Arcana microcosmi: or, the hid secrets of mans body disclosed: first, in an anatomatical [sic] duel between Aristotle and Galen, about the parts thereof. Secondly, by a discovery of the ... diseases, symptomes, and accidents of mans body. With a refutation of Doctor Brown's Vulgar errors, the Lord Bacon's Natural history, and Doctor Harvy's book De generatione, Comenius, and others; whereto is annexed a letter from Doctor Pr. [i.e. Primrose] to the author, and his answer thereto, touching Doctor Harvy's book ... / By A.R.

  • Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.
Date:
1652
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Credit: Arcana microcosmi: or, the hid secrets of mans body disclosed: first, in an anatomatical [sic] duel between Aristotle and Galen, about the parts thereof. Secondly, by a discovery of the ... diseases, symptomes, and accidents of mans body. With a refutation of Doctor Brown's Vulgar errors, the Lord Bacon's Natural history, and Doctor Harvy's book De generatione, Comenius, and others; whereto is annexed a letter from Doctor Pr. [i.e. Primrose] to the author, and his answer thereto, touching Doctor Harvy's book ... / By A.R. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ah Neither can an accident be conveyed into the womb without BETTE RE | the fubject in which it isimherent: and therefore Iron rouch- UAL maT ed without the Loadftone, cannot draw Iron if the fubftance | thie Waa of the Loadftone were not imparted to it. Hence we fee,that A nat aN a | as the fubftance of the Loadftone in the Iron decayes, fo the Zz A HAE vertue of attraction decayes likewife. Again, when he faith, whit CEA Ae Se i that the fubftance of the wombis like the conftitution of the | ntl WT THETA ALE brain , he fpeaks very improperly; for neither is the fubftance tm Hal Wa of the one like the fubftance of the other ; the one being white, Yah Tana fpermatical and cold 5 the other red, fanguineal and hor ;. nor ben me Ni can the fubftance of the one be like the conftitution of the o- shi | HNL a ther, thefe being indifferent predicaments , between which PAA WE there is no’ fimilitude, noris the conftitution of rhe one | Wi 1 like unto the conftitution of the other, as being of differenr HD ta temperaments, and having different ufes 5 and fuppofe they were either of the fame fubftance, or conflitution, ic will not follow, that therefore they muft have the fame’ fun@ion: The the ftomach and guts have the fame f{nbftance and conftitution, fo hath the brain and pith in the back bone: yet they have not the fame fun@ions. Again,when he faith, that what the fan- tafm or appetite isin the brain,the fame or its analogy is excited in the womb,for the functions of both are called conceptions. | He {peaks more improperly then before; for he feems to make the fantafm and appetite one thing, and to be both refident in i, the brain, whereas the appetite is the inclination of the will, a and hath its refidence in the heart; the fantafm is the imagina- ry, or fidicious object of the fantafte, which rhisinternalfenfe - ; | i refiding in the brains reprefents toitfelf 5 neither of thefe is r | excited in the womb, nor any thing like it ; for the womb is neither the feat of the fantafie, nor hath it fit organs forit 5 | aa noris it the feat of appetite, excepts by this word he under- | wey VE ftands an inclination to conception or generation : neithera- y aaa gain is this a valid reafon, that becaufe the fan@ions of the a aaa aa ~ womb and brain are called conceptions, therefore rhey are the : mit wih | fame 5 forthe conception of the womb is far different from . ai (| | i that of the brain, neither do they agree, but equivocally, and re Pee ARP in name onely; fo this word conception is afcribed to the aGi- ta Loe ETE on of underfianding. Laftly, though we can produce upon or Be WIR Tt ftone, or timber, or fuch like matter, fome fhape or form like neh il 1} that Idea in ourbrain, yetic will not follow thatthe fpecies ly a i, of the father in the womb can produce the like brood; for I hn | | deny that the fpecies or idea of the father isin the womb, bur _ of | inthe brain 3 this (not that) being the proper feat of. the fan- - aya Ua | tahie,