolved in warm water shut this up in a Vessel and let it ferment and work like new wine lastly part it as it grows clear distill it and rectifie it like Spirit of Wine Some distill the crumbs of white bread newly taken forth of the Oven putting it into glasse Stills four ounces of it are given successefully against the Epilepsie See Deodate how the quintessence may be extracted Artic. 7. Of wonderfull fasting THough nourishment be necessary for our life yet there have been many that have lived along time without it In Saint Augustine his days one lived 40 days without eating any thing Another in the time of Olimpiodorus the Platonist for so long as he lived he neither fed nor slept but only stood in the Sun to refresh himself The daughter of the Emperour Clotarius fasted eleven years Petrus Aponus saw one fasted 18 years Rondeletius saw one fasted ten and afterwards became a fruitfull Mother Hermolaus knew a Priest who lived in health 40 years without any thing but by sucking in the Ayr. Lastly one Nicolaus Helvetius under Waldensis Anno 1460 after that he had five Children by his Wife lived a solitary life and neither ate nor drank in 15 years Some dare affirm that he fasted 22 years and Bocatius saith that

he read and preached openly Furthermore being made Doctor of the Laws in the University of Colen he read there and expounded the Civil and Canon Law repeating by heart the texts which he had never read and at last died at Colen in the yeare 1492. We will conclude this Chapter with an example of one borne blind in whom nature made supplie of that defect with a marvelous recompence other ways The story is mentioned by Antonius de Palermo thus I learnt saith he of King Alphonsus that there was a Sicilian borne blind living still at that time in the Citie Gergento called in old time Agrigentum who had followed him oftentimes a hunting shewing to the Hunts-men who had their sights well ynough the retraits and repairing places of the wild beasts He added further touching the industry of this blind man that having by his sparing and scraping gotten together about five hundred Crowns which put him to a great deale of care he resolved at last to hide them in a field As he was making a hole in the ground to that end a gossip of his being his neighbour espied him who so soon as the blind man was gon searched in the earth found the money and caried it cleane away Two or three dayes after the blind man returning thither to visit his cash and finding nought there like one altogether forlorne he frets and torments himselfe and after much debating and discoursing concludes that no man but his gossip could have played him such a trick Whereupon finding him out he thus began to say unto him Gossip I am come to you to have your opinion I have a thousand Crowns and the one half of them I have hid in a safe place and for the other halfe I know not what to do with them having not my sight and being very unfit to keep any such thing therefore what think you might I not hide this other halfe with the rest in the same place of safetie The gossip approved and commended his resolution and going speedily to the place carried back againe the five hundred Crowns that he had taken away before hoping that he should have all the whole thousand together A while after the blind man goes to his hole and finding there his Crowns againe took them up and comming home calleth for his gossip saying unto him with a cheerfull voice Gossip the blind man hath seen better than he that hath two eyes Article 9. Of Nations of divers forms WHat I said in the 8th Article of Monstrous Births happens but seldom yet some thought that happened commonly amongst some Nations Not far from the Troglodites in Aethiopia there is a people that have no heads and their eyes are in their breasts Augustine saw them Serm. ad Fratr in Eremo Solinus confirms it c. 53. Pliny l. 5. c. 8. In Peru in the Province of Caraqui Hispalensis sayes they want the forepart and hinder part of the head Sylvius p. 5. c. 35. For he adds That so soon as they are born they make their heads level with boards Rawleigh in his Navigations to Guiana speaks of some that are call'd Epumerocaci The Circades a people beyond Taprobana are long visaged with horse heads if we credit Arrianus Ramus tom 1. In the Mountains of the Indies they have Dogs heads and claws and hides like beasts they cannot speak but bark saith Megastenes Aelian l. 10. c. 26. saith they are in Egypt in the way to Ethiopia and he describes them that they are black visaged having no voyce they make a thrill noise and their chin is so far beneath their beards that it is like to a Serpent They live by hunting Oxen and Does Augustin de civitate Dei l. 16. c. 6. thinks that is not incredible Amongst the Scythians there are some with such large ears that they will cover all their bodies Isidor l. 11. c. 3. Some have their feet so broad that they can shadow their whole bodies with them when they lie down from the heat I may here adde that there are Sea-Men Anno 1403 a Sea-Woman was taken in the Lake of Holland and brought to Harlem she was ready to learn some things that women do but she could not speak Anno 1526 in Frisland a Sea-Man was taken with a beard and hairy he lived some years but could never speak Libav l. 6. de universitat rerum And not long since when the Denmark Ambassadors sail'd into Norway they saw a man in the Sea that had a swathband of corn they took him and put him into the Ship and he dyed they cast him into the Sea again and he revived Historians approved do write these things We will not here add what we think onely the Devill hath many wiles and great is the force of Imagination and sometimes beasts are taken for men if they be but like them We read in the Scotch History that the Kings Embassadours were brought by a storm into Norway and saw hairy beasts in the Mountains wandring like to men they thought they had been men the Inhabitants told them they were wild beasts Let every man think what he please I may have occasion to speak more of this elsewhere Article 10. Of a wonderfull Antipathy betweeen the Father and the Sonne THere was a Father that hated his child as much as some men do Cats for if he were present though he saw him not he would swoond Georgius Mylius a Divine of Jena related it Libavius sought the cause diligently And if the reason of antipathy in naturall things be worth enquiry that is most worthy to be searched out that is between children and parents This is certain that the cause of this discord cannot be found nor in the rational nor the sensual part For he wished his son no harm nor can sympathy or antipathy be called love or hatred in parents For they are to be found in things that are not living and if they be in living creatures they are not in them as they are living but as they are natural things Yet because he did not abhor his other son nor hate his off-spring for which cause he married it is certain that was no hereditary infirmity It is probable the son was changed into a disposition the father could not away with and that might proceed from the seminary body ill disposed from the womb or by the confluence of impure blood that had in it some ground for this alteration or from the blood the Embryo was nourished with For this growes divers from the matter of the nourishment or may degenerate from some other inward cause or from the place sometimes the spirits that assist the blood and the whole nature cause a change Therefore either the mother had a great longing for some meat the father hated or else she was frighted at something the father could not endure To say nothing of the Midwife or of hidden causes So a Maid at Uratislavian drank Cats blood and became of a Cats qualities and