other, yet that they reserve the Essence and properties of their former Lights: But in inferiour things, where∣in Forms do inhabite, and also formal Powers, that these have their light even actually capable of being stir∣red up by our Archeus, no otherwise than as in an Egg, the power of the seed is actuated by a nourishing warmth. Therefore there is in the roots of the hairs in the chin, a power of growth, duration, and other dispositions, although the masculine ruling power thereof, be of one stone: which power of the stones in∣deed, although it be absolute, yet it is not but diversly received in places, to wit, according to the manner and capacity of every receiver. But as much as this speculation conduceth unto Medicine, I will translate poysonous powers into the place of vital ones; Because they are not lesse lightsome than those which are o∣therwise, wholsom, if poysons do immediately issue from their own forms: For they are the gifts, either of the more outward or forreign Simples of the first Creation, or in the next place, are begotten afterwards in us through errour of living. By the same priviledge also, the natural powers of the parts, to wit, of the Womb, Stomach, Stones, &c.) do beam forth their own lights throughout the whole Body, and do pierce the light of the Archeus, also by the action of government depending on their light: whence indeed, this Ar∣cheus is comforted, weakened, estranged, prostrated, yea perisheth: Therefore poysons in the Midriffs, or those bred elsewhere, do act by virtue of their own formal and lightsom powers, according to the natural endowed Idea imprinted on them, and they do affect the vital light planted in the sensitive Soul, in the Ar∣cheus, and so in the parts, and they mutually pierce each other by a radical union, and that either by a con∣tagion of poyson remaining, and transplanting the in-bred, formal and vital light of the parts; or onely for a little space, as in those that have the Falling-sickness, with a liberty of returning or not, according to the requirance of their root: Therefore the Head is not onely chief over the lower Organs, but also these are likewise chief over the Head, the which I have elsewhere declared in a manifest example by hanging: For truly, the thorny marrow being encompassed in the middle of the turning Joynts, cannot be strained by the Rope, that it should deny the passage of breathing to the Spirit the mover; nevertheless, the understanding, sense, and memory, perish at the same instant, by reason of the stopping or shutting up of the Arteries of the throat, even before an every way stopping of Air: whence it is sufficiently manifest, that some intellectual light doth continually spring from the lower parts unto the Head, by the intercepting whereof, presently in hanging, and drowning (although the Brain, thorny marrow, and sinews be not hurt) every virtue, power, and light of the Soul doth nevertheless perish: As also in a Feverish doatage raised up from the lower parts, the discourse of Reason perisheth. There is therefore a reciprocal government of the lower parts. I wil∣lingly confess also, that dimnesses, giddinesses of the Head, deasnesses, Apoplexies, Epilepsies, and other evils [unspec 49] of that sort, do arise from the lower parts; yet not to be derived by vapours, unto the Head: For if they should ascend by the way of the Throat or Weasand, they should at least∣wise afford nothing but a distillatory and unsavoury water. But I have shewen elswhere, that watery vapours or exhalations cannot be carried so much as to the plain of the brain, and much lesse into the bosoms of the same: Therefore let the fault and guilt of vapours in the aforesaid Diseases be vain. And then, neither are vapours carried out of the Stomach, unto the heart, and head, through Arteries and Sinewes encompassing the mouth of the stomach; Seeing the Schools themselves confess, that it is not the office of the sinewes to draw from forreign parts. Indeed, they will have the Arteries to draw Air for the cooling re∣freshment of the heart, and the pressing out of smoaks; Neither of which I have shewen to be true: But at leastwise, that hath not place here, in the Arteries ending into the stomach: seeing they do never hope to inspire cold air, likewise that not loaded with a smoakie vapour, out of the stomach, nor out of the bottom of the belly; as neither fresh air, yea, neither in the next place, should it be convenient to expel their smoake vapours thither, where they should be much more hurtful to the stomach, than being detained in their proper seats: For the mouth of the stomach hath not undeservedly received its name, as to be the mouth of the heart: Because more powerful tokens, signes of life, and more horrible storms of disturbances do arise up out of the stomach, than from any other place: therefore neither was air to be drawn out of the stomach, and much lesse a vapour, the fewel and beginning of so many evils, or smoakinesses, to be expelled into the stomach by the ar∣teries; that is, giddyish, Epyleptical, Apoplectical vapours, &c. are not drawn, neither do they voluntarily ascend thorow the Arteries: For truly, the unutterable Creator hath directed all the aims of things unto the necessities and requirances of uses. Lastly therefore, if the aforesaid Reeds do not draw hurtful and diseasify∣ing vapours, surely much lesse shall the stomach send or expel those, thorow the arteries, or a sinew; Seeing that it could after another manner, most speedily free it self by belching: For neither is the stomach a pair of bellowes, that it ought against the will of the Pipes, to derive hurtful vapours conceived for it, into the chest of life. And moreover, the stomach hath but few veins; and it is a strange thing for these to beg any thing out of the stomach (as hath been proved in its own place): wherefore vapours are not carried thorow the veins: For which way should they allure and receive that which is besides the appointment of nature? How should the stomach snuff up its vapours into most straight or narrow vessels which are filled with bloud, especially those which are not strong in drawing? For I consider the stomach, not indeed after the manner of Galen, that it is a sack or naked Kettle dedicated to the cooking of meats; but as a vital bowel, which is prevalent in tast∣ing, smells out a thing, and which is driven with divers appetites, as if it were a living Creature: and now and then it so loatheth some things, that a man had rather die, than to swallow one morsel which goes against his stomach. Indeed the stomach is of necessity serviceable to the whole Body, also for the vile Houshold-ser∣vice of the Kettle: But thus far other things do diversly obey it, and unless they give serious heed, they are cruelly beaten; According to that saying, He that will be the greatest among you, let him be the least. Surely the stomach is diligently busied in a low service; yet the family-service of the stomach is not therefore vile or base, no more than for the High-Priest of the Jewes to have played the butcher; but be∣ing compared with the stomach, he was a certain counterfeit or personage of life, with a famous majesty. If a Sinew, Artery, and Vein are seen implanted in the stomach, indeed they are rather signes of Clientship, and recompences whereby they confess themselves bowels tied or obliged to the stomach, than that they were added unto it for Government, Mast, and Sails. But neither indeed will I have this Principality to be so con∣serred on the stomach, as if the Government of that Common-wealth doth wholly belong to that membrane it self: For of the Spleen and Stomach, I make one onely Wedlock, and one Marriage-Bed: Wherein I attri∣bute to the Spleen, the offices of a Husband in the first motions, and to the Stomach, in the first sense or feeling; Therefore the Stomach is the compleating of the Spleen, and the Spleen of the Stomach; under the one only Bride-bed of them both, is the Principality of one Duumvirate. Yet I do never, cease to contemplate of that which is sufficiently admirable, what the Lord of things hath fore-seen; I say, in the naked coats of the Brain, Womb, Stomach, Pericardium, &c. I say in the Membranes; but that, in things which are abject in the sight of men, God hath wont to constitute his wonders: whose name be sanctified for ever.