Century • IX. 2ij 
I Forme, or Confidence) it is (all that while) cWf, and InconcoR 5 And j ~~ 
[the Procejje is to be called Crudity and InconcoRion. it is true, that l 
tf*#/««isj in great part, the Wfcr/fof Heat-, But not the work* of Heat a- 
| lone: For all Things, that further the Conuerfion, or Alterations (a‘s Refi, 
j Mtxture of a Body already Concerted, &c.) arealfo Meants to Concoction. 
j And there are of ConcoRton two Periods y The on q Afiimilation, or Abfo- 
: lute Conuerfion, and SubaRion • The other Maturation: whereof the For- 
; mer is moll confpicuous in the Bodies of Lining Creatures ; In which 
j there is an Abfolute conuerfion , and Afisimilation of the Nourifhtnerit into 
| the. Body: And likewife in the Bodies of Plants: And againe in Metalls, 
| where there is a full Tranfmatation. The other (which is Maturation ) is 
feene in liquors, and Fruits • wherein there is not defired, nor preten¬ 
ded, anvtter Conuerfion , but only an Alteration to that Forme , which is ? 
molt fought, for Mans vfe • As in Clarifying of Drinkes ; Ripening of 
Fruits, But note, that therebetwoKindesof Abfolute ConnerJions • 
The one is, when a Body is conuerted into another Body , which was be¬ 
fore 3 As when Nourilbment is turned into Flefb That is it which we call 
AfimiUiion. The other is. When the. Conuerfion is into a Body meerely 
New, and which Was not before; As if Siluer fhould be turned to Gold } 
or Iron to Copper: And this Conuerfion is better called, for diftin&ions 
fake, Tranfinumion. 
T Here are alfodiuers other Great Alterations of Matter , And Bodies, 
befides thofe that tend to ConcoRion , and Maturation ; For whatfo- 
euer doth fo alter a Body, as itreturneth not againe to that it was, may 
be called Alteratio Maior \ As When Meat is Boiled, or Roafted, or Fried, 
&c. Or when Bread and Meat are Baked ; Or when Cbeefe is made of 
Curds, or Butter of Cream , or Coales of Wood, or Brickes of Earth 5 And 
a Number of others. But to apply Notions Philofofhicall to Plebeian 
Terms ± Or to fay, where the Notions cannot fitly be reconciled, that 
there wantetha Ter me, or Nomenclature for it, (as the Ancients vied 5) 
They be but Shifts of Ignorance ; For Knowledge will beeuera wandring 
and Indigefied Thing, if it be but a Commixture of a few Notions, that are 
at hand and occurre, and not excited from fufficient Number of Inftan- 
ces, and thofe well collated. 
The Confidences of Bodies are very diners; Denje, Rare; tan - 
gible, Fneumaticad; Volatile, Fixed; Determinate, Not Determi¬ 
nate ; Hard, Soft; Cleaning, Not Cleaning ; Congealeable, Not Con - 
gealeable; Liquefiable ,Not Liquefiable ; Fragile , tough •, Flexible % 
Inflexible ; Trahile,or to be drawnc fetch in length, Intraftile; 
Porous, Solid j Equdll, and Smooth, Vnequail; Venous, and Fi- 
T 2 brow , 
Experiment 
Solitary tou¬ 
ching Altemi. 
m, which may 
bee called 
Maiersc 
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