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
A44321	Lectures and collections made by Robert Hooke.	Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703.	1678 (1678)	Wing H2618; ESTC R23972	80,779	142

into it were uncorrupt and sound nor in any of them could we find what we very confidently presumed to be there viz. the Bullet Wherefore I resolved to seek it the way by which it must have entred and accordingly dividing the Trachea at its insertion to the Lungs I thrust in a bended Probe to the left branch and there felt him lying loose about two inches within it which with my fingers I easily expressed at the divided end of the pipe to do which I laid it bare so far as where the Bullet had lodged and I protest to my wonder I found it not any way injured or altered by hardness erosion c. though the Bullet had divers impressions from the later The sanguiferous vessels though lacerated and cut in the dissection did yield little or no Blood either fluid or coagulate Thus far is true History and matter of fact I must now beg your pardon if I presume to give my sense and apprehension of some of those Phaenomena here related The extenuation of the body the absumption of the serum in the Heart-bag and the contraction of the Heart were the effects of the Tabes and that occasioned by the Bullets injuring the Lungs and pectoral vessels The lump of coagulate blood found under the Heart-bag was extravasate from the rotted veins and arteries of the Lungs That strange substance lodged between the Pericardium and the Bullet was either a Polypus and the excrescence of some part or it was generated by nature and substituted for a cushion to defend the Heart from injury by so uneasie a neighbour That Polypuses have been found in the Heart is affirmed by Nicolas Tulpius Marcellus Malpighius G. Garnarus c. but their shape and texture differing vastly from that of ours giveth reason to believe this to be none especially considering that they all excrescing from the Heart or some carneous part are inseparably united and radicated to their original and are spungy whereas this was nothing less having no root nor so much as an adhesion any where saving at the tail the small end of which being rotted by the Lungs into which it continued did easily divide upon my endeavour to draw it out the body of it also lay loose in the aforesaid interstice and as easily slipped out as a Wen or a Struma when the containing parts are opened It s substance was not fungous but of a soft firmness like a Kidney and in what ever circumstances it may resemble a Polypus as it doth the figure of that of the Nose vide N. Tulpii ob med lib. 1. obs 26. yet it also differs from all other excrescences besides in what hath been mentioned in that it was not rooted in any fleshy bony or muculous part and such the Lungs are well known not to be it must therefore be the stupendious effect of Natures industry and laid as a cushion to defend the Heart c. It s composition being so delicately soft and yet firm enough for such a purpose Its magnitude situation c. concurring also to confirm this opinion concerning it besides which I do almost remember and believe though I cannot be positive that the pulsant pain he had so violently in his Breast toward the left side decreased gradatim from the time of the deglutition if that be true whatever the substance were or its cause its effects were very propitious manifesting nature to be not only a diligent supplier of her own defects but as industrious to produce strange and unaccountable relief in such emergencies as this before us A resembling story we have from A Pareus lib. 8. cap. 15. The abscess was without doubt from a Phlegmon of the Lungs and because for the most part it was below or beyond the Bullet it proceeded rather from its obstructing and so stagnating the Blood and recrements in that Lobe than from extravasation What occurred of the latter was expectorated or remained in such Coagulums as that found under the Heart The cause of the Bullets falling rather into the left than the right Ramus of the Trachea is obvious from the more supine and direct figure thereof corresponding with the trunk as the figure doth manifest which consideration together with the Bullets being loose in the pipe renders the unsuccessfulness of Dr. Mayow's attempt very wonderful I am inclined to believe it was so either for want of a more early trial or a more skilful tryer than him who was employed about it The way was ingeniously contrived and as the Doctor himself told me had been successfully experienced in the like occasion Certainly had not the distance of the Doctors abode and very important avocations denied his personal assistance or had any other person skilled in Anatomy c. been substituted the Bullet from his own favourable shape and more propitious gravity and particularly from the strong efflations they provoked together with the assistant posture of the body would have been extruded Had they instead of hanging him perpendicular made him incline a little to the right side to have made the left Ramus more prone and at the same time made him distend the pipes by sucking in as much breath as they could contain their other means might have been effectual which I am induced to presume from the prosperous effects of the like attempt and yet wanting many of their advantages I mean the reversion of a Stone when sticking and not able to pass through the Urinary Channels Let any Physicians seriously perpend the difficulty of this with the advantages for the former and they will justifie my opinion The erosion of the Pleura and Diaphragme was from the acidity of the matter gnawing and corrupting them for though the Trachea wonderfully escaped such impressions the Bullet discovered on its superficies divers marks of erosion which all acids produce with much facility upon the saccharous or saline parts of Lead as is to be seen by immersing it in vinegar And now Sir to relieve your patience no less than my own perhaps already wearied with the prolixity of this Narrative give me leave to conclude with suggesting that I am of a belief having perused most of the publick accounts of this kind that scarcely a rarer accident and accompanied with such stupendious circumstances hath occurred to the present age than this that an extraneous body so large so heavy so hard should slip down that difficult and unusual way of the Weason and abide so long in the organs of respiration in so aged a person admitting after it such exercises as he performed Riding Marriage c. that nature should so unaccountably provide such a pertinent sence against injuries accidentally accruing and that even the smallest Ramifications of the Trachea though immersed in such a Cadaver should be preserved from injury thereby I am sure in the voluminous Observations of Schenckius Horstius Riverius Bartholine Burnet c. nor among all the stories in Mr. Oldenburg's Transactions or the Miscellanea Curiosa of the Leipswick Doctors hath it a Parallel This and whatever is else contained in this History as my 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I submit to the better sense and reason of the Learned not presuming to be positive in any thing save in affirming my self c. JAMES YOVNG P. S. For the plainer understanding where the Bullet lodged in the Wind-pipe I have drawn and sent you an exact figure of the Trachea excarnified as it s to be be found in Gerrard Blassius Syntagma Anatomicum J. Veslingi See figure Y in the III. Table C points to the Trachea divided under the Larynx D the right Ramus of the Trachea E the left F the place where the Lungs adhered to the Pleura g g g c. the extremities of those branches of the Aspera arteria divaricated into the rotten Lobe H the Bullet in the pipe where it was found ERRATA PAge 1. line 17. foot p. 2. l. 6. ioyned p. 8. l. 21. 〈◊〉 p. 11. l. 5. is diffused p. 11. l. 17. Fostor p. 12. l. 33. within the sphere of its activity p. 12. l. 34. dele as p. 14. l. 8. ether p. 19. l. 7. common sights p. 22. l. 31. 〈◊〉 p. 23. l. 19. been produced p. 24. l. 27. add see fig. 4. p. 27. l. 5. of this orb p. 27. l. 21. ♏ p. 28. l. 27. sixth figure p. 29. l. 18. perige p. 29. l. 25. B B E. ib. l. 26 27. H H I p. 31. l. 9. for put p. 32. l. 28. stream of bu●bles p. 35. l. 29. add fig. 9. p. 38. l. 28. to get out of l. 34. of finding the p. 46. l. 31. Baldwines p. 49. l. 17. downwards shall touch p. 54. l. 26. Scolopendra p. 69 l. ult Suns phase p. 71. l. 25. for 43 put 34 p. 83. l. 8. to my wonder p. 93. l. 3. blot out first p 96. l. 14. plano c●nnexes p. 101. l. 22. for table put tube p. 101. l. 30. Seul p. 102. l. 17. magnified l. 23. the paralellogram l. 24. page 241 p. 104. l. 6. for fluid put feild This Revolution of the body of ♃ upon its Axis I first discovered in May 1664. and published in the first Transaction which was a considerable time before it was discovered by Monsieur Cassini but we are obliged to him for the perfecting the Theory as we are also for many other rare Discoveries and excellent improvements in Astronomy