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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    ase? £2. wee |S i ~~ Fete we” te Mans Bopy difcovered, and not the hearr from them, the heart muit needs be the firft that liveth. ; 8. The heart imparts the vitall heat to the other parts,it muft therefore have exiftence before the other parcs;fcr operation follows theexiftence. 9. The formative power of the feed doth not operate but by the viral ‘heat of the heart; there- fore this muft be firft, before that can Operate. 10. The matter cannot be difpofed, to receive the form of the members, nor can the parts be diftinguifhed one from another » withour the heat and motion of the heart. Ir. Nature in her cperati- ons aims atan end; but where there is an end, there is order; and where there is order » thereis priority, and fomething that was firft. rie iI. There are fome who hold that the heart is not firft gene- Tated , but that all the members are at the fame time begot and formed together : But this cannot be fo; forin the Embryo we fee that all the parts are nor equally articulated and ff. gured, butfomefooner; fome later. 92. We fee this in arr , which imitates Nature; for the artificer carves and figures one part before another. 3. We {ee the teeth are begot long after the other parts; for nature produceth the members as there is _ ule of them; the infant needs no teeth whilft it feeds on milk. 4. If all the parts are at the fame time framed and articulated, then all the body is at the fame time perfe&ed; bur thisis not Natures work , which proceeds by degrees to perfection, ha- ving imperfe& beginnings. II, The Galenifts obje@, that Nature had to no purpofe made the heart before the reft of the body , feeing there is no ufe of the heart till the body be formed. f anfwer, there isa two-fold ufe, namely , of Animation, and of preparation; the heart could not animate the body before it was, but it could Prepare the matter by its vital heat and motion tO receive the impreffion and influence of the formative power, working by the heart on the matter; the heart then is ufefull, noronly to the body after it is generated bur alfo whilft it isin Fier; and im generation, the heart is the foundation of the whole ‘corporeal Fabrick; we cannot fay the foundation is needlefs, not fupport the fuperftrudture before ic be, yetitis ready and fitted to fupport ic, when it fhal be: Neithér will ir follow, that becanfe the houfe before it: is built needs no foundation, therefore the’ foundation muft not be firft laid. ‘There is need B2 be,