Scheunemamnus his opinion of the original of feavers is ridiculous, he saith that a globe or bal of many Sphaeres, like a Bezoar-stone, is bred in the stomach or liver, and thence come seavers and fits; and when this ball is struck from Hea∣ven, it flames and smoaks, and infects the air, hence comes a little cold and trembling, and then heat. But this globe and its circles of which it is made, ought to be very great, because he writes that the patient shall have so many fits as are circles in it.Against Severine I say the Colick cannot breed from a slimy Tartar mixed with stiptick, or bin∣ding, four spirits, because he made one cause on∣ly of the pain of the Colick. I agree with him about the name, for the case is plain, that the co∣lick is from glass like flegm as Galen taught. But if he make that the only cause, he errs exceeding∣ly, because there are great pains from wind that extends the guts, nor doth sharpness or wind cause pains but by stretching, which being made to pass by a Clyster or two the pain ceaseth bet∣ter then by the laborious Chymical medicines. Ideo Phi∣los. 13. It is false that he saith, the sharpest pains are on∣ly from the sharpest spirits of Salts: he calls the pains from cuts, burnings and stroaks Relolls. But all men living do witness by sense, that there is no greater pain then that from cutting and bur∣ning, &c.Severine proceeds, and saies, and describes the generations and differences of inflammations, saying, That the seeds of these diseases come to the matrixes, not only in a liquid form dissolved, but in a spiritual vapor, and continual nutrication, and dige∣sted fermentation, and except the time of neaturity and separation, which coming, the spirits break forth and 0