Philosophical Observations on the Analogy Between the Propagation of Animals and That of Vegetables (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1752 edition. Excerpt: ...the Microfcope, appears ftri&ted, and interiperfed with a fine Gum of an Amber Colour, lying in Lumps in the Ridges, and having a high aromatic Smell; thus in the Parenchyriia &fe me farinaceous and aqueous Parts, depofited for Nutrition, and, on the Surface, the ardmatic Gum that affords that powerful Scent, fo remarkable ' Befides the grofler common Subftance in every Plant, whatever Particles, whether aromatic, fiveet, bitter, volatile, or the like, 'dch Plant has peculiar to itfelf, wherein its fpecific Qualities and Virtues confift, it is Wonderful to behold the various Methods ordained for treafuring them up in the Seed; fome havfng them upon the Surface of the Seed, as this mentioned; others in the Center, as the Grains of Paradife; others in the Oficula, and fo on, according to the Nature and-Exigencies of the Plant which they are to furnilh., . "' Accretion of the Organization; and Capable of being joined by fimilar Particles, arifing from the general nutritious Juices in the Earth, their natural Matrix. To illuftrate this, I (hall here mention a few Gbfervations out of many of my own, which, upon confidering them, gave me the Notion of accounting for the natural Secretions of Animal as well as Vegetable Bodies, upon my.prefent Plani and which ferve, more and more, to proclaim that Uniformity in thefe two general Parts of the Creation, which "points out an j&lkwife and jfflpowerfcd CkEAtfOfc. The firft Seed I mail take 'ffoftice of Ts that of the Angelica, which, after it is Vegetables, that there Should be every-vdiae a Magazine af-Particles, iuited to.every differing Plant, wherefoever its Seed fells, teady to be attraEled in the Coupfe of its Accretion; rather than to imagine, that the leaft Change, in any Fluid, can be brought...