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heart_n	blood_n	vein_n	ventricle_n	3,190	5	13.0346	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86278	A new method of Rosie Crucian physick: wherein is shewed the cause; and therewith their experienced medicines for the cure of all diseases, theoparadota; freely given to the inspired Christians, by Ton aggelon presbytaton, ton archaggelon, logon, archon, onoma theo. And in obedience fitted for the understanding of mean capacities by the adorer, and the most unworthy of their love, John Heydon, a servant of God, and secretary of nature.	Heydon, John, b. 1629.	1658 (1658)	Wing H1672; Thomason E946_3; ESTC R207604	50,839	70

exquisite skill in the Maker that if I should pursue all that sutes to my purpose it would amount to too large yet an entire Volume I shall therefore write all that is needful to be known by all men leaving the rest to be supply'd by Anatomists And I think there is no man that hath any skill in that Art but will confess the more diligently and accurately the frame of our body is examined it is found the more exquisitely conformable to our Reason Judgement and Desire so that supposing the same matter that our bodies are made of if it had been in our own power to have made our selves we should have fram'd our selves no otherwise then we are To instance in some particulars As in our Eyes the Number the Scituation the Fabrick of them is such that we can excogitate nothing to be added thereto or to be altered either for their beauty safety or usefulness but as for their beauty I have treated largely of it in my youthful merry Poems now am not minded to transcribe my tender nice subject and couple it with my severer stile I will onely note how safely they are guarded and fitly framed out for the use they are intended The Brow and the Nose saves them from harder strokes but such a curious part as the Eye being necessarily liable to mischief from smallest matters the sweat of the Forehead is fenced off by those two Wreaths of Hair which we call the Eye-brows and the Eye-lids are fortified with little stiff bristles as with Pallisadoes against the assault of Flyes and Gnats and such-like bold Animalcula besides the upper-lid presently claps down and is as good a Fence as a Port-Cullis against the importunity of the Enemy which is done also every night whether there be any present assault or no as if nature kept Garrison in this Acropolis of mans body the Head and look'd that such Laws should be duly observed as were most for his safety And now for the use of the Eye which is sight it is evident that this Organ is so exquisitely framed for that purpose that not the least curiosity can be added For first the Humor and Tunicles are purely transparent to let in light and colours unfould and unsophisticated by any inward tincture And then again the parts of the Eye are made convex that there might be a direction of many raies coming from one point of the object unto one point answerable in the bottom of the eye to which purpose the Chrystalline humor is of great moment and without which the sight would be very obscure and weak Thirdly The Tunica uvea hath a Musculous Power and can dilate and contract that round hole in it which is called the Pupil of the Eye for the better moderating the transmission of light Fourthly The inside of the uvea is blacked like the Wall of a Tennis-Court the raies falling upon the Retina again for such a repercussion would make the sight more confused Fifthly The Tanica Arachnoides which invellops the Chrystalline Humour by vertue of its Processus Ciliaros can thrust forward or draw back that precious useful part of the Eye as the nearness or distance of the objects shall require Sixthly and lastly The Tunica Retina is white for the better and more true reception of the species of things as they ordinarily call them as white paper is fittest to receive those Images into a dark room and the eye is already so perfect that I believe it is not needful to speak any more thereof we being able to move our head upwards and downwards and on every side might have unawares thought our selves sufficiently well provided for but Nature hath added Muscles also to the Eyes that no perfection might be wanting for we have oft occasion to move our Eyes our Heads being unmoved as in reading and viewing more particularly any object set before us and that this may be done with more ease and accuracy she hath furnished that Organ with no lesse then six several Muscles and indeed this framing of Muscles not onely in the Eye but in the whole body is admirable for is it not a wonder that even all our flesh should be so handsomly formed and contrived into distinct pieces whose rise and insertions should be with such advantage that they do serve to move some part of the body or other and that the parts of our body are not moved onely so conveniently as wil serve us to walk and subsist by but that they are able to move every way imaginable that will advantage us for we can fling out Legs and Arms upwards and downwards backwards forwards and round as they that spin or would spread a Mole-hill with their feet To say nothing of Respiration the constriction of the Diaphragme for the keeping down the Guts and so enlarging the Thorax that the Lungs may have play and the assistance of the inward intercostal Muscles in deep suspirations when we take more large gulps of air to cool our heart over-charged with love or sorrow nor of the curious Fabrick of the Lainix so well fitted with Muscles for the modulation of the Voice tunable speech and delicious singing You may adde to these the notable contrivance of the Heart it s two ventricles and its many valvulae so fram'd and scituated as is most fit for the reception and transmission of the blood and it 's sent thence away warm to comfort and cherish the rest of the body for which purpose also the valvulae in the veins are made But we see by experience that joy and grief proceed not in all men from the same causes and that men differ very much in the constitution of the body whereby that which helpeth and furthereth vital constitution in one and is therefore delightful hindereth crosseth it in another and therefore causeth grief The difference therefore of Wits hath its original from the different passions from the ends to which the appetite leadeth them As for that difference which ariseth from sickness and such accidental distempers I have appointed them for the second Part of this Book and therefore I omit the same as impertinent to this place and consider it onely in such as have their health perfection of body and Organs well disposed CHAP. II. Of the perfection of the Body and then of the Nature of the Senses of Delight Pain Love Hatred sensual Delight and Pains of the Body Joy and Grief OTher things I have to say but I will rather insist upon such things as are easie ahd intelligible even to Idiots or such Physicians that are no wiser who if they can but tell the Joints of their hands or know the use of their teeth they may easily discover it was Counsel not Chance that created them and if they but understand these natural Medecines I have prepared in this Book for their example they will know that they shall be cured of all Diseases without pain or any great cost and Love not