Arcana microcosmi, or, The hid secrets of man's body discovered in an anatomical duel between Aristotle and Galen concerning the parts thereof : as also, by a discovery of the strange and marveilous diseases, symptomes & accidents of man's 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. to the author, and his answer thereto, touching Doctor Harvy's book De Generatione / by A.R.

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Title: Arcana microcosmi, or, The hid secrets of man's body discovered in an anatomical duel between Aristotle and Galen concerning the parts thereof : as also, by a discovery of the strange and marveilous diseases, symptomes & accidents of man's 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. to the author, and his answer thereto, touching Doctor Harvy's book De Generatione / by A.R.
Author: Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.
Publication: London :: Printed by Tho. Newcomb, and are to bee [sic] sold by John Clark ...,; 1652.
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Subject terms: Harvey, William, 1578-1657. -- De generatione animalium.; Browne, Thomas, -- Sir, 1605-1682. -- Pseudodoxia epidemica.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. -- Sylva sylvarum.; Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.; Medicine -- Early works to 1800.; Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works.; Physiology -- Early works to 1800.
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CHAP. XXII.

1. The use of the common sense: It is but one sense: The different judgement of this sense, and of the soul. How different from other senses. Its in the brain and heart. 2. Imagination or fan∣tasie, what: disturbed compoundeth. The Estimative. Its work and seat. 3. Memory, how a sense. It is twofold. Remini∣scence, what? Old men and childrens memories.