COROLLARILIM PHYSIOLOGICUM 



Principia Corpomm Naturalium^ 

 breviter infinuans. 



HAdenus folertiores, altiorisque animi Medici, comi 

 muni inScholisufitato modo> perMateriam & For- 

 mam Ariftotelicam , conftitutionem corporum Na- 

 turalium , & conftquenter hominis in abflrafto lb« 

 lum explicandi non contenti de quaternario Elementorum 

 infiiper, five realiter five virtualiter corporibus inexifl:ente, 

 dubitantes , obftetrican te Chymia> corporum naturalium Re^ 

 folutrice & Anatoma > per experientiam rerum omnium Ma- 

 giftram,id tentarunt^quodrationeairequinonlicuit. Inhanc 

 rem explanandam plurimum infudarunr^ pra^terito, Theo- 

 phrafiusParacelfiisHelvetus , hocfeculo Helmontius Belga> 

 RenatusdesCarteSiThomasWiIIifius^Francilcus Boylaeusjde 

 leBoeSylvius, Occo Tackenius^ Bernardus Svalve, Thomas 

 Schirlasusj &innumerialii: StetitenimpermuItafecuJaMedi- 

 cinaimmotajibliq; Gr^corum&Arabum Authoritatiinnixa, 

 quiefcebat , Nulla tunc ficbantexperimenta> mera^ regna- 

 bant AuchoritateSc DonecParacelfus acris ingenii Vir> Phi- . 

 lofbphiae&Medicineefundamentis luflratis > primus eadem 

 igne adminiculante probaret & refor maret , prim usque liber- 

 tatemphilofbphandifibiaflumeret j pudori ducensferviliin- 

 geniofubca^cisduQoribuscaligare. Hunc integro fcrefecu- 

 lopoft, iecutus efl:, fl:upendum ingenii miraculum Joannes 

 BaptiftaHelraontiusNobilisBelga, qui cefie OfvaldoCremb- 

 fio j animo plane terrefl:rium fpeculacione haud contento > mi- 



raque 



