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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29861	Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths by Thomas Browne.	Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682.	1646 (1646)	Wing B5159; ESTC R1093	377,301	406

this animall particularly of Dia●●ttigon commended by Aetius in the affections of the kidneys It must be likewise understood with some restriction what hath been affirmed by Isidore which is yet delivered by many that Cicades are bred out of Cuccow spittle or Woodseare that is that spumous frothy dew or exudation or both found upon Plants especially about the joynts of Lavender and Rosemary and observable with us about the latter end of May for here the true cicada is not bred but certaine it is that out of this some kinde of locust doth proceed for herein may be discovered a little insect of a festucine or pale green resembling in all parts a Locust or what we call a Grashopper Lastly the word it selfe is improper and the tearme of Grashopper not appliable unto the Cicada for therein the organs of motion are not contrived for saltation nor are the hinder legges of such extension as is observable in salient animalls and such as move by leaping whereto the Locust is very well conformed for therein the legs behinde are longer then all the body and make at the second joynt acute angles at a considerable advancement above their backs The mistake therefore with us might have its originall from a defect in our language for having not the insect with us we have not fallen upon its proper name and so make use of a tearme common unto it and the Locust whereas other countries have proper expressions for it so the Italian calls it cicada the Spaniard cigarra and the French cigale all which appellations conforme unto the originall and properly expresse this animall CHAP. IV. Of the picture of the Serpent tempting Eve IN the picture of Paradice and delusion of our first Parents the Serpent is often described with humane visage and not unlike unto Cadmus or his wife in the act of their Metamorphosis which is not meerly a pictoriall contrivance or invention of the Painter but an ancient tradition and conceived reallity as it stands delivered by Beda and Authors of some Antiquity that is that Sathan appeared not unto Eve in the naked forme of a Serpent but with a Virgins head that thereby he might become more acceptable and his temptation finde the easier entertaine which neverthelesse is a conceit not to bee admitted and the plaine and received figure is with better reason embraced For first as Pierius observeth from Barcephas the assumption of humane shape had proved a disadvantage unto Sathan affording not only a suspicious amazement in Eve before the fact in beholding a third humanity beside her self and Adam but leaving some excuse unto the woman which afterward the man tooke up with lesser reason that is to have been deceived by another like her selfe Againe there was no inconvenience in the shape assumed or any considerable impediment that might disturbe that performance in the common forme of a Serpent for whereas it is conceived the woman must needs be afraid thereof and rather flye then approach it it was not agreeable unto the condition of Paradise and state of innocencie therein if in that place as most determine no creature was hurtfull or terrible unto man and those destructive effects they now discover succeeded the curse and came in with them is chiefe of thornes and briars and therefore Eugubinus who affirmeth this Serpent was a Basiliske incurreth no ab●urdity nor need we inferre that Eve should bee destroyed immediatly upon that Vision for noxious animalls could offend them no more in the Garden then Noah in the Arke as they peaceably received their names so they friendly possessed their natures and were their conditions destructive unto each other they were not so unto man whose constitutions were antidotes and needed not feare poysons who had not incurred mortality And if as most conceive there were but two created of every kinde they could not at that time destroy either man or themselves for this had frustrated the command of multiplication destroyed a species and imperfected the Creation and therefore also if Cain were the first man borne with him entred not only the act but the first power of murther for before that time neither could the Serpent nor Adam destroy Eve nor Adam and Eve each other for that had overthrowne the intention of the world and put its Creator to act the sixt day over againe Moreover whereas in regard of speech and vocall conference with Eve it may be thought he would rather assume an humane shape and organs then the improper forme of a Serpent it implyes no materiall impediment nor need we to wonder how he contrived a voice out of the mouth of a Serpent who hath done the like out of the belly of a Pythonissa and the trunke of an Oake as he did for many yeares at Dodona Lastly whereas it might be conceived that an humane shape was fitter for this enterprise it being more then probable she would be amazed to heare a Serpent speak some conceive she might not yet be certaine that onely man was priviledged with speech and being in the novity of the Creation and inexperience of all things might not bee affrighted to hear a Serpent speak Beside she might be ignorant of their natures who was not versed in their names as being not present at the generall survey of Animalls when Adam assigned unto every one a name concordant unto its nature nor is this only my opinion but the determination of Lombard and Tostatus and also the reply of Cyrill unto the objection of Julian who compared this story unto the fables of the Greekes CHAP. V. Of the Picture of Adam and Eve with Navells ANother mistake there may be in the picture of our first Parents who after the manner of their posterity are both delineated with a Navell and this is observable not only in ordinary and stayned peeces but in the Authenticke draughts of Urbin Angelo and others which notwithstanding cannot be allowed except we impute that unto the first cause which we impose not on the second or what we deny unto nature we impute unto Naturity it selfe that is that in the first and most accomplished peece the Creator affected superfluities or ordained parts without all use or office For the use of the Navell is to continue the infant unto the Mother and by the vessells thereof to convey its aliment and sustentation the vessells whereof it consisteth are the umbilicall veyne which is a branch of the Porta and implanted in the liver of the Infant two Arteries likewise arising from the Iliacall branches by which the Infant receiveth the purer portion of bloud and spirits from the mother and lastly the Urachos or ligamentall passage derived from the bottome of the bladder whereby it dischargeth the waterish and urinary part of its aliment now upon the birth when the Infant forsaketh the wombe although it dilacerate and breake the involving membranes yet doe these vessells hold and by the mediation thereof the Infant is connected unto the wombe not

Rose that as D●oscorides delivers the flowers thereof are like the white violet and its leaves resemble Bryonie sutable unto this relation almost in all points is that of the thorne at Glassenbury and perhaps the daughter thereof herein our endeavours as yet have not attained satisfaction and cannot therefore enlarge Thus much in generall we may observe that strange effects are naturally taken for miracles by weaker heads and artificially improved to that apprehension by wiser 5. That ferrum Equinum or Sferra Cavallo hath a vertue attractive of Iron a power to breake lockes and draw off the shooes of a horse that passeth over it Whether you take it for one kinde of Secu●idaca or will also take in Lunaria we know it to be false and cannot but wonder at Mathiolus who upon a parallell in Plinie was staggered into suspension who notwithstanding in the imputed vertue to open things close and shut up could laugh himselfe at that promise from Aethiopis and condemne the judgement of Scipio who having such a picklock would spend so many years in battering the gates of Carthage Which strange and Magicall conceit seemes unto me to have no deeper root in reason then the figure of its seed for therein indeed it somewhat resembles an horseshooe which notwithstanding Baptista Porta hath thought too low a signation and raised the same unto a Lunarie representation 6. That Bayes will protect from the mischief of lightning and thunder is a qualitie ascribed thereto common with the figtree Aegle and skin of a Seale Against so famous a quality Vicomer●atus produceth experiment of a Bay tree blasted in Italy and therefore although Tiberius for this intent did weare a Laurell about his temples Yet did Augustus take a more probable course who fled under arches and hollow vautes for protection And though Porta conceive becasue in a streperous eruption it riseth against fire it doth therefore resist lightning yet is that no emboldning Illation And if wee consider the threefold effect of Jupiters Trisulke to burne discusse and terebrate and if that be true which is commonly delivered that it will melt the blade yet passe the scabbard kill the childe yet spare the mother dry up the wine yet leave the hogshead intire though it favour the amulet it may not spare us it will be unsure to rely on any preservative t is no security to be dipped in Styx or clad in the armour of Ceneus Now that beer wine and other liquors are spoyled with lightning and thunder we conceive it proceeds not onely from noyse and concussion of the ayre but also noxious spirits which mingle therewith and draw them to corruption whereby they become not onely dead themselves but sometime deadly unto others as that which Seneca mentioneth whereof whosoever dranke either lost his life or else his wits upon it 7. It hath much deceived the hopes of good fellowes what is commonly expected of bitter Almonds and though in Plutarch confirmed from the practise of Claudius his Physitian that Antidote against ebriety hath commonly failed Surely men much verst in the practice doe erre in the theory of inebriation conceaving in that disturbance the braine doth onely suffer from exhalations and vaporous ascentions from the stomack which fat and oylie substances may suppresse whereas the prevalent intoxication is from the spirits of drink dispersed into the veynes and arteries from whence by common conveyances they creep into the braine insinuate into its ventricles and beget those vertigoes accompanying that perversion And therefore the same effect may be produced by a Glister the head may be intoxicated by a medicine at the heele And so the poysonous bytes of Serpents although on parts at distance from the head yet having entered the veynes disturbe the animall faculties and produce the effects of drink or poyson swallowed And so as the head may bee disturbed by the skin it may the same way be relieved as is observable in balneations washings and fomentations either of the whole body or of that part alone 8. That every plant might receive a name according unto the disease it cureth was the wish of Paracelsus a way more likely to multiply Empericks then Herbalists yet what is practised by many is advantageous unto neither that is relinquishing their proper appellations to re-baptise them by the name of Saints Apostles Patriarcks and Martyres to call this the herbe of John that of Peter this of James or Joseph that of Mary or Barbara for hereby apprehensions are made additionall unto their proper natures whereon superstitious practises ensue and stories are framed accordingly to make good their foundations 9. We cannot omit to declare the grosse mistake of many in the nominall apprehension of plan●s to instance but in few An herbe there is commonly called Betonica Pauli or Pauls Betony hereof the people have some conceit in reference to S. Paul whereas indeed that name is derived from Paulus Aegineta an ancient Physitian of Aegina and is no more then speed well or Fluellen The like expectations are raised from Herba Trinitatis which notwithstanding obtaineth that name onely from the figure of its leaves and is one kinde of liverworte of Hepatica In Milium Solis the epithite of the Sun hath enlarged its opinion which hath indeed no reference thereunto it being no more then Li●hospermon or grummell or rather milium Soler which as Serapion from Aben Juliel hath taught us because it grew plentifully in the mountaines of Solar received that appellation In Jews eares some thing is conceived extraordinary from the name which is in propriety but Fungus sambucinus or an excrescence about the roots of Elder and concerneth not the Nation of the Jews but Judas Iscariot upon a conceit he hanged on this tree and is become a famous medicine in Quinses sore throats and strangulations ever since And so are they deceived in the name of Horse-raddish Horse-mint Bull-rush and many more conceiving therein some prenominall consideration whereas indeed that expression is but a Grecisme by the prefix of Hippos and Bous that is Horse and Bull intending no more then great According whereto the great dock is called Hippolapathum and hee that calls the horse of Alexander great head expresseth the same which the Greeks do in Bucephalus 10. Lastly many things are delivered and believed of other plants wherin at least we cannot but suspend That there is a property in Basil to propagate Scorpions and that by the smell thereof they are bred in the braines of men is much advanced by Hollerius who found this insect in the braines of a man that delighted much in this smel Wherein beside that wee finde no way to conjoyne the effect unto the cause assigned herein the Modernes speake but timerously and some of the Ancients quite contrarily For according unto Oribasius Physition unto Julian The Affricans men best experienced in poysons affirme whosoever hath eaten Basil although hee be stung with a Scorpion shall feele no paine thereby which is