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.
Cite this Item: "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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A57647.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.

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CHAP. V.

The Lord Bacons opinions refuted. Of holding the breath when wee bearken. Of time. Of long life. Of making gold. Of starres. Of oyl. Of indisposition to motion. Of death, diseases and putrifaction. Of stuttering. Of motion after the head is off. Of sympathies and antipathies of the Vine and Colewort, the Fig-tree and Rew. Of white colour. Of the Oke bough in the earth. Of transmutation of species. Of Incubus. Of grain in cold Countries. Of determinati∣on and figures. Of accretion and alimentation. Of the period of life. Of sugar, leaves, roots, snow, and putrifaction.