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.

  • Nathaniel Highmore
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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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    at ee eee coal The Hiftory of Generation. 37 fubftantial thing be given, which is noe originally in the agent, or giver, Fire could not give heat, nor Water , mol- fiure, unleffé it were inherent inthole Bodies. Neither can heat or Fire work 4 ing onan homogeneal body, give ttany | other heterogeneal parts then fiery: | ones; nor moifture, any other ; then 4 moift ones, which indeed accid dentally i] May give hardnefle to bones, and fof | nefle to fleth : 5 but how.comes this t bo- Iny fubftance in this place blady, | that round,in another long: ? this Muti ‘he - | round , that triangular > this Plant of i | one form and nature, that of another ? |We mutt feek out fome other ,agene iV 0 fathion thefe parts, and to compote elude, this yates to be lame, and in i‘ | perfect ; of which our Author fled Myto be confcious, and that makes him Ho ftaggering, and at laft falling upon ban opinion , which he ‘before in part lbrejected, viz. That the blood in its cir- }eulation vifiting every part, isimpreg- X : q Tr.R + ek 4 Mates meas
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