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A96369	Peripateticall institutions. In the way of that eminent person and excellent philosopher Sr. Kenelm Digby. The theoricall part. Also a theologicall appendix of the beginning of the world. / By Thomas White Gent.; Institutionum peripateticarum. English	White, Thomas, 1593-1676.	1656 (1656)	Wing W1839; Thomason E1692_1; ESTC R204045	166,798	455

perfect Plants use to be call'd Fruits and that which has the place of the Marrow in them is the Seed of the Tree 7. It appears again that since the temperaments of heat and moisture are varied without end there must be too infinite other things as it were accidentall to Plants besides what we have mentioned 8. Whence we see upon some Berries upon others Thorns upon some Ioynts upon others other things growing according to the divers natures of the particulars that concurre to the breeding them 9. Leafs are universally common to almost all and are nothing but little distinct sprigs the distances between which are fill'd up distended with the same-natur'd moisture for 't is evident the substance of wood and almost of every Plant consists of certain thrids as it were compacted together as appears plainly in the rending them asunder Moreover if before they stick well together a more abundant moisture flows in it distends these fibres and while the leafs are yet streightned and shut up makes them enwrap one another as it were cylindrically like a bark 10. When they peep into the Aire by little and little the fibres grow stiffe and streight and stretched farther out and the leaf unfolds it self becoming according to the order of the fibres broader one way longer in the middle and as it declines from the middle the figure still abates in longitude they are split where the fibres do not joyn together to conclude from them and the moisture which connects them the leafs receive their figure 11. It appears again that Flowers are a kind of leafs but of the more spirited and oyly parts therefore they are light odoriferous and short-liv'd and in Trees they are the forewarners of the Fruit. LESSON XIV Of the Accidents of Plants 1. OUt of the figure of the parts the figure of the whole Plant is fitted and proportion'd The Trunk which is the principall part most commonly grows up like a Cylinder or rather like a Cone because upwards still it grows smaller and abates in latitude 2. When it deviates from this figure the reason may be easily collected out of the figure of the root or seed Those which have a weak stock or Trunk do not grow erect but either run upon the ground or else are rais'd up and sustain'd by others and get a spirall figure like the winding about a Cylinder 3. For the naturall motion of Plants being upwards by force of the heat and sting out of the Earth and the Trunk by reason of its weaknesse not being able to bear much it bows towards the Earth and strives to rise again as much as 't is able so imitates the figure of a serpent creeping But if the stemme cling to some prop that may help it upwards it elevates it self not directly or in a straight line but as well as it can winding round about the sides on 't 4. Again because we see ther 's both a kind of annuall and diurnall as it were flux and reflux of heat from the Sun some Plants are but of a day's life as certain Flowers which the same day blow and wither 5. Very many last not above a year and then are repair'd again either by shedding their seed or by the reviving of their fountain the root or else by the very temperature of the soil Others of a more constant substance do not only sustain themselves but increase for many years Others again even out-last Ages 6. All have the same reason of their life and death their life and increase consists in a due proportion of moisture with heat where this fails they faint and consume away 7. A Plant dies either because the Sun sucking the moisture out of the upper parts of the Earth has not left wherewith to moisten the root or because too much moisture overflowing the root without a proportionable heat has too much dissolv'd and diffus'd the vertue of it so that the Sun supervening has extracted its very radicall heat before it could increase and supply it self 8. Or else because by little and little earthy and feculent parts cleaving to the root have obstructed the passage of the moysture to the inward parts of it And this way of death because it follows out of the very action of life seems more properly to bear the denomination of old Age and a naturall way to death 9. Out of the same principles 't is apparent why severall parts of the same Plant produce such contrary effects For since in the nourishing of the Plant there is a kind of perpetuall streining and separating of the parts of the Aliment most of the parts of the same nature must of necessity run together to one and the same place and part Whence the severall parts of the plant are compos'd of heterogeniall particles of the nutritive moisture yet more or lesse sated too with the temper and seasoning imbib'd in the root Thus therefore 't is consonant to reason that a Plant should be compos'd of contraries and things that have contrary vertues 10. The same way we come to understand the Sympathy and Antipathy which is found in divers Plants for since 't is certain that every Plant to its measure has a certain Orbe of vapours always encompassing it as is evident in some by the fmell issuing from them and some Plants must needs consist of contrary natures if the weaker happen to be planted within the Sphear of the stronger that corrupts and kills it with the stroaks of its vapours which besiege it but if the stronger be of a nature that is a friend to it by the same stroaks it grows more lively and fruitfuller LESSON XV. Of the generation and augmentation of Animals 1. ANd because the more fervent the heat is and the moisture more figurable that is in a certain proportion neither resisting division and yet easily consistent the Plant is divided into so many the more members and joynts 't is evident if there be so much heat as to exhale fumes out of the moisture and make it actually fluid the little branches through which it flows and wherein 't is contain'd will of necessity become hollow And since by force of the heat the Moisture is refin'd into watry and oyly parts the earthy remaining still below it comes to passe that there are found three as it were severall but subordinate fountains of Moisture in the same Plant and from every one of these their branches and in them their own proper Moistures are deriv'd 2. Among which those that savour of Water are the more remote and more fit to form the exteriour parts of the Plant and the enclosed humour is more apt for those effects which are perform'd by rarefaction and condensation 3. Those which savour of Oyle are fitter for Augmentation as being of a kind of middle nature and conformable to all the parts Lastly the Earthy for the Conservation of the whole Plant in a due temperament by the mixture of heat which the more

that is the pestilent vapours which fly in the Aire 3. But seeing that Emanations strike the Aire with a certain kind of agitation those things will be easilyest mov'd with this agitation and brought to the body which are most sollicited by this stroak that is those which are most conformable to the particles that sally out 4. To which may be added that such parts too will stick faster and easier and when they are united foment the naturall heat of the body which causes this motion Thence we see that Poysons are more easily suck'd out of infected bodies by other dry'd poys'nous things but best of all by those very bodies to whom the Poyson to be suck'd out is proper 5. But when the parts returning are any way viscous little light heterogeniall bodies stick to them too by reason of their gluyness and return with them as may be seen in Electricall bodies which little straws and dust fly to And sometimes they rebound again with a kind of Impetus or vehemency whence appears that the Steams of such like bodies are very spirited and start out with certain impetuosities 6. Out of these things it appears that there is in a manner a double nature of every mix'd body one as it were perfect and fit to be evaporated another as it were imperfect and wanting more concoction which two must of necessity be oppos'd to one another by the differences of more and lesse 7. Now if we suppose a body so compos'd in its own Nature as to be plac'd between two fountains as it were of such Steams it must of necessity attain such a disposition that on one side 't will be apt to receive the one's Emanations on the other the other 's and to eject them again by the contrary sides 8. It will therefore have contrary vertues in its extremities but in the middle an indifferency at least in comparison to the Ends. 9. Again its Emanations will be carry'd against the course of other bodies which return to their own fountains still directly on towards their opposite fountain and the body too if it hang so freely that it may more easily follow its Emanations then leave them will it self be carry'd along with its Emanations 10. But if it cannot bear them company and yet be plac'd obliquely to the fountain and at liberty to turn it self with the same force 't will turn it self to the fountain 11. Moreover as the fountain acts upon it so this body it self will act upon another body of the same kind but more faintly 12. Wherefore since we find by experience that a Loadstone receives vertue from the Earth as we have explicated it and suffers and acts thus from the Earth and upon Iron respectively and besides the searchers into its nature declare that all the rest of its wonderfull motions depend on these the reason of Magneticall Attraction is evident out of what has been said LESSON XII Of the generation of more compounded Bodies and Plants 1. 1. 'T Is plain out of what has been explicated above that not only the Elements are blended together to compound a singly-mix'd body but also many mix'd bodies are united into one more-compounded body For since by the power of their gravity moist bodies which we call Waters run down from higher to lower places and by their running presse the bodies they meet loos'ning partly their little particles in passing by and partly tearing them off along with them the Water becomes thickned and full of dregs with many minutest bodies of divers natures 2. This Water if it rest in any cavity of the Earth those little bodies sink down in it and whether by heat evaporating the humid parts of the water or by cold binding them together they coagulate by their clamminesse into one body appearing homogeneous through the littlenesse of its parts which being imperceptible are so equally mix'd in every the least sensible bulk that they shew every where throughout the same uniforme nature And this is the most simple generation of demix'd bodies 3. And these bodies by the fresh accesse of more water are increas'd more of the like matter being added to them by approximation or juxtaposition as they term it in the Schools 4. But if some such thing happen to coagulate after the fore-said manner in some concavity not far from the superficies of the Earth of so tender a substance and with so much heat that it should ferment within it self it must of necessity suck into its very body any moisture about it and dilate and concoct it 5. Wherefore such a body must needs be increas'd out of a certain intrinsecall vertue and with a kind of equality in all its parts after that manner as they call by intrasumption or receiving in and so Tartufoli Potatoes c. grow under ground without shooting any part of themselves above the Earth 6. But if the heat overcome and be able by increasing it to thrust out into the Aire too some little particles of this body which must be of the more subtile ones that is the best mix'd of hot and moist this body will have heterogeniall parts growing together and subservient to one another and becomes a manifest Plant having a root within the Earth and a blade or a stalk above ground LESSON XIII Of the more universall parts of Plants 1. 'T Is evident again that a Plant being expos'd to the Sun and wind becomes harder and dryer at least as to its exteriour parts whence it comes to passe that the Moisture drawn up out of the root either by the power of the Sun or its own naturall heat more and gentlyer irrigates and waters its inward parts 2. Whence proceeds commonly a threefold difference in the substance of a Plant for the outermost part is hard and call'd the Bark the innermost is soft as being that which is last dry'd and is call'd the Marrow or Pith lastly the middle is the very substance of the Plant. 3. But when Moisture flows in greater abundance out of the root then can be rais'd up perpendicularly which is the hardest course of all it breaks out at the sides splitting the bark of the Plant and makes it self a kind of new trunk of the same nature with the former which we call a Bough or Branch 4. But since the Plant receiv's a heat ' variously temper'd with moisture by the Sun 't is plain when the moisture is best digested it must necessarily break out into certain Buttons or Nuts which are concocted by degrees and from their originall hardnesse grow softer by the flowing in of more subtile moisture and participate in another degree the same differences which are in the Stock to wit a Skin Flesh as it were and Marrow 5. Only because some parts of the juyce are too earthy and therefore grow hard these commonly coagulate between the Flesh and the Marrow the Sun drawing out their moisture to the exteriour parts 6. These Buttons being found in the more