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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	great_a	life_n	1,451	5	4.1995	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B25774	A voyage into tartary containing a curious description of that country, with part of Greece and Turky, the manners, opinions, and religion of the inhabitants therein, with some other incidents / by M. Heliogenes de L'Epy, doctor in philosophy.	L'Epy, Heliogenes de.	1689 (1689)	Wing L1117	55,048	221

where all their Curiosities were kept and there I beheld a Collection of all that ever the Bosom of Nature produc'd or ever was invented by Art. Among the rest I saw several Cases of Letters with all the furniture belonging to a Printing-House several sorts of Fire arms of which they prais'd the Invention but condemn'd the use as treacherous and cruel Pyrobolick Mirrours that cast forth Fire in a moment a flying Engin Prospective Glasses by which I could distinguish in the Moon Hillocks Valleys Medows Forrests and if not Animals at least some small moving Machines They also shew'd me in the same place Monsters half men half beasts of I know not what kind preserv'd in Chrystals fill'd with Spirit of Wine Microscopes shewing all the Vital Parts of a Hand-worm and of all those little Insects flying in the Air which the most piercing Eye could hardly discern without the assistance of these Glasses Curious Watches and Clocks of which they make no use as believing them superfluous in regard that being so expert as they are in Astronomy they can tell what hour it is either by day or night for that the Air is not there much subject to be overcast As for their Climate their own Astronomical Observations reckon it two and forty Degrees far from the Equinoctial Line and their own Miridian is the first in their own Maps Now tho' they inhabit a Country abounding in all things that may render Life agreeable and commodious yet they live after a most sparing and austere manner For they affect not the delicious tastes of Drink or costly Viands unless when they are sick or make great Banquets which they never do but only upon certain Occasions and that very rarely as at Weddings the Birth of their Children Receptions of Strangers or the like without being thereto constrain'd however by any Laws or Decrees They eat about some three hours after they rise in a Morning but their chief Meals are in the Evening about three hours before they go to bed Their Magazins furnish them with course Food Bread and Wine but for Venison and Fish they eat none but what they hunt and catch themselves or what their Children send them from their Country Houses Their Habit is plain made of Wooll dy'd of a Violet Colour for the Men and white for the Women which is the only distinction of their two Sexes As to the fashion it is the same us'd all along by the Ancients with a Stole upon their Shoulders after the manner of the Venetians to cover them in the Country from the Sun or when they are forc'd to go in the Rain As to other things bare-headed and bare footed only in a Leather Sandal lin'd within side with Wooll They that have Jewels may wear them and as for the three hunder'd they are distinguish'd by their Scarlet habit which none besides are allow'd to wear There are no profess'd Physicians among them for they all understand Physick 'T is very true that in difficult Cases they call a Philosopher who comes upon the same Conditions as their Pleaders without any Fee Their usual Remedies they take from Trees Herbs and Roots growing in their own Grounds which have the same Qualities with Cassia Senna and Scammony and with which they suddenly cure all Distempers that are curable For in regard that Noble Science is there practis'd for no advantage of gain the Philosopher who is sent for never seeks to prolong the Cure besides that making up their Prescriptions themselves they have nothing to fear on the Apothecaries part whose Avarice or qui pro quo often times does the Patient more injury than the Distemper it self There is not a Surgeon nor a Barber to be seen for they never let blood as not being to be perswaded that they ought to wound a Patient to cure him or that the Blood which is the seat of the Soul with which it has so strict an Alliance that it seems to be inseperable ought to be spilt to make it better seeing that which remains in the Body is as bad as before the Blood letting but that it is better corrected by Catharticks which separate from its Mass the Humours which infect it without taking away that which is good and that the quantity of it may be diminish'd at any time by Diet Exercise and Sweating As to Wounds and Bruises they proceed after the same method as in Fevers that is to say they cure themselves with the assistance of a Philosopher if need require The Women shave and trim their Husbands of whom they are so jealous that they will not suffer any bodies hands to come neer their Faces but their own The Philosophers have also specific Remedies for the Diseases of the Soul the continual use of which fortifies the Memory and purifies the Wit in such a manner that they will make a Dunce Ingenious It is a Composition of which we have the ingredients in this part of the World and of which I have often made use since my return into Europe with good success as well to my self as to others You see there none that are troubl'd with the Gout in regard they are both sober temperate and active besides that the Continence of the two Sexes is so great that there is no harbour there for that same Disease which the Italians call the French. If a sick Person be given over as past recovery there is no need of a Comforter because they do not conceive there is any evil in death which they look upon as only a meer Cessation from Action and Thought which may possibly return one day if the Particles from whence the same Action and Thought deriv'd their first beginning should happen to reunite The Children burn the Body of their Parents deceas'd in their own Gardens and scatter their Ashes upon the Earth believing that the enlivening Atoms are charioted up in the Flames to their first Original which they believe to be the Sun and by their mixture of the Ashes with the Earth they believe that in eating the Plants which proceed from thence that they enliven the more gross and terrestrial Portion of their Parents To speak the truth I attribute the goodness of the Air which they breath in those Parts partly to this Custom which renders it so free from those Infections which the stinking Exhalations of the Bodies interr'd in our Cities are the certain cause of among us In regard their Commerce is not great 't is not very possible should be Rich. However they are not poor neither for that the fertility of the Soil furnishes them with all things necessary for the support and pleasure of Life and to spare So that they send the superfluity of their Provisions and Manufactures once a year to a Fair that is held between the Confines of this State and the Great Moguls Country where they Barter their Commodities for Pearls Diamonds and other Precious Stones or else for Gold and Silver coyn'd for the benefit