Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	natural_a	spirit_n	1,503	5	5.1182	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68179	A most excellent and perfecte homish apothecarye or homely physik booke, for all the grefes and diseases of the bodye. Translated out the Almaine speche into English by Ihon Hollybush; Apoteck für den gemainen Man. English	Brunschwig, Hieronymus, ca. 1450-ca. 1512.; Hollybush, John.	1561 (1561)	STC 13433; ESTC S122407	103,663	90

slepe by reason of the heat of y e braynes mouing somtyme by reason of the read colera whiche is hote and drye somtyme by reason of the black colera which is colde drye when melancoly is risen into the head somtime commeth it by reason of exceding heate that is risen into the head of swete moystinesse If the waking come of melancolia or sorowfulnesse then becommeth a man strayght about the cheste or stomake his heat is dry y e colour also of his skin is altered But if y e waking come of y e rede colera then waxeth hys skin rede colored also then gyue him barly water to drinke But if the waking come of the black colera then becommeth the skin of the patient pale and he hath muche carefulnesse anguish and pensisnesse But if it commeth of phlegma then becommeth the patient heuy and slouggish It is to be considered that if a man watche much it maketh him heauy of courage and that commeth by reason hys membres drye wherein lieth the power of the bodye and it hindreth also the digestion of the stomacke whereof are engendred euill moystures in the bodye If the weaking is caused by colera then washe hys head wyth water wherein are sodden leaues of violettes or els Lettis or the sede of it strake the heade wyth women milcke Alume the bignes of a great bean kept in the mouth draweth the moistnesse out of the heade after that washe the mouth with water and beware of all thynges that are hote of complexion If the waking be caused by reason of heate take whyte or black poppy sede braye thesame in a morter poure water therin and make a milke of it which geue him to drinke Or els seth the toppes of black poppye in milke and let him drinke it Take a dish of black poppy sede beate it well temper it wyth water blood warme that it waxe as a thick milke moysten therein a fyne linnen cloth a hand broade and as longe that it maye go aboute hys heade thesame doeth coole hys heade and if he awake aboute mydnighte do it agayne Howbeit ye must take hede that if he haue no sieges then geue hym to bedwarde halfe an vnce of syrope of Violettes wyth an vnce of warme water mixte together but let it be colde when ye wyll ministre hym thesame geue hym also to drinke creame or potage of peasen sodden wythout anye salte or fatnesse onlye peasen and let hym drincke thesame blood warme in the mornynge lett hym after thys lye hygh wyth the head well couered and let him fast herevpon sixe houres Neuerthelesse if he waxe faynte and hath had a siege then maye he eate and drinke a litle but beware of excesse The crounes vpon the poppy heades sodden in milke make of the same a pappe and thereof at night the same maye be geuen a yonge childe and it causeth to slepe fast and restlye Or els take Betony and laye it vpon hys heade If one slepeth vnrestly let him eat lettice but is it a chylde let the Lettice be well sodden in water and geue him the same to drinke Of one that hath the palsye THe palsey taketh men sundery wyse for somtime commeth the disease by anger somtyme by colde somtyme by superfluous eatinge and drinkinge whereof is engendred in man ouermuche slyme whereby the veynes are stopped or els that the blood encreaseth excessiuely and ouercommeth the harte or els strayth in the membres of the which is caused the palseye It taketh men also that be lecherous whose mary in the bones waysteth cooleth so that vnwares all his sorce fayleth and he finally doth dye Somtyme doth it take anye of the membres that haue ben maymed and not well healed whereof they waxe somtyme sere and can not suffre the heate of the harte whiche is cause of theyr death and destruction and the membre becommeth lame and wrye This disease taketh somtyme the one membre as hand or fote somtyme the halfe body or the tonge so that a man can not speake somtyme cōmeth it of ouermuche ioye heuinesse meate or drincke ouermuche laboure reste slouthfulnesse feare swounynge hartequake and of supers●uitye of bloode flegma colera or melancoly Somtyme is the cause that the two strynges comminge doune from the brayne through the backbone into the fete through the one goeth the naturall heate and through the other the colde that the same stringes I saye are stopped ether the one or both Wherfore in whatsoeuer membre is stopped thys stringe that the naturall spirit can not come into the same it waxeth lame Let euery Physicion or Chirurgeon therfore rule him after this and well and exactly knowe and serche the cause of the disease that he may the more certaynly knowe how to heale the patient If moysture is cause of the disease then muste the same be minished by suche thynges as consume it warme and comforte the bodye of thys wyse Take Lauender Sage Cousloppe called herba Parali●is Ren Iuniper berryes of eche a handfull a pint of Aqua vite a quarte of stronge whyte wine putt all these into a greate potte and set it into a kettel wyth water and let it seth well Wyth thys wyne streke the lymmes greued twyse in the daye and let them drye agayne by them selues and drinke twyse in the day of this wyne at euery tyme so much as an egges shell conteyneth But if the disease is comme by reason of supersluitye of blood then must he be letten bloode incontinentlye And if the disease is in the righte syde then let him bloode in the lefte syde If it is in the lefte syde then lette him bloode in the ryght syde in the arme and geue hym halfe a dragme or triakle in a bath wyth warme wyne wherein Castoreum hath ben sodden But if thou haste not Castoreum then take Lauender or Sage water drinke that the same helpeth But if thou haste not the water also seeth the herbe ether of them in good wyne and drincke it Or els take fyne Sage Lauender of eche thre handfull let them stepe in thre pintes of wyne xiiij dayes after that styll and drinke it If ye can not stylle it then seth the wine wyth the herbes and geue hym to drinke of it If the palsey hath taken a man and his membres were so holy● taken that he doth not feale when he is touched vpon the same then let him be bathed drye of this wise COuer a bathynge vessell well and close laye brickestones in the fyre that they waxe glowynge hote Take also Iuniper berries Mullen called Tapsus barbatus and reade Organ of eche foure hand full seth the same well in a kettel well couered or els in a pot and putte sixe quartes of good wyne thereto put hote water in the bathynge vessell that it be well warmed And before thou entrest into the vessel take two tyles that be hoted put them