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A07320	A most certaine and true relation of a strange monster or serpent found in the left ventricle of the heart of Iohn Pennant, Gentleman, of the age of 21. yeares. By Edward May Doctor of Philosophy and Physick, and professor elect of them, in the colledge of the academy of noble-men, called the Musæum Minervæ: physitian also extraordinary unto her most Sacred Majesty, Queene of great Brittany, &c.	May, Edward.	1639 (1639)	STC 17709; ESTC S112479	20,668	50

and hands when first I found it But you have found one like it in the heart of a Noble Lord but when you have seen this I shall know whether so grown or of this forme or otherwise Let the Vulgar and Ignorant beleeve it or not believe it Physitians and knowing men as you do will receive it And therefore briefly the certaine History and true Relation is this §. 2. THe seventh of October this yeare current 1637 the Lady Herris wife unto Sir Francis Herris Knight came unto me and desired that I would bring a Surgeon with me to dissect the body of her Nephew Iohn Pennant the night before deceased to satisfie his friends concerning the causes of his long sicknesse and of his death And that his mother to whom my selfe had once or twice given helpe some yeares before concerning the Stone might be ascertained whether her Sonne died of the Stone or no Upon which intreaty I sent for Master Iacob Heydon Surgeon dwelling against the Castle Taverne behind St. Clements Church in the Strand who with his Man-Servant came unto me And in a word we went to the house and Chamber where the dead man lay We dissected the naturall Region and found the bladder of the young man full of purulent and ulcerous matter The upper parts of it broken and all of it rotten The right kidney quite consumed the left tumified as big as any two kidnies and full of sanious matter All the inward and carnose parts eaten away nothing remaining but exteriour skins No where did we find in his body either Stone or gravell The Spleen and Liver not affected in any discernable degree only part of the Liver was growne unto the Costall membranes by reason of his writing profession Wee ascending to the Vitall Region found the Lungs reasonable good the heart more globose and dilated then long the right Ventricle of an ashe colour shrivelled and wrinkled like a leather purse without money and not any thing at all in it the Pericardium and Nervous Membrane which conteyneth that illustrious liquour of the Lungs in which the heart doth bath its selfe was quite dried also The left Ventricle of the heart being felt by the Surgions hand appeared to him to be as hard as a stone and much greater then the right which upon the first sight gave us some cause of wonder seeing as you know the right Ventricle is much greater then the left Wherefore I wished M. Heydon to make incision upon which issued out a very great quantity of blood and to speake the whole verity all the blood that was in his body left was gathered to the left Ventricle and contayned in it * Here those men may be handsomely questioned who say that the pulse is nothing else but the impulse of blood into the Arteryes or the Systole of the heart what was become of the pulse in this man all the while that the whole blood betooke it selfe into the h●art here was either a living man without pulse or pulse without the Systole of the heart For what could the arteryes receive where nothing was to be received or how could there be pulse where was no impulse into the arteryes The pulse the doubtlesse ●s from another cause and is a farre other matter then most men conceive for there are in a sound man 4450 pulsations in an houre in a sicke man sometimes in some percute fevers and diseases above 35600 and more which cannot be from so many severall expressions and receptions of blood for it is impossible the heart should make compression and the arteryes apartion so often in that space Nay in Dicrot Capizant and other inordinate pulses diverse pulses strike in lesse space then the mouth of an arterey can goe much more then in lesse times then it can open shut and open againe which 3. acts are requisite to the beginning of a second pulse But of this I have largely treated in my 3 Booke De Febribus No sooner was that Ventricle emptied but M. Heydon still complaining of the greatnesse and hardnesse of the same my selfe seeming to neglect his words because the left Ventricle is thrice as thicke of flesh as the right is in sound men for conservation of Vitall Spirits I directed him to an other disquisition but he keeping his hand still upon the heart would not leave it but said againe that it was of a strange greatnesse and hardnesse whereupon I desired him to cut the Orifice wider by which meanes we presently perceived a carnouse substance as it seemed to us wreathed together in foldes like a worme or Serpent the selfe same forme expressed in the first Iconography at which we both much wondred and I intreated him to seperate it from the heart which he did and wee carryed it from the body to the window and there layed it out in those just dimensions which are here expressed in the second figure The body was white of the very colour of the whitest skin of mans body but the skin was bright and shining as if it had beene varnished over the head all bloody and so like the head of a Serpent that the Lady Herris then shivered to see it and since hath often spoken it that she was inwardly troubled at it because the head of it was so truely like the head of a Snake The thighes and branches were of flesh colour as also all these fibraes strings nerves or whatsoever else they were After much contemplation and conjectures what strange thing that part of the heart had brought forth unto us I resolved to try the certainty and to make full exploration both for mine owne experience and satisfaction as also to give true testimony to others that should heare of it And thereupon I searched all parts of it to finde whether it were a pituitose and bloody Collection or the like Or a true organicall body and Conception J first searched the head and found it of a thicke substance bloody and glandulous about the necke somewhat broken as J conceived by a sudden or violent separation of it from the heart which yet seemed to me to come from it easily enough The body I searched likewise with a bodkin betweene the Leggs or Thighs and I found it perforate or hollow and a solid body to the very length of a silver bodkin as is here described At which the Spectators wondered And as not crediting me some of them tooke the bodkin after me made triall themselves and remained satisfied that there was a gut Veine or Artery or some such Analogicall thing that was to serve that Monster for uses naturall Amongst whom the Lady Herris and the Surgian made tryall after me with their owne hands and have given their hands that this Relation is true This Lady dwelleth at the signe of the Sugar loafe in S. Iames street in the Convent Garden §. 3. THis strange and monstrous Embryon borne in the said Ventricle which as Hippocrates saith is nourished neither

whatsoever also by force shall come neere unto it It remaineth that the heart is not neither can be subject to any disease or at least not easily Yea those other men who enumerate the diseases of the heart grant as chiefely Valescus de Tharanta and the Arabians all confesse that a Syncope hapneth or else death as soone as any disease approacheth or hurt toucheth the substance of the heart also Avicen Petrus de Ebano relate that the forementi-oned diseases kill as soone as any of them touch the substance of the heart So also Herophylus coefessed that sudden death followed if a Paralysis once surprized the heart And for Bothors or Phlegmo's or Erisipelas or the like they say that they are diseases of the heart initiativè only and not subjectivè to dwell there any time And indeed I am fully perswaded that the heart suffereth a marasmus privativè by negation of due transmission from other parts rather then that marcor should follow àd cordis substantiae ariditatem for if any part have good substance in it the heart hath and therefore Hippocrates saith that quando fontes resiccati fuerint homo moritur that the Ventricles have the last humidity in them wherefore Galen seemeth to desert his Master in saying a cordis ariditate incipere malum Viz veram senectutem interitum naturalem Whereas hee should have said the contrary that the aridity of the heart followeth the desiccation and want of due transmission of other parts Yee if J may speake my mind freely Hippocrates is not to be taken simply that the heart cannot be any wayes affected but perhaps in the sense of Galen that the heart suffereth little or no paine by reason the substance of the heart hath but little sensation having but one little nerve for feeling from the sixt Conjugation and that is somewhat obscure also Gal. 2. pla 8. Or if hee meane as indeed I am sure hee doth that diseases doe not affect the heart hee is to bee understood that ordinarily they doe not but very seldome by reason of the carnous parts Cor solidum ac densum ut ab humore non aegrotet propterea nullus morbus in corde aboritur caput autem Splen maximè sunt morbis abnoxia His speech is evidently comparative else wee see very often that which hee never saw in all his long life and experience And indeed we see now very frequently the heart affected with Imposthumes with Wormes with Abscesses with Fleamy concretion both in the Eares of the heart and Ventricles yea and now with a Serpent And yet men live divers yeares with them and many other diseases both per essentiam Consensum all kinde of distempers both equall and unequall of which the Ancients have left no memory nor mention unto us with which the Books of late Physitians are repleate Wherefore the propositions of the Ancient Physitians must have a friendly interpretation or else mens hearts now a daies are more passible and obnoxious unto diseases then in former ages which by me as yet cannot easily be admitted Wee are forced therefore to conclude that the heart per essentiam primariò subjectivè may be afflicted with a disease and cause of death and it cannot otherwise be conceived seeing such creatures are begotten in it yet doubtles exteriour diseases kill sooner then innate §. 5. BUt this then begets a greater question how this Monster or such as this should bee begotten or bred in the heart so defended as hath beene said more then all the body and in the most defended part of the heart the left Ventricle three times thicker of flesh and substance then the right as also of what matter seeing that Cell is possessed and replenished with the best purest and most illustrious liquor in the body the blood Arteriall and the vitall spirits There are who conceive that pervious passages may be found for little Wormes and the like to enter into the heart but they must give a better way then any that J have yet seene doe as also the Wormes must be very little Others say that such matters are caused by the ill habit of the heart by which if they meane the substance of the heart it is not to be receaved till the heart hath beene hurt by ill distributions and transmissions which in our case is otherwise for halfe of the heart the left Ventricle the Matrix of this Serpent was solid and still good Wherefore it is not in the ill habit of the substance Others thinke that those Wormes which create sometimes the mal della luna as the Italians terme it living in the pericardium and gnawing the heart Of which there are innumerable Stories Heben flreit lib de peste telleth us one of a Prince to whose heart a white Worme was found cleaving with a sharp and horny nose Alexius pedemont anus lib. 1. Sceret telleth us of an other and so Math Corvar lib. 2. c. 28. Consult med In Stowe's Cronnicle ad annum 1586. of Q Elizabeth a matter of this nature in an Horse is recorded as a memorable thing in these wordes The Seventeenth day of March a strange thing hapned the like whereof before hath not beene heard of in our time Master Dorington of Spaldwick in the County of Huntington Esquire one of her Majesties Gentlemen Pentioners had an horse which died suddenly and being ripped to see the cause of his death there was found in the hole of the heart of the same horse a Worme which lay on a round heape in a kall or skinn of the likenesse of a Toade which being taken out and spread abroad was in forme and fashion not easie to be described The length of which worme divided into many graines to the number of fifty spred from the body like the branches of a Tree was from the snout to the end of the longest graine seventeene inches having soure issues in the graines from which dropped forth a red water The body in bignesse round about was three inches and a halfe the colour whereof was very like a Mackerel This monstrous worme found in manner aforesaid crawling to have got away was stabbed in with a dagger and died which being dryed was shewed to many honourable personages of this Realme If this Horse-worme or Serpent be Chronicled how much more may this be memorized for Posterity Or that which you have or that which you told me was found in the heart of the Lord Boclew By reason these were found in Men that in an Horse and this found by me of greater length and more certaine forme then that which they could not tell how to describe As also those peeces of black flesh generated in the left Ventricle of which Benivenius historizeth one C. 35. de abdit is in forme of a Medler upon the Artery and Vesalius lib. 1. c. 5. de humani corporis fabricâ speaketh of a most Noble and learned Personage in the left Ventricle of whose heart two pounds