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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
A28877	An examination of Mr. John Colbatch his books viz. I. Novum lumen chirurgicum, II. Essay of alkalies and acids, III. An appendix to that essay, IV. A treatise of the gout, V. The doctrin of acids further asserted &c. VI. A relation of a person bitten by a viper &c. : to which is added an answer to Dr. Leigh's remarks on a treatise concerning, the heat of the blood : together with remarks on Dr. Leigh's book intituled Exercitationes quinq. ... : as also a short view of Dr. Leigh's reply to Mr. Colbatch &c. / by Richard Boulton of Brazen-nose College in Oxford.	Boulton, Richard, b. 1676 or 7.	1698 (1698)	Wing B3829; ESTC R35778	144,987	324

undergoes many considerable Changes before it is turned into Blood Pag. 6. he says the Remaining Part of this Serum is made use of for Nutrition I shall not here inform him how Nutrition is carried on neither shall I spend time in making Remarks upon it but all I shall say is that since he says it is so I think it a sufficient Answer to say it is not so and had he given Reason for what he says I would have likewise given Reasons for what I say but as it is my Word may be taken for it as well as his But here I cannot but admire how he hath demonstrated Nutrition since like an Injudicious Ignoramus he hath only given a False Simple Imperfect Account of what others have given clear and intelligible Accounts neither can I imagine how we must understand any thing that is to come after the better for this dull Praeludium since none that can pretend to the least Degree of Knowledge can be so ignorant of what he foolishly thinks he demonstrates as he himself is Having laid his Absurdities open to the View of the most short sighted thus far I could willingly decline traceing this Ignis Fatuus any further and conclude that since he hath not explained Nutrition what he hath further to say is Lame and Imperfect being tired with such dull and impertinent Stuff but least he should vainly think since Vanity so essentially belongs to him that I declined it upon any other Consideration I shall shew him that what is behind is altogether as obscure as what hath gone before Pag. 7. He is not ashamed to say That he kept Blood as it came warm out of the Veins in a continued violent Motion and instead of hindring it facilitated it's cooling This is so ridiculous an Experiment and so much below a rational Creature to make that one would never suspect any one that pretends to Sence or Reason should ever be guilty of trying such for the Circumstances of the Blood agitated in an organized Body are so different from those of Blood agitated in an artificial Vessel that there is not the least Probability of the Success of it but as it shews what a deep profound Blockhead he is and what good Anatomist he is so from hence we may gather what a fit Man he is to advance Hypotheses in Physick and search into the secrets of Nature and as one would never think one so eminently dull should have a Face to appear in Publick so one would scarce believe that one guilty of such an Absurdity should pretend to Sense or Reason He goes on That Fire which I judge to be in the Blood I suppose is quite different from Culinary Fire A pretty supposition for a Judge to make But he must consider that his Judgment will pass but a little way since he is only a Judge of his own making but with a less degree of Judgment and Supposition too one that is Ignorant of Physick would agree in the same Opinion with him but I suppose there is no such Fire as he supposes and the Reason I shall not give because I see he gives Reason for nothing that he says which makes me believe he scarce knows what Reason is Pag. 8. There is an Old Maxim nihil dat quod in se non habet which is very pertinent to the Point in hand from whence he Infers that if there were not Fire actually in the Blood before he cannot understand how a Fiery substance can be obtained from it Truly that old Maxim is no where more verified than in himself for as I see nothing of Sence come from him so I really believe he hath nothing in him and I think it very Pertinently pointed at him but before he inferrs any thing from it I must tell him that he ought not to make any Advantage of a Maxim that is Learnt in Universities where nothing is taught but fusty Philosophy as Mr. Colbatch has learnt to call it in his Preface to his Treatise of the Gout but as fusty Philosophy as Aristotle's if he did but understand how to limit that Maxim a little better he would not be so ignorant for it implies that nihil de novo creatur but Mutatio Formae non est Creatio and the Form of Matter may be changed so as to make even Water combustible which if he had read the famous Mr. Boyl or Cartesius he needed not be ignorant of or did he understand Aristotle but he owns he does not understand it and truly I am sorry one that understands so little should pretend to so much but if he will take Pains to read those Books I recommend to him or come to me I shall be willing to inform him provided he does it with a Desire to learn I say come to me because it is scarce worth any Bodies while to take the trouble upon them of teaching one so dull of Understanding so that I may more boldly bespeak such a Scholar as one too mean for Great Masters In the next Place he supposes a simple Objection and makes as simple an Answer which I think not worth my while to take notice of There are some things in the same Paragraph he says he does not understand and indeed I believe him but why is he so ignorant and is bold enough to say so yet pretends to Knowledge but if he 'll take Advice he may understand all these things with a little Pains Pag. 10. He says The confused Mixture of Blood and Serum is carryed back from the Lungs by the Venal Artery into the left Ventricle of the Heart Here he is again mistaken for I must tell him that Blood cannot be properly said to be carryed back to the left Ventricle except it was carryed from the left Ventricle to the Lungs for carrying back implies A Motion of the same Blood through the same Vein contrary to the Tendency of that Blood before but this is a Fault whith is perhaps but Metaphorically spoken and in respect of the Heart He goes on and from thence protruded by means of the Great Artery which is immediately divided into a great many Branches to all the Parts of the Body Here he hath again forgot himself for the Aorta is not distributed to all the Parts of the Body and consequently cannot carry Blood to all the Parts since the Liver is chiefly supplyed by the Vena Porta Pag. 11. He pretends to explain Nutrition of which Account nothing belongs to him except one Sentence which is That the Parts of Bones are discharged by insensible Transpiration but to sweat Bones is so ridiculous that with the whole World I cannot forbear laughing at him and I hope every Body is satisfyed that he either does not express and explain himself right or that he is not only a bold but very harsh Asserter of what his Cobler would laugh at him for But P. 12. He says he hath not Arrogance enough to pretend to c. tho' he had Impudence

than the whole Book for it was not only a neat Composition of Capitals but Learnedly writ in Latin and which signified something tho' very insignificant I mean HIMSELF whereas his whole Book was but a Composition of a greater Number of Letters which signifie nothing at all but incoherent Blunders But he was not only Cheat enough to sett a false Light in the beginning of his Book to mislead People in their Expectations and to second that with his Name in Latin but also had the Pride and Vanity to fix the Name of so GREAT and ILLUSTRIOUS a MONARCH as our present KING before it either because he thought it a Noble Present or that the GREATEST of Princes and the Patron of all Europe would be pleased to take notice of such erroneous and grand Mistakes which Dedication was sufficient to shew that he had very ill Designs or very foolish and vain Thoughts But to come to the Treasure and to lay open this Fountain of Light we may take Notice that Pag. 2d He acknowledges his Account of his Discovery maimed and imperfect without premising an Account of Nutrition So that if his Account of Nutrition be false by his own Mouth his own Discovery is confest Maimed and Imperfect that he may first then be judged by the Words of his own Mouth I shall now shew him that that is not only False but Ridiculous For Pag. the 3d. he says The solid Food we eat being well chewed in the Mouth is the remixed with a Juice contained in the Glands dispersed all over the Mouth Before I go any further I shall here observe that he neither understands what he says or that Nonsence is so homogenous to him that his dull Sence can taste nothing else for how can we suppose that the Saliva in the Glands can possibly be mixed with Meat in the Mouth he might as well say that Water in a Cestern being mixed with Meat in his Stomach would dilute it for before that Saliva can be mixed with Meat in the Mouth it must be forced out of those Glands into the Mouth for as long as it is in them it is kept from mixing with the Meat by the Mediation of those Parts that lie betwixt the Glands and the Mouth but this is only a Lapsus Liguae and an Absurdity in Speech I grant it but then is not he the greater Blockhead that understands a thing no better than to speak one thing when he should say another Had the Notion been his own he might indeed have misexpressed it by being too intent and thoughtful not that the difficulty or abstruseness of the thing would have inclined him to such a Fault but his Dullness of Apprehension it being easy for any one to think that the Saliva must be in the Mouth or could not be mixed there without much Intentness but since it was not his own and he had only borrowed it from others he might have easily expressed it as those had done before him without turning Sence into Nonsense in Order to a well Performance as he calls it Pag. 2d Pag. 4th The Meat being well chewed and afterwards conveyed to the Stomach and there diluted with a proper Vehicle the more Generous the better is by means of the aforesaid Spirituous Saline Liquor divided into such minute Particles which constitute that viscid Liquor we call Chile That a hard Crust of Bread is usually well chewed before it is swallowed and then goes into the Stomach is no Discovery but what a Plowman or a Ballad-singer might have made and as for his more Generous the better it 's what all hot Heads usually argue for they had rather have the more Generous tho' any one that understands Reason will say Moderation is better and yet further Physitians will tell him that too high a Digestion raised by the more Generous is dangerous and is the cause of some very Violent Distempers And then here he hath committed just such another Absurdity as he did before for instead of saying Chyle is made or compounded of solid Meat dissolved and a proper Vehicle he says it is made of solid Meat dissolved which is diluted by a saline Humour and a Vehicle and that those Particles so dissolved constitute Chyle so that Chyle consists according to him of solid Particles and that Chyle is only diluted by a Vehicle but this is a Fault against his Will he meant it as it should be I warrant but still that shews what simple clowdy Notions he hath of things that he cannot tell a story after another Man without misrepresenting it and is he vain silly Creature a Reformer of Physick is this his Novum Lumen in one Sence indeed it may be said to be a Novum Lumen it being the first of this kind of Sence obscured by Nonsence and he may call it Light made New by being made Obscure and Ridiculous But he goes on and says Which Chyle is discharged out of the Stomach so fast as it is made by means of the Liver But here he is to learn that that which he calls Chyle is properly called Chymus and that becomes Chyle by being further digested by a Mixture and mutual Fermentation of the Pancreatick Juice and Choler with it in the Guts he is also to be taught that the Chymus is not forced into the Guts by the Liver but by the muscular Coats of the Stomach and partly disposed to that Protrusion by it's own Weight for the Liver is so far from pressing upon it since it is suspended to those Parts to which it's Ligaments are fixed that the Stomach rather presses upon the Liver when it is distended by taking up more Room in the Abdomen Pag. the 5th he says it is Carried by a large Vessel from the Receptacle of Chyle to the subclavian Vein here again Poor Man our Author Mr. Colbatch hath gravely in the midst of his dull Dogmatical Positions forgot himself for the Chyle is not carryed thence by one but by two Vessels which communicate with one another in their Ascension so that all he hath hitherto said is made a Novum Lumen or new kind of Light by his unlucky Lapsus Linguae or rather Errores Calami but here for once his Memory hath fail'd him He says further that it is driven by the systole of the Heart through the Arterial Vein into the Lungs where by the Contraction and Dilation of the Lungs it is there mixed with the Blood and that part which is fit for that Purpose is made Blood He did well to say that Part which is fit for that Purpose but I am perswaded none is fit for that Purpose as soon as mixed with the Blood Neither is mixing with the Blood enough to turn fresh Chyle into Blood if it were we should never be so long recovering lost strengh after great Evacuations but here our Novum Lumen hath found out too quick a way to make Blood for Chyle requires a long Digestion and Fermentation and