Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bring_v	let_v	see_v	1,452	5	2.8237	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96262	Novum lumen chirurgicum extinctum, or, Med. Colbatch's New light of chirurgery put out Wherein the dangerous and uncertain woundcuring of the pretending med. and the base imposture of his quack medicines, are impartially examin'd, describ'd, and evidently confuted and the method and medicines formerly receiv'd, and successfully practis'd, are rationally vindicated from the calumnies of his ignorant and malicious aspersions. : His experiments which he mentions, convicted of falshood; and others what their miscarriages are, annex'd; which he had craftily and knowingly suppress'd. / By W.W. surgeon.	W. W., surgeon.	1695 (1695)	Wing W149; ESTC R204408	17,994	71

coming thro' his hands In his 16th when the danger is almost over he is fallen into an inextricable Difficulty which since himself pretends no where to remove I hope will have the Patience to see the total Subversion and utter Ruine of his ill built and worse supported Hypothesis The Difficulty is this That notwithstanding all Vegetables have their Nutrition and Increase from Water only do nevertheless afford us such Substances as are neither easily mixed with nor indeed obtainable from Water In his 17th Page he says that he thinks there is no Difference only secundum Majus Minus between those Wastes made by insensible Transpiration which are natural and a Wound made by Force which is preternatural Had he not said he thought I should have thought he spoke ironically meaning all the Difference in the World I am sure I think so for First There is a material Difference that which we waste by insensible Transpiration being thin volatile and excrementitious but this which Nature doth supply for the re-union of a divided Substance a Juice Balsamick fixed and necessary Secondly There is a formal Difference for In insensible Transpiration the Effluvia can make no Digression in their Passage along the Fibres until they escape by the Pores of the Cuticle but in a Wound the mentioned Juice drilling along the Fibres after its accustomed manner until it comes to the Division where it immediately drops down without some previous Information from his Almighty Pouder But now he seems to design some faint Approaches to the Matter he supposes a Wound to be made c. But here are so many suppositions that they require to be summed up together In the 17th When there is a Division made In the 18th Suppose a Division to be made and it 's no matter where In the same Page Now let a Wound be made where it will and how it matters not Now in the 20th we are come to the fourth and I hope last Supposition for the other three have been very useless and impertinent He says Let a Division be made in any of the Parts of the Body which we call a Wound and how it 's made it matters not c. The nutritious Juice is immediately brought to the Ends of the wounded Vessels For their Reparation and Reunion which as he says would soon be effected were not Nature oppressed and her regular Operations impeded by the common Methods and Medicines of Chirurgions Now although almost every Page be larded with such groundless Aspersions upon Chirurgions and their Medicines I shall this once for all a little weigh and consider the Reasons which he hath brought against the common Methods and Medicines as also those which may be brought against his particular Method and Medicine And first he says the common are of that Nature that they greatly relax the divided Fibres so that they cannot contain the nutritive Matter brought to them but let it pass into the Wound where it is by the same Medicines corrupted and turned into Matter I answer If by relaxing he means mollifying restoring and reducing the Ends of these Fibres who being irritated by the Sense of some external Injury had convulsed and retired themselves from their proper Situation and Offices we shall make no great Difficulty to acknowledg it both the Effect and some part of the Design of our common Medicine But if by relaxing he means the enlarging of the Fibres to a more than ordinary or convenient Wideness I answer They have but little Tendency so to do because the most part of our digestive Medicines consist of considerably Restringent Anodyne and Emplastick Parts and therefore except very well malaxed are not capable of insinuating themselves into the Fibres to that degree which is even convenient for the Exclusion of the sharper part of the Air the Admission of which is often-times the Cause of a total Obstruction But next when the Matter is passed into the Wound let us see what Power the aforesaid Medicine hath to bring it to Corruption which himself says cannot be brought to pass without a Fermentation We shall suppose our common Medicine to be Turpentine and the Yolk of an Egg Now every one knows that neither of these apart nor both of them together have the least Tendency to the producing of any of the five Sorts of Fermentation nay as was hinted before they consisting of such Parts are so far from being the Cause of that they naturally and powerfully oppose themselves unto the very least Appearance sof it even in the nutritive Juice it self sometimes disposed that way Nor is there any thing more reasonable considering that the Branches of the Sulphur are at all times ready to engage sheath and detain the sharp-pointed Acids by which there necessarily follows a Coagulation the most opposite Act in Nature to Fermentation I have one thing more to add concerning our common Medicine and it is that neither Tincture Solution nor Pouder nor any other thing of a different Body is either able to supply its Place or answer its Intention in any Flesh-Wound where there is considerable loss of Substance For by its analogous Substance and Conveniency of Body it in some measure supplies the loss of Substance by giving a Conveniency to the Fibres to enlarge themselves betwixt the Branches of its Body and by this means not only cherisheth them by its natural Warmth but supports their as yet young and tender Texture until the Reunion be wholly perfected An Instance of which is plainly to be seen where the Application of our Medicine is continued though never so short while beyond its due time in encouraging Incarnation to a more than convenient degree Now since I have as I hope more than sufficiently vindicated our Medicine both by Experience and Reason from those unjust Aspersions which our Antagonist hath cast upon it without either it may not be improper to take a View of the Effects of his Medicine also in this place In the first place I shall readily discharge it from the first Particular which our Meidcine is charged with viz. Relaxing of the Fibres and shall make appear it only corrodes them Let us know secondly whether it corrupts the nutritive Juice by causing a Fermentation I am sure if a corrosive Acid that 's ready to quarrel with even Metals themselves can contribute it is not wanting But if once it enter into the Mass of Blood instead of dividing its Texture it will go near to petrify it and after that there is no fear of a Fever either intermitting or continual I shall sum up its Effects in a few words being applied to a recent Wound the Acid Particles immediately fix themselves into the most sensible Parts causing them to retire by way of Convulsion as far as it is possible for them and forcing them to excern all they contain in or about their Orifices if the first fails a second Application induces an Eschar except it be diluted with an extraordinary