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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50420	Moffet-well, or, A topographico-spagyricall description of the minerall wells, at Moffet in Annandale of Scotland translated, and much enlarged, by the author Matthew Mackaile ... ; as also, The oyly-well, or, A topographico-spagyricall description of the oyly-well, at St. Catharines Chappel in the paroch of Libberton ; to these is subjoyned, A character of Mr. Culpeper and his writings, by the same author.; Fons Moffetensis. English	Mackaile, Matthew, fl. 1657-1696.	1664 (1664)	Wing M148; ESTC R17306	83,120	201

purgative when taken internally and is denied to haemoptoical persons because of its opening of veins making orifices upon them as if it were corrosive Quer. 15. Why doth the weather of every Moon exactly correspond to the weather of the Thursday before the change That is if the Thursday before the change of the Moon whether she change upon Wednesday Friday or any other be a fair day such will the weather be all the next Moon If there be rain wind snow hail c in the morning before-noon after-noon or at night such will the weather be at those times of the Moon answering such times of the day This I have often observed never to fail excepting three times in the year viz. 1. at the end of March the three last dayes whereof are commonly called the borrowing dayes and use to be tempestuous 2. In May when there useth to be two or three dayes of bad weather according to the proverb Come it soon come it late in May comes the Cow-quake which are so cold that the Kine do tremble 3. At the beginning of August when there are much rains which cause the Lammess-flood Surely thy skill in Astrology will soon afford a reason for this Quer. 16. Why Autimony being vitrisied not only retaineth its vomitive quality but also enjoyeth it in a superlative degree seing all other things almost do loss their primitive qualities when reduced into Glass by reason of the destruction of their seminal forms Quer. 17. What is it in the yoke of an Egg which is the best if not the only mean by which Turpentine is rendred dissolvable by an aqucous body Quer. 18. Why cannot Quick-silver being once dissolved by the strongest corrosives be detained in that condition when exposed to the heat of fire seing Lead and all other minerals being once so dissolved are inseparable by the greatest violence of Vulcan Quer. 19. From whence proceed Worms which are sound in green Pees for it is improbable that they proceed from the sperm of such like animals deposed upon the husk containing them seing there appeareth no blemish upon it nor passage through it And far less is it probable that they are engendred in the Pees themselves seing it is most certain that omne Ens gignit sibi simile except there be a degeneration because of an aberration of nature as when a more noble creature degenerateth into a less noble of the same kind as when Barley degenerateth into Oats or when Worms c. do breed in the bodies of animals or in their carcases after death secundum Harveum de Generatione animalium Exercitat 1. Quer. 20. Why the feet of a Swan are so black seing all her feathers are most white In answering to this have a care lest reflecting upon your often approved and by experience confirmed Galenical remedies as you wrote in your Ghost and Method of physick to which you made a Key of the softest mettal and exposed it to sale adorned with the roust of Ignorance and Tradition particularly chap. 6. you attribute this blackness to the melancholick humor which nature hath secerned to her feet For I hope that you who was a Translator of Anatomists will not so much injure the Splen which was Galen his receptacle of Melancholy neither ascribe the yellowness of her bill unto Choler lest you offend the Gall. Quer. 21. Why doth the Heron bow its neck when it flieth seing the Swan which hath a greater body and a longer neck doth extend its neck to its full length in flying Surely if you shall alledge that the blackness of the Swans feet proceedeth from melancholy you will be perswaded that the Swan should rather bow its neck for fear of receiving prejudice by extending it For according to Gaelen melancholy causeth fearfulness Quer. 22. Why the Sheep of England have no horns but tails which reach the ground seing the Oxen and Kine have horns of superlative bigness Quer. 23. Why wilde fowls of one kind are all of one colour seing tame fowls are of most different colours Quer. 24. Why a man ganteth when he seeth another man do so yea I heard of one who could not forbear ganting if the lid or cover of a Stoup had been moved once or twice up and down before him Quer. 25. What is it in Oat-bread which being smelled at by one who is taken by the Nose by Mustard easeth the trouble Quer. 26. Why doth the feathers of Doves spoyl the feathers of all other birds with which they are mixed Quer. 27. Why Coneys do repair most frequently out of their holes to feed only whilst the Sea is ebbing Quer. 28. Is this opinion of the vulgars true viz. that the treading of water-fowls out of the water doth not foecundat their Eggs And if it be certain what is the reason of it Quer. 29. Why a Plivers breast which is white in Harvest and Winter becometh black in the Spring and continueth so all the Summer Quer. 30. Why the Ewes in Orkney where the North-pole is elevated about sixty degrees have ordinarily two Lambs frequently three and sometimes four As I was informed by a Gentleman there who had an Ewe which at one time brought forth four Lambs three whereof were lame in the fore-legs and went on their knees Quer. 31. Why the North-wind doth not commove the Sea so greatly as other winds do Quer. 32. Why the West-wind doth still calme at night when the air is not cloudy Quer. 33. Why persons which have had the Ter●…an-feaver are still distempered before stormy weather and whilst the East-wind bloweth Quer. 34. Why Sea-fowls extend their legs towards their tailes in flying and Land-fowls the Heron and Lap-wing excepted do contract their legs Quer. 35. Why are there no Moles in Ireland or rather why doth the earth of Ireland kill Moles For which reason some of the inhabitants of the South-west parts of Scotland have brought earth from Ireland to put into their Gardens for that end Quer. 36. Why in the Canicular dayes only a man cannot see the vapor which proceedeth from his own or anothers mouth or nostrils in breathing when the Sun shineth upon him Quer. 37. Why persons who die not violent deaths use to expire at the Full-sea or at a low-water This I have observed seldom or never to fail and that within four or five minuts of these times Quer. 38. Why the strongest Corrosives will not operat upon common Glass seing Spanish or French Wines do operat upon the Glass of Antimony Quer. 39. Why the bottom of a Pot which containeth a boyling liquor is tractable by a mans hand but becometh untractable when the liquor is poured out Quer. 40. What is the irrefragable reason of the Echo it s once or twice repeating a mans words articulatly Quer. 41. Why in Fairay-Sound betwix the Isles of Fairay and Etha in Orkney the Sea runneth north-east for the space only of three hours in slowing and nine hours south-west in ebbing This is the course of the Tide only in the middle of the Sound which is but one mile broad Quer. 42. Is it true that black Wool will admit of no other colour And if so what is the reason of it Quer. 43. Why the Jaundize is cured by medicines of a yellow colour as Rubarb the juyce and flowers of Celledon Saffron c. Quer. 44. Why the males of birds of Prey are less than the females Quer. 45. Why are not children under two years old sick at Sea If thou shalt give rational answers unto these Querees I am confident thou shalt gain more estimation than by all thy labours under the Sun and an act of indemnity for the many transgressions of thy Pen which was only busied about things the knowledge of which as thou did'st rescribe was so stale in the world before thou came into it thy self that no delicat pallat would have used it when such Clusters of Grapes might have been had out of which a more rational and rare Elixir might have been extracted for refreshing of the stomachs surfeted with such musty and rancide fare as you did alwayes set before them FINIS