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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	blood_n	part_n	vein_n	2,409	5	9.8272	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44320	Lectiones Cutlerianæ, or, A collection of lectures, physical, mechanical, geographical, & astronomical made before the Royal Society on several occasions at Gresham Colledge : to which are added divers miscellaneous discourses / by Robert Hooke ...	Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703.	1679 (1679)	Wing H2617; ESTC R4280	276,083	420

dying man he continually expectorated sometimes grumous coagulated Blood otherwhiles very recent now purulent foetid matter then laudable pus His natural aversion to Medicine caused him to reject what was advised by Dr. Bidgood Dr. Lower Dr. Sprage c. saving a few of the more slight mixtures And although Sack had been formerly very familiar to him he was now forced to shun it and all strong Drinks because they would infallibly produce a Cardialgia a pulsant throbbing of the Heart and labouring in his Breast the first of these perhaps proceeded from his Constitution which inclined to Choler but the latter undoubtedly from the effervescency and warm motion to which it enforced the Blood which the obstruction and pressure the Bullet occasioned in the Pneumatick organs could not peaceably admit of wherefore he resolutely fixed to small Drink and shunned as much as possible all evitable Exercise saving that of his hands which he frequently employed in making Net-work In the Year 1676. he applied himself to our ingenious and learned Country-man Dr Mayow of Bath who agreed with Dr. Bidgood that the remaining Bullet lodging in the Lungs was the occasion of all those ill symptomes under which he laboured but seemed to dissent from his presage by hoping he might expectorate it to atchieve which he directed to have the body suspended head downwards and fumes of Storax Benjamin c. to induce expulsive Coughing together with concussions of the body and all preceded with an opening course to relax and dilate the vessels of the Breast all which were used to no purpose save to verifie Dr. Bidgoods Prognostick that no efflation how violent soever would be able to extrude it and inhaunce the Patients despair of being ever cured from which time he never attempted it so that those symptomes before mentioned continuing until the Winter and then gaining considerably on him especially the Haemoptysis c. he languished till the ninth of December last and then died The tenth Ditto assisted by his Son-in-law I opened the Thorax in presence of two other Chirurgions of the place together with divers persons of Quality whose curiosity led them to see the examination because the Bullets being there was so much doubted by many and disputed as impossible by others In the dissection the following particulars were observable The Body was extenuate and tabid The right lobes of the Lungs were replete sound and well coloured The Serum in the Pericardium was almost all absumed The Heart strangely shrivelled and very small Under the Pericardium the Body being supine we found a lump of coagulated Blood as big as a Pigeons Egg near which lay also a substance shaped like an obtuse headed muscle having a Tendon-like tail which insinuated to the Pendant Lobe Its body was above an half inch thick It s other dimensions and shape exactly like that of the figure X of which A sheweth the head or upper end B the tail which in drawing out of the rotten Lungs being also corrupted broke asunder It s Texture seemed fibrous like that of the Kidneys being white one half way through the rest of a dark red it was very soft and plum having a firm smooth tegument and felt very much like a Sheeps kidney The left Lobe of the Lungs was cadaverous and hollow by an abscess which had discharged near a pint of very foetid and purulent matter into that side of the trunk where it lay immured up by the adhesion of the Lungs on that side to the Pleura which with the Diaphragma as far as the matter extended was livid and eroded We examined this rotten part of the Lungs with what exactness and curiosity we were capable of amidst such a crowd as were present and the more troublesome stench of the Cadaver and found though the whole Parenchyma were rotten and no firmer than coagulated Blood with which it had very near resemblance yet the branches of the Trachea continued into it were uncorrupt and sound nor in any of them could we find what we very confidently presumed to be there viz. the Bullet Wherefore I resolved to seek it the way by which it must have entred and accordingly dividing the Trachea at its insertion to the Lungs I thrust in a bended Probe to the left branch and there felt him lying loose about two inches within it which with my fingers I easily expressed at the divided end of the pipe to do which I laid it bare so far as where the Bullet had lodged and I protest to my wonder I found it not any way injured or altered by hardness erosion c. though the Bullet had divers impressions from the later The sanguiferous vessels though lacerated and cut in the dissection did yield little or no Blood either fluid or coagulate Thus far is true History and matter of fact I must now beg your pardon if I presume to give my sense and apprehension of some of those Phaenomena here related The extenuation of the body the absumption of the serum in the Heart-bag and the contraction of the Heart were the effects of the Tabes and that occasioned by the Bullets injuring the Lungs and pectoral vessels The lump of coagulate blood found under the Heart-bag was extravasate from the rotted veins and arteries of the Lungs That strange substance lodged between the Pericardium and the Bullet was either a Polypus and the excrescence of some part or it was generated by nature and substituted for a cushion to defend the Heart from injury by so uneasie a neighbour That Polypuses have been found in the Heart is affirmed by Nicolas Tulpius Marcellus Malpighius G. Garnarus c. but their shape and texture differing vastly from that of ours giveth reason to believe this to be none especially considering that they all excrescing from the Heart or some carneous part are inseparably united and radicated to their original and are spungy whereas this was nothing less having no root nor so much as an adhesion any where saving at the tail the small end of which being rotted by the Lungs into which it continued did easily divide upon my endeavour to draw it out the body of it also lay loose in the aforesaid interstice and as easily slipped out as a Wen or a Struma when the containing parts are opened It s substance was not fungous but of a soft firmness like a Kidney and in what ever circumstances it may resemble a Polypus as it doth the figure of that of the Nose vide N. Tulpii oh med.lib 1. obs 26. yet it also differs from all other excrescences crescences besides in what hath been mentioned in that it was not rooted in any fleshy bony or musculous part and such the Lungs are well known not to be it must therefore be the strupendious effect of Natures industry and laid as a cushion to defend the Heart c. It s composition being so delicately soft and yet firm enough for such a purpose Its magnitude situation c. concurring