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.

The Second Book Of the strange diseases and Accidents of MANS Body.

CHAP. I.

1. Divers ways to resist burning. 2. Locust eaters, the lowsie disease, the Baptist fed not on Locusts. 3. Mans flesh most subject to pu∣trifaction, and the causes thereof; How putrifaction is resisted. Mu∣mia. 4. The strength of affection and imagination in dying men. Strange presages of death. 5. Difference of dead mens skuls, and why.

CHAP. II.

1. The benefits of sleep, and reasons why some sleep not. 2. Why dead bodies after the ninth day swim. Why dead and sleeping men heavier then others; why a blown bladder lighter then an empty. 3. Strange Epidemical diseases and deaths. The force of smels. The Roses smell. 4. Strange shapes, and multitudes of worms in our bodies. 5. The French disease, and its malignity. The diseases of Brasil.

CHAP. III.

1. C••ntaurs, proved what they were. 2. Why the sight of a Wolf. causeth obmutescency. 3. Pigmies proved. Gammadim, what. 4. Giants proved: they are not monsters. 5. The strange force of Fascination. The sympathies and antipathies of things. The Load∣stones attraction, how hindred. Fascination, how cured. Fasci∣nation by words.

CHAP. IV.

1. Strange stones bred in mens bodies. 2. Children nourished by Wolves and other Beasts. 3. Poison taken without hurt. Poison eaters may infect, how. How Grapes and other Plants may bee poisoned. 4. Of strange Mola's. Bears by licking, form their Cubs, the Plastick faculty still working.

CHAP. V.

1 Divers priviledges of Eunuchs: The Fibers, Testicles. 2. D•• versities of Aliments and Medicaments, the vertue of Peache•• Mandrakes, the nature of our aliments. 3. A strange story 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a sick Maid discussed, and of strange vomitings, and Monsters and Imaginations. 4. Men long lived; the Deers long life 〈◊〉〈◊〉 serted. 5. That old men may become young again, proved.

CHAP. VI.

1. Of many new diseases, and causes thereof. 2. Different colours i•• our bodies: the causes of the Ethiopian blackness. 3. The 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Vnicorn with his horn and vertues asserted. 4. Some born blind and dumb, recovered: A strange Vniversal Fever: A strange Fish, and strength of Imagination.

CHAP. VII.

1. The diversities and vertues of Bezar stones. 2. A woman con∣ceived in a Bath: of an Incubus. 3. Strange actions performed by sleepers, and the causes thereof. Lots Incest in his sleep. 4. Some Animals live long without food: The Camelions food is only 〈◊〉〈◊〉; the contrary reasons answered: Air turns to water, and is the•• pabulous supply of fire.

CHAP. VIII.

1. Divers animals long-lived without food. The Camelion lives on air only. 2. Divers creatures fed only by water. 3. Chilifica∣tion not absolutely necessary. Strange operations of some stomachs. The Ostrich eats and digests Iron. 4. How Bees, Gnats, &c. make a sound. Of Glow-worms: and Grains bit by Pismires: the ve∣gitable Lamb, and other strange plants. 5. The Tygers swift∣nesse. The Remora stays ships.

CHAP. IX.

1. Lions afraid of Cocks: Antipathies cause fear and horror in di∣vers animals. 2. Spiders kill Toads; the diversities of Spiders. 3. The Cocks Egge and Basilisk: Divers sorts of Basilisks. 4. Amphisbaena proved, and the contrary objections answered. 5. The Vipers generation by the death of the mother proved, and objections to the contrary refuted.

CHAP. X.

1. Moles see not, and the contrary objections answered. 2. The opi∣nions of the Ancients concerning divers animals maintained. 3. The right and left side defended. 4. The true cause of the erection of mans body, and the benefit we have thereby. 5. Mice and other vermin bred of putrefaction, even in mens bodies. 6. How men swim naturally; the Indian swimmers.

CHAP. XI.

〈◊〉〈◊〉 The Pictures of the Pelican, Dolphin, Serpent, Adam and Eve, Christ, Moses, Abraham, and of the Sybils defended. 2. The Pi∣ctures of Cleopatra, of Alexander, of Hector, of Caesar with Saddle and Stirrops maintained.

CHAP. XII.

1. The Picture of Iephtha sacrificing his daughter maintained. 2. The Baptist wore a Camels skin. 3. Other pictures, as of S. Christopher, S. George, &c. defended. 4. The antiquity, distin∣ction and continuance of the Hebrew tongue, of the Samaritans, and their Letters.

CHAP. XIII.

1. There is not heat in the body of the Sun. 2. Islands before the Flood proved. 3. The seven Ostiaries of Nilus, and its greatness. The greatness of old Rome divers ways proved. Nilus over-flow∣ing, how proper to it: the Crocodiles of Nilus; its inundation regular.

CHAP. XIV.

1. The cause of Niles inundation. 2. Lots wife truly transformed into a salt Pillar. 3. Hels fire truly black: brimstone causeth blackness. 4. Philoxenus a glutton, and his wish not absurd: How long necks conduce to modulation.

CHAP. XV.

1. Heavy bodies swim in the dead sea: and the Ancients in this point defended. 2. Crassus had reason to laugh at the Ass eating Thi∣stles: Laughter defined: in laughter there is sorrow; in weep∣ing, joy. 3. That Christ never laughed, proved. 4. Fluctus De∣cumans, what?

CHAP. XVI.

1. Epicurus, a wicked and wanton man, impious in his opinions. Seneca's judgement of him. 2. Twelve of his impious and ab∣surd opinions rehearsed.

CHAP. XVII.

Epicurus his Atomes rejected by nineteen reasons.

CHAP. XVIII.

1. That Chrystal is of water, proved, and the contrary objections an∣swered how it differs from Ice. 2. The Loadstone moves not; its Antipathy with Garlick. Of the Adamant, Versoria, Amber, &c.

CHAP. XIX.

What the Ancients have written of Griffins may be true. Griffins men∣tioned in Scripture. Grypi and Gryphes, Perez and Oss••frage, what?

CHAPr XX.

1. The Navigation of the Ancients by the stars: they knew not the compass. 2. Goats bloud softneth the Adamant. Gold loseth its vertue and gravity with its substance. Iron may grow hot with motion. Coral is soft under water, and hardned by the air. Vis∣cum or Missletoe, how it grows. The shade of the Ash-tree, per∣nicious to Serpents.

CHAP. XXI.

1. The existence of the Phoenix proved by divers reasons: and th∣contrary objections refelled: the strange generation of some birds 2. The Ancients cleared concerning the Phoenix, and whether the Phoenix be mentioned in Scripture. Divers sorts of generation in divers creatures. The Conclusion, with an Admonition not to sleight the Ancients opinion and Doctrine.