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
A81145	Culpeper's last legacy left and bequeathed to his dearest wife, for the publicke good, being the choicest and most profitable of those secrets which while he lived were lockt up in his breast, and resolved never to be publisht till after his death. Containing sundry admirable experiences in severall sciences, more especially, in chyrurgery and physick, viz. compounding of medicines, making of waters, syrrups, oyles, electuaries, conserves, salts, pils, purges, and trochischs. With two particular treatises; the one of feavers; the other of pestilence; as also other rare and choice aphorisms, fitted to the understanding of the meanest capacities. Never publisht before in any of his other works. By Nicholas Culpeper, late student in astrology and physick.	Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.	1655 (1655)	Wing C7518; Thomason E1464_2; ESTC R22796	103,545	286

clenseth so much the more it hinders conglutination XII Therefore speciall regard must be had of the time that the clensing things be given at beginning and glutinative at the latter end XIII Thus you see what things are accidentally Pectorall viz. such as are Emollient or cut tough viscous flegm or make thick thin defluctions or qualifie sharpe humours or ease the roughnesse of the Artery XIV Such are Naturall Pectoralls whose Genuine property is to strengthen the Breast and Lungs CHAP. III. Of Cordialls I. AS the brain is the seat of the Sences so is the heart of the Affections it is also the fountaine of Life and the originall of Heat II. Its properties are two 1. To give Life to the Body by its heat 2. To give vigour to the Will by its affections III. Such things as cheer the minde strengthen the heart it selfe or refresh the spirits are called Cordialls IV. Yet are not all Cordialls of one and the same nature for whereas the heart is variously troubled either with anger or love or fear or hatred or sadnesse or other affections it is refreshed either by temperating or taking away the same V. But although such things as cause Love or mitigaty Anger or take away Feare or Sadnesse c. may properly be called Cordialls yet belong they not to my scope at this time if my secrets in nature will not yet furnish you with them you may in time have those that may VI. The truth is these are afflictions of the Minde or that which I hold to be the Soule and therefore are of a higher nature than this Treatise aims at VII For I hold Man to consist of three parts a Spirit which goes to God that gave it a Soule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and a Body which is terrene and must returne to the Earth from whence it came VIII My scope is here to speak of those things which properly afflict the heart IX The heart is afflicted by too much heat by poysons by filthy vapours X. Against these the heart is assisted in a threefold manner viz. by cooling the heat of Feavers resisting poyson and strengthning the heart by a peculiar property XI Yet whatsoever cools is not Cordiall for Lead is as cool as Pearls yet is not a Cordiall as Pearls are XII Neither whatsoever resists Poyson is Cordiall but onely such as succour the heart oppressed by it XIII Such things as resist Poyson are called Alexiteria and Alexipharmica XIV N●ither doe they all operate after one and the same manner for some strengthen the heart against Poyson in generall others by a certain Antipathy are opposed to one particular kinde of Poyson XV. Such things as strengthen the heart doe it either by planetary Influence which Doctors call a hidden way because it is hidden from such who instead of viewing the wonders of God in the Creation are filling their pockets with his Dunghill XVI Or else they doe it by similitude of substance XVII Or else by a forcible drawing away of what offends it XVIII And indeed all Cordialls may be called by the name of Alexiteria or Antidotes or counter poysons because they strengthen the heart which is the nature of poysons to assault however it seemed otherwise to Physicians XIX So then as Smells refresh the Animall Spirits Aromaticalls the Naturall so such things as keep melancholly vapours from the heart refresh the vitall spirit of Man CHAP. IV. Of Stomachicals I. MEdicines appropriated to the Ventricle are called Stomachicalls although the Stomach be not the Ventricle but the Orifice of it or the inferiour part of the throat which you will II. The Ventricle is afflicted with three kindes of Maladies 1. Appetite lost 2. Concoction weakned 3. The retentive faculty viciated III. To provoke appetite Those things which provoke appetite are usually of a gratefull sharpenesse IV. These by the Latines are called Orectica after the Greek name V. But although appetite be hindred by diverse causes as the Stomach repleated by Chollar or putrefied humours c. yet those things which purge these are not properly called Orecticks but onely such things as by sharpnesse contract the Stomach and by a gratefull tast delight it VI. Those things further concoction Concoction which either cherish the Ventricle by convenient heat or Aromaticall faculty or strengthen it by Astrall propriety VII Of which latter take this one the internall skin of the * V●z he● G●zz●●d Ventricle of a Hen helpeth concoction exceedingly nothing like it and thereby resisteth all diseases proceeding from want of digestion which are as frequent as Atomes in the Sunne VIII The Retentive faculty being viciated Retention causeth belching vomiting and fluxes IX These are corrected by astringent Medicines and yet some astringent Medicines are very adverse to the Stomach therefore use onely such as are Stomachicall X. The way of use Orecticks ought not be given to a foule Stomach XI Such things as help Concoction the Greeks call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and they ought to be given before meat XII The reasons are 1. Because heat is to be stirred up in the inferior not in the superiour part of the Ventricle 2. Because the Ventricle ought to be made warm before it receive the food XIII The manner of administration of such things as binde the Ventricle is to be regulated according to the end of giving them XIV Against vomiting give them after repast against Fluxes before XV. For being given after they drive the nourishment downwards and are more subject to cause a Fluxe than to stop it CHAP. V. Of Hepaticals I. HEpaticks may be divided into these three divisions 1. Such as delight the Liver 2. Such as adde strength to it 3. Such as take away its vices II. Taste and Appetite are sent before and committed to the Tongue and Stomach for the dignotion of food by which both the quality and quantity is judged III. The Meseraick veins also have their office to draw convenient nourishment IV. Such things then are delightfull to the Liver which are delightfull to these V. I put all these together because many times Taste and Appetite affect that which the Meseraik veines dislike and that 's the reason many times men affect those meats which agree not with them VI. Also the Liver is delighted with some Medicines as well as nourishments VII For all such things as are sweet the Liver greedily draweth to it VIII Such things as strengthen the Liver doe gently binde IX For concoction requires adstriction to keep together both the heat and the humor to be concocted least it be dispersed X. Yet the Liver needs not so great adstrictions as the Stomach because the passages of the Ventricle are more open and large but the veines of the Liver by which it either draws the chyle or distributes the blood to the rest of the body therefore the adstriction must not be great least it obstruct the Liver or hinder the distribution of