chiefly too without it through the coat called Chorion dispatching their most slender fibers thither likewise just as the distribution of the Umbilical vessels namely without the litle cord appeareth in a humane foetus before the conception is fastened to the Uterus Whereby it appeareth that the Embryo doth not derive all his Aliment from the cake but part thereof and that the chiefest from the humor contained in the Chorion As touching the uses of the Vmbilical vessels I do not consent with Fabricius for he is of opinion that all the blood is derived to the foetus from the Vterus by the veines and the vital spirits from the mother by the Arteries He also denyeth that any part of the foetus in the womb doth execute any publick function but affirmeth that each particular part taketh care onely for it selfe how it may be nourished augmented and preserved And also because he findeth no Nerve amongst the Umbilical Vessels he concludeth the foetus to be void of all Sense and Motion Implying that the Mothers Womb or the Uterine Cake is as it were the Heart and Original from whence all things spring to the foetus and from whence the Influent heat is divided amongst all the parts All which are manifest mistakes For the Humane Embryc when he is not yet four moneths standing in the Womb and some sooner exerciseth an opparent motion volutation and calcitration especially if he be prejudiced by extremity of cold or heat or any other outward inconvenience Likewise the Punctum saliens it self before the Heart is erected doth stirre by an apparent pulsation and also distribute blood and spirits and being as we have observed reduced to a dying and langiuishing condition by cold is by the fresh accession of heat kindled anew and revived And also in the Caesarean birth it is very evident that the Embryo's life doth not immediately proceed from the Parent nor the Spirits result from her for we have often seen Infants which have been cut out of their Mothers Womb survive their Parent for several hours and have also known a Cony and a Hare which did live though they were born by incision made upon the Uterus of their Parents Moreover it is a sure way to know whether the Infant that sticketh in the birth be alive or not by the pulsation of the Vmbilical Arteries But most certain it is that those Arteries are not moved by the virtue or operation of the Mothers but of his own proper Heart For they keep a distinct time and pawze from the Mothers pulse which is easily experimented if you lay one hand upon the Mothers wrest and the other on the Infants Navel-string Nay in a Casarean Section when the Embryo's have been yet involved in the membrane called Chorion I have oftentimes found even when the Mother was extinct and stiffe almost with cold the Vmbilical Arteries beating and the Foetus himself lusty Wherefore it is not true that the Spirits do proceed to the foetus from the Mothers Arteries nor is that more true namely that the Vmbilical Vessels of the foetus are conjoined by Anastomosis to the Vessels of the Vterus For the Foetus enjoyeth his own proper life and is furnished with beating Arteries which are full of Blood and Spirits long before the conception in which he is formed and walloweth doth cleave to the Vterus just as it is with Chicken in the Egge As for the use of the Arteries in the foetus as also in grown bodies we have in our Treatise of the Circulation of the blood demonstrated it to be much different from what hath been formerly received all which is also confirmed from hence The Secundines they also are an undeniable part of the Conception and do depend upon the Foetus assuming life and their vegetal faculty from him For as in the Mesentery the blood is derived to the Guts by the branches of the Coeliacal and Mesenterical Arteries and that very Blood being circulated by the Veines doth convey the chyle together with it unto the Liver and the Heart so in like manner the Vmbilical Arteries do derive blood to the Secundines which blood the Veins do reduce to the Foetus together with alible juice And therefore those Arteries do not immediately proceed from the Heart as principal Vessels but as instruments of inferiour rank and quality do arise out of the Crural branches There came forth a Book of late wrote by Adrianus Spigelius entituled De formato Foetu of the formed foetus wherein he treateth concerning the Use of the Umbilical Arteries and doth demonstrate by powerful arguments that the Foetus doth not receive its Vital Spirits by the Arteries from the Mother and hath fully answered those arguments which are alledged to the contrary But he might also as well have proved by the same Arguments that the Blood neither is transported into the foetus from the Mothers Veines by the Propagations of the Umbilical Veins which is cheifly made manifest by the examples drawn from the Hen-egge and the Caesarean Birth For did the Heat and Life flow to the blood from the Mother she being extinct the Infant would instantly dye also for he must needs be a thing concluded in the same fatality nay before her for when death approacheth the subordinate parts doe first languish and grow cold before the principal and hereupon the Heart declines the last of all The Blood I say of the Foetus himselfe should grow chill first and disproportionate to its Office as being derived from the Uterus seeing that the Vterus it self is deprived and destitute of all vital heat before the Heart Of the Conception FAbricius hath indeed recounted many miraculous things concerning the Birth but wee meet with more things worthy our wonder concerning the Conception It is indeed a dark obscure business however we shall adventure to propose something in a problematical way in such sort that it shall appeare we doe not onely goe about to subvert other mens opinions but also to disclose our owne And yet whatsoever falleth from me concerning this subject I desire may not be so taken as if I conceived them pronounced by an Oracle but that liberty which I freely allow all other men I doe of right challenge to my self that so I may offer those things as true which seem probable in such dark matters until such time as they can be convinced of falsity or errour This imployment doth chiefly relate to the Uterus without whose preparations and functions you may in vaine expect a Conception And because it is certaine that the Geniture of the Male doth not so much as reach to the cavity of the Uterus much less abide there for any time that geniture doth derive foecundity to the Uterus only by a kinde of contagion not as if it were now tangent and operating but because it hath formerly touched The Woman or Female doth seem after the spermatical contact in coition to be affected in the same manner and
in that the whole Worm grows and so becomes a dearticulate animal namely in growing it becomes to be jointed or distinguished We have indeed cause to wonder that the Rudiments of all Creatures whatsoever especially of Creatures that have blood viz. of a Dog a Horse a Deere an Oxe a Henne a Viper nay of Man himselfe should so exactly resemble the shape and consistence of a Magot that you can perceive no difference at all Towards the end of the Fifth day or the beginning of the Sixth the Head is distinguished into three vesicles or litle bladders whereof the first and greatest which is round and blackish is that of the Eye in whose center the Pupilla is discovered like a crystalline Point Under this a lesser vesicle whereof part is hidden represents the Brain â—â— which the third like a crest adjoyned or a smal â—â—nd knobb appears uppermost of which at last â—he Cerebellum or After-brain is made yet in all â—â—ese you shall finde nothing besides a cleare water And now the Rudiment of the Body which we all the Keel doth more distinctly represent the â—pina dorsi or Chine of the Back to which sides begin to be built and appear for the Wings and legs do now jut out from the Magot And the vessels do now plainly express the Navel The fifth Inspection of the Egge EXER XIX THe sixth day the three Bullae of the Head doe more plainly appear and the coats of the eyes are now distinct also the Legs and Wings do bud forth as at the end of June the Gyrini which the Italians call Ravabottoli and we Tadpoles begin to have leggs when now they forsake the waâ—ers loose their tayl and put on the shape of Frogs The form of the Chickens Rump is yet no other then that which is seen in all other animals may in very vipers namely a round slender tail The Parenchyma of the heart now groweth to the vesicula pulsans and a litle after the Rudiments of the Liver and Lungs are discovered and also the Bill all appearing exceeding white especially the Bill And about this time all the Viscera and the Guts may be seen But the heart exposeth it â—â— first to sight and the Lungs before the Liver or the brain But before all are the eyes visible because oâ— their largeness and blackness of their colour And now the foetus moves and gently tumbles and stretcheth out the neck though nothing of a brain be yet to be seen but meerly a bright water shut up in a small bladder And now it is a perfect Magot differing onely from those kinde of wormâ— in this that those when they have their freedome crawle up and down and search for their living abroad but this worm constant to his station and swimming in his own provision draws it in by his Umbilical Vessels The Viscera and the Guts being now erected and the foetus being furnished with motion too yet the fore-part of the Body still lyes wide open being deprived of the Thorax and Abdomen and the Heart it selfe the Liver and the Guts hanging out About the end of this day and the beginning of the seventh the claws are distinguished and the foetus begins to have the Effigies of a Chicken it opens the bill and kicks lastly all the parts are delineated especially the Eyes But the Viscera or bowels are yet so obscure that Coiterus truly affirmeâ— That he saw indeed the Eyes and the Bill but could discover no Viscus at all though never so concealed or confused That which followeth from the beginning of the sixth day to the end of the seventh cometh â—â— pass sooner in some and in some eggs later Noâ— are the coats of the Eyes seen though they have nothing in them but a liquid clear humor the Eyâ— themselves are something prominent or hanging out of their seats and each of them doth no leâ— exceed the brain in magnitude then the head the rest of the body that is fastned to it A litle bubble like a crest placed out of the circuit of the brain supplied the place of the cerebellum and that is also full of a clear water The brain seemeth obscurely divided and shines not so much as the cerebellum doth though it look whiter And as the Heart is now to be seen without the inclosure of the chest so is the cerebellum out of the Confines of the cerebrum In cutting off the Head I saw by the benefit of â—â—y Perspective in the Necke a bloody speck of â—â—e veine which ascends to the braine And by â—his means onely could I distinguish the rudiment of the Spine from the other Pulpe it was of a milkey complexion but firmer consistence then milk And so also like slender cobwebs narrow white lines wanâ—ing through the pulp of the body to give some â—â—imen of the Ribbs and other bones and this is much more discernable in the formation of other Viviparous Animals The Heart the Lungs the Liver and instead of Guts the most slender threds â—re all white The Parenchyma of the Liver â—ows to the Umbilical vein there where it enters â—o the Liver upon thin fibrous strings in like manner as the Rudiment of the Body grows to the â—â— passing from the Heart or to the Vesicula pulâ—â—s For as Grapes grow to the cluster buds to â—â—eir stalks and the eares of corn to the straw So â—â—th the Liver to the Umbilical vessels like mushâ—â— out of Trees or proud flesh in Ulcers or fleshy â—â—â—rs which border upon the branches of the Arâ—â—â—â—es by which they are fed and spread sometimes â—â—â— vast tumor Having had an Eye upon this emploiment of Arteries or circulation of the blood I have sometimes perfectly cured exceeding great Herniae carnosae beyond all expectation providing onely that the litle artery being tyed or cut off no nutriment or spirit might have accession to the part affected by which it fell out that the fatal tumor was afterwards easily extirpated either by incision or adustion A certain man besides other infirmities and of this story I can produce many testimonies had a Sarcosis or fleshy tumor in his Scrotum or God bigger then a mans head hanging down to his Knees and from it another Hernia carnosa as thick as ones wrist or a cable passed into his Abdomen so that the disease growing to so great a height no man would undertake the Cure by incision or otherwise Yet I perfectly cured this so vast excrescence which so much distended the Scrotum and encompassed the Testicle by the means aforesaid and yet left the leading and preparing vessel to the use of the Testicle without any prejudice or touch upon the other vessels descending into the Sâ—â—tum by the Tunica vaginalis or coat of the Testicles so called But these and other Cures accomplished clean beside the common opinion I shall in my Physical Observations if God grant me life discover at large I mention these things with this intent that men may
Physitians treat of the Blood in stotle did constitute the blood out of parts and differences in some manner alike Physitians indeed do onely take notice of humane blood and of that as it spins into a Sawcer in Phlebotomy and so coagulates Aristotle contemplates the blood of all creatures in general or that which beareth an Analogy with blood But laying aside all cavil and omitting the inconveniences which do pursue their opinion I shall briefly touch upon those things which they both consent in and are plainly discovered by sense it self and are more pertinent to our business intending elsewhere to examine them at large Though as I have informed you the blood is called a part of the body and that the primigenial and principal part yet if it be considered in the whole lump as it is in the Veins nothing hinders why we may not say that it conteins Aliment concocts it and doth apply it to all parts and that being one and the same thing yet in that acceptation it may be said both to feed and to be fed as also to be both the material and efficient cause of the Body and naturally to have that very constitution which Aristotle conceived to be necessary in the primigenial part namely that the blood is partly of a similar and partly of a dissimilar constitution For saith he Since for senses sake it is necessarily ordered that there should be similar members in Animals and since both the power of sensation motion and nutrition are all comprehended in the same member namely the Primogenit it is necessary that that member which conteins such principles in it should both be simple that it may be capable of all sensible objects and also dissimilar that it may move and act Wherefore he goes on in the race of creatures that have blood the Heart is counted such a member but in the bloodless that member which is proportionable to the Heart Now if by the Heart he understand that particle which is first seen in the Egge namely the Blood together with its receptacles the Vesiculae pulsantes and the Veins as one and the same Organ I then conceive he speaks most true for the Blood as it is discovered in the Egge and the Vesicula is partly similar and partly dissimilar But if he understand it otherwise that which is seen in the egge will easily confute him for the substance of the Heart being considered without the Blood namely its Cones and the Walls or partitions of its Ventricles is generated long after and continues so long white without any irrigation of blood upon it untill the Heart be fashioned into an Organical form such as may spout the blood through the whole body Nor doth the Heart then appear of a similar or simple constitution as is fit for a Primogenit part to do but fibrous fleshey and musculous and indeed as Hippocrates would have it a plain Muscle or Instrument of motion But the blood as it is first seen and as it beats being yet comprehended in the Vesicula is plainly of that constitution which Aristotle judgeth necessary to a Principal part For the blood while it is in its natural constitution in the body is altogether similar But so soon as it is dislodged and out of its receptacles and puts of its native heat it presently degenerates into several parts as some dissimilar thing But if the blood were naturally designed onely to the nourishing of the body it would be onely of a similar constitution like the Chyle or White of an egge or at least it would be a mixt body being compounded of the foresaid parts or juyces and yet truly one as those other juyces namely the Choler and Phlegme which after death even when they are taken out of their habitations remain the same as when they were seen in the live body but are not so soon changed Wherefore what Aristotle attributes to a Principal part that very same thing is proper to blood For blood as it is a Natural body being an Heterogeneous or Dissimilar substance is compounded of those parts or juyces But as it lives and it the chief Animal part compounded of a body and soul But when that soul by reason of the expiration of the native heat doth vanish and its native substance is presently corrupted and is dissolved into those parts of which it was formerly made namely first into a Watry Blood next into Red and White parts and the Red parts which are uppermost are most florid but those that sinck downwards grow dark and black Now some of the parts also are fibrous and thicker as being the tye and connexion of the rest others are ichorous and serous upon which the coagulated lump useth to float And into this Serum almost all the blood degenerates Now these parts are not in the live blood but onely when it is now corrupted and dissolved by death Besides the recited parts there is seen in hotter and stronger Animals as in Horses Oxen and Men also of a more lively constitution another part of blood which when the blood is let out and grumefieth seating it selfe in the upper part of the redder blood doth condense and plainly resemble a Gelly made of Harts-horn or kind of Mucilage or thicker white of an egge The vulgar count it the Phlegme and Aristotle the crude and unconcocted part of the blood I have observed this part to differ as well from the serous upon which the coagulated gore useth to swim as from the other parts as likewise from the Urine which is dreined by the Kidnies from the blood Nor is it to be thought the cruder and colder part of the blood but the more spirital as I suppose and that by two experiments First because it swimmes above the florid and brighter part of the blood which is vulgarly conceived to be the Arterial blood as being hotter and fuller of spirits then it and upon the disgregation of the blood obtaines the upper place Also in breathing a Veine this sort of blood where of there is plenty in persons of a hot temperature that are strong and fleshy it darts it self out in a longer stream and more vehemency as if it spirted out of a Syringe hereupon we count it hotter and more spirital as that geniture is counted most fertile fraught with spirits which leaps farthest and most forcibly And that this gelly doth much differ from that ichorous and watry substance which as being colder then the rest sinketh down to the bottom of the sawcer is evident for two reasons for the watry and washy part is more crude and inconcocted then that it may be wrought up into perfect blood But the gelly which is thicker and more fibrous swimming above the lump of blood appeareth more concocted and elaborate then it And therefore in the solution or partition of the blood this gelly keeps aloof the whey or sanies lowest but the lump and red parts as well the brighter as the darker possess the
those much unlike one another and therefore their Actions are divers yet it iâ— apparent which action is peculiar to each For 〈◊〉 Superior is ordained for the Generation of the Yolk the Inferior of the White and the other parts â—â— the whole as is evident even to sense For in the Superior nothing is contained but a throng of Yolks but the Inferior the entire perfect egge And yet this is not all the employment of the Womb but the Augmentation of the egg which presently insueth after the egge is generated and continueth till it be compleated and have attained its just stature or magnitude is also implyed herein For a Hen doth not naturally lay her egge till it be perfect and have its just proportion The Action therefore of the Womb is both the Generation and Augmentation of the Egge Now Augmentation includeth and supposeth Nutrition But since all Generation is effected by two namely the Agent and the Matter The Agent in the procreation of Egges is nothing else but the Instrument or proposed Organs namely the twofold Uterus But the Matter is nothing else but Blood Now we though we acknowledge the Action of the Uterus to be in some sort the Generation of the Egge yet we do not agree upon any termes in the world that the Egge is nourished and encreased by the Uterus And this both for the reasons before alledged when we discoursed concerning the soul of the Egge which nourisheth it and also because it is an improbable thing that an External Agent as the Womb is in regard of the Egge should form nourish and angment all the interior parts of the Egge according to their several dimensions nay according to Aristotle it is altogether impossible For how can an agent that is extrinsecal in respect of the patient work upon the Aliment that is elsewhere provided and restore it into the place of that which is wasted away according to all dimensions or how can any thing be affected and altered by that which doth not touch it Therefore doubtlesse the same things befall the Generation of Egges as happen to the exordiums of all living creatures namely that they should be constituted by some preexistent external thing but presently upon the reception of life nourish and augment themselves and that by â— proper inspired efficacy proceeding from a Principle which is now borne and implanted in them What we have lately delivered concerning the soul doth seem to evince clearly that the Egge is neither the Workmanship of the Uterus nor controuled or governed by it For it is apparent that even a Subventaneous egge is furnished with a Vegetative Soul because we discover even such an egge also to enjoy Vegetation Nutrition Augmentation and Conservation which are infallible sight of the fore-said Soul Now these faculties cannot issue out of the Mother or Matrix because the Egge hath no Coherence or Union to it but tumbles and roules in its Cavity free and disjoyned like a Son who hath obtained his Freedom and growes up to perfection as the Seeds of Plants do in the Womb of the Earth by an internal Vegetative Principle which can be no lesse then a Vegetative Soul Much more will it appear that it hath a Soul when we consider after what manner and by whose impulsion the Round and Ample Yolk being new loose from the Vitellary maketh its descent through the Infundibulum which is a slender Tunnel wrought with a niost thin membrane which hath no provision of motory fibres working out its own way till through all those streights it arrive at the Uterus where it nourisheth augmenteth and invests it self in the White And yet all this while there is no Motory Instrument at all in the Vitellary which should expell it thence nor in the Infundibulum which should transmit it or in the Uterus which should attract it Nor is the Egge fastned by veins to the Uterus as in the Ovary nor hath any dependance upon it by the Umbilical Vessels as Fabricius truely affirms and is obvious to every eye What then remains but that upon discovery of such wonderful Operations we should cry out with the Poet Spiritus intus alit totamque infusa per artus Mens agitat molem An innate Spirit feeds an Infus'd Soul Into each part doth the whole Mass controul And though the first ground-workes of Egges which we have proved to be but Whelkes as it were and of the magnitude of the Seed of Millet do cohear to the Vitellary by the mediation of Veins and Arteries as the Seeds of Plants are born adhearing to the Plants and thereupon seem to be Parts of the Henne and to be nourished and live after the manner of other Parts yet it is evident that as the Seeds of Plants being dis-united from the Plants are no more accounted parts of them no more are Egges now come to maturity impowred with fertility and separated from the Vitellary any longer to be ranked amongst the Parts of the Henne but like a Son come to age and at his own dispose are regulated and enliven'd by their own proper soul But of this morefully hearafter when we shall discourse concerning the Soul of an Embryo in general and of the excellence and divinity of the Vegetative Soul ordering all things after a wonderful manner which providence art and divine discretion as farre exceeding our capacity as God excells Man and therefore are confessed by all truly admirable not to be gazed upon by our cloudy apprehensions by reason of their ineffable lustre What shall we say then of those litle Animals which are begotten in our own bodies which no man ever doubted to be regulated and vegetated by their own proper soul And of this kind are Worms in the Stomack Guts and Fundament Lice Nittes litle Wormes in the Flesh Mites Or what shall we resolve concerning those Wormes which proceed from Plants and their fruit such as you may finde in Galls Nuts the Scarlet-Berry and Eglantine c. For an Animal may be created almost in all drye things growing moist or moist things growing drye It is impossible that those Animals which are bred in the Galls should be enlivened by the Okes soul though they live joyned to the Oke and provide their Aliment out of the Sap of the Oke And so it is credible that the very Rudiments of the Eggs while they are yet in the Cluster do subsist by their own and not by the Hennes Soul though they are united to her by Veins and Arteries and she also do administer nourishment to them For as we have observed in our History the Whelkes do not all grow at once as Grapes grow in the Bunch and Graines in the Eare of Corne as if they were inspired by the same concocting and formative faculty but are increased one after another as by their own efficacie and that which first separates its selfe from its fellowes changeth colour and consistence and of a White Whelke is made
Ligaments Veines Arteries Nerves and into all the other similar and simple parts of the Animal or Chicken and the Cocks seed doth by its proper ingenit heat and spirit generate create and produce them out of the Egge that is the Chalaza by Alteration and Commutation imparting to every one of them its proper substance and the proprieties belonging to that substance The Other faculty which is called Formative and which makes the similar parts dissimilar bestowing their beauty upon them from convenient figure just dimension proper scite and competent number being much more noble then the former and full of incomparable wisdom doth not act Naturally but by Election or Choice Knowledg and Understanding For truly this Formative faculty seems to be stored with most exact knowledg and praevision both of the future Action and also of the Use of every particular Part and Organ And thus of the first Action of the Egge which is the generation of the Chicken to whose celebration both the seed of the Cock as Agent and Fructifier and the Chalaza is required as the subject Matter Next comes Accretion which is done by Nutrition whose Faculties are the Attractive the Retentive the Digestive and Expulsive faculties and lastly the Faculty of Apposition Agglutination and Assimulation But as for this distribution of the Actions I conceive it neither to be right nor useful nor pertinent in this place Not Right because those actions which he seems to hold to be distinct in their species and time namely that the parts should be first made similar by the Immutative faculty after that formed and made Organicall by the formative and then augmented by the augmentative do no where appear so in the Generation of the Chicken for the parts are all generated distinguished and augmented together For though it be otherwise in the Generation of those Animals which are framed by a Metamorphosis where all the parts are transformed and lineated out of a pre-existent matter which is large enough and prepared before hand as when out of a Worme is made a Butterfly and out of another Worme a Silk-Worme yet in Generation by Epigenesis the business is much otherwise nor is the proceeding there as it is in Nutrition which is performed by the divers actions of diverse parts joining their confederate forces and helps together namely where the Aliment is first attracted and retained then concocted then distributed and at last agglutinated Nor is the similar constitution produced by the Alterative faculty without all kind of providence as Fabricius would have it And the Organical by the Formative which imployes knowledge and providence in her undertakings For Generation and Accretion are not made without Nutrition nor Nutrition or Augmentation without Generation For to Nourish is to substitute into the place of that which is lost as much and such as is lost namely Flesh or Nerves into the roome of that Flesh and those Nerves which are impared And what is this other then to make Flesh or Nerves So likewise Accretion is not without Generation For all Natural bodies are Augmented by a new accession of those parts of which they did consist before and that according to all dimensions So that they at once do grow are distinguished and organized together And now to Generate a Chicken is nothing else but to constitute all its parts members and organs which though they are made in order and some are post-genit or later productions then others as the lesse principal parts compared with the more principal yet while the organs themselves are distinguished their generation doth not proceed in such order that the similar parts must be first made and the organical be afterwards compounded out of them as if the compounding parts were first to exist and then the Composition to be raised out of them For though the Head of the Chicken and the rest of its Trunck or corporature being first of a similar constitution do resemble a Mucus or a soft glewey substance out of which afterwards all the parts are framed in their order yet by the same operation and the same Operatour they are together made and augmented and as that substance resembling glew doth grow so are the parts distinguished Namely they are Generated Altered and formed at once they are at once similar and dissimilar and from a small similar is a great organ made In the same manner as out of the straw the spike reeds and graines do arise and are distinguished and as the Trees when they shoot forth their young buds do out of them expand and produce flowers leaves fruit and at last seed And this we have learnt out of those things which are conspicuous in an egge by diligent observation of them For by the effects the actions or operations are perceived by the operations the faculties and by them the Operatour or Efficient Wherefore in the Generation of the Chicken the actions or faculties of the Generant which Fabricius recites namely the Immutative and Formative do not differ Specie nor yet secundum prius posterius but as Aristotle useth to speak ipso esse and ratione solum not as it befals the actions of the nutritive faculty after the birth to wit Attraction Concoction Distribution and Apposition which performe their duties in several places and at several times For otherwise the Generative faculty her self should be inforced also to use diverse instruments to perform her several operations Wherefore Fabricius affirms amisse that the Immutative Faculty doth operate by the qualities of the Elements namely Heat Cold Moisture and Dryness as being its instruments but that the formative works without them and after a more divine manner as if forsooth she did finish her task with meditation choise and providence For had he looked deeper into the thing he would have seen that the Formative as well as the Alterative faculty makes use of hot cold moist and dry as her instruments would have deprehended as much divinity and skill in Nutrition and Immutation as in the operations of the Formative faculty her self For nature hath instituted all those faculties for some end and doth every where work with providence and understanding Whatsoever it is which makes the seed of Plants fruitful and doth exercise a plastick virtue in it and that which in an egge executes the office of a most skilful Workeman doth produce and build the parts and by Calefying Refrigerating Moistning Drying Concocting Condensing Hardning Softning Dissolving both Fashion and Augment them doth also distinguish them by Figure Scite Constitution Temperature Number and Order disposing and compleating all things with like providence election and understanding no lesse in the alteration then nutrition augmentation and formation of them I say the Concocting and Immutative the Nutritive and Augmenting faculties which Fabricius would have to busie themselves onely about Hot Cold Moist and Dry without all knowledge do operate with as much artifice and as much to a designed end as the Formative faculty