that as long as his arme flowed with this filthy matter, so long were his excre∣ments of the belly and bladder free from the sanious and purulent matter: as long on the contrary as the ulcers of the arme were dry, so long were the excrements of the guts and bladder sanious and purulent. The same accident befell a Gentleman called Mounsieur da la Croix, who received a deadly wound with a sword on the left arme, though German Chavall, and Master Rasse most expert Surgeons, and others, who together with me had him in cure, thought it was not so for this reason, because the pus cannot runne so long a way in the body, neither if it were so, could that bee done without the infection and corruption of the whole masse of blood, whilest it flowes through the veines; therefore to be more probable that this quantity of filth, mixed with excrements and urine, flowed by reason of the default of the liver, or of some other bowell, rather than from the wounded arme: I was of a contrary opini∣on for these following reasons. First for that which was apparently seen in the pa∣tient; for as long as the excrement and urine were free from this purulent matter, so long his arme plentifully flowed therewith; this on the contrary being dry, much purulent matter was voided both by stoole and urine. Another was, that as our whole body is perspirable, so it is also (if I may so terme it) confluxible. The third was an example taken from the glasses which the French terme Monte-vins (that is, Mount-wines) for if a glasse that is full of wine be set under another that is fill'd with water, you may see the wine raise it selfe out of the lower vessell to the upper through the midst of the water, & so the water descend through the midst of the wine, yet so, that they do not mixe themselves, but the one take & possess the place of the other. If this may be done by art, by things only naturall, & to be discernd by our eyes, what may be done in our bodies, in which by reason of the presence of a more noble soule, all the works of nature are far more perfect? What is it which we may despair to be done in the like case? For doth not the laudible blood flow to the guts, kidneyes, spleen, bladder of the gall, by the impulse of nature together with the excrements, which presently the parts themselves separate from their nutriment? Doth not milke from the breasts flow sometimes forth of the wombes of women lately delivered? Yet that cannot bee carryed downe thither, unlesse by the passages of the mamil∣lary veines and arteryes, which meete with the mouthes of the vessels of the wombe in the middle of the streit muscles of the Epigastrium. Therefore no marvaile if ac∣cording to Galen the pus unmixt with the bloud flowing from the whole body by the veines and arteryes into the kidneyes and bladder, bee cast forth together with the urine. These and the like things are done by nature, not taught by any counsell or reason, but onely assisted by the strength of the segregating and expulsive faculty; and certainely we presently dissecting the dead body, observed that it all, as also all the bowels thereof, were free from inflammation and ulceration, neither was there any signe or impression of any purulent matter in any part thereof.