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It is inflamed first, when it feigns some object to it selfe, and longs for it, but cannot enjoy it.
HEnce it comes to passe, that pregnant or breeding women (whose imagination is most vehe∣ment, because of the Starre of the
Hermetical physick: or, The right way to preserve, and to restore health. By that famous and faithfull chymist, Henry Nollius. Englished by Henry Uaughan, Gent.
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- Hermetical physick: or, The right way to preserve, and to restore health. By that famous and faithfull chymist, Henry Nollius. Englished by Henry Uaughan, Gent.
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- Nolle, Heinrich, fl. 1612-1619.
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- London. :: Printed by Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-Yard,
- 1655.
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"Hermetical physick: or, The right way to preserve, and to restore health. By that famous and faithfull chymist, Henry Nollius. Englished by Henry Uaughan, Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A89713.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
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Child, which upon some singular longing, doth most powerfully move them,) doe by the force of an infla∣med or exalted imagination (when they faile to come by that Object they long for) impresse into the ve∣ry child, the perfect forme or figure of it; yea, it oftentimes causeth mis∣carriage, and the death of the Child, as may be seen in this following Hi∣story. A certaine woman great with child, seeing a Baker carrying Bread into the Oven with his Doublet off, longed for a peece of the Bakers shoulder, and when any other meat was offered unto her▪ or brought in to her sight, she would presently fall to vomit. Her Husband distrest be∣twixt love and pitty, offered such a large summe of money to the Baker, that he consented, & suffered her to bite off two morsels of his flesh, but being not able to endure the pain the third time, the woman presently fell in Labour, and was delivered of
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three boyes, whereof two were alive, and the third dead. Mizaldus in his first Century, relates it out of Lan∣gius. To this first Division, must be referred those unfortunate Aspirers, who affecting some great knowledge or science, and missing to attain to it, by reason of a blockish stupidity, or imbecillity of apprehension, come to be distracted and stark mad.