Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	motion_n	spirit_n	vital_a	2,273	5	10.8790	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11815	Naturall philosophy, or, A description of the world, namely, of angels, of man, of the heauens, of the ayre, of the earth, of the water and of the creatures in the whole world.; Rerum naturalium doctrina methodica. English	Scribonius, Wilhelm Adolf, fl. 1576-1583.; Widdowes, Daniel.; Wydowes, I.	1621 (1621)	STC 22111; ESTC S971	34,963	68

bloud Any of these if they fayle of their proper nature are not fit to be in the bodie but are become vnnaturall Humours are of the first and second sort The first are hot or colde and moyst and dry Bloud is hot and moyst and it is a thin red humour and sweete With this the other partes be chiefly nourished amongst whom this is the chiefe The faults of this is in substance as putrifaction or mixture of vicious humors or in qualitie as too thicke or too thin or is affected with some other badnesse The humour that is hot and dry is choller this is a thinne yellow pale and bitter humour His vse is to helpe the expelling facultie and chiefly in the Guts Gall besides nature through adustion is yellow like an egge yolke in the stomacke it is like rustie brasse The colde and moyst is phlegme which is a tough slimie and whitish humour and tastles If this haue a fuller concoction it is turned into bloud His vse is to moysten the ioynts When it declineth from his proper nature it is salt or tart according to his mixture The colde and dry humour is blacke choller This is a thicke blackish tart bitter humour It serueth to strengthen the stomacke that it may more easily retaine and receiue meate When it declineth from his proper nature by immoderate burning it hath diuers kindes Humours of the second sort are begotten of the first being wrought with concoction they are like dew or glew Dew is a humor contained in the hollownes of the members and ioyned to their substance like dew with which they are nourished Glew is a humour immoderately congealed and being firmely fastned to the members beginneth to bee changed vnto their substance of which change it is called Cambium and carni fornis like the flesh Now follow the spirits which are a fluent part of the bodie most thin and begotten of the bloud of the heart The spirits are the chiefe instrument and as it were the Chariot of the soules faculties for with most speedie and swift motion it carrieth them ouer all the bodie Spirits hauing roote in the heart be either absolute or rude and to be finished in other partes Vitall spirits be absolute in the heart and are of a firie nature and from the heart by arteries are spred in the bodie by whose communication all partes doe liue Spirits to be perfected in other parts bee Animall which from the heart be carryed into the braine and there made subtell by nerues flowing vnto all the other parts and this is the Chariot of functions or faculties of all liuing Creatures Parts containing are more solid which are sustained by themselues all these either are as a stay or couering The stay to other parts is eyther bone or gristle Bone is the hardest and dryest part and stay to all the bodie Bones are knit together by ligaments which are like hard and thicke threeds being as bandes to the bones of the bodie Gristles are somewhat softer then the bones and sustaine all other partes The couering of the other parts is the skin which is tender without bloud and couereth the whole bodie The membrane is tender skin couering some parts There is yet in these parts a common excrement of concoction which is sweat and is a moystnesse of the veynes expelled by secret pores of this is to be seene a diuerse coullour according to the die of the moystnesse or matter thereof the vsuall is watrish through the white substance of the channels through which it runneth But if the pores be large and open that without delay and long change it may slide through them especially if for some all action of minde or disease it become thinner then is it speedily expelled and tainted with some other coullour c. Therefore from the coullour of sweate the bodies constitution may be knowne Colde sweate is worse to be liked then hot but either is bad if they be vnequall Also the containing parts afore-named are animall or vitall and each of these are more or lesse principall Animall parts are in which the animall parts are most exercised as sence and motion together or alone The chiefe member of motion and sence is the braine contained in the head whose substance being hurt it is danger to loose both sence and motion The Braine is softer then the other partes white and couered with a double skinne closely The skin of the braine is eyther called Pia or Dura mater The scalpe is a thicke bone couering the whole head and hath vpon it a skin with hayres The scalpe is distinguished with certaine seames in certaine partes which are true or fayned c. The excrements of the braine are eyther thicke or thin The thin are teares bursting from the braine by the angles of the eyes The greater the flesh of those angles be so much more plentifull be teares chiefly if the complexion be colde and moyst as of women Teares be caused by heate which openeth or colde which presseth the flesh and causeth teares The thicker excrements which are expelled from the brayne eyther are by the eares or nose In the eares is a moyst excrement of the brayne gathering and rotting in their hollownesse That of the nose is a thicker excrement then that of the briane which although it be like flegme yet it is altogether of another nature The pithe of the backe bone is neare to the nature of the braynes excrement saue that it is harder and something hotter The backe is bonie round and in his length hath twentie foure ioynts The Nerves are lesse principall partes of sence and motion which if they be out of order the partes in which these be become vnfit to moue Nerves or sinewes are thin partes round c. white much like to thicke threeds Some are softer some harder The softer are of more vse of which are six paire by two and two from the brayne arriuing to other parts First to the eyes Secondly To mooue the eyes Thirdly to the tongue and taste Fourthly to the pallet and skin of the mouth Fiftly to the hearing The sixt to the mouth of the stomack by which sense and motion descend Hard Nerves haue a duller facultie and lesse seruing to the senses of which are thirtie paire which by couples come from the marrow of the backe bone by whose conduct the backe easily executeth his faculties Of the partes to breath The principall parts of breathing are in the brest being eyther Lightes or Heart wherefore these being touched breathing is immediately hurt and such wounds be deadly The Longes are a spongious and thin part soft and like foame of congealed bloud declining something to the right side Breath is brought vnto the Lightes by a rough Arterie knit to the roote of the tongue This Arterie is a long channell made of many gristle rings on a row which endeth in the Lightes If any thing fall into the hollownesse of this the breath is hindred and there is

is a temperate salt humour which if it doe exceede the iust quantitie it doth not exactly perceiue tastes but if it be altogether consumed no tastes are perceiued Smelling iudgeth qualities fit for smell his instrument is the entrance into the first ventricle couered with a small skin the dryer it is the quicker of smell as in Dogs and Vultures but man for the moystnesse of his Braine hath but a dull smell Now follow the inward sences which beside things presently offered doe know formes of many absent things By these the creature doth not onely perceiue but also vnderstandeth that which he doth perceiue These haue their seate in the braine They are either conceiuing or preseruing Conceiuing exerciseth his facultie by descerning or more fully iudging it is called Common sence and the other is Phantasie Common sence more fully distinguisheth sensible things his instrument is the former ventricle of the braine made by drynesse fit to receiue Phantasie is an inward sence more diligently examining the forms of things This is the thought and iudgement of creatures his place is the middle part of the braine being through drynesse apt to retaine The preseruing sence is Memorie which according to the constitution of the braine is better or worse It is weaker in a moyst braine then in the dry braine His instrument is the hinder part of the braine Memorie calling backe images preserued in former time is called Remembrance but this is not without the vse of reason and therefore is onely attributed to man The wittie excell in remembrance the dull in memorie Sleepe is the resting of the feeling facultie his cause is a cooling of the braine by a pleasant abounding vapour breathing forth of the stomacke and ascending to the braine When that vapour is concoct and turned into spirits the heate returneth and the sences recouering their former function cause waking There be certaine appointed courses for watch and sleepe least creatures languish with ouermuch motion Affections of sleepe are Dreames Nightmare and Extasie c. A dreame is an inward act of the minde the bodie sleeping and the quieter that sleepe is the easier bee dreames but if sleepe be vnquiet then the minde is troubled Varietie of dreames is according to the diuers constitution of the bodie The cleare and pleasant dreames are when the spirits of the braine which the soule vseth to imagine with are most pure and thin as towardes morning when concoction is perfected But troublesome dreames are when the spirits bee thicke and vnpure All naturall dreames are by images either before proferred to memorie or conceiued by temperature alone or by some influence from the starres as some thinke From dreames many things may be collected touching the constitution of the bodie The Night-mare is a seeming of being choaked or strangled by one leaping vppon him feare following this compression the voyce is taken away This affection commeth when the vitall spirits in the braine are darkened by vapours ascending from melancholy and phlegme insomuch that that facultie being oppressed some heauie thing seemeth to be layd vpon vs. Therefore this disease is familiar to those who through age or sexe are much inclined vnto these humours An Extasie or traunce is a vehement imagination of the departure for a time of the soule from the bodie A deepe sleepe lasting some dayes enseweth for the soule giuing ouer it selfe to cogitation ceaseth to serue the bodie Wherefore men wanting motion and sence seeme to be dead And with what humours the braine shall be compassed such phancies doth it conceiue although sometime spirits working on such phatasies imprint other things Now followeth Motion which accompanieth sence and is caused either by appetite or change of place for we desiring things perceiued in sence cannot attaine vnto them without mouing our bodie to that thing Appetite is a facultie desiring such things as are obiects to our sence It chiefly followeth touching or thinking Delight followeth touching Delight is a desire of an agreeing Obiect Griefe is his contrarie which is a turning from the hurtfull obiect or from that we count vnpleasant Appetites following cogitation are all the motions of the hart which be called affections and are either good or bad The good cherish and preserue the nature of our sensitiue facultie as mirth loue hope which come of heate when the heart dilating it selfe desireth to enioy the thing with which it is delighted Motion is a facultie of liuing creatures stirring a bodie entised by appetite from one place to another It is eyther of the whole body or of partes Of the whole body as by going c. Of partes as breathing which is made either by enlarging of the parts which serue for the taking in of the ayre or by the closing of them for the expelling of corrupt ayre Now followeth to intreat Of the bodies of liuing creatures The matter of the bodie in which the foresayd faculties be is the seede of both sexes Seede is most pure bloud perfectly concocted in the testicles and it is gathered from the whole bodie For the testicles lacking nourishment draw bloud from the hollow vayne and change it Conception is the action of the wombe by which the power is stirred vp to execute his inbred gift Then that power being stirred vp doth diuersly distract the matter separating his diuers partes and thus all parts alike get together their shape Likewise all of them together are adorned with the faculties of the vegetatiue or sensitiue soule Amongst the naturall faculties of the partes of the body if there be putrifaction a fault of the concocting facultie there is made a certaine generation of matter This is naturall or extraordinary Naturall is by an inbred heate not altogether subdued but slackly exercising force through disposition of the matter Such is to be seene in inflamations botches and impostumes For in these nature so farre as it can laboureth to bring this his subiect matter to the best forme Therefore such suppuration is wont to argue a certaine strength of nature wherefore often with conuenient helpes it is carefully encreased In this kinde especially is praysed white thicke smooth equall and least smelling matter Extraordinary mattering is when nature altogether subdued the humors or parts themselues are made full of corrupt matter through store of rottennesse But nature or the concocting facultie is ouercome either through proper weaknesse or by corrupt matter this is obserued in all rotten malignant and stinking botches in which according to the diuerse fashioning of abounding matter are found diuerse sorts of solid bodies as haires and such other like Of partes of the bodie which appertaine to the making vp of the whole bodie some are containing and some contained The contained for their fluent nature are sustained by helpe of others Such are humours and spirits Humors are moyst partes begot of the first mixture of nourishment in the liuer These are in the seede of creatures and are called the beginning of things endued with