2\(amrall Hiftory: 



And I conceive, that warning with certain Liqueurs, the Palmes of the 

 Hands, doth much good: And they do well in Heats of Agues, to hold in 

 the Hands^Eggs of Alablafter£nd Balls of Cryflall. 



ofthefe things we flail fpeak more, when we handle the Title of Sympathy 

 and Antipathy the proper f "lace. 



Experiment HTHe Knowledge of man (hitherto) hath been determined by the View, 

 Solitary to u- 1 or Sight ^ So that whatfoever is Invifible, either in refped of the 

 tlt g pme£s' Finenefofthe Body it felf h or the Smalnef of the Parts 5 or of the Subtilty 

 ofN atme. of the Motion 5 is little inquired . And yet thefe be the Things that Govern 

 %9 Nature principally And without which, you cannot make any true Analy- 

 fis and Indication of the Proceedings of Nature. The Sprits or Pneumau- 

 rj/f,that are in all T angihle Bodies, are fcarce known. Sometimes they take 

 them for Vacuum $ whereas they are the moft Adive of Bodies. Sometimes 

 they take them for Air $ From which they differ exceedingly, as much as 

 Wine from Water ^ And as Wood from Earth. Sometimes they will 

 have them to be Naturall Heat, 01 a Portion of the Element of Fire Where- 

 as fome of them are crude, and cold. And fometimes they will have thern 

 to be the Vertues and Qualities of the % angihle Parts, which they feejwhere- 

 as they are things by themfelves. And then, when they come to Plants 

 and living Creatures, they call them Souls. And fuch Superficiall Specula- 

 tions they have LikeProfpedives, that fhew things inward, when they are i 

 but Paintings. Neither is this a Queftion of Words, but infinitely materiall 

 in Nature. For Spirits are nothing elfe but a Natural Bodyjmfad to a Pro- 

 portion, and included in the T angihle Parts of Bodies, as in an Integument. 

 And they be no lefs differing one from the other, than the Denfe or T angihle 

 Parts .-And they are in all T angibk Bodies whatfoever , more or lefs.- And they 

 are never (almoft) at reft: And from them, and their Motions, principally 

 proceed Arefaclion^Colliquation.Concoction, Maturation, Putref action, Vwifi- 

 cationjnd moft of the Fifed s o£ Nature :f,ov, as we have figured them in our 

 Sapientia Vet mm, in the Fable of Proferptna, you fhall in the Infernall Regi- 

 ment hear little doings of Pluto,hm moft of Proserpina : For Tangible Parts 

 in Bodies are Stupid things 5 And the Spirits do( in effed)all. As for the 

 ! differences of T angible Parts in Bodies, the induftry of the Chymijls hath given 

 I fome lighten difcerning by their Separations, the Oily, Crude, Pure, Impure, 

 Fine, grofs Parts of Bodies, and the like. And the Phyfitians are content to 

 acknowledge that Herbs and Drugs have divers Parts-, As that opium hath 

 a Stupefading Part, and a Heating Part ; The one moving Sleep, the other 

 a Sweat following And that Rubarb hath Purging Parts, and Aftringent 

 Parts, &c. But this whole Inquifition is weakly and Negligently handled. 

 And for the more fubtill differences of the Minute Parts, and the Pofture of 

 them in the Body, (which- alfo hath great Effeds) they are not at all 

 touched As for the Motions of the Minute Parts of Bodies, which do fo 

 great Erfeds, they have not been obferved at all $ becaufe they are Invifi- 

 ble, and incurre not to the Eie 5 but yet they are to be deprehended by Ex- 

 perience : As Democritus faid well, when they charged him to hold, that the 

 World was made of fuch little Moats, as were feen in the Sunne •, Atomus 

 (faith he) neceflitate Ration® & Experientia efje convincitur - 7 Atomum enim 

 nemo unquam vidit. And therefore the Tumult in the Parts of Solid Bo- 

 dies, when they are comprefled, which is the Caufeof all Flight of Bodies 

 thorow the Air, and of other Mechanicall Motions, (as hath been partly 

 touched before, and (hall be throughly handled in due place,,) is not feen 



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