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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	fire_n	soul_n	4,333	5	5.0921	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00354	Declamatio in laudem nobilissimæ artis medicinæ. = A declamacion in the prayse and co[m]me[n]dation of the most hygh and excellent science of phisyke, made by the ryght famous clerke doctour Erasmus of Rotherdam, and newly translated out of Latyn into Englyshe. Cum priuilegio regali; De laude medicinae. English	Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.	1537 (1537)	STC 10473.5; ESTC S105528	18,272	48

the phisician whiche for our helth and preseruation fyghteth dayly with so many mortal capital ennemies of our lyfe we adore worship kynges euen lyke goddes bycause it is thought that they haue power of lyfe and deth which yet although they may kyll yet surely they can none otherwyse gyue lyfe but in as moche as they bereue and take it nat away ●uen as we say that theues do saue those mens lyues whome they murder nat nor these princes can geue none other lyfe but the lyfe of the body But howe moche nerer doth the benefite of the phisician approche to the benignite and goodnes of god whiche draweth euen out of the mouthes of death with his crafte wytte cure and faythfulnes the man which was euen now destinat appoynted to the fyar of hell In other thynges to profite man we call it an humanite or a gentylnes● but to saue a mā euen in the very daungeer of body and soule is more thā a pietie or godlynes Put here vnto that what so euer is great and excellent in man as lernyng vertue the giftes of nature or what other thing so euer it be of altogether we thanke y e arte of phisike in so moche as it saueth and mayntayne that thyng without whiche we coulde nat kepe vp the residue If althynges be for man and the phisician preserueth mā vndoubtedly we may thanke the phisician for all If he lyueth nat which lyueth accombred with diseases and the phisician is he whiche restoreth preserueth the prosperous helth is it nat cōueniēt to recognise hī as the parēt of lyfe If immorta●●te be a thing greatly to be desyred wyshed for y e industrie of the phisicians doth asmoch as may be counterfayt it whiche with theyr diligence attempt to prolonge i● so farre as is possible for what shall I here recount vnto yo● t●e comen●y knowen exāples Pythagoras Ch●●●pp●s Plato Cato sensorius Antonius ●astor● besyde these innu●erab●e other of whome the moste parte by the obseruation and marking of phisike dyd prolonge theyr lyfe beyonde an hundred yeres without sycknes neyther the freshnes of wyt endulled nor abated nor the surenes and styfnes of memorie nat shaken nor yet the senses brosed or enfeabled I praye you is nat this to shewe as it were euen nowe here in this presēt lyfe a certeyne spyse represētacion or ymage of immortalitie Also Christe selue hym the onely author redeamer and conquerour of immortalitie toke a body vpon hym whiche thoughe it was mortal yet it was combered with no disease he abhorred nat the crosse but he abhorred diseases And were it nat a fayre a godly thynge for vs also in this parte to folowe to our power our prince lorde The apostles lyued in maner al a long lyfe we reade thē beten we reade them slayne but we reade nat they were sycke By what meanes so euer this thyng chaunsed vnto them surely the phisicians craft parforme the same to vs whiche their felicitie performed vnto them For I count nat thē worthy to be herde which no lesse vnlernedly than vnshamefastly ar wont to caste this in our tethes Virtus in infirmitate perficitur That is to say vertue is perfited in infirmitie dreaming that Paule was combered with greuous heedage where as he calleth the infirmitie eyther the temptation of the mynde or whiche is nygher to the truthe the bacbytyng persecution of wycked persons But the same selfe Paule amonge the apostolical gyftes reherseth also the gyft of curyng or healyng More ouer this also augmenteth the glorye of phisike nat a lytle that aswell the maiestie of the emperours lawes as the aucthoritie of poPes lawes do frely submit them selues to the iudgement of phisicians as in cases of nonage whiche they cal pubertie in cases of chyldbyrthes and poisonynges also in certayne questions touching matrimonie O a newe and straunge dignitie of phisike They go vpon lyfe and deth of a man and the sentence of the iudge hengeth vpon the foreiudgemēt of the phisiciā The charitie of the pope whan he pardoneth any thyng● he pardoneth or lycense the none otherwyse oneles the phesician alloweth and counselleth the same Also the pope in his decrees that bysshop whiche is cōplayned vpon to haue any foule or horrible disease by the iudgement of phisike iugeth hym other to be put out of his byshopryche or els to be restored agayne to his place Also saynt Augustin cōmēdeth al thinges to be done by y e aduise of the phisicians althoughe the pacient wolde nat Also the honour whiche is due to the phisician that is the rewarde of his craft and labour the same saynt Augustin writteth very wel y t it is wrōgfully taken away of hym that with olde it as of an iniuste possessour and occupeyng with an euyl conscience that which is an others and nat his ye more ouer these persones which with certeyne orisōs and prayers made to the same purpose dryue out of mens bodies wycked spirites and deuyls oftētymes take phisicians with them to haue aduise as in those diseases whiche by pryuy and secrete meanes do marre and corrupt certeyne organs instrumentes of the ●enses and spirite and do so counterfait a demoniacal spice that they can nat be discerned but of very connyng phisicians other whether they be certayn grosser deuyls as it is sayd ●heyr natures to be diuines and sundry whiche can fel● the cure of the phisician or whether th● sycknes remaineth so deaply ī the most inwarde parties of the mynde that it semeth to be clene straunge and of an other nature● than the body is In proue and witnes of which thynge whyle that I repor● vnto you of innumerable exāples one which I sawe herde my selfe I pray you to heare me paciently Panacens a phisician of an excellent and renowned fame floryshed whan I was a yonge man and was of my singular acquayntance He I present beyng witnes re●tored to helth a certayne person called Phlyari●s a spoletan borne whiche by reason of vermyn was fallē into a newe kynde of madnes in so moch y t in his sycknes he dyd speake very well Dut●he which thyng before whā he was hole it was manifestly knowen that he coulde neuer do who nat connyng nor sene in phisike wolde nat styflye haue sworne that this man was possessed with some spirite But this phisician with an easy and redy remedie dyd restore him to his ryght mynde agayne And whā he was ones restored agayne to hym selfe he neyther coulde speke nor yet vnderstande the Dutche tongue That if perchaunce some men wolde contend with me and saye that this man was in dede possessed with a deuyl surely this thyng do moste of al auance and set forth the noble science of the phisicians to which it is manifestly proued that the wycked spirites do also obey which our noble science is not onely the ministre but also the counterfettour and folower