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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	blood_n	body_n	humour_n	2,342	5	7.9583	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33286	Vermiculars destroyed with an historical account of worms, collected from the best authors as well ancient as modern, and expe[r]iments [pr]oved by that admirable invention of the microscope : with directions for the taking those most famous medicines, intituled Pulvis Benedictus, &c. : also diagnostick signs of worms and signs of health in children, with the various causes of vermiculars / by R.C., chymist ...	R. C. (R. Clark)	1690 (1690)	Wing C4484; ESTC R39983	18,229	31

Vermiculars make to Carolina c. And all sorts of Wild-Fowl to the Sea Fauconers use the Dung of Sparrows to kill VVorms in their Hawks and Pulvis Buso to kill 'em in their Feathers So VVorms on Plants are destroyed by the Fumes of Sulphur Garlick Galbanum Goats Claws c. Whoever will give themselves the trouble of opening a mad Dog will find him full of VVorms which is the occasion of his madness and are bred by eating corrupted meat especially in the Dog-Days These VVorms take away their Appetites Worms the cause of Madness in Doggs and makes them fear the water They wander about hang down the Tail bark hoarsly foam at the mouth and look angerly They are cured by giving them Horse-Aloes and Common-Salt mixed with Water give it in a Drenching-Horn and in half an hour you will see the Vermin come up and the Dog be well Thus man finds out Remedies to destroy them in Birds and on Plants and shall he forget himself This is a narrow and a fruitless Principle Umbraided by Neglect and Folly Our Liv●s divided into Seven Ages Rhodeginus divides our Lives into seven Ages alluding to the seven Planets we may fitly compare our Infancy with the Moon in which we seem only to live and grow as Plants and abounds with Humours The second Age to Mercury wherein we are under Tuition Taught and Instructed The third to Venus the time of Pleasure Amorous Love-sick-Toys Vanity c. The fourth to the Sun the Summer-time of our Lives Strong Beautiful and flourishing The Fifth to Mars in which we seek Honour Victory and have Ambitious Ends designing to accomplish somewhat Praise-worthy or act what may redown'd to our Glory The Sixth to Jupiter where we judge of our selves and others of former Actions and take an account of Times arrive to the perfection of our Judgments Understanding Reason c. The Seventh and Last to Saturn the Winter of our Days wherein our Spirits Lives and Souls are obfuscated overcast and clouded all fraught with a multitude of Cares Sorrows Fears and Anxieties a Burthen to our selves a Trouble to others over-spread with innumerable Aches Pains Infirmities and Weakness fit for no Society nor Imployment but only to keep our Heirs from inheriting our Possessions which by how much the greater they are by so much the more is our End and Dissolution hoped and wished for even by those which drew Life and Being from us which is Vanity in the abstract and a great Evil if not the greatest and this the End of all our Labours under the Sun and in all these Ages we are or may be Mascerated with Worms As to the first six we have Examples daily therefore I shall only speak of the last Valescus de Taranta attests he often had seen Old People have Worms And Gabucinus mentions an ancient Man The last Age Macerated with Worms who evacuated a Monstrous Black Worm Brasavorius reports of a Patient of his a Man of above Fourscore Years of Age which voided above Five Hundred Worms And Doctor Ramesey had a Patient within Two Months of Fourscore a Woman that voided such a company of Worms by a Medicine he gave her that they were innumerable and adjudged to be some thousands of divers sorts and magnitude especia●ly Teretes and Ascarides And I my self have had several Patients of above Threescore that have voided not only the Common Worms but Vermiculars of strange and various Shapes Various Causes of Worms SUpernatural causes Supernatural causes are from God and his Angels The Devil and his Imps Magicians Conjurers Witches and Wizards Universal Natural Causes Vniversal Natural Causes are from Heaven Stars and Planets which some deny who think the Stars were made only to adorn the Heavens and Fools to gaze on Parents a cause Air a cause Meat a cause Drink a cause Plethora a cause which is a redundancy of fulness of Blood and other Humors in the Body Too much sleep a cause Preturbation a cause Over-watching a cause Too much rest a cause Imagination a cause Sorrow a cause Anger a cause Fear a cause Cachochymia a cause which is an Excess in either Quality or Quantity of Natural or Preternatural Excrementitious Humours A bad Nurse a cause Natural and Preternatural Flegm a cause Cholar a cause Melancholly a cause Serum a cause which is a waterish thin Humour proceeding from the other Humours Sublata Causa Tollitur effectus I have met with some Opposition as to Supernatural Causes but whether there be or be not I shall not dispute it here however Christians ought to believe it from the Testimony of St. Luke Acts the 12. and the 23. And immediately the Angel of the Lord smote him because he gave not God the Glory and he was eaten of Worms and gave up the Ghost So Job complains That his Flesh was cloathed with Worms Job 7.5 And Cornelius Gemma gives us an Example of a Wench who was as if she had been possessed of the Devil and at some times would not be held by three Men such were her strong Convulsive Passions who Evacuated by Vomit Twenty Four Pounds of Stuff of all Colours twice a day for Fourteen days together and afterwards great Balls of Hair pieces of Wood Pidgeons Dung Parchment Coals c. and after all this two pound of pure Blood and then again Coals and Stones strange fits of Laughing Weeping and Extasies and at length voided a live Worm by Stool like unto an Eel of a Foot and a half long the which he says he not only saw but felt and this I suppose sprung from a Supernatural Cause which sometimes destroys Life and all as appears by that most remarkable Story in Verstegan and of the Pied Piper that carried away an Hundred and Sixty Children from the Town of Hamel in Saxony on the 22d of July Anno Dom. 1370. a Wonderful Permission of God to the Rage of the Devil Nicholaus Monardus speaks of a Worm that a Lady Evacuated above a Foot long with a double forked Tail Fallopius speaks of a Worm all over hairy black having two Heads It weighed Nine Ounces Dr. Edward May our Country-man hath written a Book of a very strange Worm whitish about a Span long and the thickness of a man's Finger having towards the Tail two Branches divided into divers Fibers or Strings of a fleshy Colour the Head bloody and in Shape like unto a Serpent or Snakes It was taken from the Heart of one John Pennant in St. Giles's The Four Figures of which is to be seen in the following Page Anguilla Pedalis Bifurcatus Helminthocardia Dodroncalis A Patient of mine 1687 who lived in Shoreditch a Woman above Sixty who had a continual Trembling about her Heart so that she could not rest Day nor Night and withal was strangely tempted to cut her Husband's Throat without any Reason for she protested she lov'd him intirely having been married many years during which Time he had always been very