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A11816	Naturall philosophy: or A description of the vvorld, and of the severall creatures therein contained viz. of angels, of mankinde, of the heavens, the starres, the planets, the foure elements, with their order, nature and government: as also of minerals, mettals, plants, and precious stones; with their colours, formes, and vertues. By Daniel Widdovves.; Rerum naturalium doctrina methodica. English. Abridgments	Scribonius, Wilhelm Adolf, fl. 1576-1583.; Widdowes, Daniel.; Scribonius, Wilhelm Adolf, fl. 1576-1583. Rerum physicarum juxta leges logicas methodica explicatio. aut; Woodhouse, John.	1631 (1631)	STC 22112; ESTC S117038	44,731	82

which according to the diverse fashioning of abounding matter are found diverse sorts of solid bodyes as haires and such other like Of partes of the body which appertaine to the Of the parts of the body making up of the whole body some are containing and some contained The contained for their fluent nature are sustained by helpe of others Such are humours and spirits Humors are moyst partes begot of the first mixture of nourishment in the liver These are in the seede of creatures and are called the beginning of things endued with bloud Any of these if they fayle of their proper nature are not fit to be in the bodie but are become unnaturall Humours are of the first the second sort The first Humors are hot or colde and moyst and dry Bloud is hot and Blood moyst and it is a thin red humour and sweete With this the other partes be chiefly nourished amongst whom this is the chiefe The faults of this is in substance as putrifaction or mixture of vicious humors or in qualitie as too thicke or too thin or is affected with some other badnesse The humour that is hot and dry is choller this is a thinne yellow pale and bitter humour His use is to helpe the expelling facultie and chiefly in the Guts Gall besides nature through adustion is yellow like an egges yolke in the stomacke it is like rustic brasse The colde and moyst is phlegme which is a tough Phlegme slimie and whitish humour and tastlesse If this have a fuller concoction it is turned into bloud His use is to moysten the joynts When it declineth from his proper nature it is salt or tart according to his mixture The colde and dry humour is blacke choller This is a thicke blackish tart bitter humour It serveth to strengthen the stomacke that it may more easily retaine and receive meate When it declineth from his proper nature by immoderate burning it hath divers kindes Humors of the second sort are begotten of the first being wrought with concoction they are like dew or glew Dew is a humor contained in the hollownesse of the members and joyned to their substance like dew with which they are nourished Glew is a humour immoderately congealed and being Glew firmely fastned to the members beginneth to bee changed unto their substance of which change it is called Cambium and carniformis like the flesh Now follow the spirits which are a fluent part of Spirits the body most thin and begotten of the bloud of the heart The spirits are the chiefe instrument and as it were the Chariot of the soules faculties for with most speedie and swift motion it carrieth them over all the body Spirits having roote in the heart be either absolute Vitall What they are or rude and to be finished in other parts Vitall spirits be absolute in the heart and are of a firie nature and from the heart by arteries are spred in the bodie by whose communication all parts doe live Spirits to be perfected in other parts bee Animall Animall which from the heart be carried into the braine and What they are there made subtile by nerves flowing unto all the other parts and this is the Chariot of functions or faculties of all living Creatures Parts containing are more solid which are sustained by themselves all these either are as a stay or covering The stay to other parts is either bone or gristle Bone is the hardest and dryest part and stay to all the bodie Bones are knit together by ligaments which are like hard and thicke threeds being as bandes to the bones of the bodie Gristles are somewhat softer than the bones and Gristles sustaine all other partes The covering of the other What they are parts is the skin which is tender without bloud and covereth the whole body The membrane is a tender skin covering some parts There is yet in these parts a common excrement of Sweat concoction which is sweat and is a moystnesse of the What it is veynes expelled by secret pores of this is to be seene a diverse colour according to the die of the moystnesse or matter thereof the usuall is watrish through the white substance of the channels through which it runneth But if the pores be large and open that without delay and long change it may slide through them especially if for some affection of minde or disease it become thinner then is it speedily expelled and tainted with some other colour c. Therefore from the colour of sweate the bodyes constitution may be knowne Colde sweate is worse to bee liked than hot but either is bad if they be unequall Also the containing parts afore-named are animall or vitall and each of these are more or lesse principall Animall parts are in which the animall parts are most exercised as sence and motion together or alone The chiefe member of motion and sence is the braine contained in the head whose substance being hurt it is in danger to lose both sence and motion The Braine is softer than the other parts white Braine what it is and covered with a double skinne closely The skinne of the brayne is either called Pia or Dura mater The scalpe is a thicke bone covering the whole head and hath up on it a skin with hayres The scalpe is distinguished with certaine seames in certaine parts which are true or fayned c. The excrements of the braine are either thicke or Excrements of the braine thin The thin are teares bursting from the braine by the angles of the eyes The greater the flesh of those angles be so much more plentifull be teares chiefly if the complexion bee colde and moyst as of women Teares be caused by heate which openeth or colde which presseth the flesh and causeth teares The thicker excrements which are expelled from the brayne eyther are by the eares or nose In the eares is a moyst excrement of the brayne gathering Of the eares and rotting in their hollownesse That of the nose is a thicker excrement than that of Of the nose the braine which although it be like flegme yet it is altogether of another nature The pithe of the backe bone is neare to the nature of the braines excrement save that it is harder and something hotter The backe is bonie round and in his length hath twentie foure joynts The Nerves are lesse principall parts of sence and motion which if they be out of order the parts in which these be become unfit to move Nerves or sinewes are thin parts round c. white much like to thicke threeds Some are softer some harder The softer are of more use of which are six paire by two and two from the braine arriving to other parts First to the eyes Secondly To moove the eyes Thirdly to the tongue and taste Fourthly to the pallet and skin of the mouth Fiftly to the hearing The sixt to the mouth of the stomacke

by which sence and motion descend Hard Nerves have a duller facultie and lesse serving to the senses of which are thirtie paire which by couples come from the marrow of the backe bone by whose conduct the backe easily executeth his faculties Of the parts to breath The principall parts of breathing are in the brest The breathing parts being either Lightes or Heart wherefore these being touched breathing is immediately hurt and such wounds be deadly The Longes are a spongious and thin part soft and like foame of congealed bloud declining something to the right side Breath is brought unto the Lightes by a rough Artery knit to the roote of the tongue This Arterie is a long channell made of many gristle rings on a row which endeth in the Lights If any thing fall into the hollownesse of this the breath is hindred and there is danger to be choaked The Heart is a fleshie part solid and well compacted The heart what it is almost like a Pyramis it hath two ventricles the right and the left The right by an arteriall veine communicateth bloud to the Lights This veine is so called of a proper substance and office From the left ventricle of the Heart ariseth Aorta the roote of all the Arteries These are hollow vessells in the Heart begotte and are thicke distributing spirits throughout the whole bodie The excrements of the principall parts of breathing Spittle what it is be spittle and cough Spittle is a windie foame cast out of the brest and his parts If it be avoyded with noyse it is called coughing Superfluitie of this matter is judged by the colour for red spittle is of bloud yellow of choler white of flegme and blacke of melancholy The lesse principall parts of breathing are the Midriffe what it is midriffe and the mediastin The midriffe is a thinne skin like perchment fastened overthwart to the sides and includeth the parts of the brest The mediastin is a double skinne in length dividing the brest into two sides The vitall parts are those which serve to the preservation of the spirits of living creatures and are appoynted to nourishment or generation The principall parts for the perfection of nourishment be the stomacke and the Liver The Stomacke is a part like perchment sticking to Stomacke what it is the throat round but long and as it were twisted with many small threeds and it is the kitchin of nourishment to be concocted The throat is a channell full of nerves carrying Throat what it is meate from the mouth to the stomacke The Fibres are as it were very small threeds by benefit whereof the stomacke enjoyeth her facultie These if they bee straight and right draw nourishment unto them if crooked they are oblique or transverse those retaine nourishment received these expell excrements The casting forth of excrements by the upper parts Vomiting of the stomacke is called vomit which expelleth that which aboundeth in the stomacke yet such excrement is many times sent backe from other parts into the stomacke The Liver lyeth upon the stomacke on the The Liver right side enclosing it with his laps and is a fleshy part of nourishment red like congealed bloud placed next unto the Midriffe In the Liver is made the second concoction namely of nourishment in the belly turned into a red masse from the Liver ariseth a hollow veine the roote of all other veynes These are hollow parts round and guide the bloud unto all the body the substance of these is thinner by sixe folde than the skin of the Arteries whose substance ought to be thicker for the vehement motion of the spirits That the office of the Liver may be made perfect by meanes of veynes other particles are allotted thereunto which receive the abounding humors choller c. The Gall receiveth yellow choller and the Milt blacke The bladder of the Gall is a slimie part in the hollow part of the Liver of the figure of a Peare the Milt is a long part like a shooe-sole on the left side over against the Liver but somewhat lower Water from the Liver is received by the reines and bladder The substance of the reines is thicke and solid flesh they sticke on both sides about the loynes and have emulgent veynes arising from the hollow veine From the trench of the veynes hang downeward white narrow veynes guiding water from the reines unto the bladder The bladder is a slimie part round and containing urine in it Vrine is a whey separated from bloud in the reines Vrine and more fully purged in the bladder This in the bodie of a temperate man and sound is of a meane substance and in quantitie answereth the drinke received in the chollerike it is yellow or red His sediment is white smooth and equall without bubbles c. A sound body is knowne by voyding vrine which How to discerne a sound body by it in the morning is white and after something red For the one signifieth that it doth and the other that it hath concocted Vrine is of a meane substance betwixt thin and thicke Thin vrine argueth the weakenesse of the body and coldnesse predominant and rawnesse of the parts of concoction And this either remaineth the same or becommeth troubled That sheweth concoction is not yet begunne and therefore raw or This that it is but new begunne Thicke vrine like that of beasts noteth excesse of matter or concoction Vrine doth varie according to age or complexion or according to dyet and affections of the minde For the vrine of Infants for the most part is white and milkie the vrine of boyes is thicker and not so white the vrine of young men is like golde and of olde men white and thin Touching complexions the chollerick have Orange Complexions colour Phlegmatike pale and thicke the Sanguine red and meane The melancholike wan and thin Dyet changeth vrine as Saffron or Cassia caussth Orange Dyet colour Vrine of those that fast long is yellow of those that eate too much it is white The lesse principall parts of concoction are the Guts gutts and mesenterion The gutts are long round hollow and are knit to the lower part of the stomacke These are thicke or thin The thinner are the three uppermost as Duodenum Iejunum and Ileos Duodenum is the uppermost gut twelue fingers long Their severall kinds The Iejunum beginneth where the Duodenum beginneth to turne unto rundells Ileos is a thin gut having inwrapped windings The thicker guts of a thicker skin are Coecum Colon and Rectum The blinde gut is thicke large and short having but one mouth The Colon hath many turnings The right goeth straight to the Tuell The excrement of the belly if it be but softly compact and made at the appointed time and somewhat yellow and not much smelling argueth good concoction If it be red it argueth that much colour floweth in the stomacke if it be white it sheweth cruditie and want of choller Blew sheweth mortification and cold of the inward parts Too thicke or thin egestion argueth bad concoction if fattish or slimie it noteth a consumption Above all in these things it must bee observed what meate hath lately beene received The guts are wrapped about with the Mesenterion How placed in the body which is a skin in the end full of kernells and woven with many thin veines which meeting together make a multiplying of Vena porta in the hollow of the Liver Thus of the common parts of all creatures their kindes follow All Creatures are reasonable or unreasonable They The distinction of living creatures and their severall kinds which want reason are Beasts who live on Land or in Water Those which live on the earth moove on the earth or in the ayre Beasts moving on the earth are fourefooted or creeping Fourefooted Beasts bring forth young shaped as themselves or eggs Those that bring forth living Creatures some have solide feete and some cloven feete They have solide feete who want hornes as Horses Mules and Asses c. The cloven footed Beastes for the most part have hornes as the Oxe Goate Hart c. Land Beasts bringing forth eggs are the Crocodiles and some which have a shell Frogges Liserts and some Serpents have foure feete Creatures creeping on the earth are all kinde of Wormes Ants Earwigs to whom may bee added Spiders Lice Gnatts and such other Fowles are hotter and dryer than Creatures living onely on the land and all of them bring forth egges and have but two feete They have either whole feete or clawes Geese Duckes Swannes have whole feete to rowe in the water Other Birds for the most part have clawes as Doves Swallowes Hennes Sparrowes c. The insect of Fowles are Waspes Bees Hornetts Gnatts Flies These Creatures are they which live upon the earth those that live in the water are Fishes or of that kinde as the Sea-Horse the Sea-Dog c. Fishes many of them are like to Creatures living on the earth in their parts but they have not so much bloud therefore they are colder and moyster Fishes are soft or hard the soft have scales or onely a skin Of the scalie be the Carpe the Pearch Of the slimie be Eeles The harder fishes have plates as the Crabbe the Lobster c. Or shells as Oysters Mussells c. FJNJS

a dry substance and hot An Onion all night layd in cold water and drunke killeth wormes and being beaten with salt it draweth away warts by the rootes his juyce put in the eare cureth deafenesse The Leeke groweth almost like Onions and is of Leekes the same qualitie it doth dissolve swellings and congealed The nature of it bloud being applyed like a Plaster Parsley hath leaves like Cicuta it is hot and dry in Parsley the third degree it peirceth and dissolueth provoking The nature of it urine the seede is more effectuall than the herbe It dissolveth the stone it consumeth ill moysture and sores of the head These hearbes following are used for Garlands or physicke some of them smelling sweetly The Violet hath leaves lesser and thinner than Ivie Violet but more blacke his stalke commeth from the midst of his roote beareth a purple flower and a seed full of graynes It springeth in woods and shadowie The nature of it places wilde but not sweete it is cold in the first and moyst in the second and cooleth hot diseases and inflammations Of it there be divers kindes and colours as the Pancey or Harts-ease The Daisie hath leaves somewhat round above and Daysie The nature of it small below and the roote in the ground wheeling about it is cold in the second degree The Ielly-flower hath sharpe leaves growing like Ielly-Flower grasse with flowers of sundry colours it hath an attractive The nature of it force and the juyce healeth wounds in the head Maioram hath almost a woodden stalke with many Maioram The nature of it rough round leaves and it smelleth sweetly It is hot and dry in the fourth degree it is of thin parts and of a disgesting facultie It healeth disgesteth and prouoketh vrine Rosemary is hot and dry in the third degree and Rosemary smelleth like Frankincense It mollifieth disgesteth The nature of it and dryeth Spicknard is hot in the first and dry in the second degree Spicknard The nature of it Lavender heateth and dryeth in the second degree Lavender White Daffodill is hot and dry It is of diverse Daffodill kindes Rose Campion is an hearbe with an Ash coloured Rose Campion stalke as it were cotton long leaved and white bearing purple flowers growing up like the Prim-rose The nature of it his seede is hot and dry almost in the second degree it prevaileth against the stinging of Scorpions Herbes used in medicine are Aromatike or ordinary Aromaticke doe comfort and strengthen the spirits Thence they take their name Saffron is hot in the second and dry in the first degree Saffron it a little bindeth and concocteth it may with good keeping be preserved five yeares The nature of it It comforteth the heart and stomacke it maketh pure bloud and provoketh vrine it scowreth the brest it is deadly if it be taken too much Ginger waxeth greene twise or thrise in the yeare Ginger it heateth in the third and is moyst in the first it is of The nature of it more subtile parts than Pepper Zadury or Wormeseede heateth and dryeth in the Wormeseede second degree it is that we doe call the roote of China like Ginger but not so biting The nature of it Gallingall is the roote of a plant growing in Memphis Gallingall and Syria it groweth like the flouredeluce but with prickes and is broader and thicker from the The nature of it roote It is hot and dry in the third degree as is the roote of Cyprus Calamus Aromaticus is an hearbe of India growing Calamus Aromaticus The nature of it like reeds or figs. It is hot and dry in the second degree and a little binding Acorus is a plant growing with leaves like Iris but A corus The nature of it smaller or like segges the roote is white sweetly smelling It is hot and dry in the second degree There be sexes of hearbes as of other living things some of which more helpe namely the Male or Female according to their kindes CHAP. VIII Of humane Creatures MAn is a creature that hath reason as he is most What man it and the manner of his generation excellent so hath he a more perfect shape in body than others His members are formed and beginne to appeare distinctly about the six and twentieth day And they are all perfect in Males at thirty dayes and in Females at 36. dayes About this time the Childe beginneth to live and to feele The Male is moved in the third Month but the Female in the fourth Month then it is nourished and increased till the ninth Month and after the ninth Month when it is growne great it is brought forth This is the forming and procreating of Man for whose sake all other creatures were made A feeling soule is a power apprehending and What a feeling soule is perceiving things placed without the body of living creatures This facultie is exercised by the sences and by motion accompanying the sences The sences are outward or inward The outward onely Sences outward perceiving things present And every one of these have their proper subject and the most have a middle instrument of all which if there bee a certaine mutuall consent and just proportion the sences become of more force but if any one of them have too excellent an object or his instrument bee corrupt they are dull and unfit to be used This is the cause of blindnesse to those that walke in snow and of deafenesse unto Smithes c. Furthermore sences are common to the whole body or proper to some part thereof The Touching sence in the whole body is touching This is a sence by meanes of flesh full of sinewes apprehending tactill qualities His instrument is flesh full of sinewes or rather a nerve like a hayre dispersed throughout the whole body In man for the abundance of nerves is this sence most quicke his meanes is flesh and skin for though the skinne be removed yet a man feeleth hurt Sences of certaine parts are more or lesse noble The nobler are Seeing and Hearing whose meanes are the water Geeing and ayre Sight by the eye perceiveth bright and coloured things The subject thereof is light c. Greene a most temperate colour is most acceptable to the sight His instrument is the nerve Opticke which from the braine commeth to the eyes Hearing is a sence perceiving soundes his instrument Hearing is a little skin in the lowest winding or turning of the eare dry and full of holes the skin is double one below which covereth a little bone like an Anvile another above containing a little bone as it were a small Mallet The upper striken by the soundes striketh the lower and stirreth up the spirits in the nerves to perceive the sound The more un-noble sences are Tasting and Smelling Tasting Tasting apprehendeth tastes His instrument is a

nerve stretched like a Net upon the flesh of the tong which is full of little pores His meanes is a temperate salt humour which if it doe exceed the just quantitie it doth not exactly perceive tastes but if it be altogether consumed no tastes are perceived Smelling judgeth qualities fit for smell his instrument Smelling is the entrance into the first ventricle covered with a small skin the dryer it is the quicker of smell as in Dogs and Vultures but man for the moystnosse of his braine hath but a dull smell Now follow the inward sences which beside things Sences inward presently offered doe know formes of many absent things By these the creature doth not onely perceive but also understandeth that which hee doth perceive These have their seate in the braine They are either conceiving or preserving Conceiving exerciseth his Conceiving facultie by discerning or more fully judging it is called Common sence and the other is Phantasie Common sence more fully distinguisheth sensible things his instrument is the former ventricle of the braine made by drynesse sit to receive Phantasie is an inward sence more diligently examining the forms of things This is the thought and judgement of creatures his place is the middle part of the braine being through drynesse apt to retaine The preserving sence is Memory which according Preserving to the constitution of the braine is better or worse It is weaker in a moyst braine than in the dry braine His instrument is the hinder part of the braine Memorie calling backe images preserved in former time is called Remembrance but this is not without the use of reason and therefore is onely attributed to man The wittie excell in remembrance the dull in memorie Sleepe is the resting of the feeling facultie his cause Sleepe how caused is a cooling of the brayne by a pleasant abounding vapour breathing forth of the stomacke and ascending to the braine When that vapour is concoct and turned Waking how caused into spirits the heate returneth and the sences recovering their former function cause waking There be certaine appointed courses for watch and sleepe lost creatures languish with overmuch motion Affections of sleepe are Dreames Night-mare and Dreames Extasie c. A dreame is an inward act of the minde the bodie What they be sleeping and the quieter that sleepe is the easier bee dreames but if sleepe bee unquiet then the minde is troubled Varietie of dreames is according to the divers constitution Their variety of the body The cleare and pleasant dreames are when the spirits of the braine which the soule useth to imagine with are most pure and thin as towardes morning when concoction is perfected But troublesome dreames are when the spirits bee thicke and unpure All naturall dreames are by images either before proffered to memorie or conceived by temperature alone or by some influence from the starres as some thinke From dreames many things may be collected touching the constitution of the body The Night-mare is a seeming of being choked or The night-mare strangled by one leaping upon him feare following this compression the voyce is taken away This affection How occasioned commeth when the vitall spirits in the braine are darkened by vapours ascending from melancholy and phlegme insomuch that that facultie being oppressed some heavie thing seemeth to bee layd upon us Therefore this disease is familiar to those who through age or sexe are much inclined unto these humours An Extasie or traunce is a vehement imagination A trance of the departure for a time of the soule from the bodie A deepe sleepe lasting some dayes enseweth for What it is the foule giving over it selfe to cogitation ceaseth to serve the body Wherefore men wanting motion and sence seeme to be dead And with what humours the braine shall be compassed such phansies doth it conceive although sometime spirits working on such phatasies imprint other things Now followeth Motion which accompanieth sence and is caused either by appetite or change of place for we desiring things perceived in sence cannot attaine unto them withour moving our body to that thing Appetite What it is Appetite is a facultie desiring such things as are objects to our sense It chiefly followeth touching or thinking Delight followeth touching Delight is a desire of an agreeing Object Griefe is his contrary which is a turning from the hurtfull object or from that we count unpleasant Appetites following cogitation are all the motions of the heart which be called affections and are either good or bad The good cherish and preserve the nature of our sensitive facultie as mirth love hope which come of heate when the heart dilating it selfe desireth to enjoy the thing with which it is delighted Motion is a facultie of living creatures stirring a bodie Motion what it is entised by appetite from one place to another It is either of the whole body or of partes Of the whole body as by going c. Of partes as breathing which is made either by enlarging of the parts which serve for the taking in of the ayre or by the closing of them for the expelling of corrupt ayre Now followeth to intreat Of the bodies of living Of the bodies of living creatures What the matter of the body is creatures The matter of the body in which the foresaid faculties be is the seede of both sexes Seede is most pure bloud perfectly concocted in the testicles and it is gathered from the whole bodie For the testicles lacking nourishment draw bloud from the hollow veyne and change it Conception is the action of the wombe by which Conception what it is the power is stirred up to execute his inbred gift Then that power being stirred up doth diversly distract the matter separating his divers partes and thus all parts alike get together their shape Likewise all of them together are adorned with the faculties of the vegetative or sensitive soule Amongst the naturall faculties of the partes of the body if there be putrifaction a fault of the concocting facultie there is made a certaine generation of matter This is naturall or extraordinary Naturall is by an inbred heate not altogether subdued Naturall but slackly exercising force through disposition of the mattter Such is to be seene in inflamations botches and impostumes For in these nature so farre as it can laboureth to bring this his subject matter to the best forme Therefore such suppuration is wont to argue a certaine strength of nature wherefore often with convenient helpes it is carefully encreased In this kinde especially is praysed white thicke smooth equall and least smelling matter Extraordinary mattering is when nature altogether Extraordinary subdued the humors or parts themselves are made full of corrupt matter through store of rottennesse But nature or the concocting facultie is overcome either through proper weaknesse or by corrupt matter this is observed in all rotten malignant and stinking botches in