Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	artery_n	blood_n	lung_n	3,010	5	11.3115	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28142	Matæotechnia medicinæ praxeōs, The vanity of the craft of physick, or, A new dispensatory wherein is dissected the errors, ignorance, impostures and supinities of the schools in their main pillars of purges, blood-letting, fontanels or issues, and diet, &c., and the particular medicines of the shops : with an humble motion for the reformation of the universities and the whole landscap [sic] of physick, and discovering the terra incognita of chymistrie : to the Parliament of England / by Noah Biggs ...	Biggs, Noah.	1651 (1651)	Wing B2888A; ESTC R20474	151,011	267

but hath not the northern pole of frigefactive and positive power for its Horizon by which meanes truly such a refrigeration becomes nocivous Why forsooth are they so cautelous that they do not nor dare not open a vein in the Hectick doth not the feaver need refrigeration Or doth it cease to be a feaver But the deficiency of blood is apparent in Hecticks wherefore in the systeme of Hecticks and in the defect of blood and strength ther 's an easie calculation and illation of the hurt made by Phlebotomy which otherwise is latitant under stronger powers In the consideration of which we shall bring a remarkeable story of Prince Ferdinand Brother to the King of Spaine who in Anno. 1641. was opened for being agitated with a tertian feaver eighty nine dayes dyed in the two and thirtieth year of his age His heart Liver and Lungs being taken away and the veins and arteries dissected such a paucity of blood was found that a conflux of scarce a spoonfull of blood issued in the cave of his Thorax for his liver appear'd altogether exanguious and the flaccid crumenation of his heart contracted an atrophy and demonstrated a penury of bloud also For two dayes before his death he had eaten more if more had been given him For he was so exhausted by bloodlettings purgations and hirudinall blood-suckings as we said that his sceletantall fabrick appear'd as a pale statu● of exanguinality yet for all this the cruel Tertian did not forget to keep its paroxysmal course and return What profited therefore so great an evacuation of the bloud Or what may be observed by a judicious perpension from that refrigeration but the illation of vanity to be clearly demonstrated from such evacuations which do not take the least punctilio from the latitude of feavers The same degrees and as bad and worse occurences of desperate evils and mischiefs we find here at home by this inveterate and deplorable practice of Bloud-letting Ah alas is this the method of healing which makes a Physitian whom the most High hath created and commanded to be honoured for the necessity of him If it know not to cure a Tertian in a young man to what purpose is that method Is this the Art that the whole needeth not but the sick Let this therefore teach Physitians to fear how they expose their febrile patients to the congresse of cold things in which they should be largely and presently experienced and by a manifest token know the vertue of their refrigeratives because they may not much confide in their Anomalies of heat and cold For seeing it is clear that the whole meridian swindge and irradiation of heat in the province of feavers is of the latitude and Empire of the very vital spirit it self it followes also That the breath of refrigeration by the Boreas of phlebotomy is a meer exhausting and impoverishing of the Common-Wealth of the vital spirits and bloud together For if the feaver be to be cured as an intemperature by phlebotomy as a refrigerating remedy contrarium heu constat and by cold alone and others intend the cure even in a quotidian which they have subscribed to be an inflamation of putrid fleam they would obtain at least that refrigeration farre more easy by exposing their patients half naked to the breath of the north wind or hanging him in water or in a deep well until he should confesse himself sufficiently cooled for so presently and largely they should absolve the cure if their conscious ignorance within did not condemn their febrilous essence of heat We cannot therefore so readily submit our belief that the commotion of our bodies in a feaver is but a reverberium of heat an impetuous agitation and only a bare tempest of heat but ther is also the interposure of an occasional vitiated matter of known hostility against the native oeconomy of the parts the protrusion of which the Archeus is labouring and busied about in which concertation their enterferes an adventitious accension the symbole of its indignation Which Theory so long as it shall be neglected in the Schools the cure of feavers will be preposterous pernicious and conjectural and so all not worth thanks to the Physitian seeing they may be cured by the spontaneous and mercifull goodnesse of nature and we wish and with submission advise hat Physitians would not tamper with them so much as they do But to make hast to the argument of curing by the subitaneous precipitancy of cold the Schools will respond It is a dangerous it●●●ry to go from one extreame to another By which salve of their ignorance they endeavour to stop the mouthes of people as if they spake some thing worth our cares and faith not being sensible of their rash inadvertency how in the intertrigation of their own hypotheses they contradict themselves when they encomiate Phlebotomy chiefly for that end and dextralize and preferre it before their laxatives that it presently and aboundantly helpeth by refrigeration and therefore in their nomenclature have presum'd to give it the appellation of an easy quick and universal help For its own impotency grounded in ignorance they distort and strain to the arbitrament of an ill understood and worse applyed axiome Because truly there is not the least question to be made but that one may presently cut the rope of a man hanged that being deprived of aire he might enjoy it more quickly Again that one may place a drowned man in a prone posture that he may cast forth the water out of his lungs One may I say drag out some certain body to the bankside and may presently free a wound from that exotick miasme and indisposition that hath possessed it and bring it to a circatrice For very many such wounds are closed in one day because the solution of continuity wants nothing but its reunition one may presently set a fractured or dislocated bone The sick may likewise be restor'd in the Epilepsie Syncope Lipothymie and Cramp much sooner the belly loos'd presently and the detention of excrements absolved and may presently stop the muliebrall fluxe For it is not to be supposed that nature rejoyceth in its own destruction and that weary of a sound and lovely state of health is willing to open the gates and let in grimfac'd repentinous Death and should refuse a Remedy of that noble entelechy which should suddenly expell and drive out the malignant disease except she loves to be thought not to do that which in possibilities is best of all nor to desire that every thing should have a being and be conserved In demonstration indeed it is accounted impossible to go on from one extreame to another without a mean and that mean wholly deny all interjacency which if we have granted in naturalities with a certain latitude we shall deserve to be adjudged hitherto to have done very well and whereof not to repent Verily we may not scrue and urge that of demonstration unto sanation We confess indeed that the