Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	air_n	body_n	element_n	5,315	5	9.9100	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43447	The art of curing sympathetically, or magnetically, proved to be most true by its theory and practice exemplified by several cures performed that way: with a discourse concerning the cure of madness, and an appendix to prove the reality of sympathy : also an account of some cures perform'd by it in London / written originally in Latin by H.M. Herwig ...; Ars curandi sympathetice sive magnetice. English	Herwig, H. M. (Henning Michael).	1700 (1700)	Wing H1604; ESTC R21531	59,613	172

as the four first qualities Heat Cold Moisture Dryness and the second qualities which proceed from their intervention Those that proceed from Heat are the qualities of opening rarifying attenuating separation c. Those that proceed from Cold are thickning repelling condensing c. Those that proceed from Moisture softning and relaxation and from Dryness hardning c. 7. Accidents that are produced from the Form as it is living are the Faculties that operate under some determinate degree of life either vegetative sensitive or rational 8. Those that follow and are produced from the Form neither as it is mixt or living but as it is specifically such are neither the first qualities nor those that proceed from their intervention nor Powers contained under any determinate degree of life otherwise every mixt and living thing would possess them as the Anti-epileptick power in the Piony the attraction of Iron in the Magnet c. But from the force and power of the Form as it is precisely such for the particular Mode of a Substance is specifically determined by the Form to its due and fit qualities so that although the Form doth give Form to the Matter according to other Modes of Substance it does not produce in it such a quality as is evident in Rhubarb whose smaller parts have a laxative virtue and the thicker are restringent Mastick in one part is solutive so some Animals in one part carry Poison in another an Antidote It is to be observed that the affections that proceed from a faculty that arises from the Form of a thing as it is specifically such are accounted wonderful because their cause is not evident as others are and likewise because they work no change on any external sense as other affections are determined by the whole Substance because they proceed from a Form totally determined by the Matter as the Power of the Magnet c. are not called occult as if we were wholly ignorant of their nature but because they are not perceived by the external sence These are indeed fine and specious words but stand upon a weak foundation fabulous Peripateticism and if a storm should attack them they would without doubt perish under their own Rubbish And sirst supposing all Bodies to be mixt and to be composed of a collection of the Elements they offer the greatest violence to experience and right reason in regard Bodies which are supposed to be mixt are only the product of water impregnated with ferment as I have plainly demonstrated before in the beginning of this Treatise by evident Examples And in regard a Non-entity can have no passions how can qualities arise from the Form of a mixt that no where exists but admitting this how will those qualities which they call the first come by their original to wit Heat Cold Moisture Dryness which they produced immediately as it were out of the bosom of a mixt for those qualities equally belong to all things and not only to the first Elements as they pretend because all Bodies and all Air Water and Earth are capable of receiving heat or cold c. their Substance remaining unchanged nay even Fire itself may have greater or lesser degrees of Heat and the beams of the Sun are in themselves wet and dry and receive it not from Fire But the reason of that consequence is say they because mixts have those qualities as they contain the Elements either formally as some assert or virtually and eminently as others which in mixts are reduced into act by the advention of the form of the mixt and moreover if those qualities were called the first because they exist in the first Bodies the Elements then also gravity and levity which are called moving qualities would also be first qualities because they are also in the Elements For gravity and levity are equally indifferent with respect to heat or cold and many things are light or heavy in which not even potential heat or cold can be perceived but if gravlty and levity did proceed from heat or cold c. then those things would be lightest that participated most of Fire the contrary whereof is manifested in red hot Iron heated Stones c. because the fire doth not make them in the least lighter and so the Earth should be heavier than Gold Tin Copper c. which according to their suppositions being mixt bodies have more fire in them as was said before Neither do gravity and levity proceed from them mediately to wit by the mediation of rarity and density for then Oyl being thicker would not be lighter than Water and oyly substances would not swim upon the Water c. And if those first qualities as they call them do not rise from those things which are commonly called the Elements from whence will this suppositious Off-spring of theirs deduce its pedigree that is these second qualities which they will have to proceed from the intervention of the first which is impossible to prove although we should grant that heat and cold c. were the first qualities and do primarily exist in the first bodies For if they proceeded from the first qualities we could by them give an exact judgment of those first qualities which I will shew to be simply impossible by an example We can give no judgment concerning the first qualities from colours for almost all Herbs tho very different in their own natures are of a green colour Whiteness is in the cold Snow and hot Arsenick also in the Flower of a white Poppy and the Flower of Galangals and there is a milky juice in hot Wood-spurge and in cold Succory and Lettice 2. Neither can we make any judgment of the qualities from taste for bitter Opium cools and Camphire has a taste like hot Pepper the juice of Poppies refrigerates Acids as Vinegar Oyl of Sulphur of Vitriol juice of Barberies c. heat for they dissolve Coral Stones Pearls and Shells and dissolution and penetration are the Actions of Heat 3. Nor can we make any better judgment of these first qualities from Scents For first man of all Animals has the worst smell and many things that smell strong are cold as Camphire Opium Hemlock c. and many things that have scent are hot as Arsenick Mercury Verdigrease Cantharides c. Lastly no judgment can be given of the first qualities from thickness softness hardness subtilty dryness lubricity friability and roughness for there is none of them that proceed more from cold than heat as is evident from experience for many thick things are hot and many cold and so of the rest But also the qualities of the third rank which they call occult cannot proceed from the figuration of Matter by the form from the mixture of the Elements altho we should grant mixture the figure of the form of fire would only produce heat of water moisture c. and so they cannot any way produce occult qualities for they themselves grant they do not proceed from the first

qualities for example The Anti-epileptical virtue is in the Piony because its form is pre-determined from the precise form of the Elements that is either from the form of the Earth Water or Fire c. or from the mixture of two three c. But this cannot by no means be from the reason before laid down to wit the power of opening in the thinner parts of Rhubarb as it consists̄ of such parts nor of binding in the thicker parts and in Mastick for then all close and thick things would lay just claim to this propriety and on the other side the thinner which is contrary to experience And forasmuch as they say that qualities are not called occult because they not sufficiently are known to us but because they are not perceived by the external sences as others are either Sight is not an external sence as well as Taste or if it be the curve attraction of the Iron by the Magnet which the sight clearly discerns is more occult than moisture in the Water or heat in the Fire and Sun which is perceived by the feeling And in regard no body yet was ever capable to demonstrate why Fire is hot or Water moist any more than why the Magnet draws Iron c. then either all those qualities are occult or none For if the first qualities that are more intermediately subject to our sences are not more known than the occult much less the second that arise from them besides what things soever flow from one and the same principle one of them cannot be said to he more occult and the other less but all those qualities proceed from one and the same principle therefore c. There is nothing in what is compounded but Matter Form and Ferment but form is one and the same in all things Man only excepted therefore different qualities cannot proceed from it Matter is one and the same in all to wit Water and for the same reason cannot be the root and fountain of so many diverse qualities therefore smells tastes colours proportions and different figures proceed from ferment as from their original so also attractive repulsive sympathetical and antipathetical power proceed from it or from nothing for Water before it was fermented had neither taste smell or colour nor endued with so many different proportions nor purgative deleterious or antidotal cephalick splenetick hepatick or arthritical c. but according to the diversity of the ferments to which it is united it is capable of receiving myriads of signatures by this it becomes a Metal in Gold yellow in Silver white in Vermilion it is red in Vitriol green or blue elsewhere it becomes a Plant in Rue of a green colour with a sad coloured Flower it is bitter with a nauseous scent and has a quality of expelling poison with an antipathy to Coleworts Then it is an animal in the Tarantula of a dusky colour like a Spider of an hurtful quality to man c. but particularly to trace out how ferment by sporting is capable of producing so many signatures and proprieties is not my present design These things therefore being premised let us proceed to the original of forms which is so obscure and unknown that the whole doctrine of Sympathy and Antipathy hath hitherto remained quite uncultivated but that truth may if it be possible shine in these abstruse mysteries I have thought convenient to examine all the most celebrated opinions and see which of them will best explain the Phoenomena's of Nature and at last to lay down my own opinion concerning Forms The first then is the opinion of the Peripateticks asserting that there is a substantial form in sensitives and vegetables which with Matter doth make up the Compound These Forms they say are immaterial and incorporeal and are not composed of Matter as an essential part yet that they are material in as much as they depend on Matter in esse fieri operari but they do not understand what they say for if they are material they cannot either be subject to generation or corruption for Matter is neither generated c. neither can they inform Matter for then the same thing would inform itself if immaterial then they will not be subject to corruption and consequently not to generation Nothing can be produced from nothing but Forms have nothing but Matter or its accidents to arise from but according to their own confession they do not proceed from Matter a from an essential part therefore they must proceed from its accidents or from nothing but it cannot be from its accidents for then accidents would not only produce a form but create it Moreover form would not be a principle in regard it was produc'd from something else They say the form is produc'd from nothing of its own not nothing of its subject but this distinction will not remove the difficulty in regard they will not allow it to be made from a subject that is from Matter as an essential part therefore it is yet essentially produced from nothing If the form were produced out of the power of the matter it either would exist Matter or not not the latter because as was said before it is produced of nothing if the former its existence will be either physical or metaphysical not physical because Matter is pure power and a physical existence is act if it be only metaphysical as they distinguish how would Form receive a physical existence from Matter when no body doubts that it itself hath none Another opinion is that of the Epicureans who in regard they saw that Aristotle's opinion could not well be defended and substantial Forms seeming unaccountable to them denied that there were any such thing and had recourse to Atoms for the constitution and generation of a Natural Body saying that there were two principles of concrete Bodies Atoms and Vacuum the existence of Atoms and the things composed of them considering how much was added every hour to those things which grow slowly and how much those things diminished which were in a decaying state as in the nourishment of Vegetables and Animals and in insensible decreasings in the mean while not observing that Branches Leaves Flowers Fruits and Seeds every year become Trees that if every thing were exactly weighed we must allow that every hour they require several ounces of nutriment The same thing also happens in the nourishment of Animals if the quantity of the meat and drink that is received in be compared with the excrement and besides the trunk of Trees every year grows larger besides what leaves c. grow those that are of opinion that they require indivisible Atoms and that the matter cannot be performed any other way are confuted by the testimony of the sences in regard nothing as was proved before is required to the nutrition of Vegetables besides water Besides they say those Atoms are indivisible and altogether of the same nature on account of the identity of their matter whence there