united Seminalties of Male and Female as from two partiall Causes mutually contributing their Efficiencies one principle and third totall Causes should result from which one motion or mutation though distinctly regulated should advance to the production of the infant For the efficiency of the masculine injection carries the greater stroak in Conformation and is more virtuall then the Feminine The prolifick Ejaculations of both sexes received into the womb Conceptio are by the proper innate productive faculty thereof conserved and cherished and the plastick Conformator which lay concealed in the seed is called forth excited and impregnated and begins the delineation or organization of the Infant Ordo Formationis The parts first formed are the two membranes in which the more divine and spiritual parts of the seed are inwrapped that enshroud the Infant Membrana Faetus one whereof is called the Amnios or Lawn shirt that immediately invests the Infant the other Chorion or the girdle which enrolls it and is the supportment of the Umbelick vessels and the cause of its adhaesion to the Cotyledones or cakes of the womb which two involutions conjoyned make the secundine or after-birth The feminine prolification thus expansed into filmy integuments Partes spermaticae delineantur and the new kindled Diety enspheared the spermatick parts obtain seniority of conformation and are spun out into a numberlesse number of fine slender filaments which are the stamina or ground-work of the solid parts and by a Texture farre too fine and cunning for the fingers of Arachne woven into three bullous orbs or conglobations Theird delineation thus dispatched Sanguis maternus the parts by the nutritive apposition of the other fertile principle the maternal blood advance to increment and majoration And for this purpose the wise contriver of both worlds hath ordained from the fourteen to the forty-fifth year of life in eucratical bodies a natural Plethora and providence exuberancy of blood Menstruorum causa finalis in teeming and ingravidated women to become the Infants sustentation or in vacancy of praegnation lest it overcharge and prove offensive to be by periodick monthly conflux transmitted to the womb and thence excluded The infant having from the mother received the rudiments of the sanguineous parts Vasa umbiliealia 1. Vena umbilicalis the conformator frames a vein 2. Arteriae duae two arteries and the urachus 3. Vrachus convening about the navill and wreaths them into one contorted umbilicality or quadripartit Navill string the vein being a surcle of the Port vein and inserted into the fissure of the Liver is the Nurse provided to suckle the Infant The arteries are two twinn branches of the Iliacall descendent Arteries and the conduits by which the best portion of the arteriall blood and spirits is derived to the Heart of the new production The Uracus is a derivation from the Bladder to the Navill After parturition the use of all these ceasing they are by coalition and exiccation degenerated into Ligaments The age or more truly the non-age of the Infant in the womb is distinguished into the time 1. of Formation Tempus formationis which extends from the Conception to the Calcitration or quickening and 2. of Exornation or perfection which is computed from the motion to parturition Others otherwise divide it into the time 1. of formation Tempus calcis trationis which in the account of Hippocrates lasts to the thirtieth day in Masculine and to the fortieth in Feminine Conceptions 2. Of motion which the vulgarity of Physicians concede to be in the third month in males in the fourth in females 3. of parturition which is so various that whosoever can definitively calculate nobis erit Magnus Apollo The wise ignorance of Hippocrates confirms the incertitude thus Lib. de Alimento ad conformationem Soles triginita quinque ad motionem septuaginta ad perfectionem ducenti decem Alti tradunt ad formam 45 ad motionem 76. ad exitum 20. requiri Alii adspeciem 50. ad primum saltum 100. ad perfectionem 30. Ad distinctionem 40. ad transitionem 80. ad elapsum 240. c. But our experience establisheth above the possibility of eviction that no conception which hath an immature exit before the expiration of 6 months partaks vitality Hippocr 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 puer septimo mense natus certa ratione prodiit vitalis est cum is rationem numerum exactè ad hebdomadas respondentem liabet Octavo autem mense natus numquam vixit Novem autem mensium dierum faetus editur vitalis est numerumque ad hebdomadas exactè respondentem habet Quatuor nempe decades hebdomadarum dies sunt ducenti octoginta That the aborted issue of the seventh month usually lives and may if virile and vigorous be cherished to maturity that Octomestral births are ever fatal if the Doctrine of Hippocrates hold good but that most legitimate happy Tempus partus and frequent time of Parturition is the ninth month and that the enixation or delivery usuall fals out between the fifteenth day of the ninth month and the fifteenth of the tenth of the gestation But although in the observations of Physicians there stand recorded divers undecimestrall duodecimestral and elder editions yet such overshoot mediocrity and are to be filed in the legend of rarities and sportive miracles of nature Though the months by which we compute the Gestation arer solary yet from these the lunary conjunctions of twenty nine daies and twelve howers are not in the main much discrepant neither is this laborious artifice confined to any certain minute punctilios of time For as the magnality of human resemination is withdrawn from our comprehension so is the indefinity of its time the discouragment of our determination CHAP. VI. Of the Vital faculty Facultatum ordo et dignitas THe human Soul De facultatum concentu et principatus or dine videatur Fernelius lib. 5. de Animae Facultatibus Cap. 17. though still an absolute Monarch divides her Empire into a triarchy nd governs by the dispensation of a Triumvirate The three Viceroves though they are absolutely distinct by their commissions and keep their courts in severall Regions are by so indissoluble a league and sympathetick allyance united that the prosperity of one enlarges the principalities of the other and the detriment of each threatens the integrity of all The natural or vegetative Faculty claimes superiority in order of procreation as being governour of our minority and commanding the first tertio of our life the vital merits preheminence in order of necessity as transmitting a soveraign and conservatory influence without which the other must in the fleetest article of time be deposed for ever The Animal challenges supremacy in order of excellency as regulating the diviner actions sence and motion to which as to their perfection the two former are destined Thus every one of
these rulers is supream and yet they are all equal The vital faculty Facultas Vitalis by proper actions and peculiar Organs absolutely distinct from the natural animal is seated in its own royal Throne the heart The 3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thumetick powers resident in the Heart all comprehended under the name vital are first the faculty Generative of the arterial blood and spirits 2. of the vital conservatory Heat 3. the Pulsifick or motive official to the former From the irascible faculty Fac. Irascibilis stream all the Pathemata affections or passions of the mind Anger Animi Pathemata Mansuetude Audacity Fear Hope Despair Dejection or Prostration of the spirit Joy Sorrow and others of the same Classis that are either compoūded of or dependent on the former Of these passions some are performed materialiter seu per modum causae efficientis by expansion or excentrick motion of the vital Heat Blood and Spirits of this order are Anger Joy c. others by concentration of the same as Fear Sorrow c. but formaliter all are nothing but the motions of the Appetite either in prosecution of the delectable and friendly or flight and retreat from the odious and offensive object of which the former causeth an expansion or circumferentiall salley the latter a retraction or concentrick retreat of the vital blood and spirits But these appetitions or irascible and concupiscible motions cannot be executed but the agitation of the Heart Arteries and fervent spirituous blood From this we receive satisfaction why the Facultas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of necessity hath its residence assigned in a part of the hottest temperature and endued with the power of perpetual agitation The situation of the heart is though vulgarly deluded by the sensation of its pulse Cordis Situs and the sinister declination of its mucro or cone oppinion it to be placed in the left side in the center of the body if in our measure we except the thighes and legs and its Basis or Center fixed in the middle of the Thorax or middle region of the body that from it as from a plentiful fountain the vital Heat and spirits may be promptly diffused into the whole body The ventricles Ventriculi cavities or closets of the heart are two the right and left the right does by Diastole or dilatation suck in blood from the gapeing ostiary or floud-gate of the ascendent hollow vein by its intenser fire cohobate refine and rarify it the more subtile and meteorized part whereof is through the Foramina or capillary perforations of the septum interstitiary skreen which notwithstanding Columbus Spigelius Hoffmannus and our Hippocrates Septum interstitium Doctor Harvie will by no means admit of or partition wall betwixt both ventricles transcolated into the left ventricle the other parcel passeth by the Vena Arteriosa into the lungs and one small portion of it converts into the Aliment of the Lungs the remainder is transported by the Arteria Venosa into the left Chamber of the heart These businesses which we are sorry to confesse more the imployment of our wonder Cardis motus then our knowledge are transacted by a certain admirable and uncessant motion of the Heart whereby in the diastole 1. Diastole the extremities of it are contracted and the mucro or point ravelled up towards the Basis so that the Heart in longitude abbreviated and in latitude expansed but in the Systole or Compression it is by coangustation of the sides enlarged in longitude 2. Systole and diminished in latitude But since to the regeneration of vitall spirits and Arteriall blood are required two necessary ingredients Venal blood and the Aer and these two materiall principles cannot by one and the same motion bee attracted besides these two Ventricles recipient and elaboratory there are superadded two notable Cavities Christned by Anatomists Auriculae processes or superstructions on each side one extending to the surperior part of the Ventricles The uses whereof are 1. to inspire Aer for the refocillation or recreation of the vitall spirits and to bee the Hearts promptuaries or storehouses to receive the blood and Aer that they may not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with too suddain an impetuosity rush into the heart and cause suffocation 2. to fortifie and guard the Vena Arteriosa Arteria Venosa to which they are adjoyned 3. according to the doctrine of Hippocrates Lib. de Corde to serve the heart in stead of a Fan or Refrigeratory for they are therefore distended because impleted whereas the Heart by a motion quite contrary to this is therefore impleted because distended That the Heart in its Contraction and Expansion might be guarded from impediments Pericardium Nature hath constituted it a capacious membranous domicilium or Tent called the Pericardium or Purse of the heart the use whereof is 1. to defend the heart in its motion from the shocks of the circumjacent parts 2. to contain the serous Humor wherein as in Balneo the heart is refrigerated moystned and its motion facilitated Moreover since nothing can have ingresse to Vasa and regresse from the heart but through Conduits and Sluces there are for this purpose ordained four conspicuous vessells in the Basis of it two in the right and two in the left ventricle of the heart in the right are the vena Cava vena arteriosa 1. Vena Cava in the left Arteria magna Arteria Venosa 1. The hollow veine with an ample and patent orifice looks into the right sinus of the heart and into it drops blood for the generation of Arterial blood the vitall spirits and provision for the Lungs Others notwithstanding opinion that the blood redistilled and elaborated in this preparatorie is immediately distributed through the whole body 2. Vena arterialis 2. the vena Arterialis is the derivatory of blood from the right ventricle of the heart to the Longs for their nutrition and the principall materiall of the vitall spirit and blood Arteria venalis 3. The Arteria Venosa conducts the Aer extrinsecally advenient and prepared in the Lungs and the blood by the Vena Arteriosa effused from the right into the left ventricle and expells the fuliginous Exhalations and at the sameinstant conveies a parcel of the vital spirits into the Lungs 4. Aorta 4. The Aorta or grand Arterie dispenseth the vitall spirits and Arteriall blood after their Exaltation in the left ventricle into the whole body These four Sanguiducts Hippocr Lib. de Corde calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. the Fountaines of Human Nature and fructifying rivulets wherewith the purple Iland is irrigated But since each of these four Considerable vessels is ordained to a double use Ex. Gr. the Arteria Venosa doth not onely suck in Aër from the Lungs and inspire it into the left Ventricle of the Heart but also returns up the vitall spirit
everlasting light the unspotted mirror of the power of God and the image of his goodnesse ver 27. And being but one she can do all things and remaining in her self she maketh all things new c. Wherefore let us turn over leafe to our easier Lesson the Body CHAP. III. Of the Human Body and its Functions THE Human Body is by the Eternall Architect contrived and composed of Parts 1. Similar or simple which are so subdivisible 1. Similaris that every minute atomicall particle is of the same substance with the whole 2. Dissimilar Compound 2. Dissimilaris Organicall or instrumental which may be resolved or undone into lesser compound parts substantially different as the Hand may not bee divided into other hands but into Bones Muscles Veines c. To the Similar and Dissimilar is required Unity and Integrity to the Similar considered distinctly is required a just harmonious Temper to the Organicall is required decent Composition and comely Conformation which according to the Variety of Actions in each distinct member is various and severall The Temperament Temperamentum quid Crasis or Constitution is one moderrte harmonious actually simple quality resulting from the intense degrees of the four first Elementary qualities by mutuall Action and Passion in Commistion refracted and allayed And this is double 1. that which belongs to the Body quatenùs simply mixed and Compound 2. that which pertaines to it quatenùs Animate and living For in death this vanishes together with the life but in the Carcase untill its universall resolution by putrefaction the parts a long time Conserve the former Though this temper of living man which results from the harmony and determinate Conspiracy of all parts be Hot and Moist and life subsist in the same materiall principles yet there is framed a great variety of parts of which the most exquisit in Temper is the skin especially that of the Hand 1. In the Classis of Hotter parts is first ranked the Heart 2. the Liver 3. Spleen 4. Flesh of the Muscles 5. Kidnies 6. Lunges 7. Veines 8. Arteries 9. The softer oleaginous Fat or Grease 10. The harder Fat or Tallow 2. The colder are 1. the Bones 2. Cartilages or Gristles 3. Ligaments 4. Tendons 5. Nerves 6. Membranes 7. Spinall Marrow 8. Brain 3. The moister are 1. Fat 2. Marrow of the Bones 3. Brain 4. Spinal Marrow 5. Testicles 6. Duggs 7. Lunges 8. Spleen 9. Kidneies 10. musculous Flesh 11. Tongue 12. Heart 13. Softer Nerves 4. The dryer are 1. Bones 2. Ligaments 3. Tendons 4. Membranes 5. Arteries 6. Veines 7. harder Nerves This Temper proper to the body Animate consists of the Calidity Calidum innatum 1 innate or primitive 2. influxive or advenient This Calidity ingenerate subsists in the Callidum innatum For by the Calidum innatum we understand not a bare quality divorced from but resident in its subject Humidum radicale This increated Heat consists of the implanted spirit and primigenious Moisture and is exactly defined the radicall moysture exquisitely perfusEd dashed or incorporated with the implantate Spirit Spiritus insitus and native warmth For these three viz. Heat Spirit and Originary Balsame are by so subtile and firm an Union married that they admit no possibility of divorce or Extraction Which mysterious trine-unity the amazed Philosopher Lib. 2. de Gen. Animal cap. 3. calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This Originary heat disseminated and diffused principally in the spermatick parts called by Arist 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but chiefly radicate and seated in the heart for the same reason by Galen surnamed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Focum Calidi innati Is the grand instrument whereby the Soul doth enterprise and perform all her actions corporeal and is the Taper of life which while drenched with a wealthy revenue of primitive oyle diffuseth a vigorous and orient lustre In the second or consistent age when there is no contributing unto but a prodigal wast of the unctious pretious fuel begins to wane and yeelds but pale and sickly flames in the last age or natural marasm for extream poverty winks out and an everlasting midnight succeeds The influent conserves fosters Calor influens and invigorats the congenerate heat by mediation of the spirits which are most subtle volatile bodies materially the most refined meteorized exalted part of the blood associated with the Calidum innatum become the proxim and principal instrument in the execution of all actions and enable the faculties of the Soul to arrive at the second act That these spirits are the tie or obligation of the Faculties and that the Faculties flow from the more into the lesse noble parts by the coadjutancy of them is a Doctrine popular yet discordant to truth For since the faculties are inseparable proprieties of the Soul she is diffusively equally resident in every part we shall affront our reason not to infer that she is every where richly provided of her own efficacious faculties and receives them not at second hand or by the indigent way of mutuation Great is the variety of opinions concerning these spirits Spiritus numero tres viz. for one sect substracts them to a numberlesse unity a second multiplies them to a superfluous plurality a third and most regular computes a a trinity to which opinion as in neerest cognation to verity we adhere For though the originary material of them all be the same viz. the purified and most sublimed part of the blood yet they admit a divers impression and distinct form according to the diversity of parts wherein they receive elaboration and spirituousnesse and are comparated and destined to divers and distinct uses and are only 1. the Natural 2. Vitall 3. Animal Concerning the existence of the natural Spirit 1. Naturalis many suspend their determination and we although we admit it into the number of spirits must acknowledge no small graduall difference betwixt it and the two other neither do we concede it charged with the same office that the other bear Generated it is in the liver contained in the veines and is a subtle spiritual body produced from the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or rarefaction of the blood and becomes a subministred material to the Vital spirit Which all men concede to be generated in the left ventricle of the heart from the Natural spirit 2. Vitalis flowing into the right Ventricle of it there attenuated and more elaborate and the aire attracted by inspiration and dilatation of the Arteries This spirit is not only in the heart concurring with the innate heat of the same the principal instrument of all its actions but by the arteries diffused into the whole body cherishes excites and impraegnates the congenerate heat in every part whence it derives the appellation of Calidum influens This also is the prime materiall of the Animal spirit The partiality of some 3. Animalis to magnifie the prerogative and enlarge the dominion of
Valvulae and Artrerial blood to the Lunges and belcheth out the smoaky Exhalation that the substances admitted into the Heart may not rebound back by the same way they entered before they have attained full trāsmutation and intended perfection or what is effused from the Heart may not remeate into it again the omniscient Contriver hath annexed eleven Values or Flood-gates to the orifices of these vessels two to the Arteria Venosa and three apiece to the other three To the Vena Cava are signed three called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tricuspides three-pointed Values that look inwards that the blood may have intraction into the right Ventricle but no regression into the hollow veine 2. Contrarily those of the Vena Arteriosa named from their figure Sigmodies Semi-Cynthian Values shut inwardly but open outwardly that the blood may have Eructation but be denied readmission 3. the two Janitors allowed to the Arteria Venosa being conjoined represent an Episcopall Mitre open outwardly and shut inwardly and forbid the reflux of the emitted vitall spirit and fuliginous expiration 4. Those affixed to the Grand Arterie are three semicircular or halfmooned look outwardly and occlude inwardly that the Arteriall blood and vitall spirit powred out for the vivifying supportment of the whole may not remeat into the left Ventricle The Ductus Pipes or Conduits Arteria through which the heart transmits vitall heat spirits and blood to the whole body are branches of the Aorta which are also dilated and contracted Pulsus quid and by this motion draw in the Ambient Aer through the spiramina or slender evaporatories of the skin and distribute the vitall spirits and arteriall blood which motion of the heart and Arteries is called the Pulse Which consists of two Contrary motions a Diastole or dilatation Arteriarum 1. Diastole a Systole or Coanguistation after a momentary respite or articulate intervall of time mutually succeeding each other 1. in the Diastole the heart is impleted with Aer and Blood drawn in from the Lunges by the Arteria Venosa and the Arteries through their subcutaneous orifices attract a convenient quantity of the environing Aer 2. in the Systole the heart 2. Systole by the great Arterie delivers out vitall heate and Arteriall blood invigorated with vitall spirits for the Conservation of all and by the Arteria Venosa discharges the smoky effumations and the Arteries by their small ostiaries squeeze out their vaporous superfluities which action is termed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 insensible Transpiration Again Pulmones in the regard the inspired Aer must part with its intense frigidity be refracted and suffer some graduall mutation before it penetrate to the heart the prudent Conformator hath instituted Respiration provided 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Respirators Lungs as the praeipuous Organs thereof For although the Thorax and other neighbouring parts may be allowed causes sine qua non and contribut their inserviency to respiration modo secundario yet primarily as from its Causator this motion flowes from the Lungs to which as well as to the heart and brain by the inviolable Charter of Nature is granted a peculiar innate power to dilate and contract themselves * Et si meritò concedamus hanc de Pulmonum thoracis motu litem nostro arbitrio discerni non posse tamen motum Pulmonum ab insita iis facultate non thoracis motum sequi prosicisci veritati maximè consentaneum videtur peritissimorum Anatomicorum observationibus ac rationibus confirmatur which in living Anatomies and vulnerary perforations of the Thorax may with easie animadversion be confirmed For neither is Respiration a motion arbritrary or dependent on the injunctiō of our wil nor are the Lungs dilated ob fugamvacui which would accuse Nature of the want of forecast and shifting into one absurdity to avoid another when the Thorax is distended but they are moved by their owne inherent virtue respiratory and the Lunges and Thorax are therefore in one and the same instant moved because they conspire to one and the same end But that this might be with the greater convenience performed and the Lungs have a room accommodate to their motion the Animall Faculty at the same instant moves the Thorax These two motions keep time together and observe so even a proportion in Expansion Coarction that some have thence hinted the error that they are regulated by one and the same faculty Neither are the lungs distended because repleted as a bladder by the inflation of Aer but since there is no inflatorie instrument that should from without puffe Aer into them are therefore repleted because dilated as in a bellous the cause of its repletion is dilation This 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Respiration is compounded of two contrary successive motions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Inspiration and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Expiration 1. Inspiratio and a short quies intervening 1. In inspiration the Lungs and Thorax being dilated the Aer by the mouth and nostrils is drawne in for the fanning and refrigeration of the heart and generation of the vital spirits 2. Expiratio 2. In Expiration the Lungs and Thorax being compressed the Fuliginous Excrements which in winter when the intense frigidity of the furrounding aire condenses them are visible are by the mouth and nostrils excluded And for this reason Excrementa Fuliginosa that both a plentiful proportion of Aer may be sucked by and contained in them the Lungs in magnitude proportionably exceed any other of the Viscera and have obtained a porous spongy substance The Fistula or Cane that conveys the inspired Aer from the mouth and nostrils into the lungs Aspera Arteria Ejus is the Aspera Arteria or Trachea with our Nation the Weazon or Wind-pipe whose superiour part from the Larynx to the Bronchi is one single trunc Bronchi but the inferior is devaricated into innumerable smaller branches or disseminations by Hippocrates surnamed Syringae and distributed into all quarters of the lungs for their total implection with Aer which the vessells extended from the heart receive and defer into the ventricles of it And since we cannot the shortest account of time survive the defect of Aer both to ventilate and allay the fervour of our cordial fire which would else intend to conflagration and terrify our heart to Cynders Conformationis ratio and to recruit our vitall spirits so prodigally exhausted This Aspera Arteria is contrived of many round annular or rather sigmoidall Cartilages connexed by intermediate ligaments that by this structure it might be alwaies kept open and we secured from strangulation which immediately succeeds its concision But that our deglutition might not prove our destruction and no part of our meat and no more of our drink then may only betermed a guttulous irrigation might drop down into the Trachea or rough arterie to the hazard of suffocation providence hath in the upper
parts in the lower region And thus the spleen doth not only drein and purifie but is also enriched with the faculty of sanguification and doth generate blood though courser and more fixible then that of the Liver But the remainder which is wholy excrementitious and unconvertible is secluded partly into the Hoemorrhoid veines partly into the trunc of the Port vein and partly by the splenetick arteries The Chylus by the officiall selection of the spleen Sanguificatio thus clarified is delivered up to the Liver and by the transubstantiating Haematopoiesy thereof perfectly metamorphosed into blood which from thence by the ascendent and descendent trunc of the hollow veine and its capillary disseminations is by universal distribution communicated to all parts of the body But as in every concoction Bilis Flava so in this of sanguification there redound two invincible superfluities 1. Choler or the fiery excrement which is collected into thee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bilious receptacle or gall and after a convenient intervall of time from thence through the cholerick chanell excerned into the duodenum gut becomes the bodies natural glyster and by its acrimony extimulates the bowels to the exclusion of ordure 2. The salt whey or lixiviated serositie which is through the emulgent veines sucked in by the Kidneys in them percolated and from them discharged through the Vreters into the Urinary receptacle or bladder and then called Vrine Serum For the Urine is nothing else but the Aquosity or serous Humidity of the Chyle Vrina impregnated or satisfied with the superabundant and indigestible salt of our diet And this is familiar to vulgar disquisition not onely from the affections and symptomes occasioned by it but from the large quantity of salt drawn of Urine when the aqueous humidity is Evaporated The blood Sanguis which for the generall sustenance thereof 1. Temperatus is distributed into the whole body 2. Biliosus although contained under 3 Melancholicus and managed by one single form yet disparted is Heterogeneous 4. Pituitosus and the more benigne and temperate division of it is blood properly and distinctly so called the igneous or hot and dry is called Choler the Aqueous or cold and moist is called phlegme the Terrene or cold and dry is called Melancholy And of all these there is no part Excrementitious or unalimentary but while under the wholsome Government and Soveraign Lawes of Eucrasie is wholy digestible and nutritive This Blood or Soveraign Nectar being Circulated Circulatis sanguinis de qua vid. Epist Walaei ad Thom. Bartholin Lib. doctissimi nostr Anatomici Guliel Harveij Angli a voyage or two through the numerous slender meanders and Capillary divarications of the Veines and Arteries is wafted to each individuall part according to the Crasis of each distinct part admits a peculiar distinct impression and is at length transubstantiated and assimilated But since in this Elaboration Humores Secundarij the blood undergoes successive transformations Philosophy conced's the Generation of four secundary Humors succeeding each other in existence and that the blood by these four mutations doth gradually ascend to Assimilation 1. Innominatus The first of these Humors is called assuredly the first Imponent had no very large nomenclature since he was driven to assign it this name Anonymos Namelesse the second is called Ros 2. Ros. the Dew 3. Gluten the third Gluten or the viscid glutinous the fourth Cambium 4. Cambium because it exchanges its own nature for that of the part to which it is applyed And in this last and most exquisite Concoction also there remaines a pleonasmus or redundancy of excrements the one whereof are those strigments and sordid adhaesions to the skin Strigmenta the other is that watery serous matter which is partly discussed per 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by invisible transpiration and partly excluded by sweat Sudor And for the Convenient Evacuation of these Excrements the skin was constituted porous and transpirable CHAP. V. Of Generation AND God saw every thing that he had made Generatio and behold it was very good This is the reason why the Creature so abhors dissolution and endeavours to perpetuate its Verity that is conformity to the primitive idea in the supreme intellect For so much bettr is it to be though in the miserable Condition of something then in the horrid obscurity of nothing that if some guesse aright the Devill though he might evade his torments would not consent to his own annihilation But since this desire of eternity can in sublunary Animals be satisfied onely in part for individualls must perish upon their own principle and the same flames which kindled them to life must become their funerall Taper and light them back to elements Nature hath contrived a way to immortality by the succession of the species propagated by Generation And by this way man whose ingredients confesse his mortality not onley since but before his Fall relieves himself from totall regression into the oblivion of his first Chaos and becomes superior to the tyranny of Corruption by the immortality his issue Now this Generation or act of the Vegetative Faculty is performed by the seminality of Male and Female Semen principium Generation is quid inheriting fertility from the fruitfull benediction of the Creator in Crescite multiplicamini And this Generative materiall as made of the purest part of the blood and finest spirits both Vitall and Animall flowing by the veines Sennertus Lib. Inst 1. c. 10. Qui semen famininum prolificum esse vimque agendi in se continere existimant ij mihi prohabiliorem defendere sententiam videntur Et non solùm eo nituntur quod semen faemininum à similibus organis generetur atque in venere cum eadem oblectatione excernatur c. Nos statuimus utrumque sexum suum ad Generationem conferre 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 neutrius sexus semen seorsim sumptum sed utriusque conjunctum in utero Faeminae ritè unitum esse semen prolificum faecuncum c. Plato Atteries and Nerves into the Testicles whereby their Spermatopoietick power it is converted into a white spumous spirituous substance containing the perfect Idea of each individuall part This prolific Contribution Aristotle will not allow the Faemale sex but conceives their parts onely recipient for the masculine injections but if wee consult our reason and our sence wee cannot but attest the contrary For Femalls have instruments officiall both to spermification and Emission are invited to and act Congression with the same libidinous orgasmus and pleasant fury that the Males do and their Seminary Emissions ahve been discovered to the ocular scrutiny of many Neither do Male and Female differ in specie but sexu Yet the singleseed of either sex is not sufficient to procreation but such is the institution of the Creator that from the