Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

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
A69070	The warming stone Excellent helps really found out, tried, and had, by a warming stone in his case, which not costing much, will save much cost in fire, and withall avoyd the danger of fire: and likewise is very usefull and comfortable for the colds of aged and sicke people, and for women with child, and in child-bed: as also for fluxes, rheumes, colicks, ruptures, or any cold disease: and for those that in beds, studies, shops, ships, churches, or elsewhere, have need of heate, yet cannot conveniently make use of fire: and likewise for the poore, when having no fire of their owne, they may borrow the heating of this stone at a neighbours fire, if his charity be not altogether cold. These stones with their cases are to be sold at [blank] where more particular satisfaction may be had of the contents of the booke.	Carew, Richard, Sir, d. 1643?	1640 (1640)	STC 4615.5; ESTC S119482	4,818	12

within 3 houres was able to walke about her chamber at which her husband told me hee wondred exceedingly how so great an alteration could bee wrought in so short a time The help hereof also hath recovered those who were so indangered by taking cold in their ruptures that both themselves their friends dispaired of their lives because the fat of their guts being fallen down into their cods and there grown hard stiffe by the cold could not possibly be replaced till strong heate had resolved it into softnesse againe and so there was means found to returne them into their due place by which God be praised some who desired to be praied for publikely in the church being out of hope of life have recovered health and strength again though one of them was neer three score ten when by this means he was holpen It hath likewise done exceeding much good to many that have had very violent fluxes whereof some of them have bin bloudy who by the help of these stones applied to their belly and their hinder parts both at one time and the help of heating their drinke by the fire as hot as they could take it have recovered The same remedy likewise helpes much to abate the violent cold fits of agues being applied to the stomack strengthens the weaknes thereof very much against the cough or any disease which comes of a cold cause for it exceedingly helpes the weaknes of the stomacke because all good digestion being made by heate as extream outward colds weaken it by abating that heat so this outward heate strengthneth it much by adding more warmth unto it as we find that boyled baked or rosted meat being eaten hot that heat helps us much to concoct the same meat And wheras we seek help by artificial liquors that have an extraordinary heat to help the cold weaknes of nature by their strength if too little bee taken it doth little good if too much much harme wheras the heate of these stones may be duly tempered to our use being continued encreased abated or removed suddenly as the diseased party shall think fit The same stones also put into the bed do not onely supply the need of a warming pan but being put into a case lined two fingers thick every where with wooll between frise on the outside and canvas on the inside will retain a comfortable heate in the bed for ten houres together and a sencible heate for fourteen if it be throughly warmed which must be done as hot as may be without burning the case which is tried by spitting on the stone or sprinkling water on it for if it hisse not it is never too hot I make the case of canvas on the inside because it is not so apt to burne as woollen cloath and have wooll between because it sorts better with any part of the body than cloath doth and by reason of the thicknesse thereof brings not an over-violent heate in the beginning yet continues it much longer than cloath or linnen could doe and the frise on the outside is softer and warmer than other stuffe And a stone in a case thus made may be applied to the head feet belly or any other part of the body that hath need of it and may be as soon put away if the heat be too great It is also exceeding usefull for all schollars to heate their hands and feet when they must attend their studies in cold weather And for al persons which by their trades in such seasons must keep their shops or for the service of God continue in the Church And such as travel by sea who may have these stones warmed by the fire though they cannot warme themselves in that place where the fire is The small cost which belongs to it is mostly in providing the stone and case at first for the stone will be heated by the same fire which is made for any other purpose either to bake boile brew or rost or by any other fire either layd upon it or set against it by convenient turnings that all parts of the stone may heat alike Which may be done without any hinderance of any of the aforesayd uses And by triall I find that two about nine or ten inches long and six or seven inches broad will doe more service and are more easie to bee found than a single one of double the length and bredth because they will be lesse subject to breaking with falling and are the more easily put to the fire and taken from it and moved to and fro in the bed with more speed and ease than a great single one can be yet may beeing put together fill a greater room than the single one could do by adding warmth on each side to any part of the body that shall lie betweene them and likewise at one time bee applyed to severall places And such poore people as have no fire of their owne they may heat it at their neighbours fire which will damnifie them no more then lighting one candle by another and whereas no fire can be maintained without consuming the fewell which makes it and that cannot be provided without continuall charge according to the wasting thereof this stone being so heated will keep his heat without cost for divers hours in other places but in the bed for a whol night and that without renewing the heat or troubling the rest of the party who needeth the warmth of it These uses and experiments will be verified by the witnesse of many persons who have very often and doe dayly make use thereof some of which have not bin more averse from being perswaded to try it in the beginning then afterwards they have been loath to leave the benefits they have found thereby and I am very confident that by due observation of the quality of these 〈◊〉 many other uses of them will be found out besides these here mentioned This same stone being laid under the head of a childe that was much stopt in his breath by a cold did in one night clear and free the passage of his breath and likewise being laid under the head of an old man that was very deafe did in such sort helpe him that his neighbours wondered to see the change that was wrought in him An ancient Doctor of Physick of London testifies it gave a Patient of his more ease in the cure of the Sciatica then any outvvard Medicine that he could apply Septemb. 1. 1640. Imprimatur Tho. Wykes