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	part_n	vital_a	2,186	5	10.4941	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61324	Pyrotechny asserted and illustrated to be the surest and safest means for arts triumph over natures infirmities being a full and free discovery of the medicinal mysteries studiously concealed by all artists, and onely discoverable by fire : with an appendix concerning the nature, preparation, and virtue of several specifick medicaments ... / by George Starkey ...	Starkey, George, 1627-1665.	1658 (1658)	Wing S5284; ESTC R511	99,405	200

Heart and the subtle arterial fibrae which are the conveying channels of the Spirits from one noble part to another and their effect is warming reviving refreshing cheering which they do more powerfully by how much the Liquour is more generous and spiritual For what ever is digested in the Stomach is first made chile or an acid Cremor which after is by the ferment of the Liver transmuted into a sanguine salt and so the bloud is salt which then is not altered but only refined and so sent to the Heart where it is inspired with a spirit of life which is Helmonts aura vitalis and then the Cruor Hepaticus becomes Sanguis Arterialis which is the conveier of the Vital spirits to all the Body bedewing each part with a vital breath or dew by which the Spirits spent and impaired by the several functions of the Bodie are repaired which is the last end propounded by Nature in her appetible desire of meat and drink For Nature doth not in thirst desire Beer or Wine as such but as moisture for the supply of the decaied Latex though provident Art hath married the Water to a spirit that is familiar to Nature that at once both the thirst may beslacked and the Spirits cheared But of this more fully in my Treatise intituled The Method and Mystery of Curing diseases which I intend very shortly to publish to which I remit the Reader To draw then what hath been said to our present intent and purpose we shall lay down a few Conclusions First That all Vegetall Concretes have a gummous viscous Substance which in Vegetables created for nourishment is the object on which the ferment of the Stomach acts and out of which it attracts Chile This is apparent in all Broths and Extracts of Grain or Herbs or the juice of Fruits which the aquous part being exhaled leave a Rob or Extract clammy thick and of the Consistence of Tarre although not pinguous but viscous and gummous Secondly This Gummous bodie if it be by a Ferment volatized produceth a Vinous Spirit formally distinct from what it was before and then no longer a proper object for the Ferment of the Stomack to work on and therefore then no longer nutritive as food though refreshing as Spirits Thirdly All Vegetables are not destined for food some being resinous or woody or otherwise of an unyeelding nature to the Ferment of the Stomack are rejected and may pervert the Digestion but never satisfie the Appetite others are of a malignant outside and so the Stomach abhors them Fourthly Whatever is digested is received in Oeconomiam vitalem into which if it bring any peregrine qualitie this streight becomes hostile and engenders bad Bloud and it is well if the wrong be expiated with boils scabs c. Fiftly Being rejected either by vomit if the hostilitie be more apparent or by siege if not so virulent it is conveied as an Enemie to the place of Excrements vvhere vvhen it comes to receive the ferment of the place which is stercorious and excrementitious it causeth a venemous malignant Gas and resolves and corrupts the aliment of the Bowells whence come those gripings and filthy stools which are produced Sixtly for the sake of that malignity the whole stock of Chyle that is in the stomack and the half transmuted Chyle which is in the passage from the stomack toward the Mesaraicks is rejected as unfit for nourishment and so what Broth soever is taken in isalso infected vitiated and rejected till the malignant character impressed be blotted out This is the Noble effect of the Galenists Art From whence we may gather on most unanswerable ground that that which is medicinal is not nor ought to be liable to the transmutative digesstion of the stomack for then it becomes vitall and so no more medicinal for what ever is peregrine although it be but the Vita media yet those light qualities of the Magnum oportet must submit to the jurisdiction of the several digestions or else the whole is abhorred as hostile But spirituall essences although they are materially contained in several concretes yet so as not to be found and brought to light by the only digestion of the stomack which makes a formall transmutation of what it can master into Chyle which is farre different from what by Art and the superinduction of a different ferment might have been had For farre distinct is that which the stomack produceth out of grapes from that noble spirit which Art produceth by first changing the juice of the grape into wine Yea and the product follows the disposition of the matter as is evident in the Iuice of Grapes which after Fermentation the Artist may if he please turn into Vineger and which without fermentation will onely stink and putrifie as after it may become either Vinous or Acetous according to the Artists pleasure which products do strangely differ each from other though both from one and the same material Substance But this onely as a digression In my other Treatise of the Method and Mystery of Medicine I shall fully and purposely handle this Subject Three things then I briefly condemn and reprove the Galenists vegetable Apparatus of Medicaments for as to their Mineral stock it rather deserves a Satyr than a convincing reproof which render their Method ridiculous hazardous uncertain and dangerous The first and not a trivial fault is their Crude immaturitie which no Grain fruit herb or root is without that is formeat witnesse Bread unbaked Roots unboiled or raw Fruits Coleworts or Cabbage without previous decoction by which Artichokes Turnips Parsnips c. of harsh crude and unhealthie become sound and whole some nutriment Yea even Beer it self that hath undergone a fermentation if drunk new requires its defect of Age to be supplied by decoction else both it and new Wines new Perry Cyder and Metheglin are not without sensible offence to the Body which annoiance is either to be taken away by full Decoction or by Age which is equivalent to decoction Now can anybe so stupid to imagine that Rhabarb or Zalap c. have not beside their venemous malignitie the unnatural Cruditie of a Carroot or Parsnip and therefore as the one is fit meat so the other fit medicine onely for a Hog the Stomack of man being by the Creatours appointment too noble and curious a receptacle for such crude simples vvhich had they no other fault yet this alone vvere enough to discommend them Fie upon those self-condemning Doctours vvho vvill accuse ravv Oatmeal as the cause of the Green-fickness in maids and ravv fruit especially unripe as the cause of Wormes sharp humours indigestion and Obstructions in Children and yet vvill prescribe ravv Rhabarbe Zalap Mechoacan or Sene infused vvhich is all one vvith ravv vvitness the infusion of Malt before boiling called commonly Wort for a Cure of the like griefs I speak it to their shame vvith hopes if possible to amend them The second deficiencie in