Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	soul_n	understand_v	4,529	5	6.6981	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61890	The Lord Bacons relation to the sweating-sickness examined, in a reply to George Thomson, pretender to physick and chymistry together with a defence of phlebotomy in general, and also particularly in the plague, small-pox, scurvey, and pleurisie, in opposition to the same author, and the author of Medela medicinæ, Doctor Whitaker, and Doctor Sydenham : also, a relation concerning the strange symptomes happening upon the bite of an adder, and, a reply by way of preface to the calumnies of Eccebolius Glanvile / by Henry Stubbe ...	Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.	1671 (1671)	Wing S6059; ESTC R33665	245,893	362

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nurse_n can_v tell_v it_o be_v certain_a that_o the_o evacuation_n how_o critical_a soever_o do_v not_o oblige_v the_o physician_n to_o stand_v a_o idle_a spectator_n no_o more_o ought_v he_o to_o be_v in_o case_n that_o all_o symptom_n increase_v upon_o the_o critical_a motion_n and_o his_o fever_n and_o danger_n multiply_v thereupon_o 1._o 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d three_o it_o be_v requisite_a that_o the_o critical_a evacuation_n be_v per_fw-la loca_fw-la conferentia_fw-la by_o such_o way_n as_o be_v necessary_a to_o the_o disease_n but_o if_o the_o small_a pox_n during_o their_o eruption_n be_v attend_v with_o a_o dysentery_n bloody_a urine_n or_o other_o pernicious_a excretion_n that_o scrap_n of_o hypocrates_n will_v not_o excuse_v the_o physician_n negligence_n for_o it_o suppose_v that_o all_o the_o condition_n requisite_a to_o a_o good_a evacuation_n be_v find_v in_o that_o which_o the_o physician_n be_v not_o to_o intermeddle_v with_o i_o need_v say_v no_o more_o to_o intelligent_a person_n it_o be_v not_o my_o present_a work_n to_o turn_v institutionist_n whether_o doctor_n sydenham_n intend_v to_o ascribe_v sense_n appetite_n and_o judgement_n unto_o the_o blood_n i_o can_v well_o tell_v but_o either_o he_o cant_v in_o metaphor_n or_o explain_v himself_o in_o his_o general_a hypothesis_n about_o fever_n as_o if_o his_o meaning_n be_v such_o 5●_n quinimo_fw-la nec_fw-la mea_fw-la sententia_fw-la minis_fw-la liquet_fw-la febrilem_fw-la sanguinis_fw-la commotionem_fw-la saepe_fw-la ne_fw-la dicam_fw-la saepius_fw-la non_fw-la alio-collineare_a quin_fw-la ut_fw-la ipse_fw-la sese_fw-la in_o novum_fw-la quendam_fw-la statum_fw-la &_o diathesin_n immutet_fw-la hominemque_fw-la etiam_fw-la cui_fw-la sanguis_fw-la purus_fw-la &_o intaminatus_fw-la perflat_fw-la febre_fw-la corripi_fw-la posse_fw-la sicuti_fw-la in_o corporibus_fw-la sanis_fw-la evenire_fw-la frequenti_fw-la observatione_fw-la compertum_fw-la est_fw-la in_fw-la quibus_fw-la nullus_fw-la apparatus_n morbificus_fw-la vel_fw-la quoad_fw-la plethoram_fw-la vel_fw-la quoad_fw-la cacochymiam_fw-la