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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	disease_n	fever_n	1,543	5	9.5930	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27374	The potable balsome of life being a collection of the choicest preservatives that are extant within the three natural families of minerals, vegetables and animals, reduced into such essences and tinctures by the scientifick art of chymie ... by which the bodies which are in health may be preserved ... / published by P. Bellon ...	Belon, P. (Peter)	1675 (1675)	Wing P3026B; Wing B1856; ESTC R4899	23,548	26

from the Mines is crude and undigested and imbued with some malignant qualities but not to be rejected since that by due preparations its impurities may be seperated from its purer parts its Homogenious principles from its Heterogenious adherences and its Medicinal virtues freed and purged from all venemous and offensive qualities therefore not to be despised much less wholly rejected for dayly experience teaches us that Vipers which are venemous in their own Nature are notwithstanding inserted in the Theriaca Andromachy not without great success and that the bare suffocation of them in Wine or in its Spirit produces a sovereign Antidote against all Poysons nay what 's more by this bare Emergency they become a test by which such medicaments as are dayly used as Catharticks are examined whether they be of a venemous nature It is not my intention hear to Impeach any particular Medicament least I should add to the general adversion against Physick I have two much respect for it and its learned Dogmatists therefore only in general take this example make choice of two persons as near as you can of one age habit and complexion give to the one an ordinary dose of Viper Wine to the other none then administer to each an ordinary dose of a Cathartick Infusion and you will find that the Person which took the Viper wine shall not be moved and the other sufficiently purged which clearly proves the Alexipharmicalo peration of the Vipers upon the noxious qualities of the said Catharticks which with pricking Volatil Salt irritates the expultrice faculty and so provokes dejection it being a Maxim that none but fix qualities can expel fix diseases Neither is it so much the driving forth by stools of the excrementitious peccant matter which is so effectual as the Evacuations through the Emunctories by Sweats Urines and imperceptible perspirations Now this Preparation which I have chosen here being the most fix of all the Preparations of Antimony for that very reason I have made choice of it having in twenty years experience found it to be most efficacious against the Leprosy the inveterate Itch the Scurvy and all Venereal diseases as also in the Dropsy and generally all obstructions it purifies the Mass of blood helps Melancholy resists Poysons opens Asshmaticks heals Ulcerated lungs cleanses the womb helps Generation and Conception and is indowed with a renewing quality Thus much of Antimony And now Concerning Coral Coral is a stony Vegetation in the form of a Tree sticking fast unto rocks in the bottom of the Sea There are chiefly two sorts the White and the Red but this last is the best There is some of other colours also to be seen in the Closets of curious Persons as Black Yellow Blew and the like As to the choice the Male is the best which is of a deep and clear Red this Concrete if well prepared and opened yeilds a Tincture as red as blood whose effects vitutes are to purify renew the blood it dries cools strengthens the Ventricle and the Liver but chiefly the Heart It is good against the Plague Poysons and malignant Fevers it recreates the spirits stops all Fluxes it is an excellent Anti-Epileptick prevents Convulsions in Children is sovereign in the Palpitation of the Heart Fainting fits Melancholy Dropsy Gout all which it performs through that Solar Tincture which is communicated to it from Gold in a great measure which gives it the true and deserving Title of Preserver and Renewer Concerning Vipers The Viper is a Serpent the most venemous of all Reptils apt to be irritated and when so it drives in the twinckling of an eye from the vesicle of the gall to the gumms through an almost imperceptible vessel so spirituous and subtle a poyson which insinuates and communicates it self so suddainly to the spirits and the natural heat that it as subtlely stupifies the parts as it has bit which poyson communicates it self immediately to the heart and from thence to the brain by the means of Circulation The remedies which this Animal affords are no less surprising admirable than its poyson for it doth not only combat its proper poyson but enervates absolutely overcomes the strength power of all the poisons that the three natural Families does produce provided that these Vipers be well prepared administred in time and order This long-liv'd Animal of so great assistance so abounding in a Balsamick Salt doth not only renew those that frequently make use of its preparations but renews it self also in order to which towards the end of the year when their food begins to fail them they hide themselves under stones and in the Earth where they remain languid till the beginning of the next Spring when so soon as they have fed upon the balsamick blades and sprouts of budding plants refreshed themselves with the Aromatick Air and cherished themselves in the Raies of the Life-giving Sun they seek out rugged places to rub themselves against and strip off their old skin which they have no sooner laid by selves against and strip off their old skin which they have no sooner ●aid by but immediately possest with the sence thereof and of its acquired benefit it crawls more nimbly and declares by the quickness and liveliness of its motion the Oriental colours of its new garment that it is really renewed and that by consequence those remedies which it does yeild can produce the same effects in humane bodies also The Virtues of this Animal are to strongly resist all poysons they are good against Leprosy all Venereal diseases Consumptions Hectick Feavers but chiefly against the Scurvy driving forth through its Volatil Balsamick Salt all the malignant ●erosities which infect the mass of blood the cause and fomenter of this popular disease so raging at this very time amongst us Of the Roots of Sarsa China and of Saffron Rosemary and Lavender flowers These two Indian Roots are so frequently used well known to every vulgar eye that I need not say much concerning them I shall only in few words give you the reasons why I have chosen them to enter into this Composition They abound both in a fix Balsamick Salt in a Faecula which is of a very drying healing quality they are both Diuretick and Diaphoretick friendly to the Liver good against the Dropsy Palsey Gout Head-ache Jaundice Green-sickness the Scurvy all Venereal diseases they heal and dry up all inward Ulcers which makes them to be dayly used in all diseases which require exiccation Saffron is a flower which abounds in such Virtues as are Analogick with the rest of those Ingredients wh ch compose this noble Balsum so that I should have done it wrong not to have inserted it amongst the rest It is a great Anodyne a great Cleanser of the womb a Cherisher of the Heart a Disopilator of the Liver and Spleen a great Provoker of Child-birth and of what should immediately follow it is esteemed the most sovereign Cordial