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A46234	An history of the wonderful things of nature set forth in ten severall classes wherein are contained I. The wonders of the heavens, II. Of the elements, III. Of meteors, IV. Of minerals, V. Of plants, VI. Of birds, VII. Of four-footed beasts, VIII. Of insects, and things wanting blood, IX. Of fishes, X. Of man / written by Johannes Jonstonus, and now rendred into English by a person of quality.; Thaumatographia naturalis. English	Jonstonus, Joannes, 1603-1675.; Libavius, Andreas, d. 1616.; Rowland, John, M.D.	1657 (1657)	Wing J1017; ESTC R1444	350,728	372

Ayre is contrary But examples will hardly make that good In the Navigations of the Portugalls some Marriners under the Equinoctiall had allmost breathed their last though it were in the middle of the Sea and a in a most open ayre And when we were present saith Scaliger Exercit 31. some Italians of Lipsia in the Stoves were like to swound and you may remember from Histories concerning the death of King Cocal Wheat in Syria laid close in Mows corrupts not but is spoild shut up in Barnes if the Windows be open it takes no harme Artic. 2. Of the Infection of the Ayre The Ayre doth not allwaies retain its own qualities it is infected somtimes with hurtful things They that go out of the Province of Peru into Chila thorow the Mountains meet with a deadly ayr and before the passengers perceive it their limbs fall from their bodies as Apples fall from Trees without any corruptions Liburius de Origine rerum In the Mount of Peru Pariacacca the ayr being singular brings them that go up in despair of their lives It causeth vomit so violent that the blood follows it afflicts them most that ascend from the Sea and not only Man but Beasts are exposed to the danger It is held to be the highest and most full of Snow in the World and in three or four houres a man may passe over it In the Mountains of Chilium a Boy sustained himself three dayes lying behind a multitude of Carcases so that at last he escaped safe from the Venomous blasts In a Book concerning the proper causes of the Elements it is written that a wind killed the people in Hadramot The same Authour reports that the same thing hapned in the time of King Philip of Macedo that in a certain way between two Mountaines at a set hour what horseman soever past he fell down ready to die The cause was not known The foot were in the same condition untill one Socrates by setting on high a steel Looking-Glasse beheld in both Mountains two Dragons casting their venomous breath one at the other and whatsoever this hit upon died Liban l. cit But the true cause of this mischief was a mineral ayr stuft with nitrous and other metallick Spirits Such a one is found in some Caves of Hungary and Sweden and we know that the Common Saltpeter is full of Spirits it is moved dangerously and forcibly if fire be put to it and cast into water it cools them much But that bodies corrupt not that we ascribe to cold but it may be attributed to the Spirits of cold by mixture such as are in some Thunder-bolts for the bodies of living Creatures killed by them do not easily corrupt and they last long unlesse some more powerfull cause coming drive it out Artic. 3. Of the Putrefaction of the Ayr. THe Pestilence comes from putrefaction of the ayr which in respect of divers constitutions is divers It is observed that there never was any at Locris or Croto Plin. l. 2.99 So in that part of Ethiopia which is by the black Sea In Mauritania it ruins all It lasted so long somtimes at Tholouse and in that Province that it continued seven years It perseveres so long and oftimes amongst the Northern people and rageth so cruelly that it depopulates whole Countries Scaliger exercit 32. It is observed in the Southern parts that it goes toward the Sun setting and scarse ever but in winter and lasts but three months at most In the year 1524 it so raged at Millan that new baked bread set into the ayr but one night was not only musty but was full of Worms those that were well died in 6 or 8 hours Cardan de rer varietat l. 8. c. 45. In the year 1500 it destroyed 30000 at London somtimes 300000 at Constantinople and as many in the Cities of the Vandalls all the autumne thorow In Petrarchs dayes it was so strong in Italy that of 1000 Men scarse ten remained Alsted in Chronolog But that in divers Countries it works so variously on some men and severall Creatures that proceeds from the force of the active causes and the disposition of the passive Forest. l. 6. observ de Febre If the active cause from the uncleanness of the Earth or water be not strong it only affects those beasts that are disposed for such a venome but if it be violent it ceazeth on Mankind yet so that of its own nature it would leave neither Countrey not Cittie nor Village nor Town free This layes hold on men in one place only But if the active force be from a superiour cause or be from the ayr corrupted below Mankind alone are endangered by it But if both a superiour and an inferiour cause concur then may all living Creatures be infected with the Plague yet it must be according to the disposition of their bodies Artic. 4. Of Attraction cooling and penetrating of the Ayr. NO man almost is ignorant but that the Ayr serves for the Life of man for the branches of arteria venosa drink in blood from the whole Lungs brought to them by the arteria venosa and it is made more pure in them The Ayr drawn in at the mouth is mingled with the blood and this mixture is carried to the left ventricle of the heart to be made spirituous blood Ludovi du Gardin Anatom c. 40. But being drawn in heaps it strangles Zwinger Physiol l. 2. c. 23. For if you compasse a burning Candle in the open ayr with wine from above you put it out because it cannot attract the Ayr prepared on each side by reason the wine is betwixt and it cannot from below draw the crude and unprepared Ayr. The desaphoretick force of it will appear in an Egg when that is new a pure spirit sweats through its shell whilest it rosts like unto dew What will this do in the body of man It will make that full of chinks if it be touched by a small heat otherwise it fills and penetrates all things It pierceth thorow a brick and there it inflates the concocted lime so that the quantity of it is increased till it break it We see that the Ayr entring by the pores of a baked brick doth swell a stone that was left there for want of diligence and is turned into Lime and so puts it up till the brick breaks Zwinger Phys. l. 2. c. 25. Farther it is concluded by certain observation That a wound is easie or hard to cure by reason of the Ayr. In Fenny grounds wounds of the head are soon cured but Ulcers of the Legs are long Hence it is that wounds of the head are light at Bonnonia and Paris but wounds of the Legs are deadly at Avignon and Rome There the Ayr is of a cold constitution and is an enemy to the brain here it is more hot whereby the humours being melted run more downwards Pa●ae●s l. 10. Chirurg c. 8. It may be cooled 9 wayes by frequent ventilating of it with a fan

medicament wherewith she anointed the Crown and Garment of Creon's daughter and burnt her by this art Of this in Persia is made a Physical oyl wherewith a dart anointed if it be shot slowly by a weak Bow for with swift flying it is extinguished wheresoever it sticks fast it burns and if any would put it out with water it burns the more and there is no means to put it out but by casting dust upon it It is thus made They season common oyl tainted with a certain herb By experience of these things and by continuance a certain kind is made by the Persians that congealing from a matter very natural is like to thick oyl and they call it Naptha a barbarous name Libav Tom. 3. singul l. 2. c. 7. Petroleum is more liquid than Naphtha In Italy and the Country of Matina it distills out of a Rock white and red of a strong smell In Sicilia it swims upon Fountains which they call Sicilian oyl and they burn it for Lamp oyl Pliny commends it against the Scabs of Cattle In the Country of Parma it runs forth white at the Village Meiana There are 3. Fountains there they gather it every or every other day thus They shake the water with brooms and foroing the oyl into a corner they take it with vessels Every day half a pound in the most hot and dry time of the year Baubin●n●● l. 1. Dioscor c. 85. Of the red at the Mount Zibethum in the Winter they collect 15. ounces in Summer 45 ounces In the Village Allense it is collected black with a fleece and a scoop The more water is drawn forth the more oyl they take sometimes 240 ounces It varies as the place doth The Italian burns not in its Fountain the Babylonian doth That is wonderfull which Mathiolus reports in l. 1. Dioscorid c. 82. Hercules of Ferrara ● Contrariis had in his possession a pit into which Petroleum distilled He hired a Plaisterer to stop it and because he could not do it without light he let down a Candle and the Petroleum took fire by it and threw forth the Plaisterer and brake down the sides of his pit Maltha is the straining of Bitumen mingled with mud that is like clay Pliny speaks of it l. ● c. 104. In the City Samosata saith he of Comagena there is a Lake that sends forth burning mud it sticks to any solid thing it toucheth and it followes when you draw from it In joyning of walls it serves for lime And the Babylonians used it to build their walls with Vitruvius l. 1. c. 5. CHAP. VIII Of Pissaphaltum and the wayes of Embalming dead Corps PIssaphaltum is Bitumen that Pitch is boyled with Bauhinus thinks it is Mummy of the Arabians But this is of two sorts naturall and artificiall that they embalmed with consisting of Myrrhe and Aloes But of the materials and the manner how to embalm we shall speak of them here as we come to fall upon them Diodorus Siculus and Herodotus l. 3. are large concerning it Three men perform this work The first is called a Grammarian who as the body lyes on the ground appoints how great the incision shall be about the small guts on the left side The other is the Cutter and he opens the side with an Aethiopian stone and then suddenly runs away for those that stand by detesting the fact pursue him with stones Then follow the Embalmers One of these drawes his incision through the inside of the body besides the Heart and Kidneys Another washeth it with Phoenician wine mingled with spices Lastly they anoint the body washed with Unguents of Cedar and other pretious things for 30. dayes Then it is delivered to the kindred that mourn for him the hairs of his eye-lids and eye-brows being preserved that he may seem to be asleep Herodotus speaks of three kinds of embalming The first was by pulling the brains through the Nostrills with a hook and the bowels taken forth with an Aethiopian stone they cleanse it with Phoenician wine and stuffe it with spices then they fill the fat pannicle with Myrrhe Cassia and sweet odours beaten without Frankincense and sew them in then they salt it for 70 dayes then they wash the Corps and wrap it in a linnen cloth and smeer it with Gum and lay it into the fashion of a Man made of wood The other is by salting it 70 dayes which drawes forth the inward filth The third way is the poor cleanse the belly with washing then for 70 dayes they dry it with salt and then they lay it up And not onely men have been so honoured but beasts also For some beasts were sacred to the Egyptians and when they were dead they covered them with a linnen cloth and spread them with salt striking their breasts and howling And to preserve the body the longer they anointed it with oyl of Ceder and kept it in hallowed places Also they put divers Idols into the brest of it Rondeletius found in the breast of one of them 20 leaves of ancient Paper written with Arabian letters Bauhin ad l. 1. Dioscor c. 85. Moreover the French commend Mummy so much that the Nobility will never be without it They say that Francis the 1. alwayes carried it in his purse fearing no accident if he had but a little of that by him CHAP. IX Of Camphir THe Moors write that Camphir is a Gum of a Tree that spreads out its boughes so far that 100 men may stand under the shadow of it They adde that the wood is white reedy and hath the Camphir in its spungy pith That 's uncertain but it is more certain that it is made of a kind of Bitumen thus The Indian Bitumen which springs from the native Camphir is boyled in a vessel with fire under it the thinner parts turn into a white colour and are carried to the cover which gives them the form we see when they are collected Merchants say there is native Camphir in the Indies It is so near to fire that once fired it will burn all out The flame that comes from it is bright and smells sweet Hanged in the ayr it evaporates by degrees the most thin parts are the cause Hence Apothecaries put it in a close vessel with Milium or Linseed and cover it Plater de l. f. p. 165. The smell of it hinders lust drank or smelled to and carried about it extinguisheth the seed And because it flyes to the head if it carry up with it cold humours it may cause sleep and make men hoary before they be old If to women sick of the Mother or fainting of heart pains a small cup of water be exhibited wherein so much Camphir is burned as a hazel-nut it presently helps Heurnius l. 2. Medic. The Neotericks hold it is cold and that it is mitigated by Ambergreece and that the drynesse may do no hurt oyl of Violets is poured upon it Garzias ab Horto saith he learned by experience that in

Table the spirit as was said is not hindred CHAP. XVI Of the Stones Schistos Galactites Gip Selenites Amiantos SChistos the more it shines like Iron the harder it is In Missena there are bred some knobs about the bigness of a Wallnut so hard that laid on an anvil they resist the strokes Agricola saw one of Missena that weighed 14 pounds Galactites at Hildesham is dug forth of a Sand-pit yearly it increaseth from a milky and lutinous juice so that some are found as big as ones head they say it makes Nurses full of milk that drink it in powder with water or sweet wine All Gin is hard In Saxony in the Land of Hildesham it is found like to Sugar The Inhabitants of Hercinium and Thuringum burn ●hat which is hard and grind that which is burnt and wetting it with water they use it for Lime what colour soever it be it growes white by burning Lysistratus of Sy●e Brother to Lysippus was the first that made a Mans picture with a face in Gyp and then poured Wax melted into that form trying thereby to make it better A wall was made of Gyp in pieces of Ash-colour at Northusia in Thuringia and the Port of Alg●●s a Town of Mauritania Caesariensis Selenites is a stone that is wont to be found at dark night when the Moon increaseth and it represents the Moon by shining in the night and it increaseth and diminisheth with it daily It not onely shews your face but it will represent the image of a thing behind your back It endures the Suns heat and Winters cold but it cannot away with rain for it will corrupt if great pieces of it be exposed to rain Amianthus is made of an appropriate juice the fire is so far from polluting its lustre that if it be cast in it will shine the brighter Once lighted it never goes out if oyl fail not Hence it is called Asbestos and because it is like to womens full hair and to mens hoarinesse it is called Bostrychitis and Corsoides We saw saith Pliny in banqueting places napkins made of it that when the filth was burnt out of them were cleansed more with fire than they would have been with water It was found at the siege of Athens that things anointed with it would not burn under L. Sylla This stone is kembed spun and wove though with difficulty because it is short and they make not onely Napkins but Table-cloaths of it and Towels Also of old time they made the Funeral Coats for Kings which were put upon them when they were put into great fires to be burnt that so the ashes of their bodies being parted from the wood-ashes might be laid up in their Sepulchres Pliny saith that this Linnen hath been found to equall the price of the best pearls but now it is sold at mean rates CHAP. XVII Of Stones that represent divers Forms THere are many stones representing divers forms We will mention some here namely Trochites Eutrochos Encrinos Enorchis and others Trochites is like the round head of a pillar the round part is smooth but each broad part hath as it were a kind of conveyance from whence are lines unto the extream part of the Circle Put into vinegar it raiseth bubbles and some are found that move from place to place Eutrochos is made of Trochites not yet separated Whose Trochites have eminent lines in that part where two of them meet there seems to be a girdle twisted round within it But the Trochitae are so joyned that the lines of the one enter into the furrowes of the other Encrinos is like Lillies for when one part with corners is parted from the other both shew like five Lillies Enorchis in the shards is like testicles In the Diocesse of Trevirs when Cements are digged up to repair buildings they meet with blackish stones that represent the secrets of women Diphyis by an intercurrent line represents the Genitals of both Sexes The D●ctyli of Ida in Crete of an iron colour are like a mans thumb There is also a stone found like a new Moon cloathed with Armour of a golden colour Haephestites represents the nature of a glasse and in the Sun it will fire dry matter At Salfelda in Thuringia there is a stone dug forth of a pit 20 fathom deep it is like a firm breast a foot and half long three hands breadth on the former part where the ribs end it is six fingers thick on the hinder part where the whirlbones are pierced through the middle but three the back-bone was empty where it should represent the marrow The outside of this stone was either black or some rare colour and the inside was like to the Lapis Arabicus It is supposed to be of great vertue Belemnites is like an Arrow with a large head and a sharp point There is in it a kind of rift it is clothed with golden coloured lines and it shines naturally like a Looking-glasse It smells like filed or burnt horn if it be rubb'd The Saxons name it by a name compounded of Ephialtes and an Arrow and they say if one drink it that it is good against suppressions and such hags in the night CHAP. XVIII Of the Eagle stone Enhydros the Touch-stone and the Pumex stone THe Eagle stone is found in divers Countries In the Country of Misenus then especially when great rains fall It smells like a Violet by the Mosse sticking upon it It hath in it little stones that being loose and shaken make a noise They commonly stick to Misenus some have earth with them as at Hildesham and some gold as those of Cyprus That which hath a little stone in its belly as the Greeks say if it be bound to the left arm of a woman great with Child through which an Artery runs from the Heart toward the ring-finger next to the little finger it will hold the Child in the womb that is ready to miscarry bound to the left thigh of one in labour it will so help her that she shall be delivered without pain but so soon as she is delivered it must be taken off that the Matrix follow not As it fell out with the Wife of a Citizen of Valencia Francis valeriola l. 1. observ 10. It helped her tyed on to be delivered but not taken away it was her death Enhydros hath water within it It is perfectly round it is white and smooth but it flotes when it is shaken There is liquour in it like as in an Egg. Also liquid Bitumen sometimes that smells sweet is found in stones shut up as in vessels The Touch-stone is that stone they prove gold by In Theophrastus's dayes they were onely found in Tmolus but at this day in the Rivers of Hildesham and Gosselar The parts of them that are found looking toward the Sun are the best for tryall the worst look toward the Earth those are the dryest but these are hindred by their moysture that they cannot take the colour of gold or silver

a Swan There was one brought to Middleburg in Zeland Anno. 1558. It was called an Indian Sheep Scalig. in exerc calls it Allo. Camelus CHAP. VII Of the Shee-Goat THe report is that Goats see as well by night as by day wherefore if those that are blind in the night eat a Goats Liver they will be cured They breathe out of their eares and nostrils if we will credit the Shepherds Phi●es gives the reason because when their nostrills are stopt they are not hurt Aelian When the Sun sets they lye backwards in the fields and so they do at other times but one with another A Goats horn laid under a sick mans head will bring him to rest scraped with honey it stops the belly flux burnt it will raise people in a Lethargy In Aegypt they are said to bring 5 young ones The cause is the water of Nilus that is drank by such as are Barren and want milk They shew the revolution of Syrius For as often as he riseth with the Sun they turn to the East and gaze upon it Plutarch In some part of Africa they sheer them and make Cabels of their haire Those of Lybia shew when rayn comes for so soon as they come forth of their stalls they run to feed and presently come back to their stalls again Ael●an Those of Giman●a do not drink in six moneths but turning toward the Sea they receive the vapours with open mouth and so they quench their thirst The Goat of Mambrey will endure a saddle and bridle and a rider he hath ears that hang down to the ground and horns twisted below his mouth Gesner l. 1. de quadrup The wild ones in L●bia are as great as Oxen so active that they will leap upon the highest Mountain tops and their limbs are so hard that if they fall they neither break their horns nor hurt their heads Aelian l. 14. c. 16. CHAP. VIII Of the Beaver and Colus THe Beaver is a most strong Creature to bite he will never let go his teeth that meet before he makes the bones crack Plin. His hinder feet are like a Gooses and his fore-feet like an Apes His fat tail is covered with a scaly skin and he useth it for a rudder when he pursues fish He comes forth of his holes in the night and biting off boughs of Trees about the Rivers he makes his houses with an upper loft and when the water riseth he lies there Albert. When they are cut asunder they are very delightsome to see for one lies on his back and hath the boughs between his leggs he holds them fast that they may not fall down and the others draw him by the tail to their Cottage Colus is a four-footed wild Beast amongst the Scythians and Sarmatians he is for greatnesse between a Stag and a Ram. He is white and very swift He drawes his drink by his nostrils into his head and holds it for some dayes so that he will feed well enough in Pastures where there is no water Strabo l. 7. Sometimes they will be 500 together but about Easter you may see 2000. In March they dig up an herb by the sent whereof they stirre up venery when that is spent for a day they lie as half dead but when they taste of it once more they are restored Gesn. CHAP. IX Of the Cat and C●ney THe Cats eyes are so good that she will see any thing in the dark Albert. The Cat by the Egyptian Sea is observed to change the pupils of his eye as the Sun doth alter They are long in the morning round at noon when the Sun sets they are obscured Gellius He commonly playes on his back that he may look round about Cut off his ears he will stay at home more for he cannot endure the drops that fall into his ears If a Cat 's hair fall into a mans mouth it will stick there Hence matter is heaped together that causes a Scr●fulous diseases Scaliger saith That in the Province of Malabar there are wild-Cats dwelling in Trees they leap as though they flew having no wings They have a membrane stretched out from their fore-feet to their hinder-feet when they rest they contract it up to their belly when they begin to fly by moving their feet and thighes they are carried and born up by stretching out and gathering in this membrane and it is wonderfull to see them run as if they ran in the Ayr. Conies are abundant in the Baleares where they do the Corn and the fields great harm Solin They breed every moneth nor are their young ones blind They presently take Buck again so soon as they have bred though the young ones do suck Plin. l. 10. The female hath not milk presently so soon as she hath brought forth before she hath been six hours with the Buck and they have eaten some Oats Gesner de quadrup CHAP. X. Of the Stag. IT is certain that there are white Stags and Does that have horns Apollonius saw them as he passed beyond Paraca a City of the Indies Philostrat l. 3. Sertorius led one about which he feigned to have received from Diana that he took counsel with that so he might keep his Souldiers in obedience Gellius Lewis King of France took one and when Anna of Britanny asked what that was he said That they were all such at first and that God took them from them for their pride Their blood hath no fibres as other creatures have and therefore it will never grow thick The Gall is not upon the Liver but upon the Intestines or in the Tail Hence it is so bitter that dogs will not eat it Plin. In their heads they have live Worms sometimes 20 and they are parted so great as Maggots in flesh They are said to breed under the hollow of their tongue near the Vertebra where the head joyns to the neck If you pierce the scull bone in such as are of years under the eye you shall see Wasps fly out bred of the superfluous humour if you will credit Hunters and then he can live no longer unlesse he eat a Serpent to renew himself Gesner writes That in the basis of the heart between the lap of the greater ventricle and the urinal vein there is a bone found He addes That it is reddish from the heart blood and melancholick some adde that from a dry vapour it is turned into a bony substance Some adde further that it is found at no other time than between the two Feasts of the blessed Virgin that is from the middle of August to the I●es of September The Doe breeds near the pathwayes for she thinks that she is safe from wild beasts by reason of men passing up and down So soon as she is delivered she first ea●e the gleaning hence it is that the herb Seseli is her medicament in bringing forth Arist. in hist. animal They swim over the Sea like Ships the Master Buck leads the rest follow They lean their heads one

Faustina tasting the Fencers blood had a son that was most cruell If any think that a habit cannot be got by one act he must know that is false of naturall powers for they that of old were once taken into Trophonius his den were wayward ever after and a woman that fell into a Wolfs hole grew hoary the same night Artic. 11. Of some Wonders concerning Generation I Adde these though I have said much that nothing might seem to be wanting Soranus Ephesinus Isag. 17. writes that women that are delivered in ships have still children not that they cannot speak but they will not cry when they are born Ausonius speaks of one thus Thy Father Geno●es thy Mother Graecian blood Born in a Ship at Sea can that Son ere be good Ligurians vain Greeks liars false Sea these three Thou dost resemble well they all do meet in thee Some are born with marks upon them Johannes Fredericus Elector of Saxony had a golden crosse on his back a sign of his future calamity Buchol in Chronol James King of Great Britany had a Lion a Sword and a Crown when he was born Camer hor. subcis Cent. 3. c. 42. The Kings of the Corzani have the sign of a black Eagle on their shoulders Marcus Venetus It is a report that the Princes of Austria others do not write so are born with a golden crosse that is that they have white hairs drawn out in the form of a crosse Foelix Faber histor Suev l. 1. c. 15. Some men procreate after 80 years For Masanissa begot 6. Children after that age and a Noble-man of Francony had a son and a daughter after that time Camerar Women have born children after 50 years And some have born children being children themselves Albertus Magn. l. 4. sentent writes that one was with child at 9 years old and was delivered at ten And Pliny l. 7. c. 2. saith that some have born children at 7. years old and that but once and they lived not above 40 years and they were held to be very old Rhodig Antiqu. l. 14. c. 18. saith that a boy of ten years old got a child Some have been delivered in the second third or fourth month after their first child of another living child Nancelius l. 8. Analog writes of one that was brought to bed twice in two months Others could not be delivered but by a Chirurgions opening their wombs Schenkius reports that one woman was cut open four times for four severall children Pliny writes that Proculus Caesar got 100 Maids with child in 15 dayes Pliny l. 7. c. 32. In Picenum a child was born with 6 teeth Bonfin Decad. 3. l. 8. In Prussia the son of the King of Bythinia had but one solid bone in place of teeth Solin c. 3. Some are born that can sometimes move their ears Zoroaster was born laughing So much for this we shall proceed to other matters CHAP. VI. Of Vitall action Article 1. Of the Heart SOme have wanted a Heart if we credit Avicenna and if his writings be not corrupted Rhodig l. 4. c. 6. When Caesar was Dictator the same day he went in his purple garment the Priest found it twice wanting in the bowels Plin. l. 11. c. 37. Some have been found with two hearts as the Partridges in Paphlagonia some have wanted the left ventricle and the midriff in some hath been like a gristle Columb l. 15. Anatom And Gemma found a bone in it in two mens bodies l. 2. Cyclog And Wier l. ● de praestig Daemon c. 16. found stones as big as pease Aristomanes Messenius who killed 300 Lacedemonians and was sometimes taken and sometimes escaped had a hairy heart Valer. Max. l. 1. c. 8. The same thing Beniventus reports of a certain thief c. 33. de abditis The 〈…〉 or purse wherein the heart lies may be wanting Columbus l. 15. Anatom observed a young man that wanted it and he was troubled with swoonding fits A wound may be in the heart that is not mortall for the Son of Maryllus the writer of obscene matters had the pericardium cut that one might see his heart yet he did not die Galen l. 7. administr Anatom A history of Groning tells the same almost that happened upon a wound in the Heart because but few know it I shall set it down A wonderfull Accident of a wound in the Heart Nicol. Malerius wisheth happinesse to the Reader IT hath been thought hitherto that a man could not live a moment almost if his Heart were wounded Reason and Experience prove it For since our life depends upon the safety of the spirits the shop and making whereof is in the Heart when the heart is wounded it is necessary that the generation of the spirits cease Yet I thought good to set down here a very notable History a history of a Souldier that lived 15 dayes after he was wounded in the heart none of the old or new Physitians mention any such thing Andreas Hasevanger who was of the Lifeguard of the most illustrious Count William of Nassaw Governour of Frisia Groning and Omland c. received a wound in his brest by his fellow-Souldier Anno 1607 on the 22 of August about the Evening he died September the 8th at one of the clock after Sun-rising which was the 16 day after he received the wound The body of the dead Souldier by command of the Generall of the Army was opened to search for the wound by me and two Chirurgions Caspar and Lucas Hultenus a noble valiant man Bernard Hoornkens looking on and some other Souldiers that were of note When we had opened the cavity of his breast and a great deal of very stinking matter was run forth we found and wondred that the wound had entred the right cavity of his heart and all that part of his heart was almost all consumed the left part being entire wherein is contain'd the chief shop of the vitall spirits By the benefit of this Andreas lived to the sixteenth day and left some should not believe this the most noble and worthy men signed it with their names subscribed to confirm it c. Article 2. Of the Pulse THe Pulse is the motion of the heart and arteries consisting of a systole and diastole Platerus thinks it is felt on the left side by reason of the great Artery Yet Cardan saith some have perceived it onely on the right side There is great inequality in it from divers accidents that happen whence comes the diversity of pulses amongst Physitians No man can deny but that sometimes it may be intercepted and not felt when the Arteries lye deep Balduinus Ronseus The Player of Andreas Count of Gorca had naturally all kind of inequalities of pulse But Johannes Brosovius of the Order of the Crosse of the blessed Virgin had it with intermission all the time he lived Physitians try the motion of the heart in living creatures Coiterus observed it in a Cat. Then cutting the Pericardium he