8. 



Fi-om whence 

 it happcncth 

 that thcdefi- 



excrefetnces 

 of the parents 

 body are often 

 leen in their 



A Tretiife of BODIES. Chap, 24. 



a fearchcr into nature, Dolour Harvey : that the feed of the 

 male after his accoupling with the female, doth not remain in 

 her wombe in any fenfible bulk : but (as it feemeth ) evapo- 

 rateth and incorporated! it felf, either into the body of the 

 wombe, or rather into fome more interior parts as into the fe- 

 minary veflfels. Which being a folid fubftance, much refem- 

 bling the nature of -the fernaks feed, is likely to fuck tip, by 

 the mediation of the females feed, the males feed incorporated 

 with it, and by incorporation, turned as it were into a vapour: 

 in fuch fort as we have formerly explicated how the body of 

 a fcorpion or viper draweth the poyfbn out of a wound. And 

 after a certain time (Do&our Harvey noted the fpace of fix 

 weeks or two months in does or hindes) thefe feeds diftill 

 again into the wombe; and by little and little do clari- 

 fic in the midft, and a little red fpeck appeareth in the cen- 

 ter of the bright clearnefle : as we faid before of the egge. 



But we fliould be too blame to leave our Reader with- 

 out clearing that difficulty , which cannot choofe but have 

 {prung up in his thoughts, by occafion of the relations we 

 made at the entrance into this point concerning the cat whofe 

 kitlings were half with tails, and half without : and the wo- 

 mans daughters at Argiers, that had as well as their mother 

 excrefcences upon their left thumbs, imitating another leffcr 

 thumb : and the like effects whcnfoever they happen, which 

 they do frequently enough. 



Let him therefore remember, how we have determined 

 that generation is made of the bloud , which being difperled 

 into all the parts of the body to irrigate everyone of them- 

 and to convey fitting fpirits into them from their fource or 

 fliop where they are forged; fo much of it as is fuperabun- 

 dant to the nourifhing of thofe parts is fent back again to 

 the heart to recover the warmth and fpirits it hath loft by fo 

 Jong a journey. By which perpetuall courfe of a continued 

 circulation, it is evident that the bloud in running thus 

 through all the partt of the body mutt needs receive fomc 

 particular concodlion or impreflion from every one of them. 

 And by confequencc , if there be any fpecificall virtue in 

 . part which ii not in another, then the bloud retwrnin 



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