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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
blood_n	artery_n	heart_n	vein_n	9,504	5	10.0908	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26126	The Christian physician by Henry Atherton, M.D.	Atherton, Henry, M.D.	1683 (1683)	Wing A4112; ESTC R35287	159,440	417

Tmolus odores India mittit Ebur molles sua thura Sabaei It is admirable to consider that God hath not disposed all these in their sundry places without Discrimination or particular Reasons for it but where the greatest needs of the Inhabitants or Climate require it Thus we see Remedies planted there where the Diseases are most popular and every Country is best provided against its own Evils The Rhubarb is found where the Sun most parches the Blood and where Choler doth most abound The Rhenish Grape grows plentifully on the Banks of the Rhine where the Inhabitants are most obnoxious to the Stone and the Scurvey-grass is most luxuriant in the Maritine Places where the Scurvey is most predominant c. If from the outer Surface of the Earth we descend into its Bowels we may find that also to be not an useless Mass but a safe Repository for the most rich and precious Things Here lie not only the Coal the Stone and the Marble the Jett and the Adamant but the rich Diamond the glittering Saphire the shining Chrysolite the purple Hyacinth and the noblest Gold all which have their particular uses and ends either in Medicine Merchandise or Conveniencies for Man and therefore made by some Supreme and most Intelligent Spirit who first conceived in him all those Ends and considered afore-hand all those Means suitable to those Ends. Not to mention other living Creatures or the very Make and Frame of their Bodies with respect to their several ends the Strength and Sinews of one the Swiftness of another the Tameness of one and the Teachableness of another God's Providence in providing for them Natural Armour and Weapons Subtilty Shelter or Innocence to defend themselves against those that assault them and preparing their Clothing which because they are not able to procure new they receive that at first from a Divine and Benign Providence which needs no repairing Let us now convert our Eyes from the great to the little World Man and there view and consider the Excellent I had almost said Divine Structure of his Body the exact Symmetry of each Part with reference to its End And here I am at a loss where to begin Every yea even the most Minute Part if we consider its Make and Ends calls for nothing but Wonder and Admiration and well may we with holy David cry out Psalm 139.14 I am fearfully and wonderfully made The Consideration of which hath made some affirm that it was an impossible thing for an Anatomist or one that pryed into the many secret Recesses of the Body ever to become an Atheist Demetrius when he had taken Rhodes though he exposed the City to Fire and Sword yet preserved the Image of Protogenes as some Sacred Things and placed it amongst his greatest Rarities that he had rescued from the Flames for no other end then that he might have always by him the greatest and best Compendium of the Works of God the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Lineament of the Body of a Man It 's Frame as it is worthy of its Artificer so it plainly shews that nothing but what is Divine could produce so beautiful so useful a Subject whose Exactness is such that if the Wisdom of all men living were Concentred in one it could not find out any one part which needs correcting or amendment Not to mention the outer Cark●et which is obvious to every Man's Eye and only a Covert to hide the more precious Pearls contained within To pass by the Excellent Proportions and Dimensions of ●is Body made exactly to Quadrate with each other and adapted to those Uses to which they are Employed To say nothing of the Incomparable nay Divine Features of his Face and the Exquisiteness of all his Senses how admirable is it to consider that among the almost innumerable Vessels and Parts of the Body within there is not one but hath its particular Use neither doth that interfere with any other or intermeddle with his Province except it be sometimes to do his Neighbour a friendly Office when it is not able to help its self Thus is the Stomach made for Concoction of Meats the Intestines for the Expulsion of their useless and unprofitable parts The Lacteals for the reception of the Chyle or more Pure and refined Ones The Chyliferous Vessels for conveying it into the mass of Blood The Blood for Sanguification and Assimilation of them The Lungs for Respiration and Perpetuating the Motion of the Blood The Heart for transmitting it to the Brain and other parts of the Body and the Brain again in requital sends back Spirits to continue its motion The Liver is made for the secretion of Bile or Choler The Spleen for separation of the more earthy and melancholy faeculencies of the Blood The Kidneys for percolation of ●he Serous parts of it for Urine The Arteries for carrying the Blood out from the Heart to invigorate warm and nourish every part of the Body The Veins for reducing it again to its Source and Fountain for a new Recruit of Heat and Spirits The Lymphaeducts for keeping a thin Humour to dilute and moderate the Inordinancies of the Blood The Nerves for conveying nutritive Juyce and Spirits to all parts and the Muscles for all motions of the Body And I dare challenge the most exact Anatomist to shew me amongst that Vast and Infinite number of Vessels that are in the Body of a Man where there is any one superfluous or any defective If any should reply that some Creatures have lived without some of their principal parts as a Dog will without a Spleen I answer that this doth not enervate the Assertion because tho they may make a hard shift 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vivere to live yet they want the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bene vivendi they cannot live so comfortably as they might have done had they not been deprived of those parts for all conspire together for the benefit and preservation of the whole Like sundry Artificers upon a fair Building every one about his particular Office and Employ and yet all are Coadjutors towards the erecting or securing of that goodly Pile The Sensitive Faculties are sublimed to a much higher pitch and may elevate our Minds to a higher Degree of Admiration Who cannot but wonder at the Swiftness of the sensible Species posting to the Sense and the quickness and readiness of the Sense to receive it Here you may see a vast Mountain contracted into a small Model and dwelling in the Angle and Corner of the Eye who cannot but admire the faithfulness of the Sensitive Organs in transmitting their respective Species to the common Sensorium as into some Common-Council-house where the busie Imagination joyns and compounds them together and reads a Lecture to the Appetite to prove its assent or dissent and no soone● is the Appetite awakened but the Loco-motive Faculty a most obedient Servant puts the Decree in Execution and is ready to prosecute that Good or flie that