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Show 0f Fermentation. Chap. IV, of Fermentation. 'Chap. :1 V. 37 34are impregnated at a great difiance, with a finall deal of Matter. 30 that Spaniels can {cent Partridges and (mails, and Hounds, Deer and Hate, at a great Fpace, before they range or run to places, where they fpring the Fowl, or rouze the Deer. Which is an argument, That tlie'llcams 0i .Livmg Bodies, have great power to influence the Air, anddo highly allilt its Permenting Quality, which is aé'ted not only by the Effluvra, derived from Animals, but alfo from Vegetables and Minerals. The lower Orb, the Center of the LIniverfe, is ceinpofed of Solid and lie Cuticle encircling the Root, and afierward into the Bark and Wood ""3"" lirongh whole fubfiance the Sap is propagated by a number of finall Vefl'els,7 fiiigziagitof .nnning long-ways from the bottom to the top, and is afterward conveyed iiifolrgoglégé :i-ofs-ways by Wooden Fibres inferred into the Bark, throug h which the um" {O'ET' . FW Ll ic e, int 1,), (teams, are cinitted‘out of Plum-Trees, Cherry-Trees, and the like ‘hcwml'ag: .vhich being of an Emplafiick, Thickning, and Cooling temper, do entei "themed: m0 alliance With Watry Vapours, as near akin to them; and all Effluxes )roceeding from Laélelcent Juices of Succhory, Dandel ion, and the like icing of a mod]: and cooling temper, do aHOCiate With Aqueous Emanat is OHS: And alfoGummy Efliuvra, by their vifcidc and temperate nature, do rountermand the over Aperitive mialities of hot fulphureous and caufiic k Seams. i Fluid Parts, of Earth and Water: The Earth is rich in Treafures, of Metals , and Minerals, which are made up principally of different Salts and Sulphnrs; :iiiiriiiiitscui- which being lodged near the Surface of the Earth, are befprinkled with ‘1'""3' "Ming £333?" gut {hams iiifiiiiimmg Showres of \Rain, and warmed with folar heat, and impratgnated with [Etho real Particles: By whole vertue, thefe various Salts and Sulphurs ( being in Solmz'r Tri/zripiir ) have the compage of their bodies opened, emitting {leani's of dihverent difpofitions into the Atmofphaere. Vitriol and Niter, breath out Penetrating and Coroding Exhalations, dimummggl vers forts of Allom, being of grofs parts, docoun'termand the others riei'ce‘ 3"" ‘ Mfrto nefs by Incraflation ; and the watrypvapoursdiflolvnig the Saline, do allocate with them, by iiioillning and dulcilying their dry and ac1d (Lualities, and do reduce each other to a due Temper. Divers uné'tuous kinds of Earth, as Sulphur, Amber, Bitumen, Marl, Fuller‘s Earth, and the like, fend out hot fumes into the Air, where they meet with cold watry Vapours, giving their heat a due allay Terra Sigillara, Chia, Silefiaca, Lemnia, BolusAi-mena, andmany wholes fome Earths in our own Climate; being bedewed with Showres, do fend out many falutary Eflluxes into the Air, and are as it were f0 many Antidotes to correét, in fome fort, malignant vapours ariling out of Cinnabar, Mercury, Arhiick, and other venenate Minerals : V'Vhofe noifome Exhalations are di‘ Malignant m» lpelled by Qaline Steams, which do purge the Air by their deterfive Qialities, 332:3" Q keeping it from Putrefafiion,and by giving it a brisk Motion,whichis produced """mn‘swhich do by great crowds of boil'trous Exhalations ( jufiling one againl‘t another) of iii-aliiithiiir different tempers 5 among which, as I conceive, the Saline are the molt active, deterliveny making great bultles in the Air, hurrying it from one term to another, as a "1"" Fluid Body, fomewhat refembling the motion of Waters; f0 that one Wave by its impull‘e, foon raifeth another, and the fecond the third, and a third the fourth, and \‘Vave after Wave, {till prefling one another forward, till at lalt they are broken by the power of the Shore, or their force retnnded by contrary Waves. iiiiiiiiriiik In like manner, a Windbeing railed by highly Acid and Saline Beams mum", arifing out of the Earth, which do firlt allault one part. of the Air, and um £333,313,?" mediately attack the next neighbouring parts, and [0 one wave of Air ur- :iiiichiiirii: ging the next immediately forward, do fucceflively force one another with great iiimblenels, making a quick agitation of the feveral parts of the Air, {0 that it feemeth to be one continued Motion, until Mountains, Clouds, Showres, or contrary Winds, fpeaka period to languilhing Steams, and motion of the Air; which is not only rendred wholfome by impetuous hurry of Various Mineral Exhalations, bur. allb by the mere motion of [teams1 ari{ing out of the Alimentary Juices of Vegetables, whole fweet faline and oily Balfamick Efliuxes, do much advance the natural temper of the Air by giving it a falutary fermentative Difpofition. 1 So that Effluxes do ifTue out of feveral Nutriciouslu-ices ( animating Trees and Plants) which are firfl: derived from the Mould into the Minute Pores of the ' 4 ~ ' , The Oleagenous Ellluxes flowing from Balfamiek Liquors of Refinous Trees, RefianTrscs d) With an aperient,emolient,difcutient and healing Difpolition, much enoble ighiiiiidiii tli: Atmofphatre, as conduc ing to_ the preferv , . , ation of the Lungs in a due fiif'lrfn i a u at indms Trne, and to rcf'core it when afliiéted With thin and acid Catatrhs. The unfiuous {teams of Balfamick Liquors, are diflolved by, and embo. y dieewith vinousEfHuxes, breathed out of feveral kinds of Fruits, as Grapes , _ , Appes, Pears, Plums, Cherrie. s, Goosbe rries, Corance, Rasherries, and the like, which impart. a Cordial quality to the pleafant refrelhing draugh tsof‘ Alf. giving the Vital Liquor in the Lungs a fpumous fubl'cance and Flor-id Colour. Thele generous Vital Steams, are great and principal Ingredients, confli- :Uting the Fei‘menting temper ol the Air: As they are the molt active fieams, putting the Other fluggifli contrary EfHuvia of Trees and Plants, into [rites fiine Motion. ‘ The hefinous, and Vinous Efliuxes, being of a {imilar temper, do enter into a near ConJunéhon, as prelavative one of another, and are Alexip har: maeal to exalt the Air with benign Influences, in oppofition to noifom e fieams, that are emitted out of the poifoiious Liquors of Plants, as Wild Cucumbers, Hellebore, Night-fliade, Black Poppies, divers parts of Tithiv mals, and many other of the like nature. _ And not-only Mineral and Vegetable Eflluvia arc' Ingredients, but alfi) high: of Animals claim their lliare, Ill producing the Fermentative Ingeny of Alf, \vhichisa univerfal Vehicle of all {teams WhatfoeVer. TheVital Liquor of Animals, being, briskly tranlinitted by a I‘trong pulfe in many greater and finaller Cylinders, from the inward Recefle Im-= Spirituous s, to $3313"? ambienr t parts., of the Body, the Cutis, and Cuticulag through whole in- the 1 "gm" . : _ . _ t' an rlimerable Ports, the more thin and fpirituous Particles of the Blood ,. do r- amt: 551:: . i . . fetually Tranfpire, and in a melt eminent degree; when the Blood i '1 is carried :‘hcpgllézgf n a great Torrent, With Violent agitations of the Body,wherein it is acted by Zirong contraéhons of Mufcles, l'queeling the Vellels, and haltni ng the mo= lion‘ of the Blood, imparting to it great Heat and Rarefafiion; upon "News "t . _ where , h F I L Compage of the Blood being opened , and tumultuarily impelled iiy'cepcciiifi‘iri FY the greatc * and leITer Arteries to the furface of the Body, through which from contrary ‘FCmiftetll numerous [teams into the Air, as being more excellent Emana- M' meted Emmi?" Fons, fprmgmg from an elevated principle of Life (attended with more {6- "1335""? Lil Organs ) than theft: of Vegetables. $31.," riii'c And in order to give a more clear account of the true Origen, and Caufes ""3"" rodu . emanation: of . . is. . t in p {tive of the Fermentative Power (which . Air, . than r fi, more eminen fiffijagg 1) 1 \' n ' . . . ‘ ‘ l C OHIO 11""an Other Body ) as it confifleth of many contrary afiive Princi les, the @3333"arlous {teams that infpire it; fome being Cxlefiial Emanations, of 2 Huh nettle-3m ~ - l ‘ verily mm" |