Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
blood_n	artery_n	part_n	vein_n	8,672	5	9.7833	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07786	The true knowledge of a mans owne selfe. Written in French by Monsieur du Plessis, Lord of Plessie Marly. *And truly translated into English by A.M..	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.; Xenophon. Memorabilia.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1602 (1602)	STC 18163; ESTC S103514	52,106	260

that doe agree with her actions It remayneth therefore to know what vertues are in the Soule in what parts of the body she performes her actions by vvhat meanes how her vertues are extended with the full effects of her strength The Phylosopher numbers fiue seuerall powers in the soule which are discerned by offices organs and obiects that is to say those thinges whereon shee grounds her action The first of these powers or perfections is called vegetatiue which by the meanes of such thinges as doe preserue her namely ayre eating and drinking sleeping and watching rest and motion euacuation of superfluities and the affections of the hart nourishing the bodie doe giue increase and power to beget Nourishment is made by the vertue of naturall heate which conuerts the meat drink into the substaunce of him that takes it The organes instruments which haue vse of this power in operation are those parts of the body appointed to receiue change and transport our foode as are the mouth the pipe or passage of the throate the ventricle the liuer and the veines which doe conuey the blood Howbeit all the bodies parts doe serue to make nourishment conuert the seuerall aliments or sustenaunce into their substaunce whereupon one vvell saith that each part hath his peculiar power to receiue retaine alter and expell The maner how the body is nourished is necessary to be known as well in regarde of health as also behauiour which makes mee the more willing to describe it for all mens easier apprehension When the stomacke or ventricle hath receiued the foode it locks it vp afterward to heate conuert it into a kind of white matter which beeing so changed according to his qualities discends by degrees into the guts and bowels certaine veines wherof doe sucke and draw the very purest best substaunce and so do cary it to the Liuer When it is grosse superfluous it discends into the nether guttes but when it is elaborate and refined by the Liuer then doth it make some ample distribution For the chollerick humour in the greatest part is with-drawne receiued into a little pursse coÌ„monly called the purse of the gaule Mellancholie which is the very grossest and most earthy bloode is sent into the Spleene The part cold dry coÌ„monly called fleame is dispersed by diuers proportions into the veines according to the oppinion of many the very best whereof the kidneies doe drawe to them for theyr nourishment and the rest is caried by vessels attending on the bladder whereof vrine is made in that part What else remaineth of this masse or substance is transported to the hart where the right ventricle thereof receiues and purifies it to the ende it may bee conuenable and fit for nourishment Moreouer one part of the bloode so receiued into the right ventricle of the hart is deriued vnto the left ventricle conuerted into the spirits vitall So called because by them the life natural heate of the bodie is preserued and so are the animall spirits of the braine made which are the instruments of moouing and vnderstanding and of those noble actions that conduct our life Againe from thys right ventricle of the hart is the blood distilled into the veines and from them an apposition commutation of them is conuayed into our substance There are three seuerall digestions made onely to perfect thys nourishment the first is in the ventricle which vulgarly is called the stomack wheÌ„ the food is conuerted into matter dry and white the second is in the Liuer where the said matter is altered takes a kind of red colour the third is in the veines where this matter already coÌ„uerted red and made blood is purified thinned and heated by the vertue and warmth of those spirits which are in the arteries as the nature of sweat doe passe ouer the heads of those arteries and subtilly is mingled with the blood of the veines Heerein truly nature gaue vs the lawe example of communicating our graces gyfts and perfections from one to another for the arteries which are the pypes appoynted for carriage of the spirits where the finest perfectest blood regularlie placed vnder the veines by poares little holes almost imperceptible doe make coÌ„munitie of their spirits with the veines to the end that the bloode of those veines most corsiue and cold might be heated altered subtiled by the meanes of those spirits in recompence of which benefit the veines doe impart theyr blood to the arteries to moisten and temper theyr spyrites which without thys helpe would be verie dry burning and too hote The like argument deriued from nature vseth S. Paule 1 Cor. 12. coÌ„ferring the offices of the bodies members the vtilitie dignitie and coÌ„munication of them with the spirituall graces which god hath distributed to euerie one perticulerly to make a coÌ„plete body an intire church as it were the place is well worth the noting Wee commonly say that the hurte or defect of the first digestion cannot be corrected repaired by the other euen so when the ventricle dooth not iustlie performe his dutie the matter which remayneth ouer-rawe or cruded can neuer ingender good blood Therefore such as giue not due leysure to theyr stomack to make digestion doe fill their bodies with hurtful humours abating and weakening the vertue of theyr stomacke and likewise of theyr liuer whence groweth Palsies trembling or shaking of the members age hastened sooner theÌ„ should be with blisters and bleanes which deforme and much mis-shape the bodie Yet is not this all the inconuenience hurt that ensues heereby for if the blood be impure the spirits made therof cannot be cleere or noble of which spirits are vapours fumes subtilly extracted drawn froÌ„ the blood of which spirits are begotten and heated the left ventricle of the hart made like industrious liuelie sparkles to giue heat and vertue to the parts of nature as both proffer and produce theyr actions These sparkles haue been by reason of their dignitie excellence in so great admiration that diuers entred rashly into this errour that those spirits were the substance of the soule then the impure blood badly digested grosse and disorderly concocted can neuer be made spirites nor by ouergrosse and impure spirits can be doone anie noble actions neyther can the soule be freelie exercised in her offices onely through theyr most harmefull hinderances For we see those men that are giuen to intemperancie be commonlie sleepie dull of slender capacitie not able any long while to contemplate retaine well conferre or vnderstand the order discourse causes and effects of thinges neyther what conuenaunce or difference is among them nor can they promptly or expeditiously apprehend and iudge the benefite or harme which ensueth on any thing taken in hand so great is the intemperance of the mouth Heraclitus the Ephesian by impuritie

but it is also for other vses beside for thereon are placed and imposed infinite veines arteries to the end that by them the menstruall bloode might be caried for the nouriture and encreasing of the fruite which veines arteries haue their originall not only of the spermaticke vessels that is to say those which draw prepare carie this seed but likewise of a great truncke or veine planted and rooted on the liuer This skinne is as it were folded and wrapt about the matrix to the end the sayde matrixe might giue warmth to the fruite round about There is in this wrapper or membrane many small threds of veins or arteries which spreading and extending themselues one among another doe constitute and make two veines and two arteries and in the midst of them a conduit These veines and arteries like rootes of fruite beeing planted in the seede doe make the nauil where by the first sixe dayes nature cloatheth these stringes and threds of veines and arteries and the seede softly boyleth in his folder Then about the seauenth day when the nauill is formed and these veines and arteries ioyned through them is drawn the blood and spirits caried mingled with the saide seede for forming of the principall members For in thys enuellopper there are diuers entries like the entring into some little vault or seller in which entries or concauities they are conioyned together thorow those vaultes the little rootes doe attract blood and spirit And while the seede thus heats boileth it is made like three litle bladders or purses which are the places for the liuer the hart and braine There is then drawn along by a veine proceeding from the nauil some thicke bloode as nourishment vvhich thickens shuts it selfe into the seede The fore-said veine is forked and alongst one of those braunches passeth this blood and settles it selfe to a thicke substance behold then how the liuer is formed Wee see by experience that the Liuer is nothing else but thickned blood grown hard together and this liuer hath many smal threds which serue to attract retaine change and expell according as vve haue before declared Alongst the other branch of this veine is formed a gutte or passage which soone after carieth contriueth and fasteneth the bowels or inwards to the backe of the creature and it is a vessell where-with to sustaine the veines wherin prospereth the verie purest part of blood in the smallest intestines or inwards and so conueies it to the liuer In like manner alongst the same braÌ„ch the stomack the spleen and the bowels are formed So wheÌ„ the liuer is perfected he makes an assembly of the smallest veines as of little rootes and by their assembling is made a great veine on the vpper part of the Liuer which vaine produceth some high braunching foorth whereof is formed Diaphragma to wit a strange rounde muscle lying ouerthwart the lower part of the breast seperating the hart and lites from the stomacke with the Liuer and the Spleene And so is made a part of the bones belonging to the backe and there be braÌ„ches which shoote out some-what lower whereof is also formed the rest of the said back bones The arteries dispersed from the nauill amongst the seede doe tende toward the ridge of the back by little and little haue a place designed for forming and engendring of hâ—e hart These arteries doe drawe the hotest and most subtile bloode whereof in the little purse therfore appointed is the hart engendered and formed vvhich hart is a solide flesh hard and thick as is most conuenable for so very hott a member The great plant or veine extends goes iust to the right ventricle of the hart onely to carry and administer blood for his nourishment and beneath this veine ariseth or springs vp another vein which carrieth the purified blood to the lites made subtile and hote onelie to nourish and keepe it warme At the left ventricle of the hart ariseth a great arterie which carrieth the spirits vitall formed of blood by the heat of the hart thorow all the body And euen as by the braunches of thys great trunck of veines the blood is conueyed thorowe all the bodies parts for nourishment thereof So by the boughes or armes of this arterie are the spyrits likewise caried thorowe all the bodie to furnish it with vitall heate And doubtlesse the hart is the beginner of vitall heate without which the other members can not produce their actions neither can theyr nourishment be dulie made Vnder this artery of the fore-said left ventricle springs vp another arterie which serues to carry the sweet ayre froÌ„ the lungs lites to the hart to refresh it and likewise to recarry the ayre beeing first made warme by the hart So then wheÌ„ of these two ventricles of the hart are those veins brought forth which doe intend to the lites of the subtile bloode vvhich is transported by this veine of the right ventricle of the hart is the lungs and lites formed and made and so successiuely all the height of the body is made by these arteries veines which are conueyers to the spirits and bloode whereby nature fullie makes vp all her building Soone after the brain which is the place and seate for the very noblest functions and offices of nature is formed in this manner A great part of the seede with-drawes it self is receiued into the third little purse before specified heereof is the braine coÌ„posed whereto is ioyned a couerture hard and dry by force of naturall heate like vnto a tile in a fornace that is the skul of the heade So the braine is onely made of the seede to receiue conserue change the spirits which are the instruments and causes of voluntary moouing and of vnderstanding it behoueth then that it should not be made of vile or simple matter but of the aboundance of seed fullest of spirits Novve euen as the veines are bredde in the liuer and the arteries in the hart So are the nerues in the braine which are of the nature of the braine viscuous clammie and hard Nor are they holow like the veines and arteries but solid massie except those two that are called Opticke which doe coÌ„uey the spirits of the braine into the sight of the eye From the braine discends the marrowe in the chine of the backe and there is great difference between the marow of the other bones and this heere spoken of for the marrowe in the other bones is a superfluitie of nourishment engendred of blood ordained to norish and moisten the bones but the marrow in the chine bone of the back is engendered and made of the seede appointed for producing of the nerues sensitiue and motiue VVee may by that which hath been saide in some sort knowe the beginning and fashion of our humaine bodie VVhile the fruite is in the wombe it is

of his feeding became full of the Dropsie Salomon saith that more perish by the intemperance of the mouth then by the sword Hipocrates numbers sixe things which hee calls not naturall in vs because they are no parts at all or members of the body yet necessarie notwithstanding to maintain life which are ayre eating drinking sleep and watchfulnes motion rest euacuation of superfluities and the affections of the hart Hee giues a rule whereby to know those things profitable for the bodie as also the manner order howe to vse them First saith hee labour and moderate exercise of the body meat drink sleep all these things are to bee vsed in a meane The benefite of the first is that by moderate labor naturall heat is excited and mooued superfluities are consumed expelled which is a profitable thing before new viands be receiued For euen as hot water by the fires side becomes coole when cold water is mingled therewith so is digestion hindered when the stomacke is charged vvith fresh receite of foode not staying till the former haue taken his due course Thys ought wee especially to auoyde according to the rule which sayth that the more vve nourish an impure bodie the more we do offend dangerously hurt it Those labours exercises which do cause great agitation of the armes stomacke are most agreeable for health but care must bee had of ouer great stirring as well of the bodie as of the minde immediatly after refection is receiued for then we should rest or keep ourselues from immoderate moouing because in that case the stomacke beeing too much stirred it cannot intirely and fully make his digestion For the little doore beneath in the stomacke by thys ouer-hastie stirring is opened therethrogh escapeth some matter vndigested which fault as already vvee haue said cannot afterwarde againe repaire it selfe The qualities measure or quantities the kindes or sorts of food the time and the place for taking them the coÌ„plexions both of them and those that receiue them ought also to be diligently coÌ„sidered weighed but them we doe referre to the Phisitions who haue therin prescribed very learned rules Sleepe is necessarie for the preseruation of health and then it best agreeth with the bodie when the vapours and fumes both sweet and profitable of nourishment beeing in the stomack doe raise vp theÌ„selues to the braine slyding sweetly thorowe the ventricles of the braine thickning and mingling them-selues vvith the braines naturall coldnes for in discending they woulde hinder the course of the motiue and sensitiue spirits and stop the conduits of vnderstanding and those nerues vsuallie seruing for motion Nor doe I without iust cause terme these vapours to be sweet for if they bee at any time too clammie sharp dul or slow they doe then wounde the braine and engender Apoplexies This rest serues to recreate the powers of the soule it moystens the braine to beget new spirits and labours for perfecting the offices of the ventricle liuer all which thinges at full it performeth because the hart therby reuocates drawes his heat to him For those meÌ„bers which are farre off from the hart do wexe cold by sleeping as we may note in the hands head and feete wherefore it behoueth to couer those parts better in the time of rest sleeping then wheÌ„ we are awake busied and labouring This reuocation of heate and blood for the hart works it selfe thus the vapors being made cold by the braine in discending doe meete warme fumes coÌ„ming from the hart wherevpon those vapours are chased to the exteriour parts and so the heate of the hart more amply is augmented wherof the hart by the arteries like to a King willing to assist furnish thorowly the indigences wants of the liuer and the stomack makes his prouision and store of blood heate to help theÌ„ with supply in perfecting their concoctions and offices of nature And assuredlie heerein we haue a liuelie example of the well guiding gouerning managing of a coÌ„monwealth for the hart as Prince and King enricheth furnisheth him self in the time of peace and rest commonlie called sleep to the end he may in needful time likewise distribute to the liuer and stomacke such spirits as are sufficient for their working which spirits do helpe further and fortefie the naturall heate Truely the first and chiefest office of a Prince or Gouernour of any Country is or ought to bee that his Subiects may liue in quiet without vexation or trouble of incursions and thefts of enemies The second office is that he take order they haue victuals and prouision for their nourishment and maintenaunce And the third is that they should bee instructed in Religion honest actions other necessary Artes for maintenaunce of humaine societie Sleepe then is most necessarie and serueth for euery one of these vertues in the soul as in the office vegetatiue or nourishing because it perfects digestion and there is nothing more certaine then that vncurable crudities doe come thorow lacke of rest sleepe For not onely by ouer-long watching the food receiued cannot perfectly concoct it self but likewise the vertue of the ventricle is feebled and vtterly ouer-throwne as well through the charge weight of the foode as also that the nerues are made weake by the feeblenes of the braine whence they proceede and this debilitie is only caused by want of rest It serues also in the power appetente for the hart attracts his heate and engenders great aboundance of spirits which are alwaies the cleerer the more the bloode is neate and purified It profits likewise the power principal which is the vertue Intellectiue for hee orders his actions by meanes of the spirits in the braine which touch mooue the nerues as well sensitiue as motiue Adde wee heereto that in sleepe the substance of the braine is refreshed and moistened which braine by too great drynes looseth his complexion the substaunce of the nerues cannot then wel performe their offices iustly agreeing with the strings of a musicall instrument which if they be too dry or too moist too slack or too much exteÌ„ded they can yield no sounde of good accordance This place admonisheth vs to speake of dreames and fantasies which happen in the time of sleepe and are nothing else but meere imaginations that present themselues vvhen the spirits which are the instruments of our cogitations leaue their orderly course confusedly and irregulerly moue themselues in the braine There are diuers sorts of dreames some being called common vulgare because that the causes are euident as when in our sleepe the images and shapes of things which the day before haue exercised and frequented our cogitations doe make a tender and offer of theÌ„selues as Iudges do often reuolue on theyr law-cases Scholastical Diuines on theyr relations vrgent examinations Carters cal on theyr

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