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	right_a	ventricle_n	2,941	5	13.0789	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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