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A29017	The origine of formes and qualities, (according to the corpuscular philosophy) illustrated by considerations and experiments (written formerly by way of notes upon an essay about nitre) by ... Robert Boyle ...	Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.	1666 (1666)	Wing B4014; ESTC R18303	148,022	464

the Peach it must be red in the Kernel white and in other parts of other Colours the Flesh of it must be fragrant the Stone inodorous the Flesh soft and yielding the Stone very hard and brittle the Meat pleasantly tasted the Kernel bitter not to mention that Peach Blossoms though produc'd also by the Bud are of a Colour and Texture very differing from that of the Fruit and are enobled with an Occult Quality which the Fruit hath not I mean a Purgative Virtue So that from Inoculations we may learn That a stegmatick Liquor that seems Homogeneous enough but very slenderly provided with other manifest Qualities then common water may by being variously contexted by the Buds of Trees be transmuted into Bodies endow'd with new and various and considerable Sents Colours Tasts Solidity Medicinal vertues and divers other Qualities manifest and occult If it be here said that these Qualities are the productions of the Plastick Power residing in prolifick Buds which indeed to me seem to be but very minute Boughs I shall return the same Answer that I did to the like Objection when 't was propos'd in the First Observation Hitherto I have onely argued from vulgar Inoculations but there may be others as well more considerable as lesse ordinary and I remember I have seen a Tree whereof though the Stock was of one sort of good Fruit there were three more and differing kinds of Stone-fruit that had been made to take by Inoculation and two of those inoculated Boughs had actually Fruit on them and the third though it had as yet no Fruit because the Season for that sort of Plants to bear it was not yet come yet the Shoot was so flourishing that we concluded that the Blossoms would in due time be succeeded by fruit And since I have been speaking of the differing Qualities of the parts of the same Fruit I am content to adde two things the one that Garcias ab Horto a Classick Author and Physician to the Indian Viceroy affirmes with some solemnity as wondering that a Learned man should write otherwise that though the fruit we call Cassia fistula be very commonly us'd both here and in the Indies as a Purging Medicine yet the Seeds of this Solutive Cassia are Astringent The other That of late years there have been often brought into England from the Carybbe Islands certain Kernels of a fruit which those that have seen it grow liken to a white Pear-plumme these are so strongly Purgative and also Emetick that the Ingenious Mr. Lygon tells us th● five of them wrought with him a Dozen times upwards and above Twenty downwards and yet the same Author assures us which is likewise here a receiv'd Tradition among them that are curious of this fruit That in the Kernel in the parting of it into halfes ● when our Hazle Nuts in England p●● in the middle longwise you shall find thin Filme which looks of a faint Ca●nation which colour is easily enoug● discerned the rest of the Kernel being perfectly white and that taking o● the Filme you may eat the Nut safely without feeling any Operation at all and 't is as sweet as a Jordan Almon● A Learned Man that practis'd Physick in America being inquir'd of by m● concerning the Truth of this Relation answer'd That though he had divers times given those Nuts as Cathartick Remedies yet he had not that Curiosity to take out the Filmes finding it the Universal belief that the Purgative faculty consisted therein And I remember that the famous Monardes doth somewhat countenance this Tradition where speaking of another Purging fruit that also comes from America from Cartagena and Nombre de Dios he takes notice that these purging Beans which are like ours but smaller have a thin Skin that divides them through the middle which must together with the external Rind be cast away else they will work so violently both upwards and downwards as to bring the Taker into hazard of his Life whereas he commends these Beans rightly prepar'd not onely as a pleasant Medicine that doth without trouble purge both Choler Flegme and gross Humors for which it is celebrated among the Indians To these stories of our Countrymen and Monardes I shall subjoin another which I find related by that great Rambler about the World Vincent le Blanck who giving us an Account of a publick Garden which he visited in Africa in the Territories of the Lord of Casima not far from the Borders of Nubia which he represents as the curiosest Garden he saw in all the East he mentions this among other Rarities There were sayes he other sorts of Fruit which I never saw but there and one among the rest leav'd like a Sycamore with fruit like the Golden Apple but no Gall more bitter and within five Kernels as big as Almonds the Juice whereof is sweet as Sugar betwixt the Shell and the Nut there grows a thick Skin of a Carnation colour which taken before they be throughly ripe they preserve with Date Vinegar and make an excellent Sweetmeat which they present to the King as a great Curiosity IV. The Fourth and last Observation I shall at present mention is afforded me by the consideration of Rotten Cheese For if we take notice of the difference betwixt two parts of the same Cheese whereof the one continues sound by preserving its Texture and the other hath suffer'd that Impairing Alteration of Texture we call Rottenness we may often see a manifest and notable Change in the several portions of a Body that was before Similar For the Rotten part will differ from the Sound in its Colour which will be sometimes Livid but most commonly betwixt Green and Blew and its Odour which will be both strong and offensive and its Tast which will be very Picquant and to some men much more pleasant then before but to most men odious and in divers other Qualities as particularly its Consistence it will be much lesse Solid and more Friable then before and if with a good Microscope we look upon the moulded parts of many Cheeses we shall quickly discover therein some Swarms of little Animals the Mites furnish'd with variety of Parts of differing Sizes Shapes Textures c. and discry a yet greater diversity both as to manifest Qualities nor probably is it inferior as to Occult ones betwixt the Mouldy part of the Cheese and the Untainted then the unassisted Eye could otherwise have discovered OF THE ORIGINE OF FORMS THe Origine of Forms Pyrophilus as it is thought the Noblest so if I mistake not it hath been found one of the most perplex'd Enquiries that belong to Natural Philosophy and I confesse it is one of the things that has invited me to look about for some more satisfactory Account then the Schools usually give of this matter that I have observ'd that the wisest that have busied themselves in explicating Forms according to the Peripatetick Notions of them have either