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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	artery_n	spirit_n	vital_a	3,442	5	11.1088	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85649	Morbus epidemius anni 1643. Englands new disease most contagious at present in Oxford. With the Signes. Causes. Remedies. Published by His Majesties Command.	Greaves, Edward, Sir, 1608-1680.	1643 (1643)	Wing G1793; Thomason E79_22; ESTC R22040	13,397	24

MORBUS EPIDEMIUS Anni 1643. ENGLANDS New Disease most Contagious at present in Oxford With the Signes Causes Remedies Published by His Majesties Command OXFORD Printed by LEONARD LICHFIELD Printer to the Vniversity MORBVS EPIDEMIVS Anni 1643. OR The New Disease THis so frequently tearmed The New Disease although as ancient as a In Epidem Hippocrates to define it with the times is a Malignant and contagious Feaver being comprised under the Genus of a putrid continued Feaver which proceedeth from putrefaction of bloud or humours contained in the greater vessels So that the disease may be truly called Febris putrida continua maligna contagiosa that is a putrid continued Feaver both malignant and contagious which we shall endeavour to prove first Negatively by shewing that it is not the Plague as the Relations and hopes of our enemies and the Feares of others have suggested which may appeare by these Reasons First b Hip. 3. E. pid Gal. comm 1. in Lib. de Vict. rat in Morb. acat text 9. Pectis plerosque ex iis quos corripit jugulat of those that are infected with the Plague there alwaies dye more then escape but of this Disease where one dies ten at least I may safely say more recover Secondly c Inseparabile signum ë non proprium quod non soli conven it Pestis summè contagiosa est as we may instance in that of the Athenians described by the d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thucyd. de Be●lo Pelo pon Lib. 2. Historian where the Physitians could no sooner come to their Patients reliefe but they themselves were infected inque ipsos saeva Medentes erup●…t clades But in this many hundreds have visited their sick Friends without Infection Physitians Chirurgians and Apothecaries who have been daily conversant with them not any way tainted although some few have fallen sicke for which it cannot be denied but that is somewhat although not extreamly contagious Thirdly those which they call Bubones and Carbunculi are frequent concomitants of the Plague neither was it ever known but that the virulency of the Plague in some bodies though not in all betra'd it selfe by Carbuncles Although I am not ignorant but that these arise many times where the Plague is not yet I am of e Lib. 8 de Bebr. cap. 5. Horatius Augenus his mind that in the time of Contagion every Bubo unlesse proceeding à Lue Venerâ is Pestilentiall and so to be accounted But wheresoere this Disease hath spread it selfe I ne're yet saw any Carbuncle to arise yet some of late I heare have appeared but very rare and I hope ne're to be seen again Fourthly Few or none spotted in the Plague escape in this sicknesse many although are spotted very few in comparison of them that recover doe dye Notwithstanding I cannot aprove of their Opinion who to avoid one extreame runne into another and because it is not the Plague therefore conceive it not at all Pestilentiall nor to contain an Malignity or Contagion wherefore I shall shew them in the second place Positively that it is Malignant as we before defind it and Contagious For if they allow that Morbus benignus is that which as Physitians say Supra propriam naturam nullum grave Symptoma habet they must be inforced to grant that this is Morbus Malignus because it hath pejora quàm pro suae essentiae ratione Symptomata or as f L. Pro●…het text 14. Galen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And sure none upon due consideration can deny but that the Symptoms of this Disease are more violent and of farre greater danger then what ordinarily belong to putrid Feavers which dangerous Symptoms shall be set downe among these following Signes which will undoubtedly distinguish Malignant Feavers from others The first signe is Magna virium imbecillitas sine manifestâ causâ A great weaknesse without any manifest cause appearing which hath been and is still very apparant in this Disease in so much that strong men in a very short time have so much lost their vigour as they have not been able to walke or scarce to stand without the help and assistance of those about them although there hath been no sudden evacuation to disenable them either by Vomiting Purging Sweating or Bleeding neither naturally or by art Nay the Malignitysometimes hath so farre prevail'd over the vitall spirits that there hath been to the great affrightment of those about them frequens Syncope Lipothymia Fainting and Swounding as often as removed from their beds The second signe is Pulsus frequens parvus admodum debilis formicans nonnunquam intermittens A quick weak creeping Pulse and sometimes intermittent It would be too long and tedious to shew the cause of Simple or Respective differences in Pulses it will suffice to know that the preservation and distribution of the naturall heat and vitall spirits is by the Pulse the use of which in generall is conservari 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 caloris nativi or as g Lib. 1. Fen. 2. D octr 3. cap. 1. Avicen regere spiritum Now if the heart being caloris spiritus vitalis fons domicilium focus officina and together with the Arteries the Instrumentall cause shall be affected by putrid maligne Vapours empoysoning the streame and current of Spirits from this Fountain the vitall Faculty must necessarily decay and the Pulse be found weake and Languide and that with severall variations It is likewise very observable that Febris omnis quâ Febris pulsus facit magnos then on the contrary it must needs arise from the Malignity that doth parvos debiles reddere pulsus A great controversie there is whither by the Vrine also Malignant Feavers may not be discern'd My opinion with some others in briefe is they cannot because the Maligna venenata qualitas doth insensibly steale and seaze on the heart without any violent agitation or perturbation of Humours from which proceeds the alteration of Urines so that the greatest Argument of a Malignant Disease is the Vrine to appeare good when there are very bad symptoms Both h In Comm. 2. Pro●rhet ad text 2. Hipp. and Galen tell us nullum in Vrinâ esse signum quod dilirinm portendat and delirium is no where so frequent as in these Diseases Yet for the most part Vrinae tenues crudae sunt containing no sediment or if they doe Excremento potius simile est quàm sedimento Many other signes there are taken from the Symptoms or rather are indeed the Symptoms themselves which you may read at large in i Theodoro Angelutio a Belforte Eustachius Rudius Joh. Colle Octavianus Robertus Coyttarus Carolus Gallus Th. Minadous c. Authors I shall for brevities sake mention them together Dolores capitis intensi Vertigo Oculorum caligo narium stillicidia Aurium surditas tinnitus Imaginatio laesa somnus variis absurdis imaginibus interpellatus facies horrida Cardialgia Lipothymia