Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	belly_n	head_n	leg_n	2,239	5	12.2240	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43281	The paradoxal discourses of F.M. Van Helmont concerning the macrocosm and microcosm, or, The greater and lesser world and their union set down in writing by J.B. and now published.; Paradoxale discoursen ofte ongemeene meeningen van de groote en kleyne wereld en speciaal van de wederkeeringe der menschelijke zielen. English	Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius van, 1614-1699.; J. B.	1685 (1685)	Wing H1393; ESTC R9542	180,034	376

it come to perfection Must not we of necessity conclude therefore that from this little Egg the whole form of the Body is produced in the Womb Explication of the Figures FIGURE I. Represents two humane eggs of a different bigness FIGURE II. Represents an Embryo of three or at the most four days after Conception A Represents to the eye the inward part of the Membranes Chorion and Amnion being imperfectly formed and in which there is as yet no appearance of the Hepar uterinum B Represents an Embryo in which may be seen the distinction of the Head from the Body but no delineation of any other parts FIGURE III. Represents an Embryo of fourteen days A The Hepar uterinum with the Veins and Arteries which are dispersed through the substance of it Fig I Fig II Fig III Fig IV Fig V Fig VI BBBB The Membrane-Chorion dissected CCCC The Membrane-Amnion dissected in like manner D The Navel-string E An Embryo of about fourteen days in which the Face now appears more distinctly and the rest of the Members are somewhat formed and distinguished FIGURE IV. Represents to he eye a gristly Scheleton of an Embryo of three weeks FIGURE V. Represents an Embryo of one month A The whole gristly bulk of the Head shewing the gristly points of both the upper and neather Jaw-bone bb The Clavicula now all bone cc The points of the ossification of the Shoulder-blades dd The white strokes designing the ossification of the Shoulder ee The white strokes shewing the ossification of the Arm-bone FF These white points in all the Ribs except the first and last do denote the ossification already begun in them gg The Thigh-bones representing what is bone in them hh The greater and lesser bone of the Leg both clearly represented and already of a bony substance FIGURE VI. Shews an Embryo of six weeks which differs not from that of two months represented in my Osteogenia but onely in bigness and that the lesser bone as we have before hinted is to be seen here which in the other did not yet appear A Doth exhibite the inferiour Jaw-bone distinguished into six little bones 2 Q. Seeing that we read in Scripture that Eve was made out of a Bone or Rib because the Central Spirits have their residence in the Bones they being the first Product or Out-birth of the said Spirits the Query is Whether it will not follow from hence that the Bones are the first material being which we may call female from which the flesh as from a Spring or Fountain doth continually proceed and to which it must by revolution return again in order to perfection 3 Q. It is further queried what the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tzaelà doth properly signifie of which it is said Gen. 2. that the woman was made seeing that it hath several significations as of a Beam Prop or Support a Rib a Side a Fountain a Building c. And in case any one will needs have it to signifie a Rib here we must ask which Rib it was and of which side Or whether the said Rib were taken from both sides at once because the Ribs are fastened to the sides of the Vertebra of the Back-bone and most of them are likewise joyned together by Cartilages to the Sternum or Breast-bone Or forasmuch as the word also signifies a Beam or any thing that is a Support or Prop whether if we take it in this sence it can signifie any thing else but the whole Back-bone of man which bears up the whole Body in like manner as Beams support a Building Moreover whether for to reconcile all these several meanings together we ought not to enquire where the mid-point and very center of the whole Back-bone and the Ribs which are united to it is Forasmuch as this Center is that out of which Eve was made And is not this well worth our consideration for we may easily know that all the rest of the Bones in man proceed from this center of the Back-bone because it is notorious that an Embryo in the Mothers Womb doth first begin to have Arms and Legs fourteen days after conception Whether I say after a due weighing of all this we may not conclude that Eve was made out of the very Center of the whole Body of Man 4 Q. Forasmuch as with all women according to the ordinary course of Nature every month or four weeks is found a menstruous Bloud which ●easeth after that they are with Child because the Embryo in the Womb hath its nourishment in part from thence so that the humane Body is partly made and consists of the said menstruous Bloud Do not we by this means find the number four in man and the harmony which the Body of man hath with the Moon which performs its course or circuit in four weeks or twenty eight days 5 Q. Seeing that we find as is clear from Anatomy that a Child in the Mothers Womb in the first fourteen days after conception hath neither Arms Legs Hands or Feet but onely a meer trunk of the Body which hath two extreme parts viz. the Head and Belly in the midst of which is the Heart which is the Center from whence all Life comes into the Body of man even as all the Life of this sublunary World proceeds from the Coelestial Sun may not we conclude therefore that the number one is that within which God takes up his dwelling-place And do not these three together the Head the lower Belly and the Heart which rules over the other two give rise or original to the number three 6 Q. Forasmuch as we find that a Child in the Mothers Womb within the time of three weeks hath all his Bones Fingers and Toes compleat which Bones as may probably be conjectured are first formed because to them are first fastened the Muscles Sinews c. and that when this number 3 of the 3 weeks is multiplied by 13 the product is 39 weeks in which time the Child is wholly perfect for the birth may not here therefore be matter for our enquiry whether in this case there be not to be found an agreement between the greater and lesser World because we see that a Child is perfected by thirteen Revolutions even as the Sun in thirteen Moons makes a year so as thirteen Revolutions make up a perfect Child● year like as thirteen Moons make a compleat Solar year 7 Q. Seeing that in Arithmetical counting we can go no higher than 10 because then we begin again anew which is also evidenced by the 10 Fingers of Man which are the appointed Instruments for him to work out any thing and that the Child lies ten months in the Mothers Womb until it be born according to the testimony of Scripture Wisd. 7. 2. May we not also from hence in a certain manner find out the foundation of the number Ten in man SECT II. Concerning the Senses of Man 8 Q. FOrasmuch as in the Head are five outward and

when now instead thereof the air at once gusheth forth as before was said of the Water-Dropsie and with it the life which as yet dwelt in the same can it be any matter of wonder to see the Patient die immediately upon the voiding of the said air viz. in cases where the Disease is come to its height for then the whole life is contained in the said Air. And when at any time by this undue means one or other dropsical person is holpen and the waters tapt from him by degrees though indeed the life indangered thereby and in some measure weakened may not we suppose that this comes to pass because that Nature in some persons by means of their foregoing sufferings where the Idea or Image of the Disease hath not yet taken such deep root is already reduced to some quietness so as nothing else is wanting to her but that she be freed and eased of the too heavy burthen of water 22 Q. Forasmuch as Experience shews that when a Horse is over-rid or driven and by this means draws in more air than he can well digest or circulate he becomes seized with that Distemper which we call Broken-windedness for that such a Horse draws in too much breath and hath not time to circulate and work out the same in himself and by this means becomes puft up like a Balloon or Ball fill'd with air so that he can take in no more air as being quite full and over-stock'd with it yea it sometimes happens that by reason hereof the Horse falls down dead of a sudden At Heidelberg and other places they help this accident after this manner before it goes so far as to spoil the Horse The Horse is fast bound in a Stall that he cannot stir and his tail tyed up on high and then a blunt round Stick or Truncheon is thrust up his fundament about nine inches the Stick being of a convenient thickness to fill up the same This done a small Incision is made cross-wise between the tail and fundament after which they take a round Iron red-hot of the thickness of ones little finger being also sharpened at the end this they thrust through the Incision downwards through the Arse-gut till it do reach the Truncheon inwardly flaunting and this hot Iron must be well and oft turned in the said Incision And last of all a leaden Ring of the thickness of a childs finger of eight years of age is thrust up through the fundament of the Horse into the hole that is burnt with the Iron and the wound anointed with oyl until it be perfectly cured and then the Ring is taken away After all this the Horse is serviceable as before and when he runs post one may hear the air with a blast gushing through the said hole like a Whistle or Pipe for that now the air which is in the hollow of his Belly without the Guts is not so compressed inwardly as before as having now a convenient passage or out-let And doth it not most evidently appear from this example that the air which is drawn in by the Nostrils is not onely designed to cool the heart and after that to be blown forth again without any further operation or usefulness but that the said air doth incessantly pass through the whole body and perform its Revolution 23 Q. As we find that in the Air of the Great World there is a great power which we may call the strength of the Macrocosm as by example when by means of a certain Instrument we do by force draw the air out of a Glass we shall find that the Glass how heavy soever it be will stick fast to the Instrument and that the more strongly the air is drawn out the faster it cleaves as hath formerly been declared more at large in our Alphabet of Nature printed at Sultzbach Anno 1657. 49 page And do not we perceive something of like nature in Man who is the little World that when he is to put his utmost strength to any thing as when he goes to lift any thing beyond his ordinary force he is fain to keep in his breath as being that wherein his Fire-life doth consist to the end that his life and the powers of it may be so much the more increased and strengthened It is likewise matter of every ones experience that when we move much and strongly which motions are performed by means of the Air we can digest more than at other times and that because we take in more Air than usually for the powers of our life being increased and strengthened by the Air make us to stand in need of more Food for our sustenance than at other times 24 Q. May not we also perceive the effect or working which the Air hath in Man from this instance that when a man is in pain and grief he is apt to cry out and complain which yet cannot in the least help him forasmuch as by crying he doth but waste his strength Now may not we suppose this to be the cause hereof viz. that a man naturally seeks to rid himself of the pain he feels but seeing that this cannot be except the life it self in which the pain is and the strength of it be weakened Now this life is nothing else but his living Air which he hath drawn in and keeps in his Belly it being there united to his own essence and by his crying he strives as by force to thrust out this Air and his Life together with it that by this means he may be rid of the fiery pain which is in the kindled or inflamed Life And forasmuch as through these continual outcries the Fire-life is thrust forth it so happens that a man loseth his pain and strength together so that at length he hath no more force to cry or speak neither doth his Belly move up and down any more and then consequently he must have a long time to draw in again and recruit himself with air instead of that which he hath lost and so fill his Belly again which is the Treasury and Repository of the Air of Life May not this also be assigned as a reason why so many women through the unskilfulness and unexperience of their Midwives die in Travel because they suffer them to spend themselves in outcries before the right Birth-pains are upon them Do not we likewise find that when a man is very weary he is apt to yawn And may we not suppose this to be the natural cause of it for that a man when he yawns hath a desire to sleep and to that end lets out his breath that thereby he may be the more disposed for it because as by drawing in of the air we become strong active and lively so on the contrary the breathing forth of the same doth make us heavy dull and drowsie Furthermore when a man retcheth himself and yawns may not we suppose this to be the ground of it that as when a man draws in air