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.

Alexander Ross

Date:: 1652

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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~ ‘ ~y ® hone, on which the animal fpirits do not prey, and yetit is little nutritive. V. The fift caufe of cold (faith he, Cent, 73.) 754 quick {pirtt inclofed in'a cold body, as in nitre , in water colder then oyle, which hath a duller (pirit, fo {now is colder then water, Pecaufe it bath more fpirits fo fome injects, which have the {pirit of life, as {nakes &e. are cold to thetouch, fo quick filver is the coldeft of all mettals, be- caufe fulleft of {pirits. , Anfw.No fpirit can be the caufe of cold, for all fpirirs in vigitable animals produce heat, and are produ- ced of hear, therefore we finde that where chere are moft fpi- rits, there is leaft cold. 2. Nitre whichis mentioned by the Ancients,is hot and not cold; and therefore both Diofcorides, Pliny, and | Galen ad{cribe to it the qualities of heat, to cut, extennat, difcufs and purge grofs and cold humors 5 and if that nitre which we ule at this day, be nor the fame, yer itis not much unlike, (as Afathiolus fhews) as, having divers qua- lities oF the old nitre ; befides, ic isa kinde of falt, and 1s be- got of hot things, as pigeons dung, and the urins of animals, therefore Brun. Seidelius makresithot. 2. I deny that water is coldér then oy], to the outward toxching,for hot waters{ as he {aid before) are in this regard cold, and if oyl hatha dul- Jer fpirit then water; how comes it to mount upward , and fwim above the water : fure this afcendant motion cannot pro- duce from the earthy and grofs fubftance , bur from the guick fpirits thereof 5 therefore we finde that water iscold, and oy! hot in operation , becaufe more full of fpirits then water. 4. 1 deny that fnow is colder then wate?.becaufe it hach more fpirit ; but becaufe it is more condented: for heatand cold are more a@ive in a denfe and folid, then ina thin atternated fabftance ; fo ice is colder then water , and yet who will fay that there is more fpirits in the ice then in water 5 hefides, the fnow iscolder then the water, becaufe begot of colder winds; and in colder clymats. 5. I deny that infects are cold to the rouch, for haying in them the fpirit of lifes becaufe they are colder when that fpirit is gon, as we fee in all dead bodies which are colder, then when they were alive ; therefore death is called by the Poers (frigida more) and (gelidum frigus) the fpiritof life is that which is both begot of heatjand begets hear; and preferveth it 5 that when that (pirit leave su:,heat alfo for fakes us (caler offa relinquit) faith the Poet 5 It is not therefore the fpirit of life, but the temperament and conftirution of the body of divers earthy and watrifh animals , which argue cold 5 and wefee that for this caufe womens bodies are colder R 2 thea se nant ODT Sa PA RIAN TERIA Sc SA LRA ES ASOD AE DODD BIP IAD APNE NOTHIN © gt RNa ae EAE A IRSA = - PDH A Ane NR EE DRA NATE

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