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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	good_a	soul_n	9,788	5	5.0756	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51439	Lusus serius, or, Serious passe-time a philosophicall discourse concerning the superiority of creatures under man / written by Michael Mayerus ...; Lusus serius. English	Maier, Michael, 1568?-1622.; Hall, John, 1627-1656.	1654 (1654)	Wing M286; ESTC R7027	62,551	168

may also be made use of in the cure of most of the maladies which I have mentioned and in this particular you will acknowledge your selfe not to be a little obliged to me after you have made experience Now although by sublimation with severall kinde or Salts I am changed into a poyson which most properly is called Sublimate or else by Abstraction or re-infusion of strong or separating waters upon the same Mercury I am transformed into a ruddy substance impregnant b● the dregs of those dangerous waters with a fiery poysonous quality which is commonly called Praecipitate yet must not this be attributed to any Pravity inhaerent in me but the mixture of such hurtfull Salts and the abuse of Mankinde For Mercury is of it selfe an Antidote not onely against the Plague but many other diseases which is apparent from hence that where it is most commonly found and managed the Plague is most unknowne as in Istria It is put also into plaisters for Ulcers and the lousie disease and that without any danger Nay to some it is given inwardly mixt with conserve of Roses as to children against the Worms from whence you may observe its harmlesse and Innocent Nature But I hasten unto other things what I have said relates onely to me in the state of my Fluor and Crudity But when Nature hath once advanc't me unto Semi-metalls as Bisomuthum Antimony Zinkium I am extreamly commodious unto Man and what is received from them must be acknowledged also from me as being their Crearix and Mother The excellency of Tutia lies in curing the Eyes in Cankerous Ulcers and making Laten of Copper the rest mingled either with other things or singly prepar'd produce an infinite variety of Medicinall preparations and those of as different formes and Colours which since they are so innumerable neither ought nor can be reckoned here and for this reason also impossible to put an estimate of the vast gaines that Artists make by them How Many Artificers Merchants Chymists and Physitians have huge incomes hereby is above all account and so I passe unto the second part of the progeny derived from me To wit Lead adding onely this to what I have formerly said that the use of Antimony is so great both in Physick and Chymistry that it is scarcely to be demonstrated in a great volume and therefore since others have written whole Tractates of the same subject I shall rather acquiesce in them than trouble you with repetition or hazard my eloquence upon so Noble a Theame and besides this my time is very narrow But Lead is of principall use in all Metallshops where Silver Gold Copper and other mixtures without the use of Lead could not be purified or separated For melted Lead puts on the nature of Mercury which gathers all fluxible matters unto it selfe and among the rest Silver and Gold from whence it is after separated by the Coppell and drawes away the other Metalls that are nearer a kin to it as Copper and others the Gold or silver remaining untoucht upon the shell or Coppell of burnt Lead is made Lythargury which is most fortunately us'd in Plaisters and Oyntments Nay even Lead it selfe either in powder or the substance of a Leaden morter bruiz'd small or else outwardly applyed in plates which are found to doe a great deale of good in many diseases In plates it is applyed to wrested Sinews swolne Lipps inflam'd Reines and the like in the substance bruiz'd to Cancerous Ulcers and all Fistulaes Besides this the uses of Lead are divers Hence is coverings for Houses Cisterns Conduit-Pipes and weights Among the rest what effect Leaden Bullets have in Warre is a thing so known that it needs not mentioning But you will aske whether this be for advantage or detriment sleight or strength I stick not to confesse it to be an abuse but yet such an one as men cannot well want both for defence and convenience therefore that they are able to make War destroy their Enemies is all my gift that is to say I my self changed into Lead That severall Medicines are applyed both inwardly and outwardly to severall diseases otherwise incurable as the French Pox Pthyryasis vermiculation of Ulcers inflammations of the Eyes and Reines Cankers Fistula's and innumerable others is meerly the liberality of Mercury and his children Tutie Lythargury Lead and none other Neither is it a wonder that Mercury should be both Souldier and Physitian since Apollo himselfe ownes both qualities and Pallas was ever equally addicted to Study and Warre you know what the Poets have told us that the Caduceus of Mercury was endowed with two severall Powers that it could discharge the Souls of men out of their Bodies and againe remand them send them to Hell and afterward release them which is most apparent in this I sometimes heale the diseases of Men being transform'd by Arts into good Medicines free from death I am another times poyson destruction unto him as in the Wars or otherwise But if any hurt arise from me it must be imputed to the preposterous endeavours and designes of Men which can turn the greatest Cordials into the most violent Poysons I come now to the third branch of my off-spring which is Tinne this appears in more beauty and lustre than Lead and therefore is imployed in more noble and splendid uses of this are all kinde of Vessels Dishes and Platters made which Man makes use of either in his Diet or Physick Many Nations eate and drinke out of it and they hold it in great estimation as very harmlesse extreamely bright and handsome But of all kindes the English is clearly the best as coming neerest Silver and therefore it is most priz'd it changes or infects nothing with its Sulphurous fume and contagion but faithfully preserves all that is shut up and trusted to it Therefore as Lead covers the outside of houses so Tinne adornes the insides the Kitchin Of the one are greater Vessels or Instruments made of the other the Lesser and Finer So both of them though of a weake and ductile bulke and substance serve and attend the uses of Man as much as possibly lyes in them I shall say nothing of the profitable use of Tinne in Medicine and in the colourings of Potters which is very considerable But to avoid prolixity I shall step unto the next Branch to wit Copper a substance of hotter Nature and greater strength of this there is much use in severall instruments necessary for Man especially those that require Firmenesse Capacity and withall Beauty such are all those Brasse-pots that must endure the hardship of the fire Caldrons and Kettles as bigge as Tonnes which are us'd in the boyling of many things as Cloath Beere and many others of which it is impossible to give an account The Utensills of Housholdstuffe made either of Copper or Laten are so many that we shall passe them by as being continually in the eye and generally knowne Two things I must