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heart_n	artery_n	blood_n	lung_n	3,010	5	11.3115	5	false

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A29837	A compleat treatise of preternatural tumours both general and particular as they appear in the human body from head to foot : to which also are added many excellent and modern historical observations concluding most chapters in the whole discourse / collected from the learned labours both of ancient and modern physicians and chirurgions, composed and digested into this new method by the care and industry of John Brown.	Browne, John, 1642-ca. 1700.	1678 (1678)	Wing B5125; ESTC R231817	164,435	436

act contrary to the rules of nature and have unnatural effects The one again being either alimentary proper for life and growth of the body the other excrementitious more proper for cleansing its sinks and channels As the Humour is so also is generally seen its Colour for as Blood is of a pure florid rosy colour so doth it give colour to the Muscles It is this that graceth the cheeks by affording them a a share of its redness and as it is made of Chyle and Blood so also doth it send forth its white and red and by how much the red exceedeth the white by so much are the Muscles more red than the Skin Choller is citrine and yellow thin and griping and as the four Humours do work man into a good humour so this burneth him into a passion it gives a lively paint of its colour in the Jaundies Flegm is white and washy and so are they that have too much of it being very cold and subject to Oedematous Tumours Dropsies and Agues Melancholy is black and masketh the whole body with an Ashy colour this is long and tedious in executing its office it being the most heavy an dsad part of the blood but at length bringeth forth the terrifying Scrophula Corroding Cancer Scirrhous Tumours Quartane Agues and the like and we daily find when it hath hatched them up to any growth it is very long if ever before it be made to part with them Besides these there are two others one a serous Humour which serveth as a vehicle to the blood ordered by nature for thinning it that it may pass to its smallest capillary vessels Part of this is sucked up by the kidneys where having made a short stay it maketh its further progress into the bladder and there remains whilst it be loaded the which being therewith filled is let out as useless and unprofitable Besides these comes Wind taking its circuits and turns and in our bodies is occasioned and bred by ill digestions crudities and wind the former making watery Tumours whilst this maketh slatuous Tumours But that we may well understand the foundation of these Humours let us examine from whence they are bred and whence they come 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Blood as it is the cheifest and of the greatest service for life so ought this to take the preheminency in our discourse It is made from the temperate part of chyle in the stomack sent through the small guts into the milky vessels in the mesentery whereby nature hath ordained it a Receptaculum commune being here planted by Divine Providence as a bag for reserve for the most part full from whence passeth this chyle along the great Artery just by it untill it reacheth the Subclavian vein from thence it marcheth into the right ventricle of the heart by the vena cava and from hence is carried into the left ventricle of the heart by the Arteria venosa from the lungs and is there elaborated and made pure blood sweet of taste and florid in colour mild and benign This sanguification is a similar action and performed by assimulation and therefore taketh this chyle aforesaid as its subject matter for this assimulation and as they dewell together so do they assimulate together and this is done by process of time never passing to the liver as the Ancients dreamed for the chyle seldom or never reacheth it This blood as the vital liquor is sent through the whole body by its veins and arteries as its proper trunks and channels And although at its first appearance it sheweth it self pure and free yet hath it alwaies these three Humours adjoined to it as three several substances as Choller Flegm and Melancholy distinguishable one from another not only in taste sapour or colour but also in their effects for as Galen observeth lib. de natur homin the melancholy humour is acid choller bitter blood sweet and flegm having little or no tast and out of those being benign and pure is bred Scirrhus Erisipelas Phlegmon Oedema It is hot and moist which are the two species of its natural and unnatural temper and as Gal. lib. de Atra bile cap. 2. it is of a very red colour in its humour and is made of the best of juices and so bred from the best of tempers made by a temperate heat and those are its natural tempers As of its unnatural its proper substance is changed as its thinner part converted into Choller as Gal. 2. de Differ where he saith the thinner part is converted into yellow choller whilst the thicker turneth into melancholy Next to this is choller called by the greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it being a humour hot bred out of the thinner and hotter part of the chyle and blood It hath but few spirits somewhat of Sulphure in it most of Salt and Earth It s parvity of spirits are evident in that it is of its own nature bitter neither hath it in it any great quantity of Sulphure for if we view its masse carefully it being neither Oleaginous or pingued neither doth it soon take fire yet it taketh Sulphure in it being principally exalted by adustion whence it bred this bitterness and although its salt excelleth in quantity yet doth it not gain preheminence It s flegmatick watery substance doth enlarge its liquid faculty its earthly parts thickeneth it and gives it the body it bears its heats and driness are sufficient signs of its being an enemy to the radical moisture and so unfit for nutriment that it is declared by all to be excrementitious This heat is the manifest cause of its bitterness made by a perpetual digestion of the blood thus milk unless oft times stirred in its boiling soon burneth and turneth bitter and as from heat and motion do colours change from white into red as Quinces being pale by boiling gain a red colour and chyle turned into blood by circulation and heat so also choller is as readily discharged of its first taste by adustion and perpetual digestion As to its uses Aristotle will grant it no waies useful Coryngius and some others do as much cry up its value offering that it serveth to warm the liver and to help digestion Helmontius calls it the balsom of the blood deduced from the liver to the mesentery but this is contrary to Anatomy for Anatomy teacheth that this humour is carried out from the liver not brought into it but onely sucked up by the Parenchyma thereof as through a strayner Others there are also as Zerbus amongst the rest that offer that if the bladder or gall be removed from the liver the substance of the liver would soon be dissolved and melted And to conclude this it s most proper use is to render the excrements fluxile The third is Flegm by the Greeks called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and this also is of two sorts natural and not natural The natural humour is cold moist crude in substance white in

In the middle Region you have natures most curious cabinet wrought with various Roomes wherein are lockt up the vital Treasury the wheels and Instruments whereby the watch of our life is alwaies kept in motion from our first hour to our last minuit Here dwels the kingly heart the great master of courage and warrior exercising its nectarean faculties by giving life and vigor by its vivifying and quickning heat and as the Sun in its Caelestial Sphere yeilds lusture and beauty by its motion and light so also is our heat light life and motion upheld propagated and preserved by the heat and motion of the heart This part is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from a word which signifies to leap it s called Cor à Currendo it being ever in motion it hath Lungs allowed it for tempering its heat and fanning its fervency here 's also a Diaphragma distinguishing or separating the instruments of nourishment from those of life being as a muscle most different from all others Its Sides and Ribs are guarded with a Pleura inward bred of spermatick fibres this serves for keeping the lungs from being intangled with the ribs besides these is a Mediastinum framed as a partition wall or thick hedg dividing this trunk in the middle this keeps the heart up from falling Thus may you see how serviceable every part is for performing its office and service to the heart as its Prince and at the first view we might well conjecture that this might be framed with safety being the only and main Engin of life But this also suffers its gloominess and takes shares with all its parts of sicknesses and diseases How oft have we seen this Prince of life which bestowed its vigorous influences to the body as the Sun doth to Plants to be ecclipsed by a cloudy slegmatick excrescensy this watch furred and run into dissolution by Dropsy Worms and insects Is there not seen Tartarous stones as well as coagulated slegm the one endeavouring to dissolve this princely pallace whilst the other stop its channels to suffocation do not wounds and Apostems suddenly happening here as speedily put out this candle of life Is not this princely palace oft parcht by Fevers surrounded with Agues stormed with Cardiacal Syncopes washt away with the inundations of strange Dropsies poysoned with malign fevers obstructed by flegm are not its flabellums burnt up by inflammation consumed by Asthmaes and Empyemaes rotted by ulcers turned into wash-pools by Dropsies is not here a lung oft times converted into purulent matter and an Asthma into a Squinsey are not our sides pricked with a pleurisy troubled with a Peripneumony These and many others take up their Quarters here and although Physick and Chirurgery have the two substantial leggs of experience and Reason to defend them yet the great knowledge hereof must come from that great Doctor who hath Heaven for his chair and the Earth for his foot-stoole Thus have I carried you through the fortunes and misfortunes of his middle Region We arrive now to his lower and 3d room his natural part and here have we most exactly represented the Liver with its interwoven distributions of the vena porta and vena cava with the vesica fellea and its several capillary vessels with its meatus cisticus its porus biliarius and ductus communis framed from the separation of the gall or bilious humor from the blood and conveying it into the intestines and here also may we see the Almighty disposing variety of Organs for diversity of uses and for its outward guard you may see it furnished with a fleshy Armour made of muscles under it the two Spermatick coats of the Peritonaeum the enwrapping and keeping warm the parts within these being laid bare may we meet with a crisped kell with its curled veins covering the bottom of the stomack and keeping it warm under this lies the strange Series of Intestines strangely wheeled about contrived with much Art and framed with variety of circles here lodged for sending forth with more expedition the excrements from the body to see such a length of intestines contracted about such a small mesentery as it appears in its natural sight may well challenge the greatest of admiration how finely checquered with white purple veins ordered for conveighing its chyle and keeping it warm by its blood already made and elaborated here is also a Pancreas tied to the guts as a pillow to prop and keep up the veines arteries and nerves as well as a juice to help forward expulsion here also is placed the spleen ordered to help forward concoction furnished with arteries for drawing away its most feculent blood to ventilate the natural heat of the spleen and to invite a vital faculty to it here also are planted the kidneys ordered for expulsion and avoiding of exerementitious wheyish matter the which being altogether unprofitable for nourishment is sent from thence by the ureters into the bladder and by the good laws of nature is here also placed the bladder ordered as a Receptacle of this urine the which for a time it retaineth and being therewith overloaded doth exonerate it self thereof Thus have I shown you through all the Rooms of Nature's lower Region where you have seen how every part is imploied whilst it enjoies its true function but these also are robbed of their excellencies taken off from their offices deprived of their faculties and laid open to the enemy by diseases troubles wounds and Tumours Stones and Dropsies thus may we see the Peritoneal spermatick sibres extended by Dropsies the Kell burnt up and parched in long and tedious distempers distorted and disaffected by instammations and Ruptures the Intestines blown up and swelled with Collicks pursed up and convolved by Iliacks torn and lacerated with Herniaes wounded and pierced with fistulaes the Liver the magazine of blood inflamed its trunks and channels obstructed by varices and melanchollick feces hindred in its actions and motions by Tumours the spleen suffer scirrhous tumours and obstructed with excrementitious blood the kidneys fretted with gravel inflamed by pain tormented with stones and ulcers closed up by obstructions and Trychiacis its pipes stopped by flegm stones or gravel the bladder suffer resolution and that which was made the receptacle of urine oft times proving the receptacle of stones and gravel perplexed with Ischuries and Dysuries pissings of blood preternatural tumours abscesses Ulcers Caruncles and the like Thus have I given you a short survey of the inward parts their beauty splendor and formes to which also are added their various sicknesses pains and diseases and may we expect in reason that the outward Coffin or Chest may fare better and be more free from diseases than these No sure where the Jewels are lodged there generally are held the security for as poor man is subject to outward storms and winds so may we as readily find him as capable to receive the impress and stamp of diseases In his face we