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 lieking, form their Cubs, the Plastick faculty still working.
THERE is nothing more strange in mans body, then the generation of stones, whereof there be so many and di∣versly shaped▪ in the joints stones are bred by the gout, called therefore Lapidosa Chiragra; stones are bred ordinarily in the kidneys and bladder, of slimy matter by the heat of these parts; some are ingendred in the Liver and Spleen; some also in the heart. Hollerius speaks (Com. 1. in lib. 6. Sect. 2. Aphor. 4.) of a woman which died of an imposthume in the heart, where∣in were found two stones; in the heart of Maximilian the se∣cond Emperour, were found three stones, which afflicted him very much, with a trembling of the heart, as Wyerus witnesses, (l. 4. c. 16.) In the intestins also sometimes stones have beene found. Zacutus speaks (lib. 3. de prax. ad obs. 124.) of a young man disordered in his diet, who used to void by the seed di∣vers stones, and at last died of a stone that was found in his Colon, in form like a Chesnut, and as big; this could not bee voided whilest the party lived, neither by Glysters nor Purges, nor any other physick: some have thought that these stones in the intestins are hardned by cold, which cannot be; for though intense cold doth harden as well as heat, which we may see in frosts hardning water and dirt, & in the generation of chry∣stal: and though we should yeild to Galen, that the intestins being membranous and spermatical parts are colder then the sanguineal, yet we cannot yeild that in a living body, there is actual cold; for all parts are hot, yet some more, some lesse; therefore these stones are not ingendred by cold, but by a pre∣••ernatural heat in the body. The same Zacutus (Obs. 135. l. 3.) speaks of a strange stone found in a mans bladder; it was round like a Ball, but had issuing from it divers pyramids, and be∣tween each of them a sharp prickle like a needle, (l. 1. Obs. 96.)