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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	blood_n	great_a	vein_n	1,434	5	9.4641	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50779	The life of the most learned Father Paul, of the Order of the Servie ... translated out of Italian by a person of quality.; Vita del padre Paolo. English	Micanzio, Fulgenzio.; Saint-Amard, John.	1651 (1651)	Wing M1959; ESTC R15887	131,569	304

say why now wee shall see what the Chaus had wont to say There being at that time in Venice one of those Nuntios that came from Constantinople about affaires whom they called a a Chaus And this Chaus having heard of this man that he made gold made no other answer to it but by a Laconicall brevity which is usuall with that nation I l gran signore dumque verra aservirlo If you make gold the great Turke shall come to be your servant And the father who so willingly held argument with any that profest distillations could not be satisfied how the humour of gold could be made entrant because al his exercise was only for the knowledge of nature Wherein the great Physician of our age can testifie the greatnesse of his experience and of the many things of his finding out which were communicated to others of that profession wherewith they have honoured themselves there being no admired effect no occult propertie nothing either written or experimented which he had not either seene or examined And beyond humane beleefe he was verst in all the things of those arts in so much as men thought he had employed his whole life in nothing else About that time and long after he exercised himselfe in the anatomy of all sorts of creatures and for the most part of living creatures which he used to cut up himselfe particularly the anatomy of the eye wherein he was so perfect that Aqua-pendente did not disdaine to alledge in his reading nor in his printed book the authority of father Paul And that famous man when he spoke of him he spake as of the Oracle of that age Besides other learning he was much verst in the knowledge of the propriety of simples of the nature of mineralls in so much as in those professions whatsoever he knew not was not cognoscible But such as are well informed of the truth have made it a rationall wonder that as Aqua pendente in his tractat de visu in genuously confesseth that he had learned from him the manner wherby in the Crystalline humour vision is made by refraction and that he was the first observer that the tunicles of the eyes were dark and thick as all the rest but that they onely became diafa●ious and transparent by being continually drencht and moistened with a cleere humour as the nature of Cavernes in Mountaines and rocks renders the earth transparent which is of it selfe most darke and dusky by a continuall irrigation as wee may see in pibbles and flint-stones And more over how infusion by art makes barke of trees and shells and rootes translucide which of themselves are of darkenesse and densitie So the whole tractate concerning the eye which passeth under the name of Aqua-pendente or at least so much as conteyns new rare speculations experiments is the work of Padre Paolo wherof I have had speech with some that were eye-witnesses and knew that a due part of the praise was not attributed to him that deserved it all But much more in another matter of more moment which was the finding out of those valvule those inward shuts or folds that are within the veines Of which argument I doe not finde that any either ancient or moderne hath made mention because it was a thing unthought of till these times that Aqua-pendente moved the question at a publique Anatomy But there are still living many eminent and learned Physitians among which are Santorio and Pietrou Asselineo a French man which knew that it was no speculation nor invention of Aquapendente but of the Fathers who considering the gravitie and weight of the blood grew into opinion that it could not stay in the veins except there were some bunch to hold it in some folds or shuttings at the opening and clofing of which there was given a passage and necessary Equilibrium to life And upon his owne naturall judgement he set himselfe to cutting with more exquisite observation whereupon hee found out those Valvuie and the right use of them which doe not onely stop and hinder the blood from dilating it self by his weight into the veines as wee observe in some crooked and sweld knots but also that blood running up and downe with so much liberty and in so great quantity it might easily suffocate the naturall heate of those parts which ought to receive their nourishment from it And in consequence he made discovery that the Athletick Habit which in his judgement and according to Hippocrates bonitatis summum attingit had no other cause of being so dangerous and deadly but because the blood being in so great a quantity in the veines might hinder the use of those Valvule whereby of necessity followed suffocating for want of ventilation Of this hee gave account to some friends of that profession and especially to Aqua-pendente who made very great use of it in a publique Anatomy after which divers famous Authors have written much upon that subject But me thinks I see alwaies the very gesture of the good Asselenio who when he takes occasion to speake of the father lift up both his hands shruggs his shoulders and hanging his head on one fide to speak it in a kind of a French phrase Oh how many things have I learned of Padre Paulo in anatomy in mineralls simples This is a pure soule in which there shines a Candour an excellency of nature an ignorance of doing any thing but well A father being most a famous physician of of Orleans had a sonne whome he had designed to be of his owne profession and bred him in such a way that at nine yeares practise he begun to worke in distillations And although in Phyfick and Anatomy he be second to very few yet I believe him to be before all others in the knowledge of simples of mineralls and of their vertues and uses for mans body He came very young into Italy being sent thither by his father to be withdrawne from the danger of the civill warres in France which were then very violent And being come to Venice he fell in love with the place as a Country of benignity to all travellers and had no minde to leave the place where he exercised the profession of Physick rather as a friend with his friends then for gaine having done many cures that were miraculous when he wrought alone but not willing to shew his talent among others because by nature he was averse from contending or making any oftentation This man from his very arrivall took conversation with the father which hath continued with a most holy friendship preserv'd betwixt them for eight and thirty yeares And he more then any other can speake of the fathers wondrous knowledge in the foresaid professions and of things by him invented whereof an intire volume might be written But being not like to continue long in this holy and vertuous quietnesse the fame of his prudence and hability of government after three yeares drew him away and as