Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	lung_n	right_a	vein_n	2,059	5	10.1719	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78521	The compleat midwifes practice, in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man. Containing perfect rules for midwifes and nurses, as also for women in their conception, bearing, and nursing of children: from the experience not onely of our English, but also the most accomplisht and absolute practicers among the French, Spanish, Italian, and other nations. A work so plain, that the weakest capacity may easily attain the knowledge of the whole art. With instructions of the midwife to the Queen of France (given to her daughter a little before her death) touching the practice of the said art. / Published with the approbation and good liking of sundry the most knowing professors of midwifery now living in the city of London, and other places. Illustrated with severall cuts in brass. By T.C. I.D. M.S. T.B. practitioners.	Chamberlayne, Thomas.; Boursier, Louise Bourgeois, ca. 1563-1636.	1656 (1656)	Wing C1817C; Thomason E1588_3; ESTC R14527	137,828	305

also of its substance and form AFter that the womb which is the Genital member of the Female Sex hath received the seed of the Man she commixes also her own seed so that there is now but one mixture made of the seed of both sexes Now of the next matter of the birth there is a difference among the learned which being unnecessary for this place we shall let go and stick close to them who affirm that the seeds of both sexes being confused in the womb doth make up the first matter of the birth so that if there were not a mixture of both seeds it were impossible that any generation could be Yet though there be of necessity a confusion of both seeds we deny not but that their qualities are different for the seed of a man exceeds the seed of a woman both in thickness and heat which is more cold and moist and therefore more watry Yet though they differ thus in quality it is not to be denied but that the seed of the woman gives a mutual assistance to the seed of man in the work of generation But it being unquestionable that the menstruous bloud is the matter of the womans seed therfore that ye may know the original of it it is to be understood that the Menstruous blood Of the monstruous bloud is nothing els but an excrement of the third concoction gathered together every moneth and purged out Which purgation being duly made the woman is then in perfect health of body but if they come not down according to their accustomed times and seasons or do not come down at all the woman neither can conceive nor engender Thus the seeds of both sexes meeting in the womb and there mixing together they are presently enclosed in a little Tunicle begot by the heat of the womb and are there as it were coagulated and curdled together CHAP. II. Of the three tunicles which the birth is wrapt in in the womb FIrst out of the extreme superficies of the seed by reason of the more watrie moisture of the womans seed a thin membrane is generated which by reason of its moist qualitie is dilated farther being at first transparent but after the birth comes forth folded up together and is called the secondines But of the superfluous moisture of these two tunicles are begot two other tunicles which defend the infant from being cloged with any superfluities as from the flowers retained after conception which serve neither for the nourishment nor for the increase of the infant Yet are they retained till the very time of the birth at which time they are either let out by the hand of the Midwife or else bursting the secondine wherein they are contained they flow out of themselves The second tunicle is that which was anciently called Allancoides wrapping about all the inferior parts from the navel downward this is full of folds and wrinkles in which the urine sweat and other sharp humours that distill from the infant almost grown to maturity are contained and kept to the time of delivery By this second tunicle therefore the infant is delivered and defended from those humours least they should either corrode and hurt the tender skin of the Infant or else any way defile and foul the Infant The third tunicle with in all these compasses the whole birth round about defending it from all sharp exterior humours being very soft and tender CHAP. III. Of the true generation of the parts and the increase of them according to the several dayes and seasons AFter the womb hath received the Genital seed and by its heat hath shut them both up curdled and coagulated together from the first to the seventh day are generated many fibres bred by a hot motion in which not long after the liver with its chief Organs is first formed Through which Organs the vital spirit being sent to the seed within the tenth day forms and distinguishes the chiefest members This spirit is let in through certain veins of the secondine through which the bloud flows in and out of which the navel is generated At the same time in the clotted seed there do appear three white lumps not unlike curdled milk out of which arise the liver the brain and the heart Presently after this a vein is directed through the navel to suck the thicker sort of the bloud that remains in the seed for the nourishment of the parts This vein is two forked In the other branch of this vein is a certain bloud collected out of which the liver is first framed The Liver framed for the liver is nothing but a certain mass of bloud or bloud coagulated and hardened to a substance and here you may see what a company of veines it hath which serve both for the expulsive and attractive faculty In the other branch are generated those textures of veins with a dilatation of other veins as also of the spleen and the guts in the lower part of the belly by and by all the veins like branches gathering into one trunk toward the upper part of the liver meet all in the concave or hollow vein This trunk sends other branches of veines to constitute the Diaphragma others it sends into the upper part of the back-bone seated about the Diaphragma as also the lower parts as far as the thighs The Heart formed Afterwards the heart with its veins directed from the navel to that part of the seed and carried as far as the back-bone is formed These veins suck the hottest and most subtile part of the bloud out of which the heart is generated in the membrane of the heart otherwise called the Pericardium being by nature thick and fleshie according as the heat of the member requires Now the hollow vein extending it self and piercing the interiour part of the right side of the heart carries bloud thither for the nourishment of the heart from the same branch of this vein in the same part of the heart arises another vein called by some the still vein because it beats not with so quick a pulse as the others do ordained to send the most purely concocted bloud in the heart to the lungs being encompassed with two tunicles like Arteries But in the concavity of the left part of the heart arises a great beating vein called the Aorta diffusing the vital spirit from the heart into all the beating veines in the body Under the said vein called the Aorta in the concavity of the heart there is another vein called the veiny Artery which was therefore framed to carry the cool air from the Lungs to temper the great heat of the heart Now there being many veins which running from the concavity of the heart are inserted into the Lungs therefore by these veins the Lungs are also framed for the vein which proceeds from the right concavity produces a most subtile bloud which is turned into the substance of the Lungs By the great veins of the heart and liver the hollow

vein and the Aorta is the whole breast generated and after that the arms and legs in order Within the foresaid time is generated the last and chiefest part of this substance that is to say the brain in the third little skin of this mass for the whole mass of the seed being repleat with vital spirits that vital spirit contracts great part of the Genital moisture into one certain hollowness where the brain is formed outwardly it is covered with a certain covering which being baked and dried by the heat is reduced into a bone and so is the Cranium made Now the brain is so formed as to conceive retain and change the natures of all the vital spirits whence are the beginnings of reason and of all the sences for as out of the liver arise the veins out of the heart arise the arteries so out of the brain arise the nerves of a more soft and gentle nature yet not hollow like veins but solid These are the chiefest instruments of all the sences and by which all the motions of the sences are made by the vital spirit After the nerves is generated by the brain also the pith of the back-bone which cannot be called marrow for the marrow is a superfluous substance begot out of the bloud destined for the moistening and for the strenghthening of the bones but the brain and pith of the back-bone take their beginning from the seed being not destined for the nourishing or strengthening of the members but to constitute certain private and particular parts of the body for the motion and use of the sences that all the other nerves may take their beginning thence for from the pith of the back-bone do arise many nerves by which the body obtaines both sence and motion Here is also to be noted that out of the seed it self are generated gristles bones tunicles for the veins of the liver the arteries of the heart the brain with its nerves besides the tunicles and pannicles and the other coverings which the infant is wrapt in Now of the proper bloud of the birth the flesh is formed and whatever parts are of a fleshie substance as the heart the liver and the lights Then are all these nourished by the menstruous bloud which is attracted through the veins of the navel This is all distinctly done from the conception unto the eighteenth day of the first moneth in all which time it is called seed After which it receives the name of Birth CHAP. IV. Of the nourishment of the birth in the womb VVHile the birth remaines in the womb it is cherished up with blood attracted through the navel which is the reason that the flowers doe cease alwayes in women as soone as they have conceived Now this blood presently after conception is distinguished into three parts the purest part of it is drawn by the child for the nourishment of its selfe the second which is less pure and thin the womb forces upwards to the breast where it is turned into Milke The third and most impure part of the blood remaines in the matrix and comes away with the secondines both in the birth and after the Birth Now the infant being thus formed and perfected in the womb for the first moneth sends forth its Urine through the passages of the navel but in the last month that passage being shut up through the privie members yet notwithstanding while the Infant is in the womb he voyds nothing out at the fundament because he hath taken no nourishment in at the mouth After the fourty fifth day it receives life and is then called an Infant Now though the infant hath by this time obtained sence yet doth he not move He most commonly moves in twice the time that he was formed and in thrice the space after he began his motion he hastens into the world as for example if the Infant were formed in forty five dayes it will move in ninetie and be born the ninth month after that and thus much of the formation and nourishment of the child in the womb CHAP. V. Of the condition of the Infant in the womb in the sixth seaventh and eighth moneth AFter the third and fourth moneth the infant is nourished with more plenty of nourishment until the time of deliverie approach Now you must observe that a childe born in the sixth month cannot live by reason that it is not come to its just perfection but if it be born in the seventh moneth it will very easily live because it is come to its full perfection Now the reason why those that are born in the eight moneth doe not live when as those which are born in the seventh doe is plaine for in the seventh moneth the Infant stirs it self to come forth so that if it have so much strength it easily performes its desire if not it remaines in the womb till it have gathered two months more strength After this motion of the seventh month if it be not able to come forth it changes it self into another part of the womb by which motion it is so weakened that if it should be born in the eight moneth it were impossible that it should live for it is weakened by a double motion not only that of the seventh moneth but also by that motion whereby it strives to go forth in the eight moneth SECT IV. CHAP. I. Of the situation of the child in the womb COncerning the scituation of the child in the womb it may be considered either generally or specially specially either as it concerns the male or the female The male is commonly scituated in the right side of the womb the female in the left The general situation of the childe either male or female in the womb is always the same Which hath been observed and seen to be in this posture when the infant lies with his back and his buttocks leaning against the back of the mother the head enclined and touching his breast with his chin resting his two hands upon his knees his navel and his nose between his two knees with his two eyes upon his two thumbs his legs folded backward and touching his buttocks with each leg This figure is the most natural as being least subject to suffer any accident being less inconvenient and less troublesome to the mother The most naturall form for the childe to come into the world is when the head comes forward the hands being stretched upon the hips The things which are the causes of a womans delivery are three first the want of respiration and air for the infant The second is the want of nourishment of which when the infant finds a defect in his mothers womb he is forced to seek it in another place The third is the narrowness of the place where the infant lies so that he is forced to seek room other-where which makes him to break the membranes wherein he was contained pressing and constraining the mother by the sharpness of those waters to do her