The paradoxal discourses of F.M. Van Helmont concerning the macrocosm and microcosm, or, The greater and lesser world and their union set down in writing by J.B. and now published.

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Author:	Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius van, 1614-1699.
Title:	The paradoxal discourses of F.M. Van Helmont concerning the macrocosm and microcosm, or, The greater and lesser world and their union set down in writing by J.B. and now published.
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Alternate titles:	Paradoxale discoursen ofte ongemeene meeningen van de groote en kleyne wereld en speciaal van de wederkeeringe der menschelijke zielen. English
Subject terms:	Microcosm and macrocosm -- Early works to 1800. Science -- Early works to 1800.
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THE PREFACE TO THE Courteous READER.

A Low-Dutch HYMN of ADAM BOREEL, presented by him to the Author of this BOOK, who had it translated into English.

Concerning the MACROCOSME: OR, Great World.

CHAP. I.

CHAP. II.

CHAP. III.

SECT. I.

SECT. II.

CHAP. IV.

SECT. I.

SECT. II.

AN APPENDIX.

The Second PART Concerning the MICROCOSME: OR, MAN As being the Little World.

CHAP. I.

CHAP. II.

CHAP. III.

SECT. I.

SECT. II.

I. Concerning the Eyes and Sight.

II. Concerning the Ears and Hearing.

III. Concerning the Nose and Sense of Smelling in Man.

IV. Concerning the Mouth, and of the Taste, and and Speech of Man.

V. Concerning the Sense of Feeling in Man: Also concerning the Brain, and the Pith of the Back∣bone, commonly called by Anatomists the Spinal Marrow.

SECT. III.

I. Concerning the Face of Man.

II. Concerning the Poise and Proportion of the Body of Man.

III. Concerning the motion of the Thighs and Legs of Man.

IV. Concerning the Bones of Man.

V. Concerning the Analogie and Proportion which the ten Fingers of a Mans Hands have with the ten Head-Commands of the Law.

VI. Concerning the Hair of Mans Head.

VII. Concerning the Hair which is before on the Forehead.

VIII. Concerning the Eye-brows.

IX. Concerning the Eye lids.

X Concerning the Hairs in the Nose and Ears, as well as those of the Beard and Privities, and un∣der the Arms.

XI. Concerning the Skin of Man.

XII. Concerning the Stomack of Man.

Principiis obsta, serò Medicina paratur, &c.

CHAP. IV.

AN APPENDIX.

CHRIST's Hundred Commandments, &c.

Here follows the Cure of the Crooked and Hunch-back'd Children, which was pro∣mised in the Second Part, and is per∣formed very Naturally, and without trouble to the Patient.

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