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A11815	Naturall philosophy, or, A description of the world, namely, of angels, of man, of the heauens, of the ayre, of the earth, of the water and of the creatures in the whole world.; Rerum naturalium doctrina methodica. English	Scribonius, Wilhelm Adolf, fl. 1576-1583.; Widdowes, Daniel.; Wydowes, I.	1621 (1621)	STC 22111; ESTC S971	34,963	68

So farre of Mineralls Now follow Natures perfectly liuing Natures perfectly liuing are Planets or bodies endowed with a soule In all these bodies are sundry vertues according to the temperature of the principall qualities For the forme vseth their qualities as Instruments Whence come diuers distinct degrees of those qualities as some are hot cold dry moyst in the first second third and fourth degree These qualities in the first are obscure and scarce to be perceiued in the second they are apparant and manifest in the third they be vehement and in the fourth immoderate and not to be indured And againe each of these hath a beginning middle and end Plants grow from a stalke or a trunke Those from a stalke haue but one stalke or many Trees are Plants hauing but one stalke full of Boughes and rising on high from the earth Some grow onely in hot Countries others grow indifferently in all places those that prosper best in hot Regions are Frankincense Mace Pepper Palme Balsame Pomegranet Lemmon Ceder The Frankincense tree groweth chiefly in Arabia it is tall and hath leaues like the Mastike tree his gum is soft white fat and round and is apt to perfume and the stiffer and liker Rosen it is so much the better This perfume was vsed for sacrifice Myrrhe is a tree in India of hard wood wrythen towardes the earth with a smooth barke the leaues sharpe poynted towardes the end his gum is fat like Rosen thicke and shining red The distilled liquor of fresh Myrrh was once called Stact but now it is named Storax It is hot and dry in the second degree It dryeth closeth wounds it expelleth the wormes it is of force against an old cough and short winde It is bitter It is good to heale wounds of the head Mace is an Indian tree growing in the I le of Banda It is almost like the Peach tree it hath narrow and short leaues whose fruit is the Nut-meg couered with Mase The Nut-meg hath an huske like a Filberd the fruit is couered with a rinde like our Wal-nut which with ripenesse openeth and sheweth the Mase which doth couer the Nut-meg c. The new and best Nut-meg is full of iuyce or oyle smelling sweete It dryeth and heateth in the ende of the second degree with a kindly binding Pepper groweth in India Of it be two sorts of trees and two sorts of fruits one long the other round The round groweth on branches like vines which imbraceth trees that stand by it and his fruit is in clusters first greene then being dryed it turneth blacke and rough it is gathered in October Long Pepper groweth like the long bud on Nut-trees It is hot and dry Palme tree groweth most in Egypt and Arabia alwayes greene with a long round bodie his barke is like scales of a Fish the more it is pressed the better it groweth therefore was it vsed as a reward for the Conquerour The wild Palme in India is called Thamarind the Date is his fruit it being ripe is blacke and sweete Of these be three kindes Our Dates come from Egypt they are hot temperately Balsame is a low tree his trunke is not much vnlike the Turpentine tree it hath leaues like Rew but whiter neuer falling It groweth in the valley of Hierico and Egypt being cut it sendeth out a milkish liquor it is to be cut in the vpper part of the barke with glasse or bone and not with Iron least it die His iuyce is gathered with wooll into small hornes of it is scarce got each yeare six Congies a Congie is about three Pints Natiue Balme mixed with milke doth easily separate and easily dissolue in water neither doth it staine cloth It is hot and dry in the second degree it is of thin parts and hard to come by In his stead most commonly is vsed the Oyle of Nut-megges The Pomegranet doe follow The Orange doe follow The Ceder tree doe follow 1. Pomegranet is a low tree that hath narrow shining leaues red flowers and his fruit filled with graynes It came from the Country in which Carthage stoode the iuyce of this Apple helpeth the stomacke It is very good in a burning Feuer 2. Pomecytron Lemmon and Orange trees are alwayes greene the leafe of the Cytron is like the Lawreil endented The fruit is rough and alwayes fruitfull his iuyce cureth inflamations and other diseases in the skin the barke comforteth the heart c. The Orange hath a smoother skin and leafe 3. The Ceder is like to Iuniper his leaues being sharper the tree is exceeding tall chiefly of that of Cyprus It neuer rotteth his nature destroying sound things preserueth corrupt things The trees lesse hot are either fruitfull or barren The fruitfull haue fruit that hath a rinde thicke or thin The thinner rinde is of Apples or Berries Apples are round as the Fig Oliue Plum Cherry The Fig tree is not high it hath a smooth barke like the Walnut tree It yeeldeth a long fruit like a Peare full of graines It is so fruitfull that it bringeth forth three or foure times in a yeare so that one Fig thrusteth off another They are of two kindes great and little The Oliue the Apple tree and Peach be common The Quince tree is lower then an Apple tree his fruit hath downie hayre it is called Cidonia of a citie in Crete where first it grew The fruit is colde and binding and doth much profit hot stomackes The Peare the Plum the Medler and the Cherry be common Now follow those trees that beare Berries The Lawrell is a tree growing in hotter countryes which in colde doth hardly prosper it hath sharpe and thicke leaues euer greene with a thin smooth barke his leaues be hot and dry his oyle for hot and softning nature helpeth diseases of the brest and other springing of colde The powder in wine causeth vrine breaketh the stone of the bladder and reynes Iuniper beareth a small fruit the space of two yeares and before the first be ripe it bringeth forth other This tree hath short and sharpe leaues and a straight backe and slit almost in euery place the gum sweating out of it is Vernix called so because it congealeth in the spring It is hot and dry in the third degree It healeth and gleweth and also heateth a colde stomacke His berries are hot and dry in the first degree comforting the spirits and healing putrifactions It consumeth rotten and moyst humors The oyle helpeth the Gout if you anoynt the backe-bone therewith it cureth deafenesse and eaten helpeth melancholy and stayeth the Rhume and the Flux Now follow trees whose fruit hath a shell 1. The Almond tree 2. The Wal-nut tree 3. The Chesnut tree taketh his name of a towne in Magnesia the tree is much like the Wall-nut yet the leafe hath more veines and is edged like a Saw His fruit is couered with a sharpe huske and within it hath a red huske It is of two kindes both hot and dry in the first degree

former The cullours of the Raine-bow be light read green sky cullour and yeallow the raine-bow is a foreteller of raine it sheweth that many vapours are dissolued which will shortly be raine The hayle is like this but it is alwayes vnder the sunne Meteors of dissolued cloudes are either hardened or moist as raine which is as it were a cloude melted and turned vnto water if the cloude be neare the earth the drops are great if hie the drops are smaller The rayning of frogges fish milke flesh and such like come of such matter being carried vp which doth againe fall with the raine as wormes c. are begotten of dead carkases in summer time Meteors made harde after the cloud hath beene melted are snow and Haile Snow is a cloude prepared for raine before it fall being congealed by cold is by the motion of the windes dispersed into fleakes and falleth onely in winter Hayle is rayne made hard in the fall the higher the fall the rounder and lesser because in the fall it melteth It hayleth most in Autume and in the spring For then the sharpe ayre hath most power ouer the drops and in winter the extreame cold maketh it snow being yet in the cloudes In the lowest region of the Ayre are dew and frost Dew is a vapour thickned with some earthly matter which in falling is presently turned vnto water Dew falleth onely in summer for then the vapour is dissolued with the Sunne A fat kind of dew like melting hony especially at the shining of Syrius being gathered from leaues of trees is Manna called also wilde honey or meldewes This Manna hardened by the heate of ☉ into lumpes is called Tereniabin Frost is a dewish vapour made very hard by cold in winter before it be dissolued Meteors made of both kindes of smoake ioyned togeather are windes and such like Winde is a subtil smoake beaten downeward by the cold in the middle of the ayre and is moued sideling on the earth Auncients noted out 12. principall windes all which in regard of matter are hote and dry but differ for their situation of their quarter The winde being great carried with force darkens the Ayre and is called a storme If it doe roll about it is a Whirle winde if it be but small it is called Ayre An Earthquake is a fume contained in the earth when it findeth no vent it shaketh it is made according to the breadth or depth of the earth In breadth it causeth sometime such trembling that it shaketh downe whole citties that in depth causeth a gaping or swelling A Gaping is when the Earth openeth as it were her mouth and doth swallow downe trees walles c. A Swelling is when the earth being lifted vp like a mountaine either remaineth so or else falleth downe againe NAtures mixed perfectly are liuing and corporal essences indeued with a Vegetatiue soule A Vegetatiue soule is a facultie giuing life to bodyes Therfore so long as any part of this shall exercise her power in any body so long is that aliue and remaineth safe But her cheife operation so life it selfe consisteth either in preseruing seueral bodies or whole kindes Nourishment is the preseruing of seuerall bodies and is the making of foode receiued like to the body norished Vnder that name is euery thing which is receiued to sustaine our bodyes of which sort is the ayre it selfe Some other faculties are required to perfection of nourishment as concoction his companions Concoction is a working or framing of nourishment and it is made either of temperate or increased heate of the parts to be nourished By temperate heate is made ripening which is a concoction of nourishment with moisture by how much therefore the moisture shal be better tempered with heate by so much is the ripening sooner and more perfect as in a summer too moist the increase of the earth is later made ripe Concoction arising from greater store of heate is either elixation or assation Elixation is a concoction more perfectly working the thicke or watrish moysture with a strong moyst heate As flesh is sod in water whose moist heate altereth and consumeth the fomy moystnes of meate if this elixation remaine vnperfect it is called rawnes and the norishment is not refined for want of moist heate For it was not of power to finish concoction Assation is concoction by meanes of dryer heate fully strengthening the moisture of nourishment If this strength of bodyes be somewhat weake it is called thickning if concoction be vicious it is turned vnto putrifaction Moyst and hote things doe most easily corrupt if the bodyes be not open to the Ayre In stopped bodyes heate hauing no vente is increased Whence commeth inflamation which putrifaction doth follow causing greater heate This of concoction The Companions of concoction are faculties fitly seruing for the perfection of it Of these one goeth before the other followeth The former is Attraction and Retention Attraction is a facultie supplying matter of conuenient nourishment as is seene in things drawing out of the flesh Arrow-heads or thornes deepely fastned So wheat draweth water out of an earthen pot it beeing set vppon the heape Retention which retayneth norishment vntill it be concocted and doth norish the body Nourishment is first put to and afterwarde vnited The companion following concoction is expulsion Expulsion is a driuing backe of vnprofitable matter when concoction is once made it is within or without the body Within when the stronger thrust superfluities to the weaker vntill they come to the weakest of all Encrease which is ioyned to the nourishment is continued but to a certaine age then the nourishing growing weake it ceaseth Now followeth conseruation of the whole stocke Generation is a facultie of the body procreating any thing like to it selfe This faculty preserueth all kindes of thinges in their estate though continually they perish The obiect of generation is the procreating seede of euery thing The changing faculty altereth the seede into parts of the body to be begotten The Ministeriall vertues of this facultie of generation doe change or forme The forming facultie fashioneth the thing into distincte forme THe Vegetatiue soule being explained now followe the kindes of such natures as haue persit or vnperfect growth Those of vnperfect growth are Mettalles which are decocted in the vaynes of the earth Mettalls are to be melted easily or hardly Those that are easie to be dissolued are either first or such as spring from them Principall or first are of themselues from the original as brimstone and Quicksiluer Brimstone is the fatt of the earth with fiery heat decocted vnto his hardenesse which is the cause that it so speedily is enflamed and burneth euen in water yea sooner then the fat of the Beasts which though it be fatter then Brimstone yet is it far colder So that for his fat drines it helpeth scabbes of all kinds the leprie That Brimstone is counted the best which is greene and cleare Quicksiluer is