Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	blood_n	left_a	lung_n	2,712	5	11.4591	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63407	A collection of several relations and treatises singular and curious of John Baptista Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne not printed among his first six voyages ... / published by Edmund Everard, Esquire ...	Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste, 1605-1689.; Everard, Edmund.	1680 (1680)	Wing T250; ESTC R35212	152,930	194

which are made of small redish brown Reeds the best of which grow in certain Mershes in the Kingdom of Pegu and Arachan But to return to the Students of Tunquin they are also oblig'd to understand the Laws and Customs of the Chineses as well as their own and the last four years being at an end the last and great Examination is made in the great place within the Enclosure of the Palace of Tunquin which is a stately Marble structure There the King is present with the Princes and great Lords of the Court the Manderins for Learning and all the Tansis and many also come on purpose from distant Provinces to the Solemnity Some Relations of Tunquin have been a little too ridiculous in this particular asserting extravagantly that sometimes there are above 30 or 40000 Students present at these Examinations but by what I could learn from my Brother or gather by that discourse which I have had with the Natives the number of Students never exceeds three thousand There are in the place nine Scaffolds set up of which the one is for the King and Princes the other for the Examiners and those that are to be Examin'd And for the better hearing what is said the Scaffolds are built like an Amphitheater But whereas there are eight days spent in this Examination the King and the Mandarins are never there but only the two first days The last day all the Names of them who have been Examin'd as well they who have answer'd well as of them that have falter'd are left in the Hands of the sixteen chief Manderins who are as it were sixteen Counsellors of State and then it is at the King's pleasure to favour whom he thinks fit of those who have not given full satisfaction to the Questions propounded to them As for those who were found very ignorant they are degraded with shame and there is no more said of them All those Names are usually written upon large Tables set up at the Gate of the King's Palace for eight days together to the end that all the People may know who are receiv'd into the Rank of Nobility and who not The eight days being pass'd they are all to appear again upon the same Scaffolds where in the view of all the World they who have had the misfortune to have falter'd in their Examinations are dismiss'd as unworthy of any Employment while they who have behav'd themselves worthy of approbation are honour'd with a Vest of Violet Satin which they presently put on and then take upon them the Name of Tansi's Then they have given them a List of the Towns and Villages where they are to receive the Rents which the King allows them wherein however they have not an equal share some being allow'd more some less according to their merit or the favour of the Prince Presently they send notice to the places assign'd them of the time at which they intend to be there and then all the Inhabitants come forth to meet them in Honour of their Dignity with all sorts of Music and a Guilded Branquar carried by eight Men. There they are permitted to stay three Months to divertize themselves and for their own recreation After that they return to Court to instruct themselves in the affairs of the Kingdom and the King's House and to perfect themselves in the knowledge of those things which is the way to obtain the Dignity of a Mandarin All Embassadours who are sent to the Princes adjoyning especially to the Chineses are chosen out of these Tansi's among whom they always make choice of the ablest and not of the richest the King allowing them sufficient to maintain their Port and defray the expences of the Embassy CHAP. X. Of their Physicians and the Diseases of the Tunquineses THe Physicians belonging to the Kingdom of Tunquin do not make it their business much to study Books spending their Youth in searching after the nature and qualities of the Roots and Simples and how to apply them according to the nature of the Distemper But more particularly they apply themselves to the beating of the Pulse and its diversity of Measure by which they chiefly pretend to understand the cause of the Disease and what Remedy to make use of for cure And therefore when they go to feel a Pulse they feel it in several parts of the Body and according to the diversity of the part and the beating they judge of the quality of the Distemper Therefore upon their first coming they feel the Patient in three places first upon their right sides and secondly upon their left By the Pulse which they feel upon the wrist of the right hand they guess of the condition of the Lungs by that which they feel upon the Vein of the Arms where generally People are let Blood they guess at the Distempers of the Stomach and the Region of the Kidneys The Pulse of the left Wrist discovers to them the condition of the Heart By that in the Veins of the left Arm where usually they let Blood they are inform'd of the estate of the Liver By the Pulses of the Temples both right and left they give a more exquisite judgment of the Kidneys They are very careful to count how many times a Pulse of a sick Person beats in the time of one Respiration and according to these several Pulses they tell you which part of the Body is particularly distemper'd whether the Heart the Liver or the Lungs or whether the Distemper proceed from any outward cause as from Cold Sadness or any other disorderly Passion They never make use of any other Remedies but of Herbs and Roots which they choose themselves there being no distinction among them of Apothecary and Physician These Herbs they mingle sometimes with a little Ginger which they boyl in Water and give the Decoction being strain'd to the Patient They have very good Receipts for the Purples Epilepsie and several other Diseases which are accounted incurable in Europe They make use of China Ink to stop a Dysentery and for the cure of Wounds When the Sea Ebbs from the shoar upon these Coasts they find upon the Sand a little small kind of Crabs which dye immediately and by the heat of the Sun which is there extraordinary become as hard as a Stone in a short time these the Tunquinese Physicians beat to Powder and give to their Patients in Dysenteries and Feavers sometimes in Aqua Vitae sometimes in plain Water They mightily admire the Herb Tea which comes from China and Japan which latter Country produces the best It is brought to them in Tin Pots close stop'd to keep out the Air. When they would use it they boyl a quantity of Water according to the proportion they intend to use and when the Water seeths throw a small quantity into it allowing as much as they can nip between their Thumb and fore Finger to a Glass This they prescribe to be drank as hot as they can endure it as