The history of generation. Examining the several opinions of divers authors, especially that of Sir Kenelm Digby, in his Discourse of bodies ... To which is joyned a Discourse of the cure of wounds by sympathy ... especially by ... Sir Gilbert Talbots powder / By Nath. Highmore.

  • Highmore, Nathaniel, 1613-1685.
Date:
1651
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Credit: The history of generation. Examining the several opinions of divers authors, especially that of Sir Kenelm Digby, in his Discourse of bodies ... To which is joyned a Discourse of the cure of wounds by sympathy ... especially by ... Sir Gilbert Talbots powder / By Nath. Highmore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    = T. The chee “y Of Generatioz, The confideration of thefe two parts ia the conftitution ofa Plant, will give us a light of the caufe of “the diverfi- ty of the Sexes in Animals; whofe way of generation follows next. How Animals are generated, Chapter the Seventh, 5 tae generation of Animals is as‘va- rious almoft as their feveral Spe- cies; whereof {ome derive their Pede- eree from the corruption of Dirt, Mud, and other Animals; fome bets from the funerals of Plants, and ftart upa moving fenfitive piece, which but now grew a vegetable. Others again of a more noble Progeny, owe ‘their be- ginnings to fome feminal parts derived fromthe Genitorss but repofed 3 in cer= tain vellels excluded from the Females, and left without the {phear and gui- dance of their forms; fuch are all births