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cause_n	blood_n	part_n	vein_n	1,915	5	9.5554	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26645	Mirabile pecci, or, The non-such wonder of the peak in Darby-shire discovered in a full, though succinct and sober, narrative of the more than ordinary parts, piety and preservation of Martha Taylor, one who hath been supported in time above a year in by H.A.	H. A.	1669 (1669)	Wing A9; ESTC R13065	43,707	98

Wonders have been brought forth in a Stable or a Manger before now t is not the highness of the place that should make us turn our eyes towards it but the greatness of the work that may be done there But now to her that lies in it 3. Martha Taylor the talk the wonder of that Countrey was born about the beginning of February in the year 1651. Her Childhood was not guilty that ever I heard of any extravi●ant Actions The Buds which then appear'd did not foresignifie any distastful fruits in a more blow ●age Her early blossoms did not predict four grapes in an Autumn season Some sober prudent Observers have told me That from her fi●st Confinement to her Couch when growing Infirmities began to chain her to her weary Bed that then Pi●u● Discoveries in a more considerable way began to display themselves then rousing afflictions the usual Prognosticks of a dying state made 〈…〉 to purpose begin to enquire after life This 〈◊〉 her labour after the knowledge of the Word of Go● and delight h●r self in turning over those 〈◊〉 P●g●s where frequently she would be gathering Pearls to ad●rn her self and others with Yet you must suppose it was but stil morning here you may expect greater things when you proceed nearer the Noon of Heavens Dispensations with her SECT III. The Beginning and Progress of her Afflictions and what they were 1. I Am ready to suppose that the Fountain-Head of all her Afflictions was her lameness which took its beginning in the year 1661. which is now about eight years ago by the unhappy stroke of a Miller her next Neighbour over the Hips or small of the Back whether he did it in jest or earnest I cannot certainly determine but I think the latter was affirmed to me however the occasion was no offence given on her side she was so happy as to be harmless her Innocence in this case might be a good piece of a Pillar for her to lean her self upon when wearied under that great weight of Afflictions which was bound fast unto her Poor Martha upon this fatal stroke was taken with a lameness in the lower parts indisposing them for their proper use which was followed at the heels with a general indisposition and incomposure of the whole inward and o tward frame for her distempers did so croud in upon her that she was suddenly compell'd to lay down the whole Body as an useless lump to which condition she hath been confined ever since onely once or twice about April 1662. for some few days she made a shift to go abroad But upon the beginning of May in the said Year 1662. she bid farewell to the open refreshing Air and then entred close Prisoner to her tedious Bed From which place since that time she hath never moved without the help of other hands and feet besides her own where I suppose she is like to lye till Death bring her an Habeas-Corpus and make her free among the dead in which estate only the weary be at rest and oppressing Diseases cease from troubling All along this tract of time she hath been troubled with other infirmities besides lameness as private bleeding often sick and seldome free from less or more of a Feaver 2. But to make a neerer approach to the time of her constrained Fast you must know that there were many Afflictions gathered together to bring about the thing though she had for four or five years together by times lain under various Distempers yet about the close of August and beginning of the following Month in the Year 1667. they combine together into a body and add others to their number that they might the more vigorously produce the strange ensuing Effects For in the entrance of November in the mention'd Year did begin her strange and wonderful Bleedings at several external Parts as at the Mouth the Nose the Ear the Eye from which last part did continually distill perfect Tears of blood so that one would have thought Life would have Wept it self away out at the Eye One very probable cause of this her admir'd Bleeding might arise from her violent continued Vomiting which broke open convenient Passages through which the Blood might vent it self 't is an ordinary known case that the over-straining of the Body does break the Veins and so less or more produceth an Efflux of Blood from some or other parts This extraordinary Vomiting continued all along November so that she neither took in meat nor drink but presently threw it up again nothing could be perswaded to abide within her Stomack This strong Vomiting did arise as I conjecture from those Corrupt Crudities Nauseating Vapours and Filthy Humours begot by her long lying in Bed and the want of convenient Exercise which did weaken and vitiate the natural Attractive Retentive and Concoctive Faculties and stir up the Stomach against every thing that was sent down into it This preternatural Vomiting did further introduce a very strange Hiccough audible many paces from the house which would move her whole Body and pluck down her Head with great torment To which was adjoyned a sort of Convulsions or the often Distortion of her Joynts by the Cramp So that now Cramps Convulsions Strange sighings and the Hiccough all of them the Genuine Off-spring of a disordered Stomack and continued violent Vomiting were all in open War against the Ease and Life of this poor tormented Creature These things had made her the real wonder of all Sober Sympathizing Spectators to see a poor Fellow-creature almost constantly upon the Rack under the most Exquisite Pains Burnings Cramps Vomitings and the most strange Bleedings and Hiccoughs that ever I read or heard of Now these all laid together by the beginning of the ensuing December had neer upon reduced the Microcosme into a Chaos had almost wholly taken Nature off the hinges and well neer shattered into pieces a poor frail dying Body so that for certain her more Noble Immortal Part had then bid farewel to its falling House of Clay had not Divine Providence stept in and put under an everlasting Arm. Yet these Distempers prevail so far as for a Fort-night together within December they take away the use of Speech and Senses so that she had very little to witness she was alive excepting some remaining heat and breath 3. About the middle of this Month she revives a little gets something of the exercise of Sense and Speech but still hath that violent Hiccough and frequent sick fits As she had received neither meat nor drink for this fourteen days so now being come to her self she finds an utter loathing of and an inability to receive necessary Food for the support of Life The ve●y approach of Meat or Drink was a great trouble to her the very sight or smell of either though at a remove would beget her sorrow yea the very thoughts of either would make her sick before hand She found now so much ease and satisfaction in the abstaining