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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53045	Ground of natural philosophy divided into thirteen parts : with an appendix containing five parts / written by the ... Dvchess of Newcastle.	Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.	1668 (1668)	Wing N851; ESTC R18240	124,614	322

Builders for no Creature can subsist or consist by it self but must assist and be assisted Yet there are some differences in all Productions although of the same Producers otherwise all the Off-springs of one and the same Producer would be alike And though sometimes their several Off-springs may be so alike as hardly to be distinguished yet that is so seldom as it appears as a wonder but there is a property in all Productions as for the Produced to belong as a Right and Property to the Producer CHAP. IX Of Resemblances of several Off-springs or Producers THere are numerous kinds and sorts of Productions and infinite manners and ways in the actions of Productions which is the cause that the Off-springs of the same Producers are not so just alike but that they are distinguishable but yet there may not only be resemblances between particular Off-springs of the same Producers as also of the same sort but of different sorts of Creatures but the Actions of all Productions that are according to their own Species are Imitating Actions but not Bare Imitations as by an Incorporeal Motion for if so then a covetous Woman that loves Gold might produce a Wedg of Gold instead of a Child also Virgins might be as Fruitful as Married Wives CHAP. X. Of the Several Appearances of the Exterior Parts of One Creature EVery altered Action of the Exterior Parts causes an altered Appearance As for example A Man or the like Creature doth not appear when he is old as when he was young nor when he is sick as when he is well in health no nor when he is cold as when he is hot Nor do they appear in several Passions alike for though Man can best perceive the Alteration of his own Kind or Sort yet other Creatures have several Appearances as well as Man some of which Man may perceive though not all being of a different sort And not only Animals but Vegetables and Elements have altered Appearances and many that are subject to Man's perception The Fourth Part. CHAP. I. Of Animal Productions and of the Differences between Productions and Transformations I Understand Productions to be between Particulars as some particular Creatures to produce other particular Creatures but not to transform from one sort of Creature into another sort of Creature as Cheese into Maggots and Fruit into Worms c. which in some manner is like Metamorphosing So by Transformation the Intellectual Nature as well as the Exterior Form is transform'd Whereas Production transforms only the Exterior Form but not the Intellectual Nature which is the cause that such Transformations cannot return into their former state as a Worm to be a Fruit or a Maggot a Cheese again as formerly Hence I perceive that all sorts of Fowls are partly Produced and partly Transformed for though an Egg be produced yet a Chicken is but a Transformed Egg. CHAP. II. Of different Figurative Motions in MAN's Production ALL Creatures are produced by Degrees which proves That not any Creature is produced in perfection by one Act or Figurative Motion for though the Producers are the first Founders yet not the Builders But as for Animal Creatures there be some sorts that are composed of many different Figurative Motions amongst which sorts is Mankind who has very different Figurative Parts as Bones Sinews Nerves Muscles Veins Flesh Skin and Marrow Blood Choler Flegm Melancholy and the like also Head Breast Neck Arms Hands Body Belly Thighs Leggs Feet c. also Brains Lungs Stomack Heart Liver Midriff Kidnies Bladder Guts and the like and all these have several actions yet all agree as one according to the property of that sort of Creature named MAN CHAP. III. Of the Quickning of a Child or any other sort of Animal Creatures THE Reason that a Woman or such like Animal doth not feel her Child so soon as it is produced is That the Child cannot have an Animal Motion until it hath an Animal Nature that is until it be perfectly an Animal Creature and as soon as it is a perfect Child she feels it to move according to its nature but it is only the Sensitive Parts of the Child that are felt by the Mother not the Rational because those Parts are as the Designers not the Builders and therefore being not the Labouring Parts are not the Sensible Parts But it is to be noted That according to the Regularity or Irregularity of the Figurative Motions the Child is well shaped or mishaped CHAP. IV. Of the Birth of a Child THE reason why a Child or such like Animal Creature stays no longer in the Mother's Body than to such a certain Time is That a Child is not Perfect before that time and would be too big after that time and so big that it would not have room enough and therefore it strives and labours for liberty CHAP. V. Of Mischances or Miscarriages of Breeding Creatures WHen a Mare Doe Hind or the like Animal cast their Young or a Woman miscarries of her Child the Mischance proceeds either through the Irregularities of the Corporeal Motions or Parts of the Child or through some Irregularity of the Parts of the Mother or else of both Mother and Child If the Irregularities be of the Parts of the Child those Parts divide from the Mother through their Irregularity but if the Irregularity be in the Parts of the Mother then the Mother divides in some manner from the Child and if there be a distemper in both of them the Child and Mother divide from each other but such Mischances are at different times some sooner and some later As for false Conceptions they are occasioned through the Irregularities of Conception CHAP. VI. Of the Encrease of Growth and Strength of Mankind or such like Creatures THE reason most Animals especially Human Creatures are weak whilst they are Infants and that their Strength and Growth encreases by degrees is That a Child hath not so many Parts as when he is a Youth nor so many Parts when he is a Youth as when he is a Man for after the Child is parted from the Mother it is nourished by other Creatures as the Mother was and the Child by the Mother and according as the nourishing Parts be Regular or Irregular so is the Child Youth or Man weaker or stronger healthful or diseased and when the Figurative Motions move as I may say for expression sake curiously the Body is neatly shaped and is as we say beautiful But this is to be noted That 't is not Greatness or Bulk of Body makes a Body perfect for there are several sizes of every sort or kind of Creatures as also in every particular kind or sort and every several size may be as perfect one as the other But I mean the Number of Parts according to the proper size CHAP. VII Of the several Properties of the several Exterior Shapes of several sorts of Animals THE several Exterior Shapes of Creatures cause several Properties as Running Jumping

doth Nature commonly use Force But this is to be noted That there being a general Agreement amongst the particular Parts they are more forcible than when those Parts are divided into Factions and Parties so that in a general Irregular Commotion or Action all the Sensitive Parts of the Body of a man agree to move with an extraordinary force after an unusual manner provided it be not different from the property and nature of their Compositions that is not different from the Property and Nature of a Man But this is likewise to be noted That in a general Agreement man may have other Properties than when the whole Body is governed by Parts as it is usual when the Body is Regular and that every Part moves in his proper Sphere as I may say for example the Head Heart Lungs Stomack Liver and so the rest where each Part doth move in several sorts of Actions The like may also may be said of the Parts of the Leggs and Hands which are different sorts of Actions yet all move to the use and benefit of the whole Body but if the Corporeal motions in the Hands and so in the Leggs be irregular they will not help the rest of the Parts and so in short the same happens in all the Parts of the Body whereof some Parts may be Regular and others Irregular and sometimes all may be Irregular But to conclude this Chapter the Body may have unusual Force and Properties as when a man says He was carried and flung into a Ditch or some place distant and that he was pinch't and did see strange sights heard strange sounds smelt strange scents all which may very well be caused by the Irregular motions either by a general Irregularity or by some particular Irregularity and the truth is The particular Corporeal motions know not the power of the general until they unite by a general Agreement and sometimes there may be such Commotions in the Body of a Man as in a Common-wealth where many times there is a general Uproar and Confusion and none know the Cause or who began it But this is to be noted That if the Sensitive motions begin the Disorder then they cause the Rational to be so disordered as they can neither advise wisely or direct orderly or perswade effectually CHAP. XII Of Diseases produced by Conceit AS there are numerous sorts of Diseases so there are numerous manners or ways of the production of Diseases and those Diseases that are produced by Conceit are first occasioned by the Rational Corporeal Figurative Motions for though every several Conceit or Imagination is a several Rational Corporeal Figurative Motion yet every Conceit or Imagination doth not produce a Sensitive Effect but in those that do produce a Sensitive Effect it is the Conceit or Imagination of some sorts of Diseases but in most of those sorts that are dangerous to Life or causes Deformity The reason is That as all the Parts of Nature are Self-knowing so they are Self-loving Also Regular Societies beget an united Love by Regular Agreements which cause a Rational Fear of a disuniting or dissolving and that is the reason that upon the perception of such a Disease the Rational through some disorder figures that Disease and the Sensitive Corporeal Motions take a pattern from the Rational and so the Disease is produced The Tenth Part. CHAP. I. Of FEVERS SOME are of opinion That all or at least most Diseases are accompanied more or less with a Feverous Distemper If so then we may say A Fever is the Fundamental Disease but whether that Opinion is true or no I know not but I observe there are many sorts of Fevers and so there are of all other Diseases or Distempers for every alteration or difference of one and the same kind of Disease is a several sort As for Fevers I have observed there are Fevers in the Blood or Humours and not in any of the Vital Parts and those are ordinary Burning-Fevers and there are other sorts of Fevers that are in the Vital Parts and all other Parts of the Body and those are Malignant Fevers and there are some sorts of Fevers which are in the Radical Humours and those are Hectick Fevers and there are other sorts of Fevers that are in those Parts which we name the Spiritous Parts Also all Consumptions are accompanied with a Feverish Distemper but what the several Figurative Motions are of these several sorts of Fevers I cannot tell CHAP. II. Of the PLAGVE THere are Two visible sorts of the Disease named the Plague The weaker sort is that which produces Swellings or inflamed or corrupted Sores which are accompanied with a Fever The other sort is that which is named the Spotted Plague The First sort is sometimes Curable but the Second is Incurable at least no Remedy as yet hath been found The truth is the Spotted Plague is a Gangrene but is somewhat different from other sorts of Gangren's for this begins amongst the Vital Parts and by an Infection spreads to the Extream Parts and not only so but to Forrein Parts which makes not only a general Infection amongst all the several Parts of the Body but the Infection spreads it self to other Bodies And whereas other sorts of Gangren's begin outwardly and pierce inwardly the Plaguy Gangrene begins inwardly and pierces outwardly so as the difference as I said is That the ordinary sort of Gangren's infect the next adjoining Parts of the Body by moderate degrees whereas the Plaguy Gangrene infects not only the adjoining Parts of the same Body and that suddenly but infects Forreign Bodies Also the ordinary Gangren's may be stopped from their Infection by taking off the Parts infected or diseased But the Plaguy Gangrene can no ways be stopped because the Vital Parts cannot be separated from the rest of the Parts without a total ruine besides it pierces and spreads more suddenly than Remedies can be applyed But whether there are Applications of Preventions I know not for those Studies belong more to the Physicians than to a Natural Philosopher As for the Diseases we name the Purples and the Spotted Fever they are of the same Kind or Kindred although not of the same sort as Measles and the Small-Pox But this is to be noted That Infection is an act of Imitation for one Part cannot give another Part a Disease but only that some imitate the same sorts of Irregular Actions of other Parts of which some are near adjoining Imitators and some occasion a general Mode CHAP. III. Of the Small-Pox and Measles THE Small-Pox is somewhat like the Sore-Plague not only by being Infectious as both sorts of Plagues are but by being of a corrupt Nature as the Sore-Plague is only the Small-Pox is innumerable or very many small Sores whereas the Sore-Plague is but one or two great Sores Also the Small-Pox and Sore-Plague are alike in this That if they rise and break or if they fall not flat but remain until they be dry and