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	hot_a	moist_a	1,558	5	9.6254	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28375	New and curious observations on the art of curing the veneral disease and the accidents that it produces in all its degrees explicatd by natural and mechanical principles with the motions, actions, and effects of mercury and its other remedies : wherein are discovered on the same subject the errours of some authors ... / written in French by Monsieur de Blegny ; Englished by Walter Harris.	Blégny, Monsieur de (Nicolas), 1652-1722.; Harris, Walter, 1647-1732.	1676 (1676)	Wing B3186; ESTC R23701	76,734	217

that causes the Vegetation of Plants is doubtless more active and less divided and it is for this reason requisite to make choice of the smallest and yellowest because the greatest blackest is most likely to be taken from old sapless Trunks Such as make the goodness of Remedies to consist in the strength of their activity do rather employ the Bark of this same Wood which is in good truth more drying than all the rest of the Tree but is accompanied with so much Heat and Acrimony that I would not counsel any body to make use of it and it would be much better on an occasion to render the use of the ordinary Decoction longer and more frequent 3. The part of Sassafras which is commonly made choice of and which I esteem also to be the best is its Root of which nevertheless there is little use made at present either because its Vertue is not well known or because the other Sudorifick Roots are dearer and so consequently more esteemed It is true notwithstanding that its Decoction hath a very pleasant and agreeable Smell and Taste and that use may be made of it as well as of Guaiacum to consume the superfluous Humidities in driving them either by Sweat or Urine or else by siege adding some light Catharticks to it I have observed nevertheless that its Root doth not desiccate so powerfully as Guaiacum and that it is consequently good for such as must be more moderately dried But more force may be found in the Bark of its Wood which also gives a Tincture yet more Aromatick more quick and sharp 4. Whereas the Root of China is the dearest of sudorifick Druggs that serve to prepare or cure such as are infected with the Pox the Merchants and Travellers who have brought it hither from the places where 't is found have all endeavoured to boast its good effects very much to its advantage that they might thereby have the better Market of it and its Vertues have been also so much exaggerated by some Authors that such as have preferred their Report before the Experience and Observations which they might have made themselves would have thought they had laboured in vain if they had presumed to cure the Pox without employing it to this intent Nevertheless we must acknowledge that this preoccupation deserves to be blamed and that this Root hath nothing in it proportionable to the esteem that hath been made of it nor to the dearness with wich it hath been sold seeing the Decoctions that are made of all these Drugs do principally and most properly serve to dry the Bodies of such as use them and the Decoctions of the other two I now mentioned may be employed to this effect with more success Not that this may not be very useful to prepare such as should be more gently desiccated Yet it may be also let alone when occasion serves only by diminishing the Doses of those that are stronger or augmenting the quantity of those that are weaker 5. The Root of Sarsaparilla is now-a-days more commonly employed to the abovesaid use because it gives a Tincture very like that of Wine and its Decoction hath nothing disagreeable for Smell or Taste Nevertheless I have observed that it dries something less than the other three Sudorificks of which I have spoken and that it passes more willingly by way of Urine than through the Pores whence it comes to be of great use for the curing Gonorrheas that are caused by virulent Serosities which do sometimes occupy the Testicles and and other parts that serve for the Concoction and Distribution of the Seed CHAP. V. Of the Observations it is necessary to make on Mercury to know whence the different Effects that follow its application do proceed 1. Whence it comes to pass that the Qualities of Mercury have not been yet known and the necessity there is of knowing them 2. That it easily joyns it self with sulphurous and metallick Bodies and that it is by consequence necessary that it be revived from Cinnaber to become pure 3. That it is always in motion and that it never loses its mobility but only to retake it 4. That its Sulphurs do render it volatil and penetrant but its Gravity inclines it to search downwards 5 That Resinous substances do serve for the division of its particles but Acids do dissolve it more perfectly 6. That Heat sublimes it but Alkalis does precipitate it 7. That Acids do diminish its Volatility but that it is so much the more Corrosive as there are Acids mixed with it 8. That the diversity of Bodies with which it joyns makes the diversity of its Actions and Effects 9. That it is no way poysonous in it self and that the divers dispositions of Subjects on which it is applied do cause the different Effects that do result from its application 1. SEing the Ancients have not explicated the Qualities of Medicaments but only by the different degrees of Hot and Dry Cold and Moist and these same degrees have not been at all known or distinguished more precisely than by the Actions and Effects that result from these Qualities we must not at all wonder if they have held Opinions so very different on the subject of Quicksilver since that this Mineral doth act so diversly and doth produce such different Effects not only in the several Bodies that receive it but also at different times when received in the same subject Whence it comes to pass that some have maintained it to be cold by reason of the cold Diseases that it creates and others have esteemed it to be hot because it doth consume Phlegm and desiccates the bodies in which it is made to enter Some also have judged it to be Venomous by reason of the Accidents that ordinarily arrive to such as draw it out of the Mines to Gilders and other Artificers that make use of it and yet some others again have asserted that it is an Antidote of poisons and an Enemy of Corruption because it generally kills all Vermine and is used with success in malignant Feavours the Pestilence and Pox lastly all their Conceits on this subject have been so opposite that they have determined nothing at all yet and modern Authors who have ordained this Remedy against certain Diseases have been contented to say that it acts by unknown occult Properties Though there is nothing less known or understood in all Physick it is true nevertheless that nothing doth really deserve to be known more since the use of it now a-days is acknowledged to be equally familiar profitable and dangerous and the little knowledge that is generally had of its true Motions is perhaps the only cause of all the misfortunes that follow its application This therefore ought to engage you and I good Reader to use our utmost endeavours to render them more sensible that we may by this means avoid the Reproaches Posterity might otherwise make to our Memory much more justly indeed than to that of our Predecessours