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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	choler_n	corrupt_v	poison_a	60	3	16.4465	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15778	A succinct philosophicall declaration of the nature of clymactericall yeeres, occasioned by the death of Queene Elizabeth. VVritten by T:VV	Wright, Thomas, d. 1624.	1604 (1604)	STC 26043.3; ESTC S120610	7,796	22

belieue it to be true for the authoritie of Physitians then for any credite I can giue to theyr reasons for indeede all that I haue heard discourse thereupon and I haue heard some verie fine wits and what I haue read dooth not content nor satisfie my minde Therefore I will set downe my Phylosophicall conceite for in this speculation Physick dependeth vppon Phylosophie and first suppose that customes habites changes and great alterations in mens bodies come seldome vppon a suddaine but by little and little grow and increase by tract of time and as we say Gutta cauat lapidem non vi sed sepe cadendo Sic homo fit doctus non vi sed sepe legendo The dribling drops by falling oft Not might make marbles thinne So men by oft perusing bookes Not force doe learning win Galen to declare the nature and force of custome Galen de Consuet c. 2. and what effects it worketh in vs demaundeth this question how it commeth to passe that some mens natures abhor exceedingly some sorts of meate and are not able to disguest them as for example saith he some cannot abide beefe others shell fishes and we haue manie who cannot so much as endure the sight of cheese others of aples And yet these same persons by little and little are brought to eate disguest yea and greatly to like them He answereth that all beasts and men haue naturall propensions to such meates as are consorting with the naturall proprieties of theyr bodies and abhor such things as are contrarie and therefore the Lyon feedeth vppon flesh not vpon hay and the Oxe vpon hay not vpon flesh yet it falleth out that by tract of time those meates which we detested after by vse become familiar for they alter the body and by the sucke of theyr nourishment change the affections and qualities of the stomack in such sort as that meate which before was molestfull and in very deede hurtfull becommeth sauorie and healthfull and this he proueth not onely to be true in men and beasts but also in seedes and trees whose fruite in some countries are poyson transferred into other soyles where they receiue another kind of norishment they become not only by tract of time not hurtfull but very healthfull not poysonfull but pleasant Secondly it is to be considered that our bodies generally haue certaine courses passages stations or periods wherein they notably change their actions and operations till 21. yeeres or 25. at the most we grow in height for some come to theyr full growth sooner some later from 25. to fortie two or forty fiue we grow in breadth or thicknes from this till the end of our dayes we decline the cause of these three notorious alterations is our naturall beate or humidum radicale which in mine opinion is nothing els but the vitall temper and qualification of euery solid part of our bodies the which residing in a moist body causeth it to grow like the heate in a loafe of Dowe set in the Ouen afterwards what with internall heate externall drying of the windes and sunne and other continuall exercises which daily exsiccate the body draw out the vndeguested moysture the innated heate is not able to rouze vp the body any more in height but spreadeth it abroade and so enlargeth and ingrosseth it after which continuall working heate is weakened and so by little and little still decayeth and finally resolueth in dissolution Thirdly in this septuarie number of our yeeres although we cannot discouer such notorious differences as in the three former passages yet in these likewise we may obserue some markable change At the first seauenth yeere men commonly note that then the child beginneth to haue some little sparkes of reason and for this cause the Cannon Law permitteth such directed by their parents or Tutors contrahere sponsalia to make a promise of future mariage In the foureteene yeere the youth is thought to haue the perfit vse of reason then the Cannons account him capable of marriage At twenty one a man is reputed able iudiciously to dispose of his goods and faculties and therfore the Common-law riddeth him then of his vvardship and the Cannons giue him leaue to take the order of subdeacon the first seauen yeeres are called infantia the second pueritia the third adolescentia the fourth that is from twenty one to twenty eight iuuentus from thence to forty nine hee is esteemed to stand in statu virili the next till sixtie three is senectus after till seauenty seauentie seauen for most part ensueth decrepita aetas In all these periods or Clymactericall yeeres it is to be noted that although the change in that yeere be perceiued most palpably and sensibly yet in all the precedent they were preparing working and something disposing there-vnto as for example wee must not thinke that the least drop of rayne which in effect breaketh the stone dooth it of it selfe for that were impossible but it doth it in vertue and by force and working of all the former And perhaps for this cause they were called anni scalares for that euery yeere precedent was a steppe to the last wherein the Ladder or staires were ended Fourthly there is a great dispute among Phisitians what should be the cause of the Paroxisme● or fittes in Agues and once I my selfe being troubled with a tertian Ague in Italie in the Cittie of Como there came two Phisitians my deere friends and a Doctor of Diuinitie all at one time to visite me and euen then I stood in expectation of my fit After many complements discourses about my sicknes at last I demaunded these two Doctors of Phisicke that they would resolue mee in one doubt about my disease they aunswered with a good will Well sayd I you both conclude and it stands with good reason that this sicknes of mine proceedeth from excesse of choller now I would know of you when my fit is past is the choller all disguested consumed and voyded away or no If it be consumed why dooth my Ague returne if it be not consumed why dooth mine Ague depart The Phisitians here aunswered one contrarie to another for the first sayd it was disguested Why then returneth mine Ague For this cause quoth he the Ague proceedeth not onely of choller but of choller putrified corrupted and poysoned Now sir the choller poysoned is consumed but other choller which remaineth is not corrupted but by the next paroxisme it will be corrupted Well sayd I what thing is that which corrupteth poisoneth that good choller which before was not corrupted It seemeth strange to me how so much precisely should be corrupted and the other beeing so neere lying by it or rather vnited with it yea mingled in it not to be infected In truth I remember not what he aunswered but I am sure he satisfied none of vs all The other Doctor of Phisicke sayd it was not consumed but nature feeling the force of that poyson vnited her selfe to fight against