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

part hurt be thrust into that place where Cocks use to be gelt a hole being cut open Platerus l. 2. de vit c. 5. proved it and found it so A noble Matron stayd bleeding at the nose by holding a bit of white chalk under the ring-finger on that side the nostrill bled Forest. l. 13. c. 10. Osorius writes also of Nahodaguca a Prince in the Kingdome of Malacca who was hurt with many wounds and fell down yet not one drop of blood came forth when he was stript and a bracelet of gold was taken off then it began to run That stone was said to have power to stop blood that was set in it It is taken out of beasts which the Sinenses call Cabrisias Osor. l. 7. de reb Afric et Indicis That it comes forth of a vein cut the distending of the vessels is the cause For the continuall motion of the arteries added to the veins doth presse the veins but if the veins be opened the blood comes forth because there is nothing to hinder it Hence when a vein is opened if one swoond the blood stops For the vitall spirit doth no longer distend the vessels Bartholin Probl. 5. It is observed that when a man is killed it will run forth if the murderer be present but when a man is drown'd it runs forth when friends are present When you ask the cause it is either motion and agitation that opens the orifices of the veins or Sympathy and Antipathy The revenge of the person is put for an Argument He that is grievously wounded becomes the Assailer saith Rhodigi● Thought greedily desires revenge choler burns suddenly for it the blood is presently inflamed with it and runs with all its force to the wound both to foment it and to revenge The spirits fly together and by an inbred leightnesse do fly about the Author of it by whose heat they continue and remain for some time Rhodig 3. Antiq. c. 12. It was of old thought to be a remedy for the Falling-sicknesse to drink man's blood yet warm It was the Devil's Invention who delights in the slaughter of men and to do them mischief The Wife of Marcus Antonius the Philosopher fell in love with a Fencer the Wizards were enquired of and they gave counsel to kill him and that Faustina should drink his blood the next time she lay with Caesar. It was so done and her love was ended but the boy born was of a fighting disposition and destroy'd the Common-wealth Jul. Capitolin Langius reports that the Son of a certain shepherd was faint-hearted for robberies but when he had eaten a crust of bread dipt in mans blood he was flesh'd for all villany The Carmani had this custom that at Feasts they would open a vein in their face and mingle the blood that ran forth with wine and so drink it holding it the end of their friendship to taste one the others blood But these things belong to the description of Wonders in Customes There is compounded a Lamp of life and death with mans blood whereof Ernestus Burgravius writes thus This Lamp or Light once lighted burns continually so long as that man of whose blood it was made doth live and at the very same moment that he di●s it will go out Know also that if the flame be bright rising high and quiet that Man feels nothing that troubles his Mind or Body But if it be otherwise and the flame rising twinckles diversly or is lower and clowdy and troubled it gives thee a sign of great sorrow and other passions For perpetually from the coelestiall influences bred with the Microcosme and from the naturall inclinations since that blood is nourished by the blood of that man and the body of the same from the substance of this very blood from which blood was as it were mutually taken to prepare it that flame shines according to the state and habit of that man in prosperity or adversity and so shews it self Sennertus and Deodate call this Pyromantia Artic. 4. Of Urine and Reins MAny things perswade us that there is somthing else contain'd in Urines beside the watery substance For in diseases they are made plentifully though men have drank nothing And it is observed that creatures that drink nothing will make water Physitians foretell many things by their colours thinnesse and thicknesse And Chymists find salt in Urine resolved But whatsoever that is it is call'd Serum and it is the superfluous salt matter in meats and drinks and is not fit for nutriment Salt is hid in meats to season them and that plants are full of salt you may find by distilling them It is very well known that divers kinds of salt may be fetched out of Urines Aegineta saith that artificiall Chrysocolla is made with Urine Nitre is made of earth moystned with the Urine and dung of living creatures Baccius shews the way His words are Saltpeter is made now a days by industry of a most sharp Lixivium that drains forth from old dung or rotten ordure from the matter of Churchyards and some earths that are rotted together the sane water being often powred on in wodden Vessels This Lixivium is boyld in great Cauldrons and Salt-peter is made long fibres growing hard in the bottom like to salt Hence Ruffus Ephesmus said that Urine was a nitrous humour that falls into the bladder de appel corp human c. 36. The Arabians write that in the Urine of those are bit with mad dogs the pictures of dogs may be seen Abenzoar But that seems to be attributed to the force of the Venom because it changeth exceedingly a mans constitution and makes it like to a doggs For the humours are so corrupted by it that some little creatures like to puppies are bred in the body Sennert l. 2. p. 2. s. 2. c. 4. Truly we find Worms to breed in the bladder for a woman voided one a span long and a noble maid voided many as great as wiglice Schenck l. 3. obs Also Charls Count of Mansfield voided one like a Magpie Duretus like a Hog-louse But one that had the stone of the bladder voided two with a sharp head with horns the back and belly were crusty and they were black and like Tortoises but that their belly was red Pareus l. 19. c. 3. Holler de morb intern Another voided a living Scorpion another shell-fish Schenk observ All know the urinary passage yet somtimes other things are voided by it The Sonne of Boninus made water a little beneath the glans and a Maid of a noble family at the Hague urin'd her Navel An old Vine dresser had it coming forth at an Ulcer of his left buttock a Souldier Voided it by his hip and thigh others by their belly Schenk in obser Fernel l. 6. Pathal c. 13. As for the Kidneys Gemma saw 3 or 4 Lib. 6 Cyclogn Wolphius and Columbus l. 15. Anatom saw but one They were seen fastned to the Liver by Holtzapfelius at Auspurg The fat of them

bones of an Embryo Bartholin de Pigm c. 6. In Marchia and Lusatia there was an entire skeleton found with the skull 2 foot and 3 fingers long Leonhardus Turnheuserus in German Pisone memorat l. 7. c. 84. Now because Coffins of the dead were often dug up in those parts the people think the Pigmies make them under ground In Winter they lye 20 foot deep about Whitsontide one cubit it is the opinion of the people Multitudes of Authours may perswade us to beleive that there was a Country of Pigmies amongst the rest C●esias Indicus writes thus Middle India hath blackmen that are called Pigmies and they speak the same language the rest of the Indians do they are very small for great part of them are but half a cubit high and the greatest of them is not above two cubits Their haire hangs as farr somtime below their knees they wear their beards longer than any men And so soon as their long beard is grown they use no clothing but they let their haire fall backwards much below their knees and their beard covers their fore-parts Then when they have covered their whole bodies with haire they girt themselves about with them instead of garments Also their Yard is so thick and so great that it will come down to their ankles They are also flat nosed and deformed Their sheep are no bigger than our Lambs their Oxen and Asses are like our Rams in greatnesse their Horses and Mules and other creatures to carry burdens are no bigger The King of the Indies hath 3000 of these Pigmies in his company For they are most cunning Archers They are very just use the same Laws the other Indians do They hunt Hares Foxes not with Dogs but with Crows Kites Rooks Eagles There is a lake amongst them that is 800 furlongs about upon which when the wind troubles it not oyle swims which some of these men take away from the middle of it in boats swimming through it with little ships and this they use They use also oyle of Sesama nuts but the best is taken out of that Lake So far he describes them Antonius Pigafetta found some of them in an Island of the Moluccas but Jovius l. 3. de rebus Muscovit saith they are in the Island Caphi beyond the Laplanders Lastly Odericus de reb Indic l. 3 saith he saw some but three hands breadth and that they begat Children at five yeares old CHAP. V. Of Generation Article 1. Of Seed THe Seed the most noble principle in Generation resists many injuries That appears even from this that the essence of many things can remain entire in many changes under another form Let a Goat be fed with many purgative herbs let the nurse drink the Goats-milk and it will purge the child that sucks her yet in the stomach of the Goat those herbs were changed into Chylus and the Chylus was made blood in the Liver and from blood milk in the Udder when the nurse drinks this milk again Chylus is made of it in the stomach blood of this Chylus in the Liver milk of this blood in her breasts I received it from one saith Sennertus worthy of credit de consens et dissens that from the froth of a mad dog that stuck upon a cloath little creatures were bred like to whelps It is wont being retain'd in Virgins and lusty Widows to get a venomous quality by corrupting in the matrix and it will cause strong symptoms For a malignant vapour flying up presseth the Intestines the Liver and the 〈…〉 and makes the breathing so small that it can hardly be perceived When any thing hangs over the parts of the privities or Navel toward the Diaphragma and ascending to the orifice of the stomach is perceived there followes presently panting of the heart aking of the heart swimming of the head and palenesse Whilest this continues a woman falls suddenly down and is deprived of breathing speech and sight many have layn so 3 dayes others have been buried as though they had been dead Vesalius dissected one to his great dishonour and sometimes a woman is affected with the Epilepsie Convulsion sits and raving and as the malignant vapour fall on this or that part so is she disquieted Sometimes wonderfull voyces are heard out of their bellies crying of frogs hissing of Serpents croking of Crowes crowing of Cocks barking of dogs which Gemma Frisius l. 1. c. 6. Cosmocrit thinks they do vary as the passages and the spirits that break forth are proportioned The Daughters of the President of Roan did alwaies laugh and would not cease from it Holler de intern morb It happens sometimes that imagination being hurt they grow sick of melancholy and think the Devill is present also they fall into the fury of the womb and wandring melancholy this principally is of force in February and is heaped up in winter When they are so affected they will speak divers things and divers wonders in strange tongues Physitians say they will desire to lye with those they meet they will talk in the night and hide themselves in tombs Henr. Petreius Nosolog Harmon Discours 3. We read that the Virgins of Miletus affected with this disease offered violence to themselves The order of formation is this First of all the membranes that surround the Infant are made For in these the nobler part of the seed is included and the heat of the spirit and seed is covered after After this all the spermatick parts are delineated and as their dignity is so is each of them made in its order Yet some are perfected sooner some later Hence at the first time of conception there appear 3. bubbles as it were swelling with spirits which are the rudiments of the Brain Heart and Liver and an innumerable company of threds that are the beginnings of veins nerves and arteries and as it were the foundations of the solid parts Sennert l. 1. Institut c. 9. Artic. 2. Of menstruous Blood and Milk THe coldness of Women generation is the cause that all blood is not wasted in them yet because they are not alwaies with Child it is then collected in the vessels about the matrix and is cast forth every month that they may not feel the burden of it wherefore Physitians call them monthly terms They begin to be cast forth when they are young Maids the bottom or neck of the matrix determins the manner of the flux It is observed that a fresh maid with great brests hanging down which had hair under her arm-pits and on her privities had her courses five yeares together without any hurt Schenk l. 4. observ Nature if it cannot find the ordinary way seeks another passage A Maid of Saxony had her Terms come forth of her eys A Nun had them came forth of her ears Pareus his Wife had them by her nostrills A Maid at Sturgard vomited them up A Maid in the Island Chios spit them up Amatus speaks of some

great ones are two fingers thick the smaller but one Those are four hands breadth long these but three they make a sharp noise Apothecaries shut them up in glasses and hang them down from a beam and feed them with bread for a long time Sometimes they come forth of Rivers that run in Fenny grounds and come far into the Land by the veins of the banks and sometimes into Cellars Theophrastus writes That in Caves they feel nothing because their senses are stupified but when they are boyl'd in a pot and when they are dug up they will stirre In a certain River of the East-Indies there are fishes call'd Tuberones they are so greedy that one of them catcht at a man standing on the side of the Ship and first bit off his foot and next his hand Linschotten in Navigat It is almost incredible that the same man writes namely That a Ship coming from Mozambique went backward 14 dayes though the wind were good for it and nothing to hinder it and that was found by every dayes observation of the Suns heighth And when the doubtful Marriners enquired for the cause of it and thought they had been bewitched at last a fish was found under the Ship and they collected that this fish carried the Ship on his back the contrary way against the force of the wind For so soon as with much ado they had driven this fish away they sailed forward very well The History is painted in the Palace of the Deputy-King of Goanum with the Name of the Pilote the Year and the Month. Blefhenius writes in his description of Islandia That in the Island Sea there is a Monster the name he knowes not but they take it to be a kind of Whale when he puts his head above the Sea he doth so fright men that they will fall down almost dead He hath a head is four square flaming eyes and it is fenced about with black horns His body is black and set about with black feathers If he be seen at Night at any time his eyes seem fiery that all his head that is thrust above the Sea may be seen by it Olaus l. 12. makes mention of it and saith it is 12 cubits long So much for Fish The End of the Ninth Classis OF THE DESCRIPTION Of Naturall VVonders The Tenth Classis Wherein are set down the Wonders of MAN WHosoever thou art that dost unjustly determine the condition of Man consider how great things our Mother Nature hath given unto us how much more strong Creatures are under our subjection how we can catch those that are much more swifter than our selves that nothing that is mortal is not under our power We have received so many Vertues so many Arts and lastly a Soul swifter than the Stars for it will out-run them in their motions that are to be performed many years after and in one moment penetrates into whatsoever it is intent about Seneca CHAP. I. Of Man in generall HItherto I have described irrational living Creatures Man followes next of whom we shall speak in order according to his actions natural vital animal and rational And first of his proportion This is so excellent and admirable that it cannot be more The body of Adam was made out of the Earth and ours of 3. small drops of seed and as much blood poured forth like milk and framed like to cruddled cheefe of the same matter are so many and so divers parts made The whole structure consists of above 200 bones to support it and as many cartilages all the joynts are smeered with all are joyn'd together with many ligaments and cloathed with innumerable membranes the vast mass of the members are watered with above 30 paire of nervs as with little cords and all the parts are sprinkled with as many arteries as with water pipes filld with foming blood and vital Spirits the empty places are filled up and the entralls covered with almost 400 Muscles and flesh of divers sorts as with flocks and lastly all is covered about with skin The Image of God is in it his mind represents the same and it hath included in it the forces and temperament of all the creatures You shall find many men that have an Ostrich stomack many that have the Lyons Heart not a few have the heart of a Dogg many of a Sow and infinite there are that are like the Asse by nature Alexander the Great had such a symmetry of humours that his spirits and humours and also his dead body smelt as sweet as natural balsom because in man as in the Centre as in a knot or little bundle the original and seminary cause of all creatures lye bound up Vegetables are nourished and increased by the balsom-like Spirits of Mineralls animals of vegetables and by them of mineralls but man for whom all things were created is nourished and augmented by the balsamick spirits of animals vegetables and mineralls wherefore there is reason that he should consist of all ●hese Wherefore in man there do flowrish and produce fruit that are messengers of health or sicknesse both the balme violets Germander namely the Spirits of the Heart Brain and Liver the Nettle Wake-Robin Crowfoot as Pushes Scabs Creeping sores Also there are wrought in man mineral separations that appeare in paroxysms of Vitriol Alum Salt of Gemma of the Colcothat Tartar as the Leprosy Elephantiasis Morphew Cancer discovering themselves in several Tinctures and Signatures Nor are aqueal generations wanting as Gold Silver Tin Copper Iron Lead the Heart Brain Liver Reins Stomach There are found in our bodies Mines out of which stones are dug the stones of the Bladder and Kidneys not to build but to destroy the house The head is the Fort of mans mind the seat of reason the habitation of Wisdom and the shop of memory judgment and cogitations possessing the highest place doth it not represent the uppermost and angelicall part of the World You have the middle and the Caelestial part in the Thorax and in the middle belly exactly set forth For as when the Sun riseth the upper parts are enlightned and all the lower parts are enlivened but contrarily when the Sun departs they grow cold and tend to ruine so by the perpetuall motion of the heart and by the vital heat thereof all things flourish and there is a plentifull harvest of rejoycing to be perceived but when that is darkned by cares sorrows fears and other Clowds all the parts are debilitated and at last dye Who sees not the sublunary part of the World expressed in the lower belly In it are containd the parts that serve for nutrition concoction and procreation Perhaps you will want the Dukedome of the Planets in this little world Behold the flowing marrow of the brain represents the moystning power of the Moon the genital parts serve for Venus the Instruments of eloquence and comelinesse do the office of witty Mercury the Sun and the Heart hold the greatest proportion Man's Liver the