Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	brain_n	part_n	spirit_n	1,451	5	5.2508	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11816	Naturall philosophy: or A description of the vvorld, and of the severall creatures therein contained viz. of angels, of mankinde, of the heavens, the starres, the planets, the foure elements, with their order, nature and government: as also of minerals, mettals, plants, and precious stones; with their colours, formes, and vertues. By Daniel Widdovves.; Rerum naturalium doctrina methodica. English. Abridgments	Scribonius, Wilhelm Adolf, fl. 1576-1583.; Widdowes, Daniel.; Scribonius, Wilhelm Adolf, fl. 1576-1583. Rerum physicarum juxta leges logicas methodica explicatio. aut; Woodhouse, John.	1631 (1631)	STC 22112; ESTC S117038	44,731	82

nerve stretched like a Net upon the flesh of the tong which is full of little pores His meanes is a temperate salt humour which if it doe exceed the just quantitie it doth not exactly perceive tastes but if it be altogether consumed no tastes are perceived Smelling judgeth qualities fit for smell his instrument Smelling is the entrance into the first ventricle covered with a small skin the dryer it is the quicker of smell as in Dogs and Vultures but man for the moystnosse of his braine hath but a dull smell Now follow the inward sences which beside things Sences inward presently offered doe know formes of many absent things By these the creature doth not onely perceive but also understandeth that which hee doth perceive These have their seate in the braine They are either conceiving or preserving Conceiving exerciseth his Conceiving facultie by discerning or more fully judging it is called Common sence and the other is Phantasie Common sence more fully distinguisheth sensible things his instrument is the former ventricle of the braine made by drynesse sit to receive Phantasie is an inward sence more diligently examining the forms of things This is the thought and judgement of creatures his place is the middle part of the braine being through drynesse apt to retaine The preserving sence is Memory which according Preserving to the constitution of the braine is better or worse It is weaker in a moyst braine than in the dry braine His instrument is the hinder part of the braine Memorie calling backe images preserved in former time is called Remembrance but this is not without the use of reason and therefore is onely attributed to man The wittie excell in remembrance the dull in memorie Sleepe is the resting of the feeling facultie his cause Sleepe how caused is a cooling of the brayne by a pleasant abounding vapour breathing forth of the stomacke and ascending to the braine When that vapour is concoct and turned Waking how caused into spirits the heate returneth and the sences recovering their former function cause waking There be certaine appointed courses for watch and sleepe lost creatures languish with overmuch motion Affections of sleepe are Dreames Night-mare and Dreames Extasie c. A dreame is an inward act of the minde the bodie What they be sleeping and the quieter that sleepe is the easier bee dreames but if sleepe bee unquiet then the minde is troubled Varietie of dreames is according to the divers constitution Their variety of the body The cleare and pleasant dreames are when the spirits of the braine which the soule useth to imagine with are most pure and thin as towardes morning when concoction is perfected But troublesome dreames are when the spirits bee thicke and unpure All naturall dreames are by images either before proffered to memorie or conceived by temperature alone or by some influence from the starres as some thinke From dreames many things may be collected touching the constitution of the body The Night-mare is a seeming of being choked or The night-mare strangled by one leaping upon him feare following this compression the voyce is taken away This affection How occasioned commeth when the vitall spirits in the braine are darkened by vapours ascending from melancholy and phlegme insomuch that that facultie being oppressed some heavie thing seemeth to bee layd upon us Therefore this disease is familiar to those who through age or sexe are much inclined unto these humours An Extasie or traunce is a vehement imagination A trance of the departure for a time of the soule from the bodie A deepe sleepe lasting some dayes enseweth for What it is the foule giving over it selfe to cogitation ceaseth to serve the body Wherefore men wanting motion and sence seeme to be dead And with what humours the braine shall be compassed such phansies doth it conceive although sometime spirits working on such phatasies imprint other things Now followeth Motion which accompanieth sence and is caused either by appetite or change of place for we desiring things perceived in sence cannot attaine unto them withour moving our body to that thing Appetite What it is Appetite is a facultie desiring such things as are objects to our sense It chiefly followeth touching or thinking Delight followeth touching Delight is a desire of an agreeing Object Griefe is his contrary which is a turning from the hurtfull object or from that we count unpleasant Appetites following cogitation are all the motions of the heart which be called affections and are either good or bad The good cherish and preserve the nature of our sensitive facultie as mirth love hope which come of heate when the heart dilating it selfe desireth to enjoy the thing with which it is delighted Motion is a facultie of living creatures stirring a bodie Motion what it is entised by appetite from one place to another It is either of the whole body or of partes Of the whole body as by going c. Of partes as breathing which is made either by enlarging of the parts which serve for the taking in of the ayre or by the closing of them for the expelling of corrupt ayre Now followeth to intreat Of the bodies of living Of the bodies of living creatures What the matter of the body is creatures The matter of the body in which the foresaid faculties be is the seede of both sexes Seede is most pure bloud perfectly concocted in the testicles and it is gathered from the whole bodie For the testicles lacking nourishment draw bloud from the hollow veyne and change it Conception is the action of the wombe by which Conception what it is the power is stirred up to execute his inbred gift Then that power being stirred up doth diversly distract the matter separating his divers partes and thus all parts alike get together their shape Likewise all of them together are adorned with the faculties of the vegetative or sensitive soule Amongst the naturall faculties of the partes of the body if there be putrifaction a fault of the concocting facultie there is made a certaine generation of matter This is naturall or extraordinary Naturall is by an inbred heate not altogether subdued Naturall but slackly exercising force through disposition of the mattter Such is to be seene in inflamations botches and impostumes For in these nature so farre as it can laboureth to bring this his subject matter to the best forme Therefore such suppuration is wont to argue a certaine strength of nature wherefore often with convenient helpes it is carefully encreased In this kinde especially is praysed white thicke smooth equall and least smelling matter Extraordinary mattering is when nature altogether Extraordinary subdued the humors or parts themselves are made full of corrupt matter through store of rottennesse But nature or the concocting facultie is overcome either through proper weaknesse or by corrupt matter this is observed in all rotten malignant and stinking botches in