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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	cold_a	heat_n	hot_a	2,925	5	7.7399	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60482	Gērochomia vasilikē King Solomons portraiture of old age : wherein is contained a sacred anatomy both of soul and body, and a perfect account of the infirmities of age, incident to them both : and all those mystical and ænigmatical symptomes expressed in the six former verses of the 12th chapter of Ecclesiastes, are here paraphrased upon and made plain and easie to a mean capacity / by John Smith ...	Smith, John, 1630-1679.	1666 (1666)	Wing S4114; ESTC R22883	124,491	292

Pollex à pollendo being as it were an antagonist grasper to the whole hand and doth as much towards the firm holding and dextrous using of a weapon as all the hand And therefore it is that idle persons or effeminate men or whosoever are unfit for service in war are called polletrunci as who should say men that have not the use of their thumbs And it was a Custome among the Nations for the Conquerours to cut off the thumbs of the Conquered thereby rendering them disgraced and utterly unable for future employments either at Sea or Land And Scriptural Story also seems to confirm this in Adonibezek who said Threescore and ten Kings having their thumbs and their great toes cut off gathered their meat under my table as I have done so God hath requited me Thus far on the part of the bones Again if we consider on the part of the Muscles how they are variously shaped and formed according to their several uses how they are perforated according to necessity how they are seated to the best advantage how they are to one another friends or antagonists how they are derived from one part and inserted into another how much strength and vigour they have how by their hormetick power and contraction into their own bodies they can readily perform whatsoever motion the Organ is capable of they can stir the limb inward outward forward backward upward downward they can perform adduction abduction flexion extension pronation supination the Tonick motion circumgiration and all these with so great expedition and agility that they are much sooner done than said yea as soon done as thought on the actions of the Muscles keeping pace nay many times out-stripping the volubility of the mind If we yet further consider them in their Tendons and the variety of them how they are either solid plain round broad long short one many or of whatsoever form may render them most expeditious in their motions how they are strengthned by several Ligaments especially that annulary Ligament in the Wrist I say if we consider these wonderful things wherein man differs from all other Creatures and many others which good skill in the anatomy of these parts would easily furnish a man with all which would be too large here to insert It would enforce us to say that these of all the parts of man do most properly defend him and may justly be stiled the keepers of the house Now that these may be said to tremble needs no words to make appear forasmuch as the experience of every old man doth sufficiently confirm it Which word doth comprehend within it self all the weaknesses infirmities inabilities of these parts in this condition Whether they be outward as stiffness contraction rugosity or inward as aches pains numness palsies cramps tremblings yet notwithstanding it hath in a more especial manner relation to that grand symptome that doth most certainly attend this condition which is called Tremor artuum the continual and unavoydable trembling of the hands and arms Now forasmuch as the last age of man is eminently above all others he passeth the cold and the dry it must needs incline him and at last most certainly cast him into this distemper For these two qualities and for ought I understand these alone are the natural fathers of this trembling child If we remember how going abroad in a bitter cold morning how drinking a great deal of cold water or swimming in the water if we know how the use of Poppies Henbane Opium the cold fit of an Ague and other cold things will easily set us a shaking if we consider that long fastings great evacuations especially Venerial which do most dry the Nerves violent heat in Feavers fluxing by the use of Quicksilver immoderate sweatings in hot houses or elsehow do cause the same distemper we shall be induced chiefly to attribute this terrible symptome to these two deadly enemies of a well tempered Constitution coldness and dryness which are so contrary to the instruments of voluntary motion whose life and vigour consists in radical heat and moysture that they take off their strength and render them unable to perform their duties making them so weak that even the weight of the member they are to move is now their equall Antagonist for they going about to move the member as they usually had done are resisted with equal force by the weight of that member which causeth as it were a continual combate between the strength of the mover and the weight of the moved so that the Limb is alwaies drawn one way by that and another way by this which causeth a perpetual trembling of the keepers of the house which is reckoned here as the first and indeed is one of the most remarkable symptomes upon the body of man in this decrepit state The strong men shall bow themselves Having before treated of the infirmities of the superiour Limbs he comes now to those of the inferiour the keepers of the house being the hands the strong men can be no other than the feet now as the hand was divided before so also is the anatomical foot containing not only tarsum metatarsum and phalanges digitorum but also femur tibiam and extremum pedem and as before I shewed the beginning of the hand was to be accounted from the Scapula so here I must also tell you that the beginning of the foot is from the Os Iliuns● And those Muscles which are inserted into the thigh and have their use for the motion thereof notwithstanding their origination may be either from the back inwardly as the chief flector the Psoas or outwardly as the first extendor Gloutaeus major or from the 〈◊〉 Ilium as most other movers of the thigh have ought all to be accounted into the number of the strong men And if we well consider the true nature of progressive motion and firm station on the ground we shall soon conclude that the instruments of them both which are none other than those we are treating of are the best demonstrators of humane strength and may more aptly than any other parts of the body be called the strong men And this we may also have confirmed in the holy Writings of God the strength of the legs as the instruments of motion seem to be expressed by the Prophet when he saith He delighteth not in the strength of the horse he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man their strength as they are the instruments of firm station is excellently expressed by the Spouse when she saith concerning her Beloved His legs are as pillars of marble And as they are the Instruments of both you have them notified in the Story of Peters curing the lame man wherein as if the use of legs both for standing and walking and strength were Convertible terms signifying the same thing we have his cure once expressed by these words Immediately his feet and his ancle bones received strength and he leaping up stood