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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
A52847	A treatise of consumptions in which their nature, causes and symptoms are briefly explained, and a new and extraordinary method by specifick medicines is proposed for the cure of consumptions, even such as proceed from ulcers of the lungs / by Thomas Nevett ...	Nevett, Thomas.	1697 (1697)	Wing N501B; ESTC R42197	10,928	85

fluid so that they make another form of Mixture and unite among themselves into the resemblance of a Milky Cream after which together with the thicker Mass with which they are yet involved by the Constriction of the Stomach they pass down to the Guts where by the Mixture of the Bile and Pancreatick Juice they are by another manner of Fermentation quite separated from the thicker Mass and so are received by the Lacteal Vessels as the thicker is ejected by stool After the purer part of the Chyle hath been thus strained thorough the narrow and oblique Pores of the Milky Veins by the continual and peristaltick motion of the Intestines it is yet further attenuated and diluted with a very thin and clear Lympha from the Glands of the Mesentery to expedite its passage through those Numerous Meanders into the common Receptacle from whence by the constant supply of such like Lympha from the small Glands of the Thorax it is safely conveyed through the Ductus Chyliferus Thoracicus subclavian Vein and the Vena Cava into the Heart The Chyle now mingled with the Blood passeth with it through the Arterys of the whole Body and returns again with the Blood by the Veins to the Heart undergoing many Circulations before it can be Assimilated to the Blood for every time the new infused Chyle passeth through the Heart with the Blood the Particles of the one are more intimately mixed with those of the other in its Ventricles and the Vital Spirit and other active Principles of the Blood work upon the Chyle which being full of Salt Sulphur and Spirit as soon as its Compages is loosned by its Fermentation with the Blood the Principles having obtained the Liberty of Motion do readily associate themselves and are Assimilated with such parts of the Blood as are of a like and suitable Nature After the Chyle hath been thus Elaborated it becomes fit as well to recruit the Mass of Blood as to Nourish the whole Body seeing it consists of divers Principles and Parts of a different Nature therefore according to the various Use and Necessity of every Part and also that it may conform and fashion it self to the different Pores and Passages so it is severally appropriated the most volatile and subtil part is separated in the Brain and adapted to refresh the Animal Spirits the Glutinous to nourish the Body and the Sulphureous to revive the Native Heat And in its passage with the Blood through all the parts of the body all the mass of Chyle that is capable of being turned into Blood is sanguified the serous and saline part precipitated by the Kidneys and evacuated by Sweats or insensible Transpiration the Bilious is deposited in the Liver and the rest of its Excrements retire to the several Emunctorys of the Body Thus it comes to pass by the wonderful Sagacity of Nature such extraordinary Provision is made that the purer part of the Chyle by these ways and means is more purified and when it is thus purified and sublimed it is more capable of reinforcing the Blood and Spirits as also of corroborating the Tone of every particular Part Whereas when the Chyle is sowre and dispirited the blood necessarily becomes vappid the Animal Spirits that reside in the System of the Nerves are infected with a Morbid Disposition and all parts of the Body begin to flag and waste For indeed there is no other way to recruit the dayly Expence of Blood and Spirits but by a continual Influx of laudable Chyle into the blood-vessels which Chyle is made by the Fermentative Juice of the Stomach and this Fermentative Juice supplyed from the Mass of Blood so that there plainly appears to be a fixt Correspondence betwixt the Blood and Chyle and a necessary Dependance all the Humours in the Habit of the Body have on the Stomach from whence it is reasonable to infer That if the Chylifying Faculty of the stomach be depraved the Blood and Humours must necessarily sympathize therewith and in a manner proportionable to the Distemper of this part The immediate Cause of a Consumption of the Lungs is store of sharp malignant waterish Humours continually distilling upon the soft spongy Substance of the Lungs stuffing inflaming impostumating and exulcerating them whereby their Action which is Respiration or a receiving in and driving forth Air is depraved as will more clearly appear by the following Description of these Parts It may not be impertinent to our Discourse if we should usher in the Description of the Lungs with a short account of the Trachea Aspera Arteria or Wind-pipe The Trachea or Aspera Arteria is a long Pipe consisting of Cartilages and Membranes which beginning at the Throat or lower part of the Jaws and lying upon the Gullet descends into the Lungs through which it spreads into many Branchings and is commonly divided into two parts the Larynx and Bronchus the Larynx is the upper part of the Wind-pipe the Bronchus is all the Trachea besides the Larynx as well before as after it arrives at the Lungs The Substance of the Lungs is soft spongy and rare curiously compacted of most thin and fine Membranes continued with the Ramifications of the Trachea or Wind-pipe which Membranes compose an infinite number of little round and hollow Vesicles or Bladders so placed as that there is an open Passage from the Branches of the Aspera Arteria out of one into another and all terminate at the outer Membrane that investeth the whole Lungs These little Bladders by help of their muscular Fibres contract themselves in Expiration and are dilated in Inspiration partly by the pressure of the Atmosphere and partly by the Elastick power of the Air insinuating it self into these Vesicles through the Wind-pipe and its several branches Their Lobes are two the right and left parted by the Mediastinum each of which is divided into many lesser Lobules according to the Ramifications of the Aspera Arteria they have all sorts of Vessels that are common to them with other parts as Arterys Veins Nerves Lympheducts but peculiar to themselves they have their Bronchia or the Branches of the Wind-pipe for bringing in and carrying forth Air so necessary to Life that we cannot Live without it And when we consider their admirable Structure as well as the structure of every individual part of our Body how ought we to Adore the infinite Wisdom of our Creator Now when these small Vesicles or Bladders are repleat with Extravasated Serum or purulent Matter the Natural Tone of the Lungs is so weakned that we cannot enjoy the Benefit of free and full Respiration hard scirrhous Tumours or Tubercles are bred attended with a dry and troublesome Cough Oppression of the Breast difficult and short Breathing preternatural Heats Exulcerations and other deplorable Symptoms according to the Degrees of Obstruction and different Nature of the included Humours The External Procatartick Cause of a Consumption of the Lungs is cold Particles of Air constipating the Pores

as well as Charges and render their Lives comfortable to themselves and serviceable to others The Warmness of these Medicines which is the only Objection that ever I met with in the use of them is so far from being a real Discouragement as that upon serious and judicious Considerations it becomes a Notable Argument to enforce the taking of them for otherwise they would be too weak to engage the Original Cause of Hectick burning and Putrid Feavers whereas by this active Principle of Heat they work so effectually upon the whole mass of Chyle as to separate the sharp and dispirited from the Nutritious Particles thereof thoroughly insinuate themselves into all the Avenues of the Adversary cut and divide the tough viscous Humours that distemper the Veins Arteries and Nerves destroy the Acidity of the Nervous Juice recover the Natural Temper of the Animal Spirits sweeten the mass of Blood by separating the Impurities thereof by the Cutaneous Glands gently forcing a Transpiration of the Feaverish Particles of the whole and so banish that Preternatural Heat which is Proof to all common Remedies And that Diseases which carry in their outward appearance a shew of preternatural Heat are thus to be treated with warm Medicines is indeed observable to every discerning Eye For the most malignant Feavers are attackt and conquered by the briskest and warmest Alexipharmacks and the most violent Erysipelas or St. Anthony's Fire is discussed and breathed out by strong and Spirituous Fomentations but are both of them exasperated by refrigerating or cooling Medicines and their preternatural Heat more and more increased till the one at length terminates in the cold sweats of Death and the other in a compleat Mortification To multiply Instances of this kind is remote from my intended brevity therefore take this remarkable one for all The Wife of Mr. Fowles who belongs to the Mint in the Tower of London in the beginning of November 1695. sent for me to open a Vein after a lamentable Complaint that she was nothing the better but the worse for all the Physick she had taken I took leave wishing her to Exercise Patience and continue in the use of those things the Dr. had prescribed though I also told her if she found no Benefit I would do her all the Service I could if she sent for me About the middle of January following she did send for me again and told me Dr. H. her Physician and Mr. W. Apothecary had given her over therefore desired some Assistance according to my Promise I found her in a very low Condition under a Hectick Feaver troublesome Cough tedious Asthma Colliquative Loosness with a Complication of Convulsive and Epileptick Fits of which she had sometimes to the Number of Eighteen or Twenty in a day Total Deprivation of Appetite having for some Months together received no other sustenance from Food than what a Glass of Sack with a Toast afforded whereby all the Parts of her Body were wasted and consumed to the highest degree of a Marasmus that ever I saw resembling a walking Ghost or a perfect Skeleton invested with nothing but Skin For my part I was not very forward to do any thing fearing a few days would put a period to her Life neither indeed was the Season any ways inviting However the good Opinion she was pleased to entertain of my Endeavours encouraged me more than I could her and with the Blessing of God on both Method and Medicines without any assistance from the Bark or Mineral Waters she was quite freed from her Hecticd Heat her Fits abated almost every day her Stomach returned her Bones wire cloathed with Flesh and her Strength so far recruited as that she was able to walk several Miles together without a Supporter though she could not exchange the unwholsome foggy Tower Air at this time more than ordinarily polluted with store of nasty black Particles from the smoak of Coals for the fresh clear Country Breezes till the latter end of Summer Before and since this prosperous Event I have given these Remedies to others and taken them my self several hundreds of times and have always found then Operations in offensive for the most part successful and sometimes wonderful FINIS