A philosophical essay: declaring the probable causes, whence stones are produced in the greater world ... Being a prodromus to a medicinal tract concerning the causes, and cure of the stone in the kidneys, and bladders of men / Written by Dr. Thomas Sherley, Physitian in Ordinary to His Majesty.

Thomas Sherley

Date:: 1672

Credit: A philosophical essay: declaring the probable causes, whence stones are produced in the greater world ... Being a prodromus to a medicinal tract concerning the causes, and cure of the stone in the kidneys, and bladders of men / Written by Dr. Thomas Sherley, Physitian in Ordinary to His Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$them into a juice, fit to work the Plant out of it, which it by degrees performs. [ This Liquor in the Earth, is by Pzva~ celfus,and Helmont sby a Barbarous name, call'd Leffas Terre ; and isthe proximate matter of all Vepetables, ] For proof of what I feem to have with fome boldnefs aflerted in this place; Let any fort of Grain be put fora {mall time in an Oven, [ or any « analogous heat, | that the | external warmth may fatcica ate and excite . this fer men it of ene Seed to take wing, A and defert irs body ; ; This Grain, though entire co fight, if icbe committed to the Earth, thall never by any Art be brought to produce i its like. \ As Vegetables, and Animals havetheir 49 | Original from an invifible Seminal Spirit, or breath ; fo alfohave Minerals, Metals, and Stones. Dr.fordan Lothis purpofe Dr. fordan tells us, 50 |. of Natural There 28 a Seminal Spartt oe all Mixerals Bath. it the Bowels of the Earth, which meet- p. hee ae ing pith comventent Matter, [ what ens is, we thall fhew in its p lace | and Ad- wudnt Caufes, 1s not tdle, but doth pro- ceed to produce Minerals , according ta the Nature of it, and the Matter which st meets withals which matter tt works upon aS a Ferment, ond by tts mo:207 proc uretl a$