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
A23630	The operator for the teeth shewing how to preserve the teeth and gums from all the accidents they are subject to : with particular directions for childrens teeth : as also the description and use of the polican, never published before / by Charles Allen.	Allen, Charles.	1686 (1686)	Wing A1022; ESTC R24170	29,284	59

ways but that I may render what I have to say upon it as perspicuous and intelligible as I can I think it very convenient we should take a special notice of the vessels that come into the Tooth and of their respective Functions The first and chiefest whereof is an Artery whose Office is to bring directly from the heart that hot and spirituous blood out of which although it is not the general Opinion the Tooth is at first made as well as the rest of the whole body and ever after preserved and repaired by the supply of nourishment and vital principles it affords continually To this effect the whole Artery divides it self into an infinity of small branches which being disseminated throughout the whole substance of the Tooth distribute to each part as much of their blood as is necessary to make up the incessant loss they are subject to and the rest is returned through innumerable hair-like veins into the great ones and thence to the heart again but in two different manners for the superfluous part of that portion of the blood that is carried by the Capillary Arteries to that part of the Tooth standing above the Gums is sent back again through some Capillary veins towards the middle of the Tooth where uniting together they make but a single channel and this is it we commonly call the vein of the Tooth which we shall here take for its second vessel But the remainder of the blood that goes to the relief of that part of the Tooth that is within the Gums passing quite through the substance of the Tooth is carried by the Capillary veins to the veins of the Gums Checks and Lips and hence it is that whatever pain is at any time occasioned in any of those parts either by bruise excessive heat or cold c. comes to be soon after communicated to the Teeth The Third and Last Vessel of the Teeth is a Nerve one of the extremities whereof is expanded through the Membrane that invests the cavity of the Tooth and that that contains its Vessels and the other is rooted in the Brain from whence it takes its Origine and where the Animal Spirits being elaborated are thence sent by the Nerves to all the parts of the body to administer sense and the cause of motion to them c. although in some as the Teeth the faculty of motion is not exercised From this consideration of the Vessels of the Tooth we may gather the following reasons of its Dolour As first that if either through the too great quantity or ebulition of the blood the Artery is so dilated and swoln that it fills up the hole at the end of the stumps where it enters the Tooth and consequently so compresses the vein going out the same way that the circulation of the Blood is thereby hindred the continual flowing in of the blood will extremely puff up and distend the membrane that contains the vessels and consequently cause a great pain in the Tooth which will last till either the preternatural state of the Blood be changed or that the Arteriols which we have said to pass quite through the rooty part of the Tooth be so stretched and widened that by them the Blood may be discharged into the Gums Cheeks and Lips where it will then cause a swelling greater or lesser according to the quantity of the superfluous Blood And if at the beginning of this disorder when the Vein is first impeded in its Function the motion of the Blood is so rapid and its influx into the Tooth so impetuous that before it can make its way through the small Arterial Twigs into the Gums it does extremely extend the coats of the Artery the Interstices between their Fibres will thereby become wide enough to give passage to some of the thinnest parts of the Blood which gathering at the end of the root between the outside of the Artery and the common Coat investing all the Vessels will there putrifie and cause a great and very lasting pain in the Tooth during which if the Tooth be drawn the said gathering will appear at the end of its stump like a little Bladder You shall know this sort of Tooth-Ake by the high beating of your Pulse the fulness of the Veins and an often beating in the affected Tooth with a continual tho not very extreme pain And then for the Cure of it you must first bleed the Gums and sometimes open a Vein in the Arm also and wash your mouth with Rose-water and Vinegar of each equal quantities mixt together putting a little Cotton dipt in Oyl of Box into the Tooth if it be hollow Furthermore if that portion of the Blood which is diffused through the substance of the Brain for the production of the Animal Spirits is so depraved that all the sifting it receives through the hidden meanders and recesses of the Brain cannot clear it from its impurities and that notwithstanding all the contrivances of Nature it is deposited into the ventricles of the Brain tho under another form yet still impregnated with its ill qualities such sort of Animal Spirits being compounded of Heterogeneous parts if not timely discharged of their malignant and offensive Corpuscles through the usual Emunctories will either by their fermentation in the Ventricles of the Brain cause an Head-ake or by the oppilation of its pores cause a giddiness or else passing out of the Brain into the Nerves will by their irregular motion and preternatural extention of the coats of the Nerves and other Tunicles breed a disturbance in all the parts they go to but more particularly in the Teeth in which they always excite very great pains For discharging the peccant humour between the membrane that invests the inside of the Tooth and that that incloses its vessels it occasions a perpetual torment in them till it be expelled from thence by transpiration This second kind of Tooth-ake will be known by a disturbance in the head which precedes it most commonly a soreness in the joynts and a certain drousiness and lingring pain all over the body as if one were inclined to an Ague with a sharp and very excessive pain in the distempered Tooth which comes by fits soon ceasing and often beginning a-new As for its Cure it may be effected by Sternutation the friction of the nape of the Neck with warm clothes and the application of aperitive Remedies to open the pores of the Tooth and if it be hollow you shall put in 't a drop of Oyl of Camphire whereinto has been infused some Henbane-root These are the two general causes of the Tooth-ake all the rest proceeding from them some few excepted There is what I had a mind to say at this present concerning the Tooth-ake But you must note further that as it is not enough for one that intends to travel a Countrey over to understand the Map of that Countrey but he must also inquire often of the people he meets with as he goes