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A07320	A most certaine and true relation of a strange monster or serpent found in the left ventricle of the heart of Iohn Pennant, Gentleman, of the age of 21. yeares. By Edward May Doctor of Philosophy and Physick, and professor elect of them, in the colledge of the academy of noble-men, called the Musæum Minervæ: physitian also extraordinary unto her most Sacred Majesty, Queene of great Brittany, &c.	May, Edward.	1639 (1639)	STC 17709; ESTC S112479	20,668	50

and hands when first I found it But you have found one like it in the heart of a Noble Lord but when you have seen this I shall know whether so grown or of this forme or otherwise Let the Vulgar and Ignorant beleeve it or not believe it Physitians and knowing men as you do will receive it And therefore briefly the certaine History and true Relation is this §. 2. THe seventh of October this yeare current 1637 the Lady Herris wife unto Sir Francis Herris Knight came unto me and desired that I would bring a Surgeon with me to dissect the body of her Nephew Iohn Pennant the night before deceased to satisfie his friends concerning the causes of his long sicknesse and of his death And that his mother to whom my selfe had once or twice given helpe some yeares before concerning the Stone might be ascertained whether her Sonne died of the Stone or no Upon which intreaty I sent for Master Iacob Heydon Surgeon dwelling against the Castle Taverne behind St. Clements Church in the Strand who with his Man-Servant came unto me And in a word we went to the house and Chamber where the dead man lay We dissected the naturall Region and found the bladder of the young man full of purulent and ulcerous matter The upper parts of it broken and all of it rotten The right kidney quite consumed the left tumified as big as any two kidnies and full of sanious matter All the inward and carnose parts eaten away nothing remaining but exteriour skins No where did we find in his body either Stone or gravell The Spleen and Liver not affected in any discernable degree only part of the Liver was growne unto the Costall membranes by reason of his writing profession Wee ascending to the Vitall Region found the Lungs reasonable good the heart more globose and dilated then long the right Ventricle of an ashe colour shrivelled and wrinkled like a leather purse without money and not any thing at all in it the Pericardium and Nervous Membrane which conteyneth that illustrious liquour of the Lungs in which the heart doth bath its selfe was quite dried also The left Ventricle of the heart being felt by the Surgions hand appeared to him to be as hard as a stone and much greater then the right which upon the first sight gave us some cause of wonder seeing as you know the right Ventricle is much greater then the left Wherefore I wished M. Heydon to make incision upon which issued out a very great quantity of blood and to speake the whole verity all the blood that was in his body left was gathered to the left Ventricle and contayned in it * Here those men may be handsomely questioned who say that the pulse is nothing else but the impulse of blood into the Arteryes or the Systole of the heart what was become of the pulse in this man all the while that the whole blood betooke it selfe into the h●art here was either a living man without pulse or pulse without the Systole of the heart For what could the arteryes receive where nothing was to be received or how could there be pulse where was no impulse into the arteryes The pulse the doubtlesse ●s from another cause and is a farre other matter then most men conceive for there are in a sound man 4450 pulsations in an houre in a sicke man sometimes in some percute fevers and diseases above 35600 and more which cannot be from so many severall expressions and receptions of blood for it is impossible the heart should make compression and the arteryes apartion so often in that space Nay in Dicrot Capizant and other inordinate pulses diverse pulses strike in lesse space then the mouth of an arterey can goe much more then in lesse times then it can open shut and open againe which 3. acts are requisite to the beginning of a second pulse But of this I have largely treated in my 3 Booke De Febribus No sooner was that Ventricle emptied but M. Heydon still complaining of the greatnesse and hardnesse of the same my selfe seeming to neglect his words because the left Ventricle is thrice as thicke of flesh as the right is in sound men for conservation of Vitall Spirits I directed him to an other disquisition but he keeping his hand still upon the heart would not leave it but said againe that it was of a strange greatnesse and hardnesse whereupon I desired him to cut the Orifice wider by which meanes we presently perceived a carnouse substance as it seemed to us wreathed together in foldes like a worme or Serpent the selfe same forme expressed in the first Iconography at which we both much wondred and I intreated him to seperate it from the heart which he did and wee carryed it from the body to the window and there layed it out in those just dimensions which are here expressed in the second figure The body was white of the very colour of the whitest skin of mans body but the skin was bright and shining as if it had beene varnished over the head all bloody and so like the head of a Serpent that the Lady Herris then shivered to see it and since hath often spoken it that she was inwardly troubled at it because the head of it was so truely like the head of a Snake The thighes and branches were of flesh colour as also all these fibraes strings nerves or whatsoever else they were After much contemplation and conjectures what strange thing that part of the heart had brought forth unto us I resolved to try the certainty and to make full exploration both for mine owne experience and satisfaction as also to give true testimony to others that should heare of it And thereupon I searched all parts of it to finde whether it were a pituitose and bloody Collection or the like Or a true organicall body and Conception J first searched the head and found it of a thicke substance bloody and glandulous about the necke somewhat broken as J conceived by a sudden or violent separation of it from the heart which yet seemed to me to come from it easily enough The body I searched likewise with a bodkin betweene the Leggs or Thighs and I found it perforate or hollow and a solid body to the very length of a silver bodkin as is here described At which the Spectators wondered And as not crediting me some of them tooke the bodkin after me made triall themselves and remained satisfied that there was a gut Veine or Artery or some such Analogicall thing that was to serve that Monster for uses naturall Amongst whom the Lady Herris and the Surgian made tryall after me with their owne hands and have given their hands that this Relation is true This Lady dwelleth at the signe of the Sugar loafe in S. Iames street in the Convent Garden §. 3. THis strange and monstrous Embryon borne in the said Ventricle which as Hippocrates saith is nourished neither

ulcerous matter So likewise his bladder full of ulcer and rottennesse and nothing in his body to be found the cause of this Wherefore the sharpnesse and extraordinary heate of the blood or some such like quality was the cause of the Ulcers and so also consequently of that extraordinary production in the heart For nothing els appeareth whatsoever may be conceived And this accidentall temperament of the blood I take to be the cause of this which we found in the heart For in the heart if any where was the greatest heat and if in any part of the heart in the left Ventricle the principall receptacle of arteriall blood and spirits And I have more to confirme me in this opinion having certaine knowledge both of the diet of his Mother and Grand-mother also and of his owne Which I am not willing to make publique but to make private use of it to my selfe All which shall not by me bee intended to prejudice any other better judgement concerning other like conceits by reason that passages to that Ventricle may be sometimes pervious although very rarely But to informe you of some peculiar knowledge that I have of this mans History which may give us great light concerning others of like condition I could here discourse how the imagination produceth strange things in men and worketh not only in our owne bodies but also in hyle mundi as Fryer Bacon prooveth Ro. Bacon l. de Coelo mundo and Prince Avicen But this I will not attempt except you shall judge this Relation may be beneficiall to any and then I shall discusse it out at large §. 7. BUt to me the resolution of this matter seemeth very profitable to know how these things may be bred in men for I suppose men from hence will take speciall care to alter the accidentall temperament of humors if they find them excell in any high degree of heate cold sharpnes or the like such as have in them inconvenience and danger and to deale with learned Physitians in time So also is the knowledge of singular use and benefit to know when men are affected with any such disease and how they may be cured As for the knowledge of abstruse and secret affections where perhaps no dolor gives certitude of the place affected as in diseases by consent when some other parts are more afflicted such skill is worthy of a Physitian and at any rate to be procured But how or where shall we have it Who writeth of it Who hath so much as ever dreamed of any such helpe to mankind For mine owne part I never yet read of any Signa pathognomonica of any such disease Neither doe I know where to find one graine of instruction in this as also in divers other diseases which I can nominate more then from mine owne observation and care Wherefore if I set downe one thing which is not common nor els where to be found I hope you will take it as my good wish unto the Common-wealth of Physitians and I will lay my ground upon two Histories of mine own the one was in December anno 1634. For being sent for to a yong gentleman whose name was Arthur Buckeridge son unto M. Arthur Buckeridge now of Tottenham Gentleman who was sick of that kind of pox which our Country people call the Flocks which were many flat headed white and wrought along as if wormes had made certaine crooked furrowes among them which when at first I beheld I was very diffident in my selfe of doing any cure because I never-knew any of that disease and manner saved Yet while the friends of the Youth declared unto mee what an ingenious child and scholler he was and what hopes all his friends had of him I still beheld the variegation or vermiculation of that kind of variolae And because no Physitian in all my reading ever gave me the least light or helpe to cure them J more studiously searching the cause of their forme strongly apprehended that that outward work and waving could proceed from no cause but from putrefaction caused of worms and that God and nature did assist in so great a difficulty shewing by this external signature the internall cause taking therefore my Indicative from the Conjunctive as Galen counselleth very well J prescribed chiefly against wormes and inward putrefaction and in very short space he was restored to his health And while I write these things the yong-man whom J never saw since commeth in to my house to search after me and to give me thanks so long after being shortly to goe for Oxford Wherefore to confirme this History I sent unto the Young-mans Apothecary to see what was yet upon file to ascertaine what I say and it is returned me that two of my bils are yet there remaining As also one honest Gentleman remembreth well that I then expressed as much and told his friends that I intended to prescribe against the worms principally The other History was of this Iohn Pennant whom we dissected who was well known unto me as his friends and others well can assure it in whom as is likewise sufficiently knowne I very often noted this that he had an excellent Eye but extraordinarily sharpe and like the Eye of a Serpent and so much I have spoken of it that divers Gentlemen and good Schollers did make answer unto me that heard of his long diseases of the supposed stone or ulcer of the bladder that pains and griefes did sharpen mens aspects But finding what we have seene in him thus much shall mine owne observation teach me ever Let others doe or believe as little as they please that secret unusuall and strange inward diseases doe send forth some radios or signatures from the center Analogicall to the circumference by which we may finde the causes if we be diligent and carefull And this is that which I would commend of which I know no man that hath written one word as yet Which although at first it seemeth new yet if men will well consider it and what I shall say I doubt not but they will be confirmed that it is an accurate and a most necessary observation and a chiefe Window to see into the most secret diseases and Closets of the body and heart also And first as an introduction to beliefe what helps Physitians may have from beames and signatures All learned Physitians will thus farre goe vvith me that this vvas that admirable way of the old Magitians to find out the natures of medicines from their peculiar beams signatures and similitudes and that there is no Simple or medicine Specifical as they say or excellent for any disease or very few but we are able to make the radij or signatures to appeare from which those learned Magi did or might find out the properties and virtues of those Simples or medicines and this you know to be true and this way you all know that Sponsa Solis or the Kiramides of the Synas went as that