Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	natural_a	spirit_n	vital_a	2,146	5	10.9559	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65692	An elenchus of opinions concerning the cure of the small pox together with problematicall questions concerning the cure of the French pest / by T. Whitaker ...	Whitaker, Tobias, d. 1666.; Whitaker, Tobias, d. 1666. Questions problematical concerning the French pest.	1661 (1661)	Wing W1715; ESTC R38589	32,343	140

pulse is never altered neither are there any signs of it to be taken from the pulse and these are demonstrative arguments to prove the heart to defend it self powerfully from the malignity of this disease And this defensive power according to my opinion must principally depend upon the power of the vitall spirits which are more robust then the natural spirits as doth appear by their containing vessels of eac● for the arterie that containeth the vital spirits is double coated else the spirits contained in them would make eruption through them because of their inherent force and the veines but single coated because their spirits in activity and strength is so much lesse then is the vital and by the force of this vital spirit the heart is defended against the invasion of this Pest and by this vitall spirit the heart defendeth it self against the assault of choler which is so great an enemy to it according to Arist. 4. de part animal And yet this question is not cleared from the exception of many Physicians who reasonably do affirm the generation of vital spirits to proceed from the naturall and if the naturall spirits have received contamination how shall the vitall spirits which are begotten of them be free from pollution nor could it be otherwise but from the purification they receive from the heart after the same manner as Gold is separated from drosse and other aliene tincture by the activity of ●ire so also doth the heart by its cordial fire inherent in it self purge and clense the natural spirits from all pollution and the heart by its own power desendeth it self from the contamination of this disease which is the cause in chief why this disease of it self doth not kill the person affected with it QUEST IX Whether this disease be the proper disease of one particular Region That every Region hath diseases inherent in themselves and not contracted 〈◊〉 with remedies of their own more specifical then any contracted from alien and different Regions and that there is a much difference as between clime and clime or East and West 〈◊〉 without doubt is the 〈◊〉 Catholica of all Nations but what Region may be the proper womb of this French 〈◊〉 is a present dispute between the French and Neopolit●● the one will have it the proper dis●ease of the Indians and the French will have it proper to the Neopolit●ns but because it hath made so great impression in 〈◊〉 most Modern Writer● 〈◊〉 it the French disease so that they challenge the Right to it from Custom and long prescription and I know no Nation challenge any of their priviledge but as they have spread their tongue very far in Europe and other Continents so this disease hath commerce with the generality of Nations and Religions both Mahumeta● Iew 〈◊〉 and Heathen But some particular Regions may be after this manner affected from their vicious ayre an● dyet witnesse those painful botches of the Arab●●as affirmed by Galen and Av●cen that they are generated from the Locusts which they so greedily feed upon as also in 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 from their delicacy in dyet and frequent use of Venery Insomuch that according to the dyet and ayre severall Regions have their particular diseases But the French disease proceedeth neither from the ayre of the place nor dyet but from meer Venery and impure Congression and therefore it is an Universall disease more common in Venereal and hot Countries where the Women are more salacious th●n in cold Regions this Sex being in their temper more cold then men by the heat 〈◊〉 the Region are prov●●ed and more hot in pleasure by which themselves and others in conjunction with them are inflamed insomuch that in those places this French dis●ase proveth Hereditary and is conveyed from Family to Family in the principles of nature as is the Small Pox according to some opinions conveyed in maternall menstruosity And thus I have concluded the discourse of both Great and Small according to my promise FINIS