Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	heat_n	spirit_n	vital_a	2,349	5	10.6043	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67222	Lues venera wherein the names, nature, subject, causes, signes, and cure, are handled, mistakes in these discovered, rectified, doubts and questions succinctly resolved / by John Wynell ...	Wynell, John, fl. 1660-1670.	1660 (1660)	Wing W3775; ESTC R31852	27,312	95

about which three things are to be observed 1. That all these at the entrance of the disease are lesse visible and more mild but as the disease growes on do more appear and rage 2. That as it is not necessary that all these signes concurr where ever the disease is so it is hard to find a venereous body on which one of these appears alone for if there befalling of the hairs there are also Ulcers Tumors and manifold Pains and so of all the rest For you shall never find one labouring under this disease growen but many of these signes conspire to blab and discover it and the reason is because the fomes of this disease is seated in the humors as is before said which are dispersed throughout the body from which each bowell and member with its nourishment having its defilement filement so that it cannot be the disease should have but one window to look out at 3. That most of these signs are produced by other diseases yet in two things they differ One is The contumacy or stubbornnesse of this disease and its accidents beyond those of other diseases The other is The disobedience and opposition that this disease makes to all ordinary remedies When you find a disease seeming another throughout not obedient to the remedies left us by the Antients you may vehemently suspect to be Venereous CHAP. IX Of the Signes Prognostick or discovering the Event of this Disease THis disease of it self is seldom and slowly mortall I say Of it self for it may and oft doth beget or is accompanied with another more nimbly mortall for diseases seldom go alone Unlesse it fall on a flaming constitution It is no acute but chronick disease and therefore worst in old men Hippocrates gives the reason 2 Aph. Old men are lesse subject to sicknesse than the younger but their diseases are wont to be long and accompany them till death Again This disease contracted by coition onely is easiest cured next when brought on by the brest and hardest when inherited Besides they that purge well by childbed termes or flowing haemorrhoides are lesse subject to or afflicted by this disease and on them it is more easily cured they having many ordinary Sewers for corruption Likewise if there be a falling away of hairs a pronenesse to sweat the disease is the safer for when it falls outward and the skin open it appears the sooner to be removed but the deeper the disease lodgeth the harder the cure Also if the disease be joyned with a feaver the more considerable the feavour the harder the cure For the remedies which remove the venereous disease being hot and dry encrease the feaver Lastly diseases by relapse the oftner the worse For if rationall means could not remove the bodie 's disposition to this disease it becommeth still more prone and succumbent to it therefore in such cases the patient needs a more prudent and well-furnished Artist And so much for the signes Before I enter upon the Cure it will be necessary to remove some doubts which tend to the clearing of what hath been delivered and make way to the Cure CHAP. X. Doubts and Questions Resolved 1. QUest Why doth this disease which hath such cruell symptoms and sometimes such as are commensurate with life it self ordinarily kill so slowly Answ Death comes not but when the heart is vehemently injured and Nature ever what it can preserves and defends that fortresse especially against this disease Besides this disease of it self begets no feaver but by accident In this disease Respiration is not changed but rarely and at last extremity The Pulse is not altered for there are no diagnostick signes from thence of this disease a good evidence that Nature defends the Heart But de Modo quaeritur which take thus The vital spirits are the most mighty instruments of Nature to secure themselves and her Their fire is ever in opposition to and depuration of and from what is heterogenious and against what is most opposite most active And the oftner they passe the elaboration of the heart the more strong they become That which Aristotle saith of Choler how truly I do not affirm Quarto de part Animal That the heart will not suffer choler to come near it because choler is a great enemy to the heart the like do I say of this venereous poison The heart will not suffer it to come near it but ever by the vital spirits oppugns it because it is a great enemy unto it and the heat of the heart is ever in depuration of them As impure gold is by the fire-fire-heat and separating ability illustrated purified perfected so the humours and spirits venereously defiled by the hearts heat are purified and preserved the lesse and more slowly corrupted Quest 2. Whether this disease be curable Whether it be true which some affirm that it never makes peace but truce onely Answ Experience evidenceth the contrary It is true that unlesse this disease be seasonably set on and restrained it takes deeper roots and though at beginning it hath secret and under-ground workings and do lesse or not at all appear for reasons formerly shewed yet with time it takes encrease and discovereth it self Now one reason why this disease is so seldom cured ariseth from the Patient who being by the industry of the Physitian once delivered from fierce symptoms and sense of pain too hastily becommeth confident of being cured declines obedience to further indeavours so that the disease-still lurks in the humors and with them imbibed by the bowels and members and breaks forth again Hence hath risen that proverbiall speech that it admits a truce not a peace Quest 3. Whether as time was when this disease was not for it is a stranger unto us not endemicall so time shall be when it shall cease Whether it shall have but a season onely as the Mentagra and Gemursa in Italy and the Sweating sickness in England Ans It is propable that it shall be so and this I am induced to think from these conjectures 1 Because other diseases formerly not known nor being had but their seasons and now are antiquated and extinct as is instanced in the question 2 Because since this disease began in Europe it is much abated of its rage and that which may abate may abolish If you ask me how this should come to passe I answer many wayes 1. By diet and manner of living men will become more choise and frugall 2. They have and will learn more prudence in coition and as time teacheth men discretion so will they more avoid this contagion 3. Cleanlinesse about the body will do much to effect this as in answer to the seventh question I shall further give probability to this opinion by answer to another Question thus Why was the plague of Pestilence and Leprosie so frequent formerly and now so rare Or if the Pestilence break forth is oft so soon quelled No reason as to men can be given but that men have