Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	animal_n	spirit_n	vital_a	2,664	5	11.2180	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38822	Panacea, or, The universal medicine being a discovery of the wonderfull vertues of tobacco taken in a pipe : with its operation and use both in physick and chyrurgery / by Dr Everard, &c.	Everard, Giles.	1659 (1659)	Wing E3530; ESTC R1871	56,313	160

whatsoever of the solid substance is wasted is repaired again so by Ayre and smoke is regain'd what is spent of aeriall and moist substance If therefore Ayre and smoake only which is nothing else than a thin substance and aeriall quality do nourish as Galen teacheth elegantly l. 1. de Sanitat tuend. c. 2. much more will an Odoriferous quality perform this when it is mixed with a quality that is friendly to nature Also Mathi●lus after Theophrastus reports that the Scythians will be content with Licoris only for ten or twenty daies and desire no other Meat or drink Object 1. Truly for the Negative part very ma●y Arguments may be brought as that of Aristotle 2. de Anima c. 3. Where he saith that touching is the sense of Nutriment as if he had said that al●ment as it is t●sted is the Object of touching for tasting is a kinde of touching wherefore smoke being not to be touched cannot nourish Object 2. Again Nothing can give nourishment to a body unless it first concocted in the Stomach Liver and Spleen as Galen saith 1. de temper c. 1. Object 3. The same is the matter of Nutrition and Generation of the same Galen 1. de sem c. 16. wherefore Man being not Born of Smoke cannot be fed by smoke Many more Arguments may be urged Answ. We answer that smoke may be understood two waies First Formally and then it is an insensible quality different from the first qualities yet resulting from the actions of them Secondly Materially that is for the substance it is inherent in and that is Tobacco here Now this is hot and dry to be considered of for its heat and thin substance I say then that an Aromaticall sweet smell doth refresh the forces and strengtheneth the brain heart and stomach for it is a most welcome quality to these parts and therefore it preserves their temperament and substance and the vitall and animall sprits are renewed and made most fit for natures operations by a smoke joyned with a sweet sent and sucked in with that Aromaticall Vapour Apposition and Fasting together must go before Nutrition and this fume seems to be to thin and simpler than that we can imagine it can glew and fasten anywhere therefore it cannot be said to be the matter of nourishment Secondly Water cannot nourish at all 4. de usu part and 3. acut Com. 17. Therefore smoke that is more thin and unmixed cannot nourish and Galen saith 10 Me●h 2.9 That the Liver receives no profit by the Ayre that is drawn in and of things we Eat and Drink the Liver hath less profit than the stomach yet it receiveth some benefit as it is manifest and that reason is confirmed by Galen's Doctrine 3. de usu part c. 1. and often elsewhere when he faith That the common and greatest and first way of nourishment is by the Mouth and from thence the food is carried to the Stomach as to the common Store-house for all the parts and set in the middle of the living Creature where being once concocted it penetrateth to the liver to be turned into Blood whereby all the parts are fed but this smoke is not suckt in by the liver to be concocted into Blood theref●re it cannot nourish But Hippocrates may be produced for the other part lib. de Aliment where he saith that an Aery smoke drawn in by the throat may nourish his Words are The beginning of nourishment are the Ayre Nostrils Mouth Throat Lungs and Breathing c. To un●y this knot observe first That a man bei●g in continuall motion and consisting of a double matter namely Earthy and Watry which forms the solid and fleshy parts and of an Aery and fiery which forms the Spirits another principle of life Hence it is that he wants a double matter to repaire the decayed and dissipated substance of them both Namely Meat and Drink to restore Earthy and Watry part consumed but Fire and Water to make up the spirituall part as Galen doth plainly teach 1. de s●nit c. 2. The second Note is That though Hippocrates doth say lib. de Aliment now cited That the Spirits are no●rished yet they are not truly nourished since they are not the true and living parts of the body nor have they any naturall faculty to nourish them whereby they may change Aeriall matter like themselves into their own substance but they are perpetually bred fresh by the most powerfull force of the heart and strong heat tempering the thin vapours of blood with the Ayre that is drawn to it But Hippocrates saith they are fed because the life is perceived to be very much recreated and refreshed when the proper instrument is refreshed and again when the Spir●ts are decayed the life deprived of its proper instrument decaies also Wherefore the Spirit is bred not of its own faculty but from that which is inserted into all the principall parts and they are bred the same way almost as the Chylus is made in the stomach and blood in the Liver yet not so as if the Spirits as well as they were the matter of nutriment for they are so thin and subtill that they can stick and joyn to no part These things being first laid down it will be easie to answer the contrary Arguments To the first I answer That the Ayre 's not joyning needs not trouble us nor the unfitness of it to nourish For we do not think that the Ayre doth nourish the solid and fleshy parts really but being so mingled as I said and concocted by the strong heat of the heart I maintan it doth goe into the substance of the Spirits To the second the answer is easie For though the water alone be unfit for nourishment yet mingled with other things that nourish we find it gains a nourishing condition I answer to the Confirmation That it is true that Meats and Drinks can indeed be converted into nourishment no where but in the stomach and liver but I deny that the Ayre wants those Transmutations But to return whence I digressed Thomas Hariot in his description of Virginy reports that Tobacco is so much esteemed amongst the barbarous people that they are perswaded 〈◊〉 gods take delight 〈…〉 also wherefore they kindle sacred fires and instead of Sacrafice they cast this in in powder and when they sail they will cast the powder of it into the Ayre and Water They observe the same custome saith the same Authour making strange mimicall apish gestures sometimes stamping the earth with their feet sometimes leaping sometimes rejoycing clapping their hands and lifting them up on high sometimes looking towards Heaven and speaking incongruous words if at any time they escape any great danger I cannot let that pass that you shall hardly meet any one of these Barbarians who hath not hanging about his neck a small bundle of Tobacco with pipes made of Palme tree Leaves and who also taking with his