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
A34775	A treatise of jealousie, or, Means to preserve peace in marriage wherein is treated of I. The nature and effects of jealousie, which for the most part is the fatal cause of discontents between man and wife, II. And because jealousy is a passion, it's therefore occasionally discoursed of passions in general ... III. The reciprocal duties of man and wife ... / written in French, and faithfully translated.; Traité de la jalousie. English	Courtin, Antoine de, 1622-1685.	1684 (1684)	Wing C6606; ESTC R40897	75,205	185

Anclents with the curious and admirable Discoveries they have made in Nature There are very few but know enough of the external Structure of the Body and every one may see that Nature has bestow'd on us as on the most part of Animals Natural Senses whose Organs these I mean that are external are double in every one of the Senses It is also known to every one that within are contained these Visceras viz. The Brain the Heart the Liver the Spleen c. Now the mutual Communication of all these Parts both external and internal is so admirably framed and their respect one to another so adequated that the motion of one part causes the motion of another much like the Springs of a Watch. All which is perform'd much after this manner The Brain which is placed in the highest part of the Body is the Original of all the Nerves which are dispersed into all the Muscles of the Body and have their Extremities inserted into all the Sensible parts thereof The Heart is the Centre of Natural Heat which is the principle of Life and by consequence of all the Motions of the Body and therefore it is placed in the m●●dle That as Aristotle saith it may the more ap●ly communicate to all the Extremities and there indeed it operates by the means of the Blood and Spirits which it sends out without int●rmission to all the parts of the Body And to this effect also contributes the Juice of the Meat we Daily feed on for this Juice being prepared in the Stomach and from thence running through the Lacteal Veins so called because this Juice as yet retains the colour of Milk after it has been transmitted by these Veins into other Channels for its exacter Purification it comes at last to enter into the right Ventricule of the Heart where it rarifies and expands it self and begins to be tinged with the colour of Blood then passing through the Lungs it returns and is discharged into the left Ventricule of the Heart where it receives its last Perfection After which being thrust out with Violence into the great Arterie and into every Branch thereof it passes through all parts of the Body imparting to them Life and Nourishment from whence returning again to the Heart and being again sent out as before it makes a continual Flux and Reslux by means of its Circulation which is apparently known by the continual Pulsation of the Heart and Arteries For when the Blood is in the Heart it dilates and rarities it self whereby it extends the Heart and afterward the Arteries which is the immediate cause of this Pulse and Beating And it is this Blood that maintains that Fire or Natural Heat in the Heart even as the Oil maintains the Flame in a Lamp Now the most Vivide and Subtilest Particules of the Blood are carried into the Brain there to serve for the Execution of the Principal Functions of the Animal and to be distributed into the Nerves and Muscles for the moving of the Body in all the different Motions it is Capable of and these are they which we call the Animal Spirits which notwithstanding the Appellation are Minute Bodies These Spirits are as it it were Filtred thorough the Substance of the Brain and afterwards Reunite by their Concourse in some one part which is the Imagination and which cannot be far distant from the Origination of the Nerves by which these Spirits are dispersed afterwards into every part of the Body Now as it is this Organ that receives the Impressions or the Species that are sent thither by the External Organs or Senses it must by Consequence be in this Place and in the Brain that Sensation or the Perception which we have of things is perform'd and not at all in the External Senses themselves or any other part of the Body For although the outward Senses are as the Instruments that the Imagination makes use of for thee Reception of the Species of Sensible Objects although they are as the ports of the Soul by which the Species do enter yet the Objects are Imprinted and as it were Limned in these Organs for we find by Experience that we see by the Eyes hear with the Ears and that the Hand or Foot gives us the Sense of Pain nevertheless without all doubt we can have no Sensation no Perception or discerning ●f the Species or Impressions have not passage to the Principal Seat of the Imagination or Common Sense We have experience thereof in this that if we 〈…〉 e very attentive to any thing we perceive not the Pain of any hurt received nor do we see the things that are before our Eyes as it happens to these that are Apoplectick they perceive not at all when they are pricked no nor when they are Wounded which must proceed from hence that the Organ of the Imagination ceasing its Action it receives no Impression and consequently it produces no Sensation And what is more these that have for Example their hand Amputated do complain of great Pains in that very Hand that was cut off The Sensation which is form'd in the Imagination proceeds from hence that in the First place the Nerves which are the Instruments of Sense having their Origination in the Brain as we said before extend themselves to every part and Occupie with their Endings all the Extremities of the whole Body in such manner that the least thing that moves the Surface of the Body into which there must be the Extremity of some Nerve Planted moves at the same time that part of the Brain where that Nerve hath it's beginning in the Second place these Nerves being always full with the Spirits which are continually sent from the Brain to all the parts of the Body these Spirits which are first moved or receive the Impression of the Object Transmit that Impression as from Hand to Hand to their very Original which is the Seat of the Sense Common I say from Hand to Hand that I might thereby Intimate that this Motion is not made by a disorderly Retrogradation of the Spirits but in manner of certain waves as we see are made in standing pooles where by the throwing in of a Stone the Wave first moved is put forward by the Subsequent waves following one another to the outmost Edge thereof Only there is this difference that the Motion of the Spirits is made with almost inconceivable Swiftness being of such an Extraordinary Subtile Nature that they exceed all other Bodies in the Swiftness of their moving This is the formal reason of Sense Seeing then Sensation is perform'd in the Imagination and not in the External Organs or parts of the Body whereon the first Impression is made so likewise the Passions are not form'd in the Heart as some beleive but in the same Imagination also And although the Heart indeed does Foment and Augment them by the means of the Spi 〈…〉 its sent continually by it to the Brain ●nd