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
A34855	A discourse wherein the interest of the patient in reference to physick and physicians is soberly debated, many abuses of the apothecaries in the preparing their medicines are detected, and their unfitness for practice discovered : together with the reasons and advantages of physicians preparing their own medicine.	Coxe, Thomas, 1615-1685.; Coxe, Daniel, d. 1730.	1669 (1669)	Wing C6727; ESTC R25356	84,750	293

the mentioned active substances I shall not insist on the great difference that there is in substance and qualities between Flesh and Fish the variety of both being unimaginable especially if we consider the various wayes of preparing them for food and the additaments that are used to render them more agreeable to the Palate Concerning which Physitians have wrote intire Volumns Now the body partaking of the nature of the Aliments which I suppose no one will deny or if they should I could demonstrate it by unquestionable experiments and observations They having such various qualities and there being so great a variety in the complexions and constitutions of men it will necessarily follow that some of those Aliments may be contrary to a good sound constitution of body if a person indulge himself much in the use of them his health will by degrees be impaired and a bad texture or disposition of blood superinduced which would have been prevented and if recent easily removed by sutable nourishment especially if this regular good Diet be long continued Now the Physitian being better than any other person acquainted with the properties of most things that are commonly eaten and with the temper of his Patient can teach him what to eat and which to avoid what will prove beneficial to him which are hurtful Besides he gives him some general Rules in reference to Diet yet not so strict and severe but that they may be easily without any trouble or inconvenience observed These Rules may respect men either in a Healthful Neutral or Diseased state 1. For a man in Health the Physitian prescribes him not any set time or hours whercin he should take his repasts only that he should not eat another plentiful meal till what he eat before be well digested and passed out of his stomach Then for the Quality of his food that it be such as is most agreeable to his constitution and imployment a gross food being most sutable to those that are of a strong robust a more fine and delicate to such as have a more spare and weakly complexion he allows them also such food as being long accustomed to they find agreeable to them there being Idiosyncracies or peculiarities in some men whereby some food agrees well with them which would be noxious to others seemingly of the same constitution As for Quantity that they should eat only so much as abates not gluts their appetite and after which they find themselves rather more than less lightsome than they were before eating That its better to eat little and often than much and at once that as near as they can they keep to an equality for substance not quantity making allowances for meats that have little nourishment as substracting from what are very nutritive as Swines flesh c. And if they live temperately to exceed once or twice in a month in eating and drinking their ordinary stint which is found to promote perspiration the great preserver of health and enables the stomach to bear any accidental overcharge there being few persons that can at all times command their Appetites and such a surplusage is dangerous to those that have long observed exactly a regular Diet not varying the quantity of their food Then lastly for Order he advises that they should not eat immediately after any great exercise of body or mind and that they avoid all those things which hinder the concoction or distribution of the nourishment and use whatsoever promotes it Some such general rules as these observed abating hereditary and contagious Diseases which yet are in a great measure prevented by an orderly Diet and are less dangerous when we lapse into them will keep them in perfect health For then the food will be readily converted into good chyle which conveyed into the veins the blood not being overcharged with quantity and the food being before well prepared and opened by the ferment of the stomach becomes upon reiterated circulations a most noble generous liquor and in its passage through the brain a pure unmixed spirit will be sublimed or seperated from it free from preternatural acidities which cause many Diseases This subtle and sincere Liquor or Spirit supplies the Nerves and Muscles with what is necessary for Animal Actions the Lungs Stomach Spleen and other Viscera And the parts destined for the Propagation of the Species with so much as is necessary to keep them in a due Tone and enable them to perform all these actions for which they were instituted The rest of the blood visiting the most extream parts of the body and others retired from sight where percolated through Parenchymous fibrous or bony substances it leaves with each part what is Congruous to it And so long as this course is continued without interruption health also will be uninterrupted Whereas on the contrary high Compounded nourishment whose quantity and substance is often varied especially if it be more then the Stomach can well digest must by a Mechanical necessity cause Diseases For if the quantity be greater then the ferment of the Stomach can dissolve the Chyle will enter the Blood Crude and being more then that is used to assimilate at once and not well opened by a previous digestion it by insensible degrees depraves the best constitution for then the blood supplies the Brain Nerves Viscera and Musculous parts with unsutable Spirits and nourishment which affecting them after an unusual manner pain or somewhat worse is in time the result of this bad or irregular Diet. Then for the quality of the food if it abound too much with Oyly and Spirituous parts it puts the blood into that great commotion or Ebullition we stile a Fever if with cold Crude juyces as Melons Cucumbers or Cherries it sometimes extinguishes the Native-heat and if the sick escape they are usually stigmatized by blotches or eruptions all over their bodies or in some particular parts whereat the Morbous matter is excluded Lastly if Salt be predominant in the nourishment it causes various Maladies especially of the Genus nervosum often occasions strange disorders in the whole mass of blood and sometimes Corrodes the External parts which it deforms and and tortures in Ulcers Fistula's Cancers and other painful loathsome and formidable Diseases All which might have been prevented and if timely care had been taken cured by a sutable and orderly Diet. For an ill Crasis or Constitution of the blood doth not always presently display it self in such bad Syptoms as to deserve the denomination of a disease this by Physitians is called a Neutral-state which may be first Checkt and then redressed by Diet. For although if we will examine things strictly there is no middle between sickness and health yet because it is so hard to find a Standard for either of them therefore Physitians have agreed on this third as an expedient the better to express their thoughts so that we apprehend a man is in perfect health who is free from pain or any Indisposition