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A57647	Arcana microcosmi, or, The hid secrets of man's body discovered in an anatomical duel between Aristotle and Galen concerning the parts thereof : as also, by a discovery of the strange and marveilous diseases, symptomes & accidents of man's body : with a refutation of Doctor Brown's Vulgar errors, the Lord Bacon's natural history, and Doctor Harvy's book, De generatione, Comenius, and others : whereto is annexed a letter from Doctor Pr. to the author, and his answer thereto, touching Doctor Harvy's book De Generatione / by A.R.	Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.	1652 (1652)	Wing R1947; ESTC R13878	247,834	298

women oftentimes Nature is wiser in her productions then we are in our conceits and imaginations 2. It overthrowes saith he Gods benediction Be fruitfull and multiply Answ. Gods benediction of multiplication was not pronounced to the beasts and creeping things but the birds and fishes 2. It 's a question whether Vipers and some other poysonous creatures were created before the fall 3. The viper multiplieth fast enough when at one birth she bringeth forth twenty young ones as Aristotle and others affirm there is then no cause to complain when twenty are produced by the losse of one neither is it a greater curse in the Viper to die then in all othe● living creatures for all are morrall in their individuals though immortal in their species 4. If the viper had been created before the Fall yet this punishment was not inflicted on her till after for all creatures doe fare the worse by reason of Adams sin who hath made them all subject to vanity Rom. 8.3 To bring forth in sorrow saith he is proper to the woman therefore not to be translated on the Viper Answ. I deny that painfull births are proper to the woman for all animals have some pain more or lesse in their productions I have seen a Hen which with the pain of excluding her Egge fell down gasping for breath as if the pangs of death had bin on her and so she continued till the Egge was excluded Many Bitches and other females have died with pain at the time of their littering Painfull productions then is a punishment of the woman and yet no translation to the Viper for her pain is not thereby eased because the Viper in such a case is killed nor are all women alike tortured some are lesse pained then many other creatures 4. This overthrowes saith he Natures parentall provision for the Dam being destroyed the youngling● are left to their own protection Answ. No they are left to the protection of him who is by David called the Saviour both of man and beast and by the same is said to seed the young Ravens when they call upon him And God in Iob long before David sheweth That he fills the appetite of the young Lions and provideth food for the young Ravens when they cry unto God For the Naturalists tell us the old Ravens quite forsake their young ones but God feeds them with Flies and Wormes he sends into their nests The like improvidence and cruelty we find in Ostridges who exclude their Eggs in the sand and so leave them without further care to his providence in whom all things live and move and have their being Therefore God complains in Iob Chap. 39.14 15 16. of the Ostridges astorgie and cruelty in leaving her Eggs in the earth forgetting that the foot may crush them or that the wild beast may break them shee is hardned saith he against her young ones as though they were none of hers The C●●kow also wanteth parentall provision for she layeth her Egge in another birds nest and so leaves it to the mercy of a stranger And no lesse cruelty is there in this young nursling then in the viper for he both destroyeth his Foster-brothers and the mother that brought forth and fed him I read also in AElian of Scorpions begot sometimes in Crocodiles Egges which sting to death the Dam that gave them life The young Scorpions doe use to devour the old I have also read of women who have brought forth monsters to the destruction both of the mother and of the child in her womb therefore what the Ancients have written of the vipers cruelty is not a matter so incredible as the Doctor makes it As for the experiments of some Neotericks who have observed the young vipers excluded without hurt to the parent I answer 1. There is great odds between the Vipers of Africk or other hot Countries and those in cold Climats and so there is in poysonable herbs and Serpents which lose their venome upon transplantation in cold Countries the most fierce cruell and poysonable animals lose these hurtfull qualities 2. The works of Nature in sublunary things are not universally the same but as the ●Philosopher saith● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the most part there is no Ruleso generall but hath some exceptions ordinarily the child comes out with the head forward yet sometimes otherwise ordinarily the child is born at the end of the ninth moneth yet sometimes sooner sometimes later Therefore though ordinarily the young Vipers burst the belly of the Dam yet sometimes they may be excluded without that rupture 3. Education and food doe much alter the nature of creatures these vipers mentioned by Scaliger and others which excluded their young ones or viperels by the passage of generation were kept in bran within boxes or glasses and fed with milk bran and cheese which is not the food of those wild vipers in hot Countries It is no wonder then if the younglings staied out their time in the womb being well sed and tamed by the coldnesse of the climat 4. All the Ancients doe not write that the vipers burst the belly but only the membrans and matrix of the Dam which oftentimes causes the●losse of her life and they wanted not reason besides experience for this assertion to wit the fiercenesse of their nature the heat of the countrey and the numerousnesse of their young ones being twenty at a time besides the goodnesse of God who by this means doth not suffer so dangerous a creature to multiply too fast for which cause also he pinches them so in the Winter that they lie hid and benumbed within the earth besides he will let us see his justice in suffering the murther of the Sire to be revenged by his young ones upon the Dam. As for the Doctors exception against Nicanders word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is not material for it is a Poeticall expression and what is it to the purpose whether the head be bit or cut off if so be the bite be mortall CHAP. X. 1. Moles see not and the contrary objections answered 2. The opinions of the Ancients concerning divers animals maintained 3. The right and left side defended 4. The true cause of the erection of mans body and the benefit we have thereby 5. Mice and other vermin bred of putrefaction even in mens bodies 6. How men swim naturally the Indian swimmers COncerning Moles the Doctor proves they are not blind Book 3. cap. 8. because they have eyes for we must not assigne the Organ and deny the Office Answ. Scaliger tells us they have not eyes but the form of eyes Pliny lib. 11. cap. 37. saith They have the effigies of eyes under the membrane but no sight being condemned to perpetuall darknesse Aristotle lib. 3. de Animal saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it seems they have eyes under a thin skin and a place for eyes The Prince of Poets calls them Oculis captos Geor. 1. Scaliger Exer. 243. saith They are

meant Gluttons and Drunkards who being buried in sleep and wine are little better then dead carcasses with long necks as this Philoxenus was whose belly was his God of whom it is recorded that when he saw a dish of good meat he would spit upon it that he might enjoy it all alone Yet the Doctor denies this wish upon no other ground but because it was absurd Sure this is no ground at all for it is no unusall thing with Gluttons and Drunkards both to wish and doe absurdly His wish was not so ausurd as that of Midas vvho vvished all he touched might become gold or that of Heliogabalus vvho vvished and longed that he might eat the Phoenix being the onely single bird in the World Again this vvish of Philoxenus was not so absurd as the Doctor thinks for though the Tongue be the organ of tast yet the Oesophagus cannot be altogether tastlesse seeing there is one common membrane which is nervous to it and the Tongue Now the membrane of the Tongue is the medium of tast vvill any man say then There is no tast or pleasure in deglutition We find by experience how unpleasant to the throat is the discent of bitter pills or potions so that I could never yet swallow a bitter pill be it never so small That there is much pleasure in deglutition of sweet meats and drinks is plain by the practice of those vvho to supply the vvant of long necks use to suck their drink out of long small Canes or Quils or glasses with long narrow snouts And others for vvant of these vvill tipple leasurely and let their liquor glide down the throat gently and by degrees therefore doubtlesse Philoxenus knew that a long neck conduced much to the pleasure of eating and drinking which made him vvish for a Cranes neck that he might enjoy for some longer time the relish of his delicate viands which gave the name afterwards to dainties and sweet meats for they vvere termed Placontae Philo●eniae Again when he saith That it had been more reasonable if Philoxenus had wished himselfe a Horse because in this animall the appetite is more vehement he is deceived for the vehemency of the appetite is no pleasure but pain there is no pleasure in hunger and thirst but in eating and drinking And indeed there is no reason that he who loved fish and sweet meats so well should with himselfe a Horse vvho must content himselfe vvith Oats and Hay and somtimes vvith dry straw without any sawce he should rather have vvished himself to have been Apuleius his Asse who sometimes filled his belly with good pies and other dainties Lastly when he saith That canorous birds have short necks and that long necked birds are not musicall I answer It is not the length of the neck that hinders medulation but the widenesse thereof For which cause youth before puberty women Eunuchs have more melodious voyces then men whose a●pera arteria vvith other vessels are dilated by the heat of the Testicles For therwise we find that the length of the neck is ahelp to singing Hence birds thrust out their necks when they chant which the Poet intimates when he saith Longa canoros dant per colla modos Therefore the proportionable length of wind-instruments doth conduce to modulation CHAP. XV. 1. Heavy bodies swim in the dead sea and the Ancients in this point defended 2. Crassus had reason to laugh at the Ass eating This●tles Laughter defined in laughter there is sorrow in weeping joy 3. That Christ never laughed proved 4. Fluctus Decumans what THat heavie bodies will not sink in the Lake Asphaltites or dead sea of Sodome is affirmed by Aristotle Solinus Diodorus Iustin Strabo Plutarch Iosephus and others and confirmed by the practice of Vespasian casting into that lake captives bound vvho sloated and sunk not Besides that it stands with reason for salt vvater will support heavie burthens much more will that vvater which is thickned with a forcible ebullition of Sulphur and Bi●umen yet the Doctor Book 7. c. 15. will not believe but that heavy bodies doe sink there though not so easily as in other waters Therefore rejects Pliny's swimming of Bricks Mandevils Iron and Munsters burning Candle which sinks not there as fabulous yet all this may be true for the ebullition may be so forcible the water so thickned with the Bitumen the sulphurous vapours and spirits ●o violently tending upward that they may waft up Bricks and Iron and not suffer them to sink A greater wonder then this may be seen in those that write of AEtna Vesuvius the burning hills of Island and America whence are belched out and elevated into the air great stones by those fiery vapours which issue out of those Vulcans Within these twenty years Vesuvius cast out great stones above twenty miles distance And therefore it is no such wonder for a burning Candle to swim which being extinguished sinketh for the flame adds levity to it But let us see the Doctors reasons 1. Iosephus saith he affirms that onely living bodies float not peremptorily averring they cannot sink but that they doe not easily descend Answ. The words of Iosephus are these de bel Iud. l. 5. c. 5. The most heavy bodies that are being cast into this Lake float upon it neither can any man be ●asily drowned there though he would Here Iosephus speaks both of living bodies that though they vvould they cannot sink easily they may force themselves perhaps to dive under the water but not vvithout difficulty and he speaks also of the heaviest things in generall Aristotle saith he speaks lightly thereof 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and esteemeth thereof as a Fable Answ. Aristotle speaks not lightly but seriously of this Lake for from the quality of supporting heavy bodies he deduceth one of his prime Arguments to prove the salsedinous quality of the Sea But the Doctor deceiveth himselfe in the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if this did still signifie a fabulous relation whereas in that place and elsewhere it signifieth a serious narration So confabulari in Latin doth signifie conference of serious matters for the most part 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is to speak not to tell Fables from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a word or speech In Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth a grave and serious speech made by Agamemnon So in the same Poet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is to speak and discourse The like in Phocylides 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is to be moderat in eating drinking speaking Andrew Thevet saith he saw an Asse cast therein and drowned Answ. So saith Camerarius indeed and I will not question the truth of Thevets narration there may be diuers reasons of this the violent hurling of the Asse with his burden under the vvater 2. His sudden suffocation by the sulphurous exhalations 3. The Lake in all places thereof and at all times hath not the same violent ebullitions but sometimes there is remission The Asse then