impress a motion on the Fluids, which is the Spring of Life. But this motion of the Thorax being any way suppress'd, the equal pressure of the Atmosphere on all parts, occasions a total Cessation of motion, which is Death.
I shall prosecute this Subject no farther now, nor trouble the Reader with any Apology, for dissenting from those Great Men herein named;
because, I hope, I have done it with Modesty, and all the Respect due to so great Authorities, and have assign'd nothing which is not Matter of Fact uncontroverted, or deduc'd from it by plain Mechanical Necessity.
Some Thoughts and Experiments concerning Vegetation . By John Woodward , M. D. of the College of Physicians, and R. S. and Professor of Physick in Gresham College .
THE Ancients generally intitled the Earth to the Production of the Animals , Vegetables , and other Bodies upon and about it; and that for that Reason 'twas, that they gave it so frequently the Epithets of Parent and Mother [1]. They were of opinion, that it furnished forth the Matter whereof those Bodies consist; and receiv'd it all back again at their Dissolution for the Composure of others .