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suam : ut flamma, quae super halitus et oleosa multipli- 

 cat se, et general novam flammam ; aer, qui super 

 aquam et aquea multiplicat se, et generat novum 

 aerem : spiritus vegetabilis et animalis, qui super tenui- 

 ores partes, tarn aquei quam oleosi, in alimentis suis 

 multiplicat se, et generat novum spiritum ; partes so- 

 lidac plantarum et animalium, veluti folium, flos, caro, 

 os, et sic de caeteris, quae singulae ex succis alimento- 

 rum assimilant, et generant substantiam successivam 

 et epiusiam 86 . Neque enim quenquam cum Para- 

 celso 87 delirare juvet, qui (distillationibus suis scilicet 

 occeccatus) nutritionem per separationem tantum fieri 

 voluit ; quodque in pane vel cibo lateat oculus, nasus, 

 cerebrum, jecur; in succo terras radix, folium, flos. 

 Etenim sicut faber ex rudi massa lapidis vel ligni, per 

 separationem et rejectionem superflui, educit folium, 

 florem, oculum, nasum, manum, peclein, et similia ; ita 

 Archaeum ilium fabrum internum ex alimento per 

 separationem et rejectionem educere singula membra 

 et partes, asserit ille. Verum missis nugis, certissi- 

 mum est, partes singulas tarn similares, quam organi- 

 cas, in vegetabilibus et animalibus, succos alimentorum 

 suorum fere communes, aut non multum diversos, 

 primo attrahere cum nonnullo delectu, deinde assimi- 

 lare, et vertere in naturam suam. Neque assimilatio 

 ista, aut generatio simplex fit solum in corporibus ani- 

 matis ; verum et inanhnata ex liac re participant ; ve- 



86 Epiusia emovtrla daily, or were most extravagant, deserving 

 ever-renewed. The word is so used in Bacon s word &quot; delirare.&quot; He was 

 the Lord s Prayer, St. Matt. vi. ii. full of the analogy between the 



87 Theophrastus Paracelsus died &quot;Macrocosm&quot; of external Nature, 

 A. D. 1541 : his system had a pri- and the &quot; Microcosm&quot; of Man. 

 mary reference to medicine: he was See Hallam, part I. chap. vii. 17- 

 acute, and beyond his age in Che- 20. 



mical knowledge. But his theories 



