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heart_n	blood_n	body_n	vital_a	2,040	5	10.4566	5	false

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A48394	A miraculous cure of the Prusian swallow-knife being dissected out of his stomack by the physitians of Regimonto, the chief city in Prusia : together with the testimony of the King of Poland, of the truth of this wonderfull cure : likewise the certificate of the lords the states and all the physitians of Leyden / translated out of the Lattin ; whereunto is added a treatise of the possibility of this cure with a history of our owne of the consolidation of a wound in the ventricle ; as also a survay of the former translation, and censure of their positions by Dan. Lakin, P.C.	Lakin, Daniel, P.C.; Władysław IV Zygmunt, King of Poland, 1595-1648.	1642 (1642)	Wing L200; ESTC R23085	101,722	162

is if in the noble parts or parts serving yet equally dangerous or other waies or whether the griefe hath implanted it selfe in one more or in all parts serving by its owne proper quality and venime as in pestilent Fevers c. or accidentally The second needfull enquiry is of the Cause whether that hath power from the defects and want of nature in it selfe or by accident and disorder The naturall failings are either spermaticall or age parentally conferr'd or by the common Devourer Time out of which Causes are thrust forth many branches to the Iudicious most evident The accidentall are innumerable and from different meanes the disquiets by disorder are likewise many but commonly our owne The third quaere is the strength and estate of the afflicted body totally as in Fever c. from one Cause or totally from accident as in Symptomes or member simply without accidents or els compositively with or partly as in Apostumes c. or totally as in Sphacelus or corruption of the whole flesh and bone in all which we must carefully consider whether the body or member be of ability to assist a medicine of force able to root out the evill by concocting it without trouble or languishing underits violence or no or else to endure the assaults and rage of the distemper till it selfe by paroxysmes and those commen evacuations in their endings ensue shall wast it selfe and not eate up the treasury of strength or no These circumstances are so needfull that without their knowledge we cannot promise to the sicke any hope of their recovery being never so apparent but the Physitian shall be puzled with many varieties which will shift his reason into a labyrinth of idle doubts neither can he if hee bee ignorant of these advise himselfe by the Index of nature whether it be safe to attempt Ex irpare aut morbum palliare haec enim opera in verâ causae et virum consideratione constant et indicata sunt The Histories he hath numbred related of many that have lived without some principall part in some measure supporting the throne of life I cannot altogether so fit to my beleefe as to conclude them worth repetition yet of this anon What he mentions to happen by Disease carrieth some shew of possibility History In my knowledge a man suffering under lues venerea had Os frontis by the cruelty of the Disease perforated like a spunge out of which issued abundance of malignant quitture by fits ejected as the Arteries upon his breathing were fill'd with aire History After his Decease his Cranium being dissected it was manifest that the braine was notably consumed and totally infected also a Greeke woman dwelling in Scio of the age of twenty sixe yeares having for thirty moneths expectorated a rotten stinking purulent matter after her decease her Thorax being open'd her Lungs were almost wasted her Liver dryed up for assuredly from the Liver that quantity even to admiration of matter is violently pull'd into the corrupted capacities of the Lungs and se ejected by which it commeth to passe the body doth so suddenly extenuate for it may be presumed the Arteries in the want of those moyst dewes which engirt their tunicle may let loose the vitall bloud which may sweat through their Coates and he diffused into the fouldings of the Lungs which being empty of naturall humidity to quench their flame and thereby made hot by them without remedy this exhausting of Radicke moysture must follow which by the pestilence of the sicke member suddenly alter'd intomalignity the function of the breast as readily exonerates There is often made a cista out of the pannicular enclosings of the Lungs or brest fill'd with this matter or corruption which having there a place of receipt and in some measure by conversion into so vile a quality continually vexeth with a sharpe and violent cough together with ejection of that filth which cough and expectoration miserably extenuating and disturbing the body ceaseth not untill that Bagge be separated partly by rottennesse in its owne root or uniting and partly by violence of the breast in its unvoluntary motion thereby dis-uniting it and till then is ever without remedy this to many happens Yet that the heart should so be spent I cannot relish a consent to beleeve it since all other parts as it were from a necessity depend upon it but the heart hath no necessary derivation but from it selfe the Liver Lungs and Ventricle c. ordained to serve as all Creatures doewait in their duties the occasions of man But whereas he reports of some that have lived without a Liver or Spleene from their birth is most fabulous can a substance bee begotten of nothing or can a thing be without its matter no more can these bodies of ours be without Livers they being the well springs of bloud and the food of all members the Liver is the Aliment of the heart and the food of that vitall fire the dewes of the braine and the milke of the fleshy members articulations and bones but if without a Liver without a Spleene Object since that is occasion'd in nature by the Liver What may be objected that other Creatures have being without Livers Reply as some Fishes Wormes c. I answer they are gotten from their like next the aire in which man breaths requires heate and moysture as the Liver is possest of which the earth and waters hold not in an agreeable mixture Next Creatures of base birth as Flyes Maggots Spiders c. as they are rais'd from a corrupt matter so they end and have necessity of no part and indeed that Women have lived without a wombe caryeth some shape of tr●th and cannot want a reason since it onely serves for conception being the seat and is the utmost Gate of the naturall purgings some never have them by a hot and dry intemperature of the Liver by which they are consumed for out of the superfluities of the Liver they are begotten and by their naturall moysture c. many are barren and seeme to have no use of it for an eye eare or other the like member may challenge as great need to be as it but not with such danger wounded because the Matrix hath affinity with sensible parts and is made of them in the following Section he speaketh of medicinable Herbes boyld in his broth which I will adde to this Chapter Excellently was those medicamentall Herbes boyled with his alimentall broth being both sustenance and medicine by which nature not onely receives a medicinall quality to finish the evill but also a nourishment to the enfeebled body so necessary to both that without it the wound had beene more perillous in two notable respects ● Respect First what is in the shape of medicine our will doth naturally loath and although in our knowledge we conclude a necessity of the receipt yet our affect ous hurt with a kind of a●horring makes what is administred most ungratefull and lesse

of Histories yet relates none that men may dye of Anger the truth is to be suspected The passion of Anger and the rest are simp'e passions not mixt with any other as guilt is which is mingled both with feare and anger and therefore cannot properly be call'd a passion but as the suddaine ebullition of the spirits causeth a drawing unto the heart by abundant heate which naturally attracts the spirits disperst into the Arteries and Veines in the service of the body so doth it as readily drive them out againe to execute what the mind in such rage shall either conceive to be a revenge a satistaction or remedy insomuch that the parts of the body not left destitute of heate for many minutes cannot perish by an Apopler unlesse the matter was prepar'd and lurking in the braine that labour'd under such a griefs which this short deprivation of heate may occasion as our Author affirmes Next feare is of a more killing nature since it is a distresse that liveth in the body for much time as the occasion shall enforce besides as it is properly seated in the heart which man sensibly seeleth although the animall spirits in the braine by their faculty through knowledge of the cause and event presents it and makes it available so it defuseth an evill se●nper into the bloud and naturall spirits quenching their vigour also procuring a vile alteration by extinction of the conserving flame of the body which at last forsaking the bloud leaves behind it an inveterate griefe which seiseth on nature by a kind of infiring in every member even to perishing but this is after some time Further sudden terrour of al the rest is most apt to bring forth such lamentable events for this passion not onely seiseth on the heart with a strong power of feare whereby as it were crushath it to pieces but by a necessary and furious calling backe the vitall spirits sent abroad into the channells of nature to its aide it threatneth a stifling in the proper Vessells of the heart Besides in arger there is a boyling of the arteriall bloud by which their quality of heate is maintayn'd which bursting forth meets the flowing of the spirits and thrusteth them backe to their seate duties and reviveth them by piercing through them but in this assaulf there is no such elaboration but a dulling even to insensibility without any quickning whereby followes a greater freezing of them in their fountaine and place of arrivall so that they returne not if in part they doe yet it is with an irrecoverable feeblenes Further scare hath its expectation and can Iudge of the conclusion which may a little refresh but in this there is neither not through reason but the passion afflicted and ruling in its extremity the differences thus farre open'd I leave it to the courteous and Iudicious Reader Moreover whereas our Author attributes but a successive power unto the care to beget such hurts or to make stight wounds difficult or mortall I thinke hee is in an errour concerning this poynt the passions of the mind effect without any materiall but I hope he will conclude the ears to be a subtill one since it is receiv'd into our veines and arteries and according to its impurities and corruption leaveth there its tincture and condition these pestiferous seasons are witnesses with the allo wance of all grave Writers besides many chronick evills with have beene cured by the onely benefit of the aire but of this enough Position 10. ALthough this Position admits of tents to the depth of profound wounds yet I conclude that it is not so strong an Argument as to be followed or approved but rather that the tents should not passe too farre or too much beyond the membrana carnosa The workes of nature are the safest and most acceptable in which amongst her examples of memory her defence from the hurts and oppressions of contraries are not a little to be admired I will not Muster up a Legion of Histories to repeate unto the wise her common labours but as our present occasion invites will onely search the truth of this position It is assuredly confest that to lodge in the confines of nature any thing that is contrary to her being must be an offence and a disease we must also consider that what is not of her must be offensive as we see by things violently carried into her bowells which hath and doth frequently so employ the skill and care of the Chyrurgions to draw forth or free nature of we may further know that what hath beene so left especially being either in bulke and forme terrible hath beene the cause of lamentable events even to destruction Then I would know by what Rule these times use the stuffings in of great Tents or dossells of toe into the broken members of the body to extend and wound the muscles and sensible parts by unnecessary dilations Doth the Artist seeke to extract offensive things by which onely nature is freed and will hee presume to thrust them or the like into her entrailes doth nature labour the dissolving of griefes and will the Surgeons hand produce dolor did the afflicted Patient suffer the paines of the wound in the receipt by Gun shot or the like violence the torment of incisions to enlarge the Orifices of the wounds the better to convey in Instruments for the pulling forth of what is against her will or sufferance there lodg'd and after all these endurings will the Phys●tian cram in all bad evills as he drew forth in passing flannulas and Tents through and into the tender compositions of the members of our body whereby there is a writhing and punction of those parts of exquisite sence produc'd and no profit Object if they that affirme such Tents necessary should say that they cause healing from the bottom as they commonly dispute I reply Refutation a pretty Argument to make good an errour it is the providence of nature to effect the benefit of such healing since t is her labour from thence to expell in which Vertue with a sweet and unwonted heate without such Tents she doth perfectly the worke of Incarnation which imperfect heate must needs impediat Reason 1 and where there is paine such imperfect heate must consequently be what else is her common ejections of Apostumes even from the profoundest parts of her composition what else is her thrusting forth of bullets Arrow heads splinters lost in her fabricke to the hand of the Chirurgion and convaid through many secret waies in her frame and sent out to our amazement Is it not her duty in such hidden passages to enwrap those offensive materialls afflicting her in such measure with slimy compulsions in which as in a Coate Armour Reason 2 yet as if it were made of soft pillowes she cloathes them that their shape or substance being either sharpe or hard should not in her progresse with them to some convenient sinke of her emptyings or open and fit place to