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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	disease_n	humour_n	part_n	3,067	5	4.8468	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44756	Thērologia, The parly of beasts, or, Morphandra, queen of the inchanted iland wherein men were found, who being transmuted to beasts, though proffer'd to be dis-inchanted, and to becom men again, yet, in regard of the crying sins and rebellious humors of the times, they prefer the life of a brute animal before that of a rational creture ... : with reflexes upon the present state of most countries in Christendom : divided into a XI sections / by Jam. Howell, Esq.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1660 (1660)	Wing H3119; ESTC R5566	113,995	188

Countrey and Kinred Otter How is this I not only hear but I understand the voice of a Man oimee I am afraid that Morphandra hath a purpose to re-transform me and make me put on human shape again Well Sir What 's your will with me Pererius Let it not give any offence if I desire to know What Countreyman you were when you were a Rational Creture Otter I came first into the World in Hydraulia not farr from Amstena and was a Mariner by my Profession Pererius Well the most gracious Queen Morphandra hath been pleased to promise me the favor as to turn you into Man again if you have a mind to it and from that groveling quadrupedal shape to make you an erect and a rational Creture once again Otter Sir you bid me to my losse for I live farr more to my contentment in this species wherein my heart and eyes are horizontal than when I was in an upright shape Pererius Consult better with your thoughts for Morphandra hath not only promised to re-convert you to Man but also she hath given me leave and liberty to carry you aboard of me and transport you to your Countrey again And I have a tite lusty Vessel in the Road wherein you shall be accommodated with a Cabbin to your contentment and all things necessary Otter These civilities might haply deserve thanks from an other but not from me in regard you proffer to reduce me from better to worse for if Experience be the touchstone of Truth I find farr more quietude and contentation in this figure of body than I did formerly therefore with this shape I have put on also a resolution never to turn Man or Mariner again Pererius I extremely wonder at this blindness and unnatural obstinacy of yours but now that Queen Morphandra hath during this time of discours betwixt us re-indowed you with the faculty of Reson and speech I pray impart unto me the cause of your strange aversion thus to become Man again Otter Truly Sir though Man doth vaunt and cry up himself to be the Epitome and Lord Paramount among all sublunary Cretures though he vainly entitle himself the Microcosm yet I hold him to be the most miserable of all others Go to his prime faculty Reson which as he saith is the specifical difference that distinguisheth him from us I have found that it fills his brain full of distraction of extravagant opinions and whimseys of pining griefs panting doubts and pannick fears of violent fancies and imaginations which oftentimes turn to phrensies it tortures him with vexation and inquietude of spirit insomuch that som of the profoundest Philosophers as I have heard affirmed that the Rational Soul was given to Man for his Self-punishment and Martyrdom he may be said to be his own Tormentor and the greatest Tyrant to himself nay these cruciatory passions do operat somtimes with such a violence that they drive him to despair and oftentimes to murther and destroy himself before Nature hath exspird her due cours in him all which we that are guided only by sense are not subject unto We only look upon the present object before our eyes and take no other care but for shelter and food and to please our appetit only Pererius 'T is true that all these turbulences and perplexities of spirit proceed from the Rational faculty but in compensation thereof we have by this Faculty the prerogative to know our Creator to contemplat his works and the fair fabrique of the World by this we have a dominion and Empire over all other Elementary Cretures both of Air Earth and Water by the reach of this Man with his crampons and harping-irons can draw ashore the great Leviathan He can make the Dromedary and Camel to kneel down and take up his burden He can make the fierce Bull to endure his yoke He can bring down the Vulture from his nest by this he can ride upon the back of the vast Ocean and with his winged Coursers ride post from one Pole to the other as you know well by your own Profession when you were Man and Mariner Otter Yet these advantages com short in my judgment to countervail those calamities that are incident to the Rational Creture which makes him come puling crying sometimes weeping into the world as foreteling his future miseries But now that I have partly displayed the discomposures and vexations of his mind I will give a touch of those infirmities that his Body is subject unto which is no other than a Magazin of malignant humors a hull wherein is stow'd a cargazon of numberless diseases of putrid and ugly corruptions insomuch that as in his life time whiles he sleeps in the bosom of his causes within the Womb ther 's no Creture lies neerer the excrementitious parts so ther is none whose excrements are more faetid and stinking the fewmets of a Deer the lesses of a Fox the crotells of a Hare the dung of a Horse and the spraints that I use to void backward are nothing so foetid which may be the cause why after Man's death ther 's no carcase so gastly and noisom as his so that Toads and Serpents engender often in his scull nor is his cadaver good for any thing when life is gone 'T is tru Mummy may be made of it but it must be don by embalment and great expence of Spices But many things in our carcases after death serve for divers uses as particularly in mine my Liver reduced to powder is good against the Flix and Cholic my Stones or testicles against the Palsie and my Skin is of such value that the fairest Ladies will be glad to wear it c. Pererius 'T is a great truth what you speak of Human bodies but all this comes accidentally it proceeds from variety of viands esculents and beverages not from the primitive plastick vertu and ordinance of nature Moreover that which makes them so subject to putrefaction is because they abound in heat and humidity more than other bodies which oftentimes makes som parts of the Compositum rott before life and motion leaves them But let not these thoughts avert you from a return to your first Beeing whereby when this transitory life is ended you may be made capable to live in the Land of Eternity whereas all brute Animals whose Souls soar no higher than the sense are born to have a being only in this World Therefore take on a manly resolution to be redintegrated into your first Principles so return to your own Country and Kinred to go on still in your Calling which is a useful and thriving Profession in the practise whereof you may see the Wonders of the Deep and therby have oportunity more often to invoke your Creator than in any other Trade Otter I cannot deny but the common saying is that He who cannot pray must go to Church at Sea yet I have often known and I have tryed it in my self that a Mariner in a storm is a

considers onely Universalls which are eternall and invariable and breed certitudes in us because she arrives to the knowledg of things by their causes and so she may be called Scientificall and appertains to contemplation whose onely scope is to discover Tnuth singly of it self But if we consider Physic as an Art which proceeds from experience and action she is incertain and fallacious in her operations in regard of the various constitutions of human bodies for those Drugs and Receipts which do work kindly with som bodies find crosse operations in others and many times the tru symptoms of the disease is not known Moreover we administer to others what we never take our selfs which made a great aged Physician being asked how he came to live so long to answer I have liv'd so long because never any Drug entred into my guts Besides when any Pill or Potion hath a kindly operation in the Patient it is as much by hap as by any good cunning What a nomber of remedies are ther for one onely disease whence may be inferred that ther is not any one peculiar infallible remedy Insomuch that when the Physitian applies Universalls to Particulars and administers any Purgation Vomit or Electuary it is requisit that both the Physician and Patient be fortunat ther is a kind of happines required in the busines Add hereunto that the complexion of men and women are so diffring their appetite so irregular and disordinat that it makes all Physicall operations to be so incertain Now touching the species of Us Sensitive cretures they are of so even strong complexions their appetites are so regular their nutriments and food their drinks are so simple that they need not any physicall Drugs Wheras among Mankind they make ever and anon an Apothecary's shop of their bellies being still in a course of Physic which makes them so miserable for it is a tru proverb Qui vivit medicè vivit miserè Therefore a kind of Tragicall speech was that of Alexander the Great when upon expiring his last he cried out being but then in the Meridian of his age Pereo turbâ Medicorum I perish by too many Physitians Pererius It begets much wonder in me that you should thus traduce your own Calling and derogate from so learned and laudable a Profession a Faculty that hath been always accounted to have a high kind of Divinity in it being founded by Apollo himself Mule In the shape I now wear I cannot lye nor flatter I can neither cogg cageòle nor complement as I did when I was a man when I used ever and anon to kiss those hands which I wish'd in my thoughts had been cut off my heart and my toung lying now more levell and even ther 's nearer relation betwixt them Therfore what I told you before was truth simple truth wherin the Brute Animal goes beyond the Rational who is subject to innumerable errors dissimulations and the humor of lying But to enlarge my self a little further upon the former subject of Physic which you call so learned an Art you know that every one is a Fool or a Physitian to himself naturally after he hath passed the Meridian of his years therfore what great learning can ther be in this Pererius 'T is much truth I have heard of divers irrational cretures that are learned this way who by the meer instinct and conduct of nature can direct themselfs to things that can cure them Mule This cannot be denied and therin many of them are more sagacious than men The Serpent goes to Fenell when he would clear his sight or cast off his old scruffy skin to wear a new one The Stagg Buck or Doe when they are hurt have recourse to Dittany The Swallow when she finds her young ones have sore eyes makes use of Celandine or Swallow-wort The Snail heals her self with Hemlock the Wesill when she prepares to fight with the Mole useth to raise her spirits by eating Rue The Stork heals all his infirmities with Origanum The wild Boar with Ivy The Elephant fenceth himself from the poison of the Camelion with Olive leaves The Bear makes use of Mandragora against Pismires The Patridge and wild Pidgeon do use to purge their superfluities with Bay-leaves The Dogg when he feels himself indisposed in his stomack runs to the green grasse a little bedewed c. But what need I detain you with more instances take any sensitive creture you please and you will find that Nature hath taught him a remedy against all infirmities that are incident unto him not onely to the species but to every Individuall and all this without any expence of time or tresure without any study or labour without any fee or reward without any teaching or instructions from others Whence 't is apparent that Nature is more carefull and indulgent of Us than of Ratinall cretures who though they are subject to a thousand infirmities more yet not one in a thousand knowes how to cure himself but he must have recourse to the Physician and so trusts him with his life and if he chance to work a cure upon him he useth to give his purse a purgation also for Though God heals yet the Physitian carries away the Fees Pererius 'T is very fitting the labourer shold have his hite and that every one shold live by his calling but how can mony be better employed than for the recovery of Health which is the most precious of all Jewells without which we can neither serve God man or our selfs Mule It is very tru that Physitians somtimes restore health but they misse as often how can they cure an Ague which is call'd opporbrium Medicorum the shame of Physitians besides ther 's an Artonian proverb says A la Goutte le Medecin ne voit goute The Gout makes the Physitian blind Yet they have this privilege that the earth covers all their faults Now what a world of distempers and maladies is mans body subject unto Ther is a common saying that says He hath as many diseases as a horse but 't is false for man hath many more besides a horse hath few or no diseases at all but what the cruelty of man doth cause in him either when he is over-ridden and so becoms broken-winded when gall'd backd founder'd or splinter'd by the carelesnes or cruelty of the Rider as I said before wheras a good man should be mercifull to his beast But ther 's never a part of the human body but it hath I cannot tell how many peculiar deseases belonging unto it Go to the Head it hath the Cephalagia the Hemicrania or the Migrain it hath the Scotomy or Vertigo the Palsy Convulsion Epilepsy or Falling-sicknesse It hath the Phrenitis Mania or Phrenzy Catarrs Apoplexy with many other Go to the Lungs it hath the Astma Pluritis Peripneumonia Empyema Ptisis Haemocrises with sundry more Go to the Heart the fountain of life it hath the Syncope or swooning Palpitation c. Go to the Stomack it hath