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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	blood_n	liver_n	vein_n	3,258	5	9.8983	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08062	The nature of man A learned and usefull tract written in Greek by Nemesius, surnamed the philosopher; sometime Bishop of a city in Phœnicia, and one of the most ancient Fathers of the Church. Englished, and divided into sections, with briefs of their principall contents: by Geo: Wither.; On the nature of man. English	Nemesius, Bp. of Emesa.; Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1636 (1636)	STC 18427; ESTC S113134	135,198	716

it all the dregs of the blood and is nourished thereby The bladder called the gall which receives the choller drawes unto it selfe the sharpnesse which remained in the juyce of our food The reines doe as it were straine out that thin humour which is like whey and the sharpnesse also which temaineth in that humour After all which the blood becomming pure and good is distributed for a nourishment unto all other parts of the body by such veines as are dispersed abroad into every mēber By this meanes every part of the body drawing blood unto it retaineth and converteth so much thereof as is proportionable into it own substance the rest it sendeth to the next part and so to the next that it may yeeld nourishment unto them Thus all the body is in every part nourished and hath growth and continuance by the blood which is distributed from the liver And this part is termed irrationall and said not to bee obedient unto reason because that which it performeth is not executed according to our choice or as we our selves will but naturally and according to it owne nature CAP. 24. I. Of the pulses and of their offices II. Of the excellent and usefull disposition of the sinowes the veines and arteries and of the severall fountaines of these III. Of the mutuall benefit and assistance also which these three are to each other THe motion of the Pulses is called a vitall power For having beginning from the heart and especially from the left portion thereof which is called the place of the spirits it distributes unto every part of the body an ingraffed and a vitall-heat by meanes of the arteries even as the liver distributes food by the veines If therefore the heart be inflamed above the due measure which nature doth require the intire living-creature is forthwith brought into an unnaturall heat and is in like maner cooled if the heart be cooled beyond a just proportion because the vitall-spirit is dispersed from the heart by the arteries into every part of the body For it is ordered in such maner that for the most part these three the veine the artery and the sinew bee so divided that they goe all together proceeding from the three principall parts which governe the intire living-creature From the braine which is the fountaine both of motion and of sense proceeds the sinew From the liver which yeeldeth a beginning to the blood and the nourishing-faculty comes the veine which is the vessell wherein the blood is caried And from the heart which is the root of our vitall-faculty comes the artery which is that vessell wherein the spirits are conveyed These three accompany one another and receive profit and assistance each from other For the veine administers a certaine nourishment of blood to the sinew and to the artery The artery imparts naturall heat and vitall-spirits to the veine and therefore it is not possible to finde either an artery altogether voide of a thin kinde of blood or a veine without spirits of a vapoury nature The artery is forcibly opened and contracted againe with a certain harmony and proportion having the beginning of that motion from the heart And when it is opened it sucks and draws a thin kinde of blood from the veines that are neare unto it which blood being resolved into exhalations becommeth a nourishment to the vitall-spirits when it is closed againe it empties the sowltry heat which is in it by certaine invisible pores throughout the body even as the heart sends from it selfe the sowltry heat which oppresseth it by evaporations both at the nostrills and the mouth CAP. 25. I. Of the propagating or generating faculty and how farre the same is in mans power II. The instruments of propagation and their offices III. The opinions of Aristotle Democritus and Galen concerning the seed of the Woman EVen the faculty of generatiō pertaineth also to that part of the soule which is not obedient unto reason For we yeeld seed in our dreame or sleepe whether we will or no and our desire of copulation is so naturall that the desire is moved in us even against our wills But the act it selfe is indeed and without question in our owne power and pertaineth to the minde for it is brought to passe by those instruments which are serviceable to the naturall-appetite and to abstain from our appetite or to master the same was by God naturally placed in our power and may be so continued if timely endeavour hath not beene omitted The instruments of a potentiall generation are first the veines and arteries For in these the first humor that is not fully perfected into seed is ingendred and the blood there changed even as milke in the dugs And forasmuch as they were first made of seed this humour is a nourishment unto those vessels and the veines and arteries doe concoct the blood into a moisture like unto seed that they might be nourished thereby And when they have due nourishment that serveth for generation which remaineth For it is first caried up into the head by a large circuit and from thence brought downe againe by two veines and two arteries Therefore if a man cut the veines which are about or neare the eares it makes the living-creature unfit for generation Of these veines and arteries is compacted that folded skin which riseth like a swollen veine in the Cod and where this moisture comming neare unto the nature of seed falleth into either of the Testicles There is one veine and one artery full of seed In these it is perfected and is driven forth by the folded seminall veine which is behinde the Testicles by a winde That winde proves that an artery sends it forth and that it is caried by a veine may appeare by those who are overmuch addicted unto Venerie For they that use carnall-copulation overmuch therby wasting their seed and that seminall humour which commeth near unto the nature of seed if they further provoke themselves pure blood is then strained from them Women have the same parts which men have this only is the difference men have them outwardly and they inwardly But Aristotle and Democritus were of opinion that the seed of the woman is no way usefull in the generation of children For they conceive that which proceeds from the woman to bee a sweating of the place rather then any seed of generation But Galen condemning Aristotles opinion affirmes that women have their seed also and that the mingling of both seeds together is the cause of conception and thereupon saith hee their accompanying together in that act is termed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a copulation Yet he judgeth not the seed of the woman to be so perfect as the mans but to be moister and somewhat lesse concocted and as it were a nourishment unto the seed of the man Of that seed those parts are composed which are about the utmost places of the wombe and which is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 skin wrapped about

people flie to their Governours when they are frighted The instrument which this griefe useth is the belly or mouth of the stomach For there the biting is first felt And Galen in his third book of Demonstrations writeth to this purpose When men are grieved saith hee choller flowes plentifully into the stomach which causeth a biting and that griefe and biting never ceaseth untill they have vomited out the choller They feele this biting underneath the gristle which is in the middle of the breast which gristle is like a sword and thereof is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but the heart lyeth much higher For the Stomach is placed under the midriffe and the heart above it The old writers did use also to give the name of the heart to the mouth of the stomach as namely Hippocrates Thucidides when hee talketh of the plague His words be these And when it came with some strength unto the heart meaning the stomach it made it give up and there came from it as many purgations of choller as have been named of the Physitians For that which is turned up and forced to vomit is the mouth of the stomach and not that bowel which we call the heart CAP. 21. I. Of Anger and of the names and nature of the three severall parts thereof Choller Wrath and Fury II. The true office and use of anger SUch a heating of the blood about the heart as is caused by an exhalation of choller troubling the same is termed Anger and therefore it is named also choller and wrath And sometime it is a desire of revenge for if we have beene injured or but suppose our selves injured we are then angry and that passion is usually mixed both of anger and of a desire which wee have to be revenged Anger is of three sorts or species The first is called by the greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for it is but the first heat or beginning as it were of anger and may be named in English choller or an angry displeasure The second is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so called of the greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which implies a delaying or tarrying or a thing-laid up in memory and meaneth a continuing or inverterate anger The last is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 derived of a word signifiing to lye in waite and is a revenging anger waiting opportunities of revenge Anger is appointed to waite upon reason and when any thing is done wherewithall reason may justly be displeased anger immediately taketh hold thereof as shee ought to doe if reason and anger keep their limits and naturall course CAP. 22. Of that irrationall part of the Soule which is not obedient unto reason LEt us now speake of that part of the soul which is not subject unto reason For having declared that part which is obedient unto reason wee shall in good order proceed to those faculties which are disobedient thereunto namely the faculty of nourishing of ingendring and of the pulses The faculties of nourishing and ingendring are tearmed naturall and the faculty of the pulses is called vitall CAP. 23. I. Of the nourishing power of the soul and the foure faculties thereof II. Of the severall evacuations III. Of the severall instruments of nourishment and of the particular offices of those instruments ALL the naturall faculties of the nourishing power are these foure an attractive appetite a retentive power a distributing and an expulsive or avoiding facultie for every part of the living-creature doth naturally draw unto it selfe such nourishment as is convenient for the same when it is attracted it preserveth it when the same is kept a due time it changeth the same into it selfe and then expelleth whatsoever proveth to be superfluous These are the faculties which order the nourishment of the parts of the body and by these it groweth to an augmentation both in breadth and height The wayes or passages by which all superfluities bee avoided are by the belly by urine by vomits by sweats by the mouth by the nostrils by the eares by the eyes by breathings out and by invisible pores and unknowne passages All the first evacuations are manifestly preceived as that excrement called the eare-waxe by the eares the teares and the gumme which wee call the spethyme by the eyes and that moisture also which maketh bleare-eyed the out-breathings likewise by which a sowltry heat is evaporated from the heart But by those which we call unknowne passages there breathes out insensibly a moisture over all the body wherewith many humours are evacuated from the very depth and drawing together of the arteries and they are conveyed through the skin where it is rarified The instruments of the nourishing faculty are the mouth the stomach the belly the liver all the veines the intrailes both sorts of choller and the reines The mouth prepares the food before-hand for the belly dividing it into small parts by the teeth and tongue for in chewing the tongue is very helpfull in gathering the meat together and in applying it unto the teeth and as the women which grinde corne thrust the graines unto the milstone with their hands so the tongue is as it were a hand to assist in the chewing of our meat The food being thus wrought before-hand is conveyed into the belly by the stomach which is a place not onely ordained to feele what wee want but to bee a passage-way also to convey the meat unto our bellies for the stomach riseth up when wee eat or drinke and drawing unto it that which we swallow down sendeth it into the belly When the belly hath received the same it severs that which is profitable for nourishment from that which is woody stony or unfit for nutriment That which is good is there changed into humours which are thence caried up to the liver by veines ordained for that purpose and which are as it were certaine rivulets to convey it thither These veines are in the liver in the maner of rootes drawing thither from the belly the juyce of our food even as the roots of plants draw nourishment from the earth And the belly may bee resembled unto the earth which ministreth nourishment unto the plants The veines like rootes cary the humour from the belly from the intrailes and from the great doubleskin which fastneth our bowels unto the back unto the gates and to the bunches of the liver The liver it selfe may be compared unto the stemme or body of the plant The veines which issue by divers wayes from the hollow veine springing from the flatt parts of the liver are like springs and boughts After the liver hath received the humour from the belly it both concocts it and makes it also like unto it selfe for the liver consisting of such flesh as hath a neare allyance unto blood easily converts that humour into blood This blood is cleansed by the spleen by that bladder which receives the gall and by the reines for the spleene attracts unto