Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	great_a	life_n	see_v	3,300	5	3.3210	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15052	The tree of humane life, or, The bloud of the grape Proving the possibilitie of maintaining humane life from infancy to extreme old age without any sicknesse by the use of wine. By Tobias Whitaker Doctor in Physick of London.	Whitaker, Tobias, d. 1666.	1638 (1638)	STC 25356; ESTC S119853	23,147	94

dry The fift age is virile or manly and the constant media betweene flourishing young age and old age Yet doth it not so participate of either as that it is intemperate or infected thereby it beginneth at Thirty five and is extended-to Fourty nine The sixt and last is Old age which with the exhaustion of naturall heate becommeth cold and dry in temper but excrementitiously moist by reason of languishing heate This last age also as the first doth admit of division into these three parts The first is fresh old age beginning at Fifty and extendeth to Sixtie and all this time may doe the Republique good service and execute offices as other men The second age is a media or middle old age beginning at Sixtie and extending to Seventie and in this Classis by reason of naturall imbecillity they cannot deserve of the Common-wealth The last is decrepid age and this concludeth our life and being in this life it beginneth at Seventie and is extended ordinarily to Eightie And further according to the purity of naturall Principles These are the periods and differences exactly of mans age The first ingresse hot and moist the last egresse cold and dry the middle temperate sight and touch being sensible witnesses of this truth Holy Iob testifieth with mee that man springeth up like a flower and continueth not long in one state Thus having circled out mans life à puncto ad punctum it will appeare very probable that mans life may by art be preserved free from any disease arising out of the mixture of naturall principles from the infant age to decrepid old age except the Principles be cast impure from whence proceedeth weaker tempers and many distempers which wee call hereditary diseases And these also by art and the artificial use and application of Wine may be much altered and life beyond all expectation prolonged For the nature of Wine is so agreeable and familiar with the naturall principles of man as if by the Phisitian it be directly applyed it shall so strengthen the weakest temper as shall make it subsist against a forcible distemper conveyed in materia spermatica The best opportunity of performing or acting this duty is ab incunabulis to take the child from the mothers brest and from temper to temper to proceed otherwise the temper universally may be spoyled before or so injured by unskilfull application of medicaments as may cause to faile in the understanding Yet much time may be gained in any such case and that which is counted the shame of Phisitians and puts them so often to their wits ends viz. a Consumption hereditary or accidentall and universall of the whole body is no way to be cured better than by the right use of this plant All Phisitians in this case have hitherto flone to milke of Asses and the like But what is milke comparatively with this juyce which indeed is fit for Princes to receive and Phisitians duly to study upon that they may learnedly and rightly apply it For as Kings are the life and soule of the Republique and State so for this cause great care and judgement ought to be urged for their safety and the extension of their lives to extreame age healthfully which in many hath beene shortened by Outlandish devices and kickchawes But if the learnedest Phisitians shall throughly contemplate this subject they shall soone see where the extension of Kings lives is involved Experto crede Roberto I speake not phantastically or from any palate-pleasure For my owne sickly temper durst not within these few yeares so much as taste Wine til time and study enabled my judgement better and now I take it daily and by the concurring benediction of the Almighty and not thinne and extenuate as formerly I have beene but sound and strong as any of my yeares that hath had so many violent sicknesses I could also speake of strange effects I have wrought in others but lest I should be challenged for ostentation I will forbeare it being also a thing somewhat unjust to publish persons and their imperfections to the world which were privately committed to my care Nor is testimony in this case needfull since I have proved the probability of effecting these or such like by reason and argued the nature and mixture of this subject philosophically and upon this ground I defire rather to bee credited then upon any other And so I will returne from my digression and take up my subject againe and see if I can fit it now to all ages The Infant age is the first and most difficult as some thinke to reconcile because Galen saith vinum Infantibus sit nocivum by reason of their temper which is hot and moist And so they understand Galen to speake of the qualitie but hee was not so weake a Philosopher or Logician as not to understand that mixt bodies are maintained preserved and nourished by their Simile Nor did hee ever argue against ijs nutrimur quibus constamus which is to bee understood of mixt qualities rightly applyed that such are most apt and disposed in their owne nature to assimilate with their like as is this mixture in Wine to our materiall Principles of nature So that Galen cannot bee understood to speake of the quality but rather the quantitie exceeding just proportion with the manner of application as if by the excessive quantity you will adde so much oyle to the Lampe as shall extinguish it or at such times when it shall disturbe it by moving of some other heterogeneall with time of it selfe with the helpe or secret and insensible motion of Nature will consume But had the mixture in it selfe beene hurtfull there would appeare but little reason in Hippocrates which dyeteth children which are hereditarily subject to the stone either of the bladder or reines with white Wine rather then with milke Now hee was not ignorant of diseases hereditarie that they are conveyed to the children in the Principles of Nature and that Wine in it selfe was most agreeable to maintaine their constitutions without any alteration of it to move affectedly my selfe also have advised it and not only in the same case but also in Consumptions and many other affects with singular successe And in truth if Wine hurt any temper the discretion of the Agent is to bee questioned not well observing or knowing the true specificall differences each way By these expressions I hope those that understand beleeve also that the first is set at libertie to make use of Wine now I must present a health to the next which wee called Pubertie this temper is more hot and lesse moist then the former So that by way of contemperation of the heate and humectation of the moist the same Wine is still usefull and most proper But when and how long and how much and how fitted is only knowne to the Phisitian and hee guided by his judications Adolescency which is the media or of a middle temper neither hot nor cold may not feare