%y intemperate and blind Love of Novelty, ofidhy a fiilleo and 
fcrvile addition to bare Antiquity 5 and efteems him to be truly 
vs^ifejWho neither admits Falfiries upon thefble account of being 
Ancient^ nor exdudeth Truths becaufe of Novehy, but giveth 
honor to the Fathers of Sciences^with fafety to Truth, z^ the thing 
which the authority both of the Ancients and Moderns ought 
to ftoop to.Upon which ground he proceeds/omettmes diflenting 
from Galen in thele Eflay's alledgingj^^^ Authors own advifeand 
pra&ife for fo doing s and deploring the unhappinefsof the firate 
of Phyfick becaufe of the too great fervility of adhering to former 
attainments. Having premifcd this^he doth in the 
Firfi Diflertation examine and rejefit the opinion Galen and 
others concerning the Period icalnefi or Stated returns of that 
flux ^ efteemingjthat that Author and his Followers do only diP 
courfe of what is obvious in this Argument^ and leave that un- 
explained what is not fo 3 as, from what caufe, by what organs, 
and why at ftated times that Evacuation is raifed and performed* 
And having (he w'd, that the common Doftrine concerning this 
EfFefl: in Women contains nothing, which may be acquiefced in, 
he proceeds to declare and prove his opinion concerning the 
fame^w^.Thatjas in the Earth (the fruitfull womb of all Seeds of 
Plants,) fo in all the Wombs of Animals, fit for Conception, there 
concur chiefly three things: A benigne Heat to cherifti; a due Fer- 
mentation to agitate and dilate^and a due portion of Moifture, to 
enter with eafe into the padages open'd by that Fermenting mo- 
tion. This he maketh out both in Oviparous and Viviparous Ani- 
malsjandteachethjthat the bloud being agitated and rarified by 
that EfTervelcence/wels and opens the ve(ftls,and breaks out into 
a Profluviura ^ Dnrnqm hec fervor e dilatatur uterus ^aperiuntur V7£ 
inconfficudS^ qui bus [emen mafcuUnum interius exdpitur, qui ppe quod 
fton h^eret in uteri cavitate (in qua Marv£us alii illud frujira quce^ 
five re} fed in ipjius fabjiantiam imbibitur^ ubi fxminei^eminis per- 
nfiflione iurgefctt^d^ radices agit^ quibus delatum per apertos fervor e 
meatus fiiccum nUtritium accipit: deinde ut in Terra folent Plantarum 
femina^cAulem prbfert carneum^ VlacenfamfciL uterinam^ ex quafrn* 
-&HS injiar erumpit Ovum^ cut ex germine^ liquamini innatante^ ad- 
nafcitur alia plant a mox migraiura in animal^tandem in hontintm^fi 
ex humanofemine fuerit excitata. 
After this , he inquireth into the Caufe of that IncaleP- 
<:ence, and its Periodical viciflitudes^ as alfo, why 'tis found in 
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