The wonders of the little world: or, a general history of man. In six books. Wherein ... is shewed what man hath been from the first ages of the world ... In respect of his body, senses, passions, affections ... and many other particulars / [Nathaniel Wanley].

  • Wanley, Nathaniel, 1634-1680
Date:
1678
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    ■5 pYM. l.^. fart.2 §6. Mp. 8 p.419. Tlin. Nat. Hi ft. lib.']. Zuin. Toiat. 'V0l.2.l,l.p. ' 270. col.i. C am trar.bo¬ ra fubcifiv. Ce/i.uc.^^. ;.24i Schenci^obr. nine months had an exulceration of the Ventride; twenty days Ipacc; vomited up again, ali T. Md. thatlheeatordrajik , as ioon as file had taken it, of this Diieafe fnedied 4 and diileding her ^'' omb; we took out thence a living boy; who by my di¬ rection had the name of Fortutiatti^ given him at his Baptifm, and he is yet alive. . 9* I my lelf faith CorncUvu Uemma, have cut. Mdl.$Zo. ^titof the Womb fix living Children from fix fe- ‘ veralperfons. I o. Amongft many ftrange examples appearing upon record'in Chronicles; we read of a Child in Sagnntiim (that very year wherein it was forced and razed by Hmihal) which fo foon as it was come forth of the Mothers Womb, prefently returned into it again. 11. Joh/tmesDtibraviiishsth. obferv’d of Lewis the Second, King of Hmgary^ and Bohemia, that there were four things wherein he was over hafty; . . That he became great in a very fmail time, that he a beard too foon; that he had white hairs be- cbft I. \ai. f<^tehewas paft feventeen years of age, and that he was over forward in his birth; for he came into the World without any of that skin which is vol.i.i.i.p. cnWd Epidermis-, which yet he fbon after got; the 270. «/.i. phyficians lending their affiftance to that which ’Nature had not time to finifh, he died in the 21. of hisAge,^««o 1526. ^Hgafitheig. 12. When Spimla befieg’d the City of Berg'op- foma-, aWomianwho was near her count, going Barth. Hill, oiitto draw water, was taken off in the middle by a Anat.cen.2, Cannoii-bullet, fo that the lower part of her fell Hif.8. p. water; fuchasr wereby, and beheld that misfortune, ran to her, and faw there a child, mo¬ ving it felf in the bowels of the Mother: they drew it forth, and carried it into the Tents of Don Cordka, kept it with all care; being afterwards brought thence to Antwerp, the Infanta Jfabclla cau- fed it to be baptiz’d, and gave it the name of JL bertm Ambrofnts, one of her Father’s Captains; _ IT,. Anno i6t[.y. Jacobm Egh in the City of Sarda in had a Ball which he fed, tying him Barth. Ibid, a Clofe near his houfe; but provok’d by the cmt.2.Hift. boys, he brake his bonds and ran to the Cows, the 8.;.i57. Herdfman endeavoured with his half to return him to his former place; the bull being incens’d with his blows ran upon him, and with his horns bore him to the ground; his Wife being now in the lalt month of her count, feeing the danger of her Husband, ran in to his afliftance; the bull ■ With his horns hoifbed her up into the Air , the height of one ftory, and tore the belly of the wo¬ man ; from the wound in her belly forthwith came the birth with its fecundine; and was thrown atforae diftance upon afoft place; was carried heme,diligently look’d after by a Midwife; and uponthefirh of baptiz’d, had hisFathers name given him, and is yet alive; the Man liv’d •3 6. hours, the woman but 4. the bull was (lain 'the . day after by the command of the Magiflrates. 14. Eorgias a gallant Man of Epirtts, flipt from ft. oh'. Womb in the Funerals of his Mother; and by his unexpected crying carded them to hand who carried the Bier, affbidingthereby a new Ipeftacle to his Country, having his birth and cradle in the ' Coffin of his Parent; In oneand the fame moment a dead woman was’dcliver’d , and the other was carried-to the Grave before he was born. 7, iL ibid • ^ ^ Arifta the firft King of Navarr be- y.270. ing dead, his Son fucceeded: who being smn-prax. ouc Ga\ m the Village of Larumbe-, wasfurpi'ized Mtd.u, V>yfomc Mooriffi R.obbers, affaultedh and llain ; f‘h'2* ^ they VYGunded Vrracha his Queen , in the Belly f.o. y. 41c, ' ■ T j i.c.S.p.-^o 'Zuintl))tat> vol.2.l.i.p 270. coLi. I With a Lance; the Thieves put to tiisdit; the I Queen at the, wound was deliver’d of a Son and I died, the child to ail Mens wonder was lafe , and I was nam’d Sancim darfia; lie was well educated by a nobleperfon; prov’da gallant Man; and luc- epeded his Father in the Kingdom, Anno Domi- .ni, 918. 16. TheWifeofSimonKnenterof Wdlfcnbar^h, Birth.Hiftx vyentwith child to the ninth month, and then, fal- ling into Travail, her pains werefuch,as that they occalioned her death, and when the affiiftants doubted not but-that the child was dead alio in the Womb, they dilpos’d of the Mother as is u- liial in the like occafion; but after Ibrae hours they heard a cry, they ran and found the Mother indeed dead, but deliver’d of a little Daughter cdt.h that was in good health, and lay at her feet. Salmuth faith, he hath feen three feveral women, who being dead in Travail, were yet after death delivered of the Children they went with. CHAP. V, Of what Monflers fome PFonkn ha^i been dcliz>ersd^ and of ^reViechdE inral births, * . fT is the conftant delign of provident Nature to produce that which isperfedtand complete in It s kind : But though Man is the noblefu part or hcropeiation ; and that fhe is bufied a- bouttne flaming of him, with lingular curiofity andinduiLiy; yet are there fiindry variations in her, mintage, and fome even humane medals, come put thence with different Errata’s in their Impreffions. The bell of Archers do not always bore the white; the working brains of the ablelt Politicians, havefometimesfuffered an abortion,- nor arewewillingto bury their accidental miffes, in the luemory of their former skilful perform¬ ances. Jf therefore Nature (through a penury, orfuperflnityof materials, or cither cauffis) hath been lb unlortiinate as at fometimes to milcarry;. her dexterity and Artifice, in the compolition of many, ought to procure her a pardon for fuch o- verffghts as ffie hath committed in a few. ]Befides there is oftentimes lb much of ingenuity in her very difbrdei s, and they are difpos’d with fuch a kind of happy unhappinefs, that if her more per¬ fect works beget fn US'much of delight; the o-' ther may affedl us with equal wonder. J • Bhat isffirange which is related by RofteArcan. It had faith he beneath the Navel one body; hvitA'Bcrocijfm. above it two diftinft ones ; when hurt beneath i the Navel botli bodies felt the pain; if above, IffJ’ that body only felt, that was hurt. Thefe two nor. fuhift. would fometimes differ in opinions and quarrel; cen.2.c.6'ji the one dying before the other, the ffirviving , pin’d away by degrees. It liv’d 28. years, could fpcak divers Languages, and was by the King’s command taught Mulick. Sandy’s on Ovid Metamt 3^4, lib> gi.p. 2. Antto 1538. There was one born who grew schenel(.obft up to theflature of a Man,.he was double as to the Head and Shoulders , in fuch manner as that one face flood oppolite to the other; both were pf a likenefs, and refembled each other in the beard and eyes, both had .the fame appetite, and both