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A11815	Naturall philosophy, or, A description of the world, namely, of angels, of man, of the heauens, of the ayre, of the earth, of the water and of the creatures in the whole world.; Rerum naturalium doctrina methodica. English	Scribonius, Wilhelm Adolf, fl. 1576-1583.; Widdowes, Daniel.; Wydowes, I.	1621 (1621)	STC 22111; ESTC S971	34,963	68

bloud Any of these if they fayle of their proper nature are not fit to be in the bodie but are become vnnaturall Humours are of the first and second sort The first are hot or colde and moyst and dry Bloud is hot and 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 vse is to helpe the expelling facultie and chiefly in the Guts Gall besides nature through adustion is yellow like an egge yolke in the stomacke it is like rustie brasse The colde and moyst is phlegme which is a tough slimie and whitish humour and tastles If this haue a fuller concoction it is turned into bloud His vse is to moysten the ioynts 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 serueth to strengthen the stomacke that it may more easily retaine and receiue meate When it declineth from his proper nature by immoderate burning it hath diuers kindes Humours 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 hollownes of the members and ioyned to their substance like dew with which they are nourished Glew is a humour immoderately congealed and being firmely fastned to the members beginneth to bee changed vnto their substance of which change it is called Cambium and carni fornis like the flesh Now follow the spirits which are a fluent part of the bodie 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 ouer all the bodie Spirits hauing roote in the heart be either absolute or rude and to be finished in other partes 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 partes doe liue Spirits to be perfected in other parts bee Animall which from the heart be carryed into the braine and there made subtell by nerues flowing vnto all the other parts and this is the Chariot of functions or faculties of all liuing Creatures Parts containing are more solid which are sustained by themselues all these either are as a stay or couering The stay to other parts is eyther 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 then the bones and sustaine all other partes The couering of the other parts is the skin which is tender without bloud and couereth the whole bodie The membrane is tender skin couering some parts There is yet in these parts a common excrement of concoction which is sweat and is a moystnesse of the veynes expelled by secret pores of this is to be seene a diuerse coullour according to the die of the moystnesse or matter thereof the vsuall 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 all action of minde or disease it become thinner then is it speedily expelled and tainted with some other coullour c. Therefore from the coullour of sweate the bodies constitution may be knowne Colde sweate is worse to be liked then hot but either is bad if they be vnequall 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 danger to loose both sence and motion The Braine is softer then the other partes white and couered with a double skinne closely The skin of the braine is eyther called Pia or Dura mater The scalpe is a thicke bone couering the whole head and hath vpon it a skin with hayres The scalpe is distinguished with certaine seames in certaine partes which are true or fayned c. The excrements of the braine are eyther thicke or 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 be 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 and rotting in their hollownesse That of the nose is a thicker excrement then that of the briane 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 braynes excrement saue that it is harder and something hotter The backe is bonie round and in his length hath twentie foure ioynts The Nerves are lesse principall partes of sence and motion which if they be out of order the partes in which these be become vnfit to moue Nerves or sinewes are thin partes round c. white much like to thicke threeds Some are softer some harder The softer are of more vse of which are six paire by two and two from the brayne arriuing to other parts First to the eyes Secondly To mooue 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 stomack by which sense and motion descend Hard Nerves haue a duller facultie and lesse seruing 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 partes to breath The principall parts of breathing are in the brest being eyther 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 vnto the Lightes by a rough Arterie 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 Lightes If any thing fall into the hollownesse of this the breath is hindred and there is

NATVRALL PHILOSOPHY OR A DESCRIPTION OF THE WORLD NAMEly Of Angels of Man of the Heauens of the Ayre of the Earth of the Water and of the Creatures in the whole World 2. KING 4.34 He spake of Trees from the Cedar tree that is in Lebanon euen to the Rosemary that springeth out of the wall He spake also of Beasts and of Fowle and of creeping things and of Fishes These little leaues the Worlds huge load sustaine And what besides the great World can containe LONDON Printed by I. D. for Iohn Bellamie and are to be sould at the South Entrance of the Royal Exchange 1621 TO THE HONORABLE Sir WILLIAM PARSONS Knight Barronet his Ma ties Survayor Generall Commissioner in the Court of Wards and one of his Ma ties most Honorable Priuie Counsell of Ireland c. HONORABLE Sir I doe present to your view a small frame of the world and of the Creatures therein contained drawne with the Pensilles of iudicious Scribon and of D. W. A worke in nature not vnlike to our Survayes in Ireland that represent most liuely vast Countries within a small Map I offer this to you hauing heretofore giuen you an account of those seruices that I haue lately done in the survay of Ireland you being Survayor Generall of that Kingdome wherein I haue spent the most part of thirtie yeares in the seruice of my Prince and Countrie Tam Marte quam Mercurio both with Pike and Pen with great toyle much hazard and many hurts but little profite Notwithstanding your demerits and worth be such as Gratitude hath chosen your Patronage and Deuotion wisheth all honor health and happinesse to you to my good Lady and to yours At your HONORS Command I WYDOVVES alias WOODHOVSE PHILOSOPHIE is a knowledge of Naturall thinges Things her subiect either are he who alone is from by and for whom all things are or els such they be as are numbred by time and measured by place and subiect vnto motion God is a Spirit infinitely good and great God is but one diuine Essence consisting of three distinct Persons the Father the Son and the holy Ghost The actions of God are either the Creating or Gouerning of the world The World consisteth either of things inuisible as of Spirits or Visible as the heauens the elements and the bodies composed of elemēts The heauen of the blessed vide Gen. 1.1 is counted the third heauen the Orbes are the second the Ayre is counted the first The third Heauen visible is of al substances most perfect The inuisible Spirits viz. Angels were created heere Angell signifieth a messenger by nature he is a spirit Angels appeare sometime in dreames visions sometime in bodies apparant and sometime in true and reall bodies their number is great their office is to celebrate Gods glory to watch ouer the world to preserue vs to declare and do Gods will to put good motions into our minds to resist ill spirits The Deuils were Angels cast from heauen for sin into the lower parts of the World and heere they continue seeking to deface the Image of God in man and all creatures THings visible contained in the world are Substances or Accidents Accidents are either generall to all things as motion time and place for these belong to all or proper to some things as Qualities There be two kind of Mouers 1. God 2. Thinges created by him Things created moue from God and are of finite power in mouing in a prefixed matter and in time they be of two kindes without or within the thing moued the one called violent the other naturall Motion is an vnperfect act mouing to that it was not from that it was Fiue things are in naturall motion the mouer the thing moued the terme from which the terme to which it is moued and time There be sixe kindes of motion generation corruption increase decrease alteration of quality and change of place Qualities are either manifest or secret Manifest are either principall or such as proceede from them the chiefe of the principall are heate and colde Heate gathereth together things of one kinde and seperateth things of contrary nature as Gold from Siluer or drosse Colde ioyneth together things as the frost in winter The weaker qualities are moysture and drinesse Moysture is hardly contained in his owne bounds Drines keepeth his owne bounds as for example Earth c. Qualities comming from the first are either seconds or wrought from them Second qualities from one or more are deriued From Heate commeth Rarity and Leuity For Heate openeth and enlargeth the poores Raritas or Thinnes is that which hath hollow parts or spongie as a sponge cloudes c. Lightnes proceedeth from heate drawing easily vpward Thicknes and heauines are of colde For cold gathereth together and stoppeth bodyes by which bodyes become heauie Thicknes hath his partes shut vp together as stones Heauines moueth downewards thus is Mercurie heauier then gold and gold then Lead Tactile or qualities that may bee touched comming from moisture are softnes and tenuitie from the Ayre smoothnes and sliperines from the water From drynesse proceede hardnes and roughnes easines in breaking and drought From the first qualities diuersly disposed arise others called sensible qualities Their Originall is obscure or more manifested Qualities of obscure original are such as doe not alwayes plainely clearely declare the ground whence they arise Of this nature are collors which is the splendor of the body illustrated by light with which all bodies are dyed according to their moystnes decocted more or lesse apt to receiue greater or smaller light Cullour is either simple or mixed A Simple cullour consists of none other as black and white White consisteth of much light in a thin body of an Ayery moisture well concocted Blacke is in a thicke body contayning but small light of moysture either a dust or raw watrish mixed with the earth as appeareth in the iner parts of the earth Mixt cullours are from these two mingled either in a meane or vnequall portion of equall mixture is red Other are made of this meane and one of the extreames Yeallow is of much white and a little red viz. two parts of white and one of red Saffron cullour or Orang-tawny is of greater rednesse and of lesser whitenesse Purple is of much red and lesse blacke Greene is of much black and lesse red This being a cleare moysture is most pleasant to the eye Qualities of a more manifest originall are perceiued in smels and tastes Tast is made from the straining of drinesse through moisture is either hott or cold in a high or meanest degree Very hot tastes are biting bitter or salt Tastes meanely hot are sweet Cold tasts are either thicker or thinner thicke as soure and sharpe or thin as tartnes where also we place freshnesse Smell is a qualitie comming from a dry earthly heate made thin by mixture of vapors If it be well mingled it is good if not it is stincking These qualities come

a slimy water mixt with a pure white earth which mettall for the matter whereof it doth consist is thin cold and heauie It is in continuall motion and his thinnesse causeth that it peirceth mettalls Mettalls deriued from the first are more or lesse pure purer are Gold and Siluer Gold is a mettall made of most subtill and pure red Brimstone and of the like quicksiluer Gold hath the most perfect mixture as it is most thin so it is most solide whose substance is not corrupted with either earth water or ayre nor consumed with fire but is more purged in it And for his thin solidnes it is most soft and easie to be melted So that is most worth which is most red and glistering and soft that easily it may be wrought Experience teacheth that the 3 part of one graine of gold can gild a wyre of 134. foote long vpon plaites of siluer one ounce of gold will suffice to gilde eight pound weight of siluer His nature is to be meruelled at It waxeth cold towards day light so that those that weare rings of it may perceiue it when it waxeth day It is found in the mountaines of Arabia and else where and the best in the mountaine Terrat neare the Citty Corbachiam Siluer is a mettall begotten of pure white Mercury and the like cleare white Brimston It differeth from gold almost onely in cullour it being gold not perfectly refined yet in purenesse firme solidenesse and thinnesse it is next to gold and one ounce of it may be drawne 3200. foote long so that it can scarce be discerned from gold Yet it is thicker an hundreth fould When it is found it hath the shape of haires twigs fishes serpents and such like Mettalls lesse pure consist of greater store of Brimston or quick-siluer of greater store of Brimston come Brasse and Iron Brasse is a mettall begotten of thicke red Brimston and Mercury somewhat impure that comming from Cyprus is called Copper the matter of Brasse is more burnt then that of other mettalls and indureth long and is fit in any worke For it is without all moisture whether it be kept in earth or water Mineralls neare brasse are copperas c. Copperas is a minerall mixed of humors strained by droppes into small holes and it shineth like glasse It is hot and dry in the 4 degree vehemently binding being of great force to season and preserue raw flesh It also begetteth found flesh in festered sores and stancheth blood It is of a greene yealow and a skye cullour the best hath in it white spots his kind are Romaine victriall and red vitriall or the some of Copperas Iron is of store of mercury and of thick sulphur impure and aduft It may bee softened by quenching in ioyse of beane shulls or mallowes It being red hot and cooling of himselfe becommeth plyable But if it be often quenched in cold water it becommeth thereby very hard and brittle Mettalls of greater stoore of Mercury are Leade and Tynne Leade is an vnpure mettall begot of much vnpure thicke and drossie Mercury and likewise of vnpure Brimstone his impurity causeth blacknes which by refining is made whiter It increaseth in waight if it lie in moyst ground Yea it is thought to increase with rayne It is of a cold and binding nature and therefore scarce wholsome for mans vse Tynne is a mettall mixed of Mercury white without and red within and of Brimstone not well mixed as it were Leade whited with siluer Thus far of mettalls pliable Mettalls lesse plyable are those which are not easily wrought or melted and are hard or Brittle Those that be altogeather hard are stones These are ingendred of a watry moysture and fat earth mixed hard togeather Of stones some be rare some common Of the rare and strange some are of more estimation then others The more esteemed are precious stones which are more beautifull and fine in regard of their pure and subtill matter Of Gemmes some are of one cullour some of sundry cullours More or lesse transparent be either white or of other cullours White are Chrystall or Adamant Chrystall is a gem bright through begot of a most pure stony moysture and is found in mines of Marble c. His qualitie is binding therefore his oyle or powder is helpefull in Laxes and increaseth milke in womens brests The Adamant or Diamant is a gem cleare and most hard it can scarce be broken and thence it is named vnlesse steeped in the warme bloud of a Goat that hath drunke Wine or eaten Parsly Transparent Gemmes not white as the Saphir Sardonix and Smaragde haue the same coullour in all their kindes The Saphir is a gem cleare through of a skie coullour growing in the East and specially in India Being drunke it helpeth against the stinging of Serpents poyson and pestilence The Smaragde is of a greene coullour making greene the ayre neare about it the stone of Brytaine is the best It preserueth the wearer from the falling sicknesse eyght graines of his shauing drunke expelleth poyson c as some affirme The Sardonyx is a cleare gem representing in coullour the nayle of a mans hand it preserueth chastnes and healeth vlcers about the nayles The Selenites is a transparent gem like glasse it seemeth to increase and decrease with the moone Whose shape in the night it beareth and is called therefore the Moone-stone c. It is of a white blacke and yellow coullour His scrapings heale the falling sicknesse Bright shining Gems doe follow The Carbuncle is a gem shining in the light like fire it is the noblest and hath most vertues of any precious stone The Calcedonian is of a purple coullour shining like a starre it expels sadnes and feare by purging and chearing the spirits It hindreth ill visions The Astarites is a Christaline stone hauing in the midst like a full moone Bright stones not shining doe follow or the lesse shining The Rubie is a red gem shining in darke like a sparke of fire it cleareth the sight it expelleth sad and fearefull dreames The Topaz is of the cullor of gold casting beames in the Sunne being layd to a wound it stancheth bloud or cast into hot water keepeth the hand from scalding The Hiacinth is of watrish coullour it is exceeding hard and cloudie in the darke but pure and cleare by day It is colde moderating the spirits of the heart and of the other parts and causing mirth which being worne obtaineth fauour Precious stones of lesse shining be Corrall Asbestos Magnes and Galacte Corrall is a stone growing in the Sea like a slimie shrub which by the ayre presently is made hard It is taken vp full of mosse but being vnbarked it appeareth cleare in his proper coullour The spongie Corrall is white and colde The solid is more stonie and is red and blacke Red and full of branches is the best which worne of one shortly to be sicke waxeth pale His tender substance is affected by the bad vapour which yet is

is a temperate salt humour which if it doe exceede the iust quantitie it doth not exactly perceiue tastes but if it be altogether consumed no tastes are perceiued Smelling iudgeth qualities fit for smell his instrument is the entrance into the first ventricle couered with a small skin the dryer it is the quicker of smell as in Dogs and Vultures but man for the moystnesse of his Braine hath but a dull smell Now follow the inward sences which beside things presently offered doe know formes of many absent things By these the creature doth not onely perceiue but also vnderstandeth that which he doth perceiue These haue their seate in the braine They are either conceiuing or preseruing Conceiuing exerciseth his facultie by descerning or more fully iudging 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 fit to receiue Phantasie is an inward sence more diligently examining the forms of things This is the thought and iudgement of creatures his place is the middle part of the braine being through drynesse apt to retaine The preseruing sence is Memorie which according to the constitution of the braine is better or worse It is weaker in a moyst braine then in the dry braine His instrument is the hinder part of the braine Memorie calling backe images preserued in former time is called Remembrance but this is not without the vse 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 is a cooling of the braine by a pleasant abounding vapour breathing forth of the stomacke and ascending to the braine When that vapour is concoct and turned into spirits the heate returneth and the sences recouering their former function cause waking There be certaine appointed courses for watch and sleepe least creatures languish with ouermuch motion Affections of sleepe are Dreames Nightmare and Extasie c. A dreame is an inward act of the minde the bodie sleeping and the quieter that sleepe is the easier bee dreames but if sleepe be vnquiet then the minde is troubled Varietie of dreames is according to the diuers constitution of the bodie The cleare and pleasant dreames are when the spirits of the braine which the soule vseth 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 vnpure All naturall dreames are by images either before proferred to memorie or conceiued 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 bodie The Night-mare is a seeming of being choaked or strangled by one leaping vppon him feare following this compression the voyce is taken away This affection commeth when the vitall spirits in the braine are darkened by vapours ascending from melancholy and phlegme insomuch that that facultie being oppressed some heauie thing seemeth to be layd vpon vs. Therefore this disease is familiar to those who through age or sexe are much inclined vnto these humours An Extasie or traunce is a vehement imagination of the departure for a time of the soule from the bodie A deepe sleepe lasting some dayes enseweth for the soule giuing ouer it selfe to cogitation ceaseth to serue the bodie Wherefore men wanting motion and sence seeme to be dead And with what humours the braine shall be compassed such phancies doth it conceiue 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 perceiued in sence cannot attaine vnto them without mouing our bodie to that thing Appetite is a facultie desiring such things as are obiects to our sence It chiefly followeth touching or thinking Delight followeth touching Delight is a desire of an agreeing Obiect Griefe is his contrarie which is a turning from the hurtfull obiect or from that we count vnpleasant Appetites following cogitation are all the motions of the hart which be called affections and are either good or bad The good cherish and preserue the nature of our sensitiue facultie as mirth loue hope which come of heate when the heart dilating it selfe desireth to enioy the thing with which it is delighted Motion is a facultie of liuing creatures stirring a bodie entised by appetite from one place to another It is eyther 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 serue 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 liuing creatures The matter of the bodie in which the foresayd 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 vayne and change it Conception is the action of the wombe by which the power is stirred vp to execute his inbred gift Then that power being stirred vp doth diuersly distract the matter separating his diuers partes and thus all parts alike get together their shape Likewise all of them together are adorned with the faculties of the vegetatiue or sensitiue 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 but slackly exercising force through disposition of the matter Such is to be seene in inflamations botches and impostumes For in these nature so farre as it can laboureth to bring this his subiect matter to the best forme Therefore such suppuration is wont to argue a certaine strength of nature wherefore often with conuenient 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 subdued the humors or parts themselues are made full of corrupt matter through store of rottennesse But nature or the concocting facultie is ouercome either through proper weaknesse or by corrupt matter this is obserued in all rotten malignant and stinking botches in which according to the diuerse fashioning of abounding matter are found diuerse sorts of solid bodies as haires and such other like Of partes of the bodie which appertaine to the making vp of the whole bodie 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 liuer These are in the seede of creatures and are called the beginning of things endued with

danger to be choaked The Heart is a fleshie part solid and well compacted almost like a Piramis 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 be spittle and cough Spittle is a windie foame cast out of the brest and his parts If it bee avoyded with noyse it is called coughing Superfluitie of this matter is iudged by the coullor for red spittle is of bloud yellow of choller white of flegme and blacke of melancholy The lesse principall partes of breathing are the midrife and the mediastin The midrife is a thinne skin like perchment fastned ouerth wart to the sides and includeth the partes of the brest The mediastin is a double skinne in length deuiding the brest into two sides The vitall partes are those which serue to the preseruation of the spirits of liuing creatures and are appoynted to nourishment or generation The principall parts for the perfection of nourishment be the stomacke and the lyuer The Stomacke is a part like perchment sticking to the throat round but long and as it were twisted with many small threeds and it is the kitchen of nourishment to be concocted The throat is a channell full of nerues carrying meate from the mouth to the stomacke The Fibres are as it were very small threeds by benefit whereof the stomacke enioyeth her facultie These if they bee straight and right draw nourishment vnto them if crooked they are oblique or transuerse those retaine nourishment receiued these expell excrements The casting forth of excrements by the vpper parts of the stomacke is called vomit which expelleth that which aboundeth in the stomack yet such excrement is many times sent backe from other parts into the stomacke The liuer lyeth vpon the stomacke on the right side enclosing it with his laps and is a fleshy part of nourishment red like congealed bloud placed next vnder the Midrife In the Liuer is made the second concoction namely of nourishment in the belly turned into a red masse from the Liuer ariseth a hollow veyne the roote of all other veynes These are hollow partes round and guide the bloud vnto all the body the substance of these is thinner by six folde then the skin of the Arteries whose substance ought to be thicker for the vehement motion of the spirits That the office of the liuer may be made perfect by meanes of veynes other particles are allotted thereunto which receiue the abounding humors choller c. The Gall receiueth yellow choller and the Milt blacke The bladder of the Gall is a slimie part in the hollow part of the Liuer of the figure of a Peare the Milt is a long part like a shooe-sole on the left side ouer against the liuer but somewhat lower Water from the liuer is receiued by the reines and bladder The substance of the reines is thicke and solid flesh they sticke on both sides about the loynes and haue emulgent veynes arising from the hollow veine from the trench of the veynes hang downeward white narrow veynes guiding water from the reines vnto the bladder The bladder is a slimie part round and containing vrine in it Vrine is a whey separated from bloud in the reines 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 receiued in the chollericke it is yellow or red His sediment is white smooth and equall without bubles c. A sound bodie is knowne by voyding vrine which 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 bodie and coldnesse predominant and rawnesse of the partes 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 yong men is like golde and of olde men white and thin Touching complexions the chollerick haue orange coullour Phlegmatike pale and thicke the Sanguine red and meane The melanchollicke wan and thin Dyet changeth vrine as Saffron or Cassia causeth Orange coullour Vrine of those that fast long is yellow of those that eate too much it is white The lesse principall partes of concoction are the 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 vppermost as Duodenum Ieiunum and Ileos Duodenum is the vppermost gut twelue fingers long The Ieiunum beginneth where the Duodenum beginneth to turne vnto rundells Ileos is a thin gut hauing in wrapped windings The thicker guts of a thicker skin are Caecum Colon and Rectum The blinde gut is thicke large and short hauing 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 choller 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 Aboue all in these things it must be obserued what meate hath lately beene receiued The guts are wrapped about with the Mesenterion which is a skin in the end full of kernells and wouen with many thin veines which meeting together make a multiplying of Vena porta in the hollow of the Liver Thus of the common partes of all creatures their kindes follow All Creatures are reasonable or vnreasonable They which want reason are Beasts who liue on Land or in Water Those which liue on the earth mooue on the earth or in the ayre Beasts mouing on the earth are fourefooted or creeping Fourefooted Beasts bring forth yong shaped as themselues or eggs Those that bring forth liuing Creatures some haue solide feete and some clouen feete They haue solide feete who want hornes as Horses Mules and Asses c. The clouen footed Beasts for the most part haue hornes as the Oxe Goate Hart c. Land Beastes bringing forth eggs are the Crocodiles and some which haue a shell Frogges Liserts and some Serpents haue 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 then Creatures liuing onely on the land and all of them bring forth egges and haue but two feete They haue either whole feete or clawes Geese Duckes Swannes haue whole feete to rowe in the water Other Birds for the most part haue clawes as Doues Swallowes Hennes Sparrowes c. The insect of Fowles are Waspes Bees Hornetts Gnatts Flies These Creatures are they which liue vpon the earth those that liue 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 liuing on the earth in their parts but they haue not so much bloud therefore they are colder and moyster Fishes are soft or hard the soft haue scales or onely a skin Of the scalie be the Carpe the Pearch Of the slimie be Eelles The harder fishes haue plates as the Crabbe the Lobster c. Or shells as Oysters Mussells c. MAn is a Creature that hath reason and as he is most excellent so hath he a more perfect shape in bodie then others His members are formed and beginne to appeare distinctly about the sixt and twentieth day And they are all perfect in Males at thirtie dayes and in Females at six and thirtie dayes About this time the Childe beginneth to liue and to feele The Male is moued 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 FINIS