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A07320	A most certaine and true relation of a strange monster or serpent found in the left ventricle of the heart of Iohn Pennant, Gentleman, of the age of 21. yeares. By Edward May Doctor of Philosophy and Physick, and professor elect of them, in the colledge of the academy of noble-men, called the Musæum Minervæ: physitian also extraordinary unto her most Sacred Majesty, Queene of great Brittany, &c.	May, Edward.	1639 (1639)	STC 17709; ESTC S112479	20,668	50

whatsoever also by force shall come neere unto it It remaineth that the heart is not neither can be subject to any disease or at least not easily Yea those other men who enumerate the diseases of the heart grant as chiefely Valescus de Tharanta and the Arabians all confesse that a Syncope hapneth or else death as soone as any disease approacheth or hurt toucheth the substance of the heart also Avicen Petrus de Ebano relate that the forementi-oned diseases kill as soone as any of them touch the substance of the heart So also Herophylus coefessed that sudden death followed if a Paralysis once surprized the heart And for Bothors or Phlegmo's or Erisipelas or the like they say that they are diseases of the heart initiativè only and not subjectivè to dwell there any time And indeed I am fully perswaded that the heart suffereth a marasmus privativè by negation of due transmission from other parts rather then that marcor should follow àd cordis substantiae ariditatem for if any part have good substance in it the heart hath and therefore Hippocrates saith that quando fontes resiccati fuerint homo moritur that the Ventricles have the last humidity in them wherefore Galen seemeth to desert his Master in saying a cordis ariditate incipere malum Viz veram senectutem interitum naturalem Whereas hee should have said the contrary that the aridity of the heart followeth the desiccation and want of due transmission of other parts Yee if J may speake my mind freely Hippocrates is not to be taken simply that the heart cannot be any wayes affected but perhaps in the sense of Galen that the heart suffereth little or no paine by reason the substance of the heart hath but little sensation having but one little nerve for feeling from the sixt Conjugation and that is somewhat obscure also Gal. 2. pla 8. Or if hee meane as indeed I am sure hee doth that diseases doe not affect the heart hee is to bee understood that ordinarily they doe not but very seldome by reason of the carnous parts Cor solidum ac densum ut ab humore non aegrotet propterea nullus morbus in corde aboritur caput autem Splen maximè sunt morbis abnoxia His speech is evidently comparative else wee see very often that which hee never saw in all his long life and experience And indeed we see now very frequently the heart affected with Imposthumes with Wormes with Abscesses with Fleamy concretion both in the Eares of the heart and Ventricles yea and now with a Serpent And yet men live divers yeares with them and many other diseases both per essentiam Consensum all kinde of distempers both equall and unequall of which the Ancients have left no memory nor mention unto us with which the Books of late Physitians are repleate Wherefore the propositions of the Ancient Physitians must have a friendly interpretation or else mens hearts now a daies are more passible and obnoxious unto diseases then in former ages which by me as yet cannot easily be admitted Wee are forced therefore to conclude that the heart per essentiam primariò subjectivè may be afflicted with a disease and cause of death and it cannot otherwise be conceived seeing such creatures are begotten in it yet doubtles exteriour diseases kill sooner then innate §. 5. BUt this then begets a greater question how this Monster or such as this should bee begotten or bred in the heart so defended as hath beene said more then all the body and in the most defended part of the heart the left Ventricle three times thicker of flesh and substance then the right as also of what matter seeing that Cell is possessed and replenished with the best purest and most illustrious liquor in the body the blood Arteriall and the vitall spirits There are who conceive that pervious passages may be found for little Wormes and the like to enter into the heart but they must give a better way then any that J have yet seene doe as also the Wormes must be very little Others say that such matters are caused by the ill habit of the heart by which if they meane the substance of the heart it is not to be receaved till the heart hath beene hurt by ill distributions and transmissions which in our case is otherwise for halfe of the heart the left Ventricle the Matrix of this Serpent was solid and still good Wherefore it is not in the ill habit of the substance Others thinke that those Wormes which create sometimes the mal della luna as the Italians terme it living in the pericardium and gnawing the heart Of which there are innumerable Stories Heben flreit lib de peste telleth us one of a Prince to whose heart a white Worme was found cleaving with a sharp and horny nose Alexius pedemont anus lib. 1. Sceret telleth us of an other and so Math Corvar lib. 2. c. 28. Consult med In Stowe's Cronnicle ad annum 1586. of Q Elizabeth a matter of this nature in an Horse is recorded as a memorable thing in these wordes The Seventeenth day of March a strange thing hapned the like whereof before hath not beene heard of in our time Master Dorington of Spaldwick in the County of Huntington Esquire one of her Majesties Gentlemen Pentioners had an horse which died suddenly and being ripped to see the cause of his death there was found in the hole of the heart of the same horse a Worme which lay on a round heape in a kall or skinn of the likenesse of a Toade which being taken out and spread abroad was in forme and fashion not easie to be described The length of which worme divided into many graines to the number of fifty spred from the body like the branches of a Tree was from the snout to the end of the longest graine seventeene inches having soure issues in the graines from which dropped forth a red water The body in bignesse round about was three inches and a halfe the colour whereof was very like a Mackerel This monstrous worme found in manner aforesaid crawling to have got away was stabbed in with a dagger and died which being dryed was shewed to many honourable personages of this Realme If this Horse-worme or Serpent be Chronicled how much more may this be memorized for Posterity Or that which you have or that which you told me was found in the heart of the Lord Boclew By reason these were found in Men that in an Horse and this found by me of greater length and more certaine forme then that which they could not tell how to describe As also those peeces of black flesh generated in the left Ventricle of which Benivenius historizeth one C. 35. de abdit is in forme of a Medler upon the Artery and Vesalius lib. 1. c. 5. de humani corporis fabricâ speaketh of a most Noble and learned Personage in the left Ventricle of whose heart two pounds

with meats nor drinkes Sed purâ illustri substantia taking aliment from the blood purified out of the next Cisterne made mee importuned with other occasions then to leave this new and rare Spectacle in the charge of the Surgion who had a great desire to conserve it had not the Mother desired that it should be buried where it was borne saying and repeating As it came with him so it shall goe with him Wherefore the Mother staying in the place departed not till shee had seene him sow it up againe into the body after my going away Which as soone as I heard I presently described the forme of it at home inter rariora à me reperta And thus this History had alwayes beene buried from the World the Mother having thus buried the Creature if your selfe and others had not desired a figure and narration of it which caused me to take the hands and mindes of some of them who were present Who being nearest the young man were most likely to say the best and therefore being besides people of good fame and reputation might bee credited considering that they would say nothing at all either against their owne house or against verity more then what apparent and cleare truth should necessitate them unto Which from themselves and under their hands here I have done There were also divers others such as dwelled in the house and some that came in who beheld it after whom I have no leisure to enquire But such who will scarce believe their Creed or any true mans word or that men have senses which have alwaies beene reputed incorrupted Witnesses may goe into the high buildings upon the Street in Saint Giles Parish and at the corner house next the greene Dragon where the Young-man died they may make further inquisition Since which time the Mother hath remooved her selfe into Bloomesbury neare unto the house of one Master Nurse who directed me to her lodgings a man well knowne in all that Region Mistris Gentleman dwelleth neare unto S. Clements Church in the Strand and the Chirurgion or his man can direct them to the house Moreover that day all of us that were present at this sight related to our friends wives or husbands what we had found as they will testifie The History therefore being verified by as much testimony as humane perswasion need require Except nothing but oath will content some which if it shall be found necessary to Authority It will most readily come forth also and obey It is most requisite that something be said of this or any such like matters generated in mans heart both for the manner of their generation and the way of their cure and by what means such rare and incredible causes of death may bee found out in time and taken away §. 4. SUch matters as these were worthy of your selfe and a man of your long experience Yet because this strange generation was found by me I will consult with your learning rather then by any hasty resolution determine and discourse a little to state a question of no smal difficulty Hip de morbis Avicen l. 3. se● 11. since Hippocrates first hath given the occasion which was this Cor nullo morbo laborat the heart laboureth of no disease Prince Avicen cor longinquum anocumentis the heart is farr remote from dangers And yet contrary to these Very many Physitians enumerate these diseases of the heart the Marasmus Syncope the Cordiack passion Lypothymy Apostems Vlcers Botheralia Corrosion of Sublimate and I dare adde diseases which afflict the heart by reason of distillations from the head in some who have had the unction Tremors also and palpitations of the heart as Peter Ebanus in his Booke de Venenis And the Paralysis of the heart as old Aurelianus in his second Booke of Slowpassions After Haerophylus and Erasistratus have observed And now of late Skinkius and others have found wormes in Cordis capsulâ which is the Pericardium But I speake more precisely and punctually that now in the left Ventricle of the heart this Worme or Serpent hath beene found Which the Mother of the Young-man saith was at least of three yeares growth for so long he complained of his breast and as shee saith would never button his Doublet in the Morning but be open breasted in all weathers till he had washed his hands and face and was subject to palpitations Now then that wee may judge whether Hippocrates and Avicen direct their speeches these reasons are to be admitted reason 1 First from the situation of the heart in medio medij pectoris saith Avicen in the middle of the middle of the brest which Mathematically is not true for so the basis or upper part or caput onely is placed in an Equidistance from the diaphragma the inferiour furcula and the Clanicula and the furcula superior and betweene the Vertebra of the backe and the anterior Sternon reason 2 The Second is that the heart dwelleth in a strong pannicle and such an one that non invenitur panniculus compar ei in spissitudine ut sit ei Clypeus tutamen Hip. l. de Cord. that no pannicle is comparable unto it that it may be a shield and defence unto the heart reason 3 Thirdly Avicen addeth that the heart it selfe is created of strong flesh that it may be longinquum anocumentis in quo contextae sunt species villarum fortium Diverse strong strings admirably woven together do bind and strengthen the heart and give it aptitude for motion and resistance Hippocrates long before Avicen saith the same and things of greater consequence Cor est musculus fortis c. The heart is a strong muscle non nervo sed densitate carnis constrictione Hip. ubi supra not by his nervous nature but by solidity of flesh and constriction And in the heart there lye hidden diverse skins like spiders webs extended which do so bind and shut the endes of the forts that no man ignorant knowes how to take out the heart but will take up one for an other Neither can water or wind penetrate into the heart and more Cor tunicam habet circumdatam est in ipsâ humor modicus c. Vt cor sanum in custodiâ floreseat habet autem humiditatem tantam quanta sat is est aestuanti in medelam hunc humorem cor emungit bibendo ipsum assumens consumens pulmonis nimiram potum lambens He speakes further of the cover called the Epiglottis that nothing may enter that way but what is convenient So that seeing the heart is fortified with such strength of ribbs with such covers such skins such fortitude of substance such density of flesh such excellence of liquour such curious filaments that nothing can enter hurt or come neere the heart to make it sicke but that it is able to defend it selfe both by its owne situation strength and happy condition in very many respects and keepe out or put backe