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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Religion of Author:
"Anglican"
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Work title:
"The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it Is; with All Kindes, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes and Several Cures of it"
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Literary Period:
"Seventeenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Mineral"
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"Optics"
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"Physics"
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Date: 1651
"Attraction is a ministering faculty, which, as a loadstone doth iron, draws meat into the stomach, or as a lamp doth oil; and this attractive power is very necessary in plants, which suck up moisture by the root, as, another mouth, into the sap, as a like stomach."
preview | full record— Burton, Robert (1577-1640)