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	ventricle_n	2,433	5	12.8369	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30653	The history of Eriander composed by John Burton.	Burton, John, 1629 or 30-1699.	1661 (1661)	Wing B6180; ESTC R2615	75,262	220

and composure as flesh veins nerves arteries and bones or dissimilar made up of other particles of a different nature such are the Brain Heart Liver Lungs Kidneys Spleen c. and all Muscles for in these there is a mixture of flesh Veins Arteries Blood and spirits or thin agile particles according as the office of every member requires The Soul as it resides in the body for in that state alone it shall be considered here exercises divers faculties as Vegetation whereby the body lives is nourished and augmented and the species propagated by generation to accomplish which the meat and drink we receive being masticated and reduced into small parts in the mouth is conveyed downe into the stomach where a certain sharp and hot humor piercing into it reduces it into smaller parts and makes it slippery so that it may easily slide into the small whitish veines called from their colour Lacteal these lacteal veins intercepting the purest and juicyest part of it convey it into the hollow vein in which passage it receives much transmutation the excrementitious and lesse useful parts by vertue of certain glandulous substances which make an attrition upon it and sever the purest part from the lesse pure are conveyed to their proper receptacles For that which we call Choler is conveyed into a little bag called the Gall hanging at the Liver Urine is conveyed by the Kidneyes to the Bladder the grosser excremements slip through the entrals or Guts That which passeth through the veins staies not till it arrive at the heart where it receives a more perfect concoction and purifying and from the heart part of it is carried from the right Ventricle of the heart through a vein called the arterial vain to the Lungs whence it returnes through the venal Artery into the left Ventricle of the heart thence with the rest of the blood for so it is by this time it flowes into a great Artery called by Anatomists Aorta This Artery spreading it self into many branches distributs it to every part of the body that it may nourish enliven move every member Testiculi interim nesi omissi quasi castrati e nostra microcrosmi historiola exulent partem dicti alimenti allicientes in spumosum semen digerunt in usum peculiarem recondunt The blood by its motion through the Arteries is rarified made more hot subtil and vivid for it doth not rest or stagnate in the arteries but emptyed out of the utmost twigs of the Arteries into the veines returnes by a circular motion to the heart in its passage communicating influence vigor activity nourishment to every member and augmentation too so long as there is need but that bears date no longer than till such time as the body arrives at its Aime and consistence which is when the bones the main supporters of and rules of dimension for it are grown so hard that they are not capable of any further extention for then the rest of the parts refuse the superaddition of new matter more than what serves to repair that that decayes by continual motion and is requisite to assist them in their motions and operations As all parts of our body participate of this kind and active influence of the blood so the Brain seemes to ingrosse the purest portion of it the thicker part cannot arrive there by reason of the narrow passages through which it is percolated the Brain digests it into a thin substance called animal spirits which are dispersed in the nerves contributing sense and motion to the whole body The most remarkable motion and of most absolute necessity is respiration and is thus accomplished The animal spirits which take their way to the Muscles of the Brest through the nerves that are branched thither move and dilate the great Muscle called Diaphragma which by consequence extends the parts of the Brest whereupon the Lungs which accomodate themselves to the motion of the brest are also dilated as a pair of bellowes so is also the sharp Artery and the contagious aire which is ready to fill any concave or fistular body that hath nothing else to fill it is protruded one part rejecting the other till that next to the mouth and Nose enters but after a little pause the Lungs contracting themselves when the Diaphragma is erected in a convex figure and presses upon them send it forth and instantly receive a new supply This alternate motion is of manifold use for the intromission of cool and fresh aire and it serves to refresh the heart Lungs and Stomach in case they be too hot so especially it contributes to the production of vital spirits which participate of an aiery nature and may probaly somewhat assist the heart in that motion whereby it conveyes the blood into the Arteries and in this respect is of absolute necessity of preserve life The emission of it serves as to express our several passions so likewise to frame our speech when we sigh thereby giving a hint of some close grief we emit our breath through the artery being open not resisting or g●ving any collision to it with a deep and laborious breathing When we would cry loud we cause it to break forth with a smart violence and vociferation when we laugh the ●●●od j●rking nimbly from the H●a●● to the lungs huffe them up 〈◊〉 ●nly and by turns so as they 〈◊〉 the aire to go forth at the sharp artery with a kind of trepidation or interrupted motion and with all twitch the Muscles of the Diaphragma Brest and Face which causeth a quavering motion discernible in the countenance and a warbling inarticulate sound But in speaking there are more little engines set on work the sharp Artery alternately dilates contracts its self the larynx or upper part or lid of it intercepts or gives free passage to the aire the parts that constitute the orb of the mouth the Tongue Teeth Palat and Lips make various stops dashes and callisions upon it the various extention of the sharp Artery contributes to the diversifying of our voice into shrill or low acute or flat for if the artery be much streightned and compressed the voice becomes flat if freely dilated it proves accute the larynx by its motion serves to make the stops or distances between our words the organs of the mouth make it articulate and significative For as in a Pipe the sound extending its self in a right line would be uniform and of one tone did not the artist intercept it so would our breath cause an uniform and uselesse noise if it should freely convey its self in a direct progresse but encountering the Mouthes cavity it is obliged to assume various figures and conform its self to the configuration of the mouth The five vowels a e i o u seem to be made only by the different emission of the breath and require not any observeable action of the parts of the mouth but seem to be accomplished by the different extentions of the sharp