Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	left_a	lung_n	ventricle_n	2,628	5	12.9083	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B06150	Tarrugo unmasked, or an Answer to a late pamphlet intituled, Apollo mathematicus by George Hepburn, M.D., and member of the Colledge of Phisicians at Edinburgh ... To which is added by Doctor Pitcairne, The theory of the internal diseases of the eye demonstrated mathematically.	Hepburn, George.; Pitcairn, Archibald, 1652-1713. Theoria morborum oculi succincte demonstrate.	1695 (1695)	Wing T169; ESTC R219128	34,296	74

Urine come this way for the Bile must come this way since to please our Pamphleteer we have made the passage in the Kidneys too narrow for the Bile and the Urine has sufficient passage in the Kidneys to transmit the greatest part of it the passges through the Liver being too few for both But there are other reasons that can be brought were it not a folly to cast a Pearle before such a beast as this is that understands nothing except to kick For it was not the Doctors design to explain every Secretion in the Body but only secretion in general that is some properties common to all Secretions such as that all secretion is done without any Ferment and all secretion is performed in pores of a circular figure But the particular secretions depend upon something besides better known to Doctor Pitciarne than to Tarugo It is time now to follow him to the page 97 98 and 99 where he is Angry or not pleas'd with the Doctor for saying that Mercury the Doctor is speaking of common quick silver acts in our Bodies by its weight C then says the Pamphleteer Gold would raise a Salivation and cure the French Pox better than Mercury which says he the meanest Surgeon knows to be salfe Here is a mighty instance of the ignorance of this Fellow The Doctor had said that if Gold were as fluid as Mercuty it would doe greater Feats And this is the same as to have said that Mercury would doe greater fears than it now does if it were heavier or as heavy as gold Now which the Surgeons that are the Pamphleteers friends has told him that Gold reduc'd to a state of fluidity like Mercury would not cure the French Pox I cannot tell this I know it would be kindly done in a Surgion to tell him how to write a Receit or bill for his patient but he has yet a quarrel with the Doctor for saying that baths wrought only by their weight on our bodies He adduces Bellini's authority to prove that they work otherways than by their weight since Bellini thinks it probable that they penetrat through the Skin to the liquors c. But pray good Tarugo does Bellini says that they penetrate by any other force than their weight It is their weight that produces the effects attributed to them and it is the outward pressure that as an effect of weight is the most certain operation of Baths The effects that may be produc'd by penetrating are not so certain the penetration being more dubious thatn the pressure tho both are the effect of weight But these things are too clear And I therefore pass to the page 102 which and to the page 110 he spends as he would have one think In refuting what the Doctor advances in a Discourse about Respiration But he touches not nor medles with any thing said thereanent Only in the page 105. He leaps to another Discourse in which the Doctor en passant had Answered an Objection made against his Opinion about Respiration some time after it had been printed The Objection was How it comes to pass That if a Whelp ex gr once breath and then be stop'd from breathing before the old Canals through which much of the blood past before breathing be stopt yet will dye in a little time The Doctor gives two answers to it The first made it plain from what he had proven in his de Respiratione that the expanded Air stopt the passage of the Lungs which had never been stopt before the whole Blood never having past thro the old Canals without touching at the Lungs And so the Whelp must in a little time dye a part of the Blood being stopt in the right Ventricle of the Heart Here our Champion first makes a great noise by calling this a lame Demonstration whereas the Block head might have seen that it is an answer to an Objection But he had been so harrasied with Demonstrations put by them to such pitiful shifts that the Terrour of them was not gone and therefore when he fell into a place where the Doctor was giving out his Answers he took them for Demonstrations too Next he cry's out that a Clown may laugh at the Doctor who says That tho the old Canals be open yet the Blood will not all go that way because it never all went that way Now this Fellow lye's For the Dotor had said That the Blood could not all go thro the old Canals and this I think is a reason for its not going all thro them The old Canals are not capacious enough to give passage to the whole Blood so as to mautain the necessary Circulation and Life depending on it That this Fellow lyes on the Doctor it appears both from what he translates out of the Doctors Answer in the beginning of the the page 105 and from what he acknowledges in the two last lines page 106 and the two first of page 107. But he was necessitated to make a Lye for else he had nothing at all to say Yet after he has acknowledged himself to have ly'd and that the Doctor had told plainly That the Blood could not all pass thro the old Canals but some of it at every Systole Cordis would be left in the right Ventricle of the Heart he very Magisterially says Let it e'en step on slowly and take the more time and it will come to its journey's end before night This Fellow's business here was to prove That all the Blood could pass thro the old Canals Instead of doing this he gives in his word for it that it will all pass but slowly But he Lyes so often that I am not resolv'd to take any thing upon his bare Authority In the mean time I 'll advertise him that in a very few Systoles the right Ventricle of the Heart will be so fill'd with Blood which should have past thro the Lungs and cannot yet pass thro the old Canals timeously that no more Blood can be receiv'dd into that Ventricle And so the Circulation ceases at the Fountain But after our Champion had acknowledged that he had ly'd finding no advantage against the Doctor by being ingenuous he Repents himsef and falls back into his former Lye and through almost two pages makes a fine Dialogue with a Child It would seem to have been his Trade founded on nothing but his own Lye He comes next page 111 To cavil at the account given by the Doctor of one Thunder-stroke some years agoe whose Lungs were clapt together in an extraordinary manner and degree This is matter of fact Here our Champion cry's out against the Doctor for having faid That the Lungs too much blown up with Air hinder the Circulation throw themselves And yet now says he he makes their not being blown at all to stop that same Circulation If he had any sense or ingenuity he 'd see both to be true If the Lungs be too much blown the Blood-vessells are too much straitned If

they are entirely flaccid there wants the weight of the Air and elasticity to squeese the blood by turnes into the left Ventricle of the Heart and so it cannot pass sufficiently in One whose old Canals are stopt to entertain Life Now it when One is puting forth the Air out of his Lungs it shall happen as it happened to the Person kill'd by the Thunder that the Air is ratified and so made much and suddenly lighter It will come to pass That first a small part of that mass of Air which he put forth will returne to the Lungs because a small part now takes up the room of the whole And therefore there will be wanting that weight which the whole mass before exerted for continuing the Circulation thro the Lungs And Secondly The Man must dye if the Air continue in this state of rare fraction made by the Lightning longer than he can live without Air as the event sheu'd it had done in this Man's case And here we have a new proof of the hurt that Metaphysicks doe in Reasoning For our Champion by vertue of them has found out That in Liquors the parts by rare fraction grow less than before Whereas say's he they might indeed grow larger if they were like the parts of brass or malleable matter Now every body knows that the portions of Air are Elastick and that when they are liberated rated from compression they like wool for to this they are by Mr. Royl and others likned exolve and expand themselves without having their parts made Lesser but only by having some of them remov'd farther from some others than before and so acquire a greater superfice or volume But out Champion must be excused for his mistake for the Metaphisicks make no mention of Elastick Fluids Before I leave him I must take notice how he wrests and mangles the Doctors words The Doctor had said That in the case of him that was kill'd with Thunder The air being suddenly and much expanded the air which environ'd the Man could not blow up the Lungs its weight being diminished neither could it enter its superfice being enlarged And this fellow makes the Doctor say That the particles of the Air become larger and lighter Now his Metaphysicks would not have furnished him with any quible against the Airs growing lighter and more expanded but he had a quible about parts growing lesser which I leave him to pursue Only since the Air may be expanded and any portion of it fill a larger space I would know if then its parts do not proportionally grow larger For Totum faciunt partes I come now to his page 117. In this and some following pages he makes all the use he can of his Art Metaphisical which seems to be the same with Lullius's that is the Art of raving and pratling of things he knows nothing of at all The Doctor in a discourse had made it manifest That no ferment in the Stomach dissolves our meats This was his main design and his reason was that the same Ferment would dissolve our Stomachs and Guts In place of this Ferment he substituted the attrition that the meat suffers in the stomach by the which its parts are separated after that by the heat of the Invironing parts and moisture it is made tender and easie to be divided into small particles He rejected therefore Doctor Listers Opinion not as false but in so far as he attributed too much to Putrification and because it is plain that the efficient cause which is mainly requir'd is the stomach help'd by other parts by its motion But because the Doctor knew it would be objected that the same attrition might wear off parts of the stomach he thought fit to furnish his Reader with an Answer to it taken out of many that could be made and it is this that the same parts and sides of a bit of meat are exposed to the action of the stomach whereas this action is not performed by the same parts of the stomach but by diverse parts of it applyed one after another This Answer the Pamphleteer takes no notice off for he had nothing to say against it Now it is plain that the serment is applyed always to the same part of the stomach especially it being deriv'd from the blood in Glanduls which contain it and furnish the stomach with it For I make use of the word Glandule to please and comply with the Adversaries We are then to consider what the Pamphleter says pag 124. There he is very angry at the Doctor for saying That the Circulation of the Blood is the ground and foundation of all Medicine For besides that One might infer from it That a good friend of the Pamphleters knew nothing of Medicine because when he was examin'd he told very gravely as one who believes what he says That the blood went out by the Veins from the Heart and return'd to it by Arteries from all parts of the Body I say besids this it spoils his pretences of being a learn'd Physician by reading scraps of Hippocrate and Galen who were ignorant of it as the Doctor has prov'd beyond any possibility of being refuted But there is great reason of suspecting that the Pamphleteer himself does not understand the Circulation and then he had but reason to be angry with the Doctor for extolling it so farr In the same page the Pamphleteer endeavours to shew that the Circulation is not the ground of Medicine since after its invention Physicians practise after the old method by Derivations Revulsions and Bloodings at different parts of the Body Where he means else he speaks arrant nonsense that Derivations c. are inconsistant with the Circulation Which proves him ignorant of the Circulation altogether for these agree exactly Let him to this purpose read the sixth prop of Bellini de Missione Sanguinis But since he understands not Mathematicks he 'll not understand the demonstration of that proposition In the pag 125. He shows himself a notable Disputant For the Doctor had taught That if any obstruction should happen in the Conduits it would ceteris paribus more readily happen in the Arteries than in the Veins c because the blood which carries the causes of obstructions runs from the wider towards the narrower part of the Artery so that the sides of the Arteries doe oppose the motion of the blood the contrary whereof happens in the Veins And the thing that could make an Obstruction in a Vein must make it first an Artery for it must first by the law of the Circulation come to the smallest part of the Artery and pass it before it can come to stop in the Vein Now the Artery being as small or smallet as the Vein if it could obstruct the last it must obstruct the first The Pamphleteer finds here a brave way to escape and raise as he thought a great disput The sides says he of the Arteries are yeelding and so cannot support the ends or Arches as it were