Selected quad for the lemma: sense_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	animal_n	motion_n	nerve_n	1,659	5	10.9186	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45501	The family dictionary, or, Houshold [sic] companion wherein are alphabetically laid down exact rules and choice physical receipts for the preservation of health ... directions for making oils, ointments, salves, ... chymical preparations, physical-wines, ales and other liquors and descriptions of the virtues of herbs, fruits, flowers ... and parts of living creatures used in medicinal potions, ... likewise directions for cookery, ... also the way of making all sorts of perfumes ... together with the art of making all sorts of English wines, ... the mystery of pickling and keeping all sorts of pickles ... : to which is added as an appendix the explanation of physical terms, bills of fare ... : with the art of carving and many other useful matters / by J.H.	Salmon, William, 1644-1713.; J. H.	1695 (1695)	Wing H66; ESTC R30331	305,220	380

Uterine proper for the Womb. Vulnerary Potion a Drink for healing Wounds A Catalogue of such Instruments and Utensils as are requisite in Pivate Houses for the use of those that are desirous to compound Medicins c. A Great Marble Mortar and another of Brass A Rowler to rowl Lozenges Spatula's of different sizes Copper Pans to make Decoctions An iron Ladle to prepare Lead A Grinding-Stone and Mullet A Pulping-Sieve a Hair-Sieve covered Hippocras-Bags and little Cotten-Blankets for straining Scales and Weights Presses Rasps to rasp Harts-horn Woods Quinces c. A square wooden Frame with a Nail at each corner to hold the Strainer An incision Knife A levatory Probe Syringes to make Injection Forceps to draw Teeth and a Lancet Cupping-Glasses Gallypots Boxes and Glasses to keep Oils Syrups Waters c. Cauteries to make Issues Pipes with Fenestals Needles fit for Sutures Ligatures Bands Swaths of Linnen and Woolen Powders and Waters to stay Bleeding Pledgets Compressers and Boulsters A Bathing-Tub or Chair An Alembick and small Still with Receivers These will pretty well suffice any private Practitioner and if necessity requires any tiling more you may furnish your self at leisure Meat and Drink observed for the contributing to Health and the Preservation of it NOurishment is a necessary Part for the Preservation of Health for as they are temperate or intemperate so good or evil Juices have their Effects in the Body of Men and VVomen as the Food we eat is of hard or easie Concoction or Digestion The Temperate is such Meats as being taken in due order cause no Distemper as Bread well made of VVheat The Intemperate are those that by some quality do alter the State of our Bodies as for example VVine Mustard Garlick Leeks Onions c. do heat and so does Pottage made with hot Herbs as Hyssop Thyme c. Bread made of Barly Grapes and Pottage made with cool Herbs as Lettuce Sorrel c. do cool Some kind of Nourishments breed Flegm some Choler some Melancholy and some Excrements only Those that principally generate good Blood are these viz. Red VVine Milk Eggs the Flesh of Hens Capons and Birds are to be preferred before any other sorts of Flesh either Kid or Veal because they generate better Juice Black and thick VVines breed ill Juice th● like does Beef Goats-flesh but worst of all that of Bulls Brawn and Ram-flesh Bread that is made of yellow and sweet VVheat well drest is best for Nourishment All manner of Pease breed VVind and encrease Melancholy Beans that are green are cold and moist and generate crude Blood and VVind Dried Beans are cold and dry so that the Flowers thereof are much used in Cataplasms that are to dry and cool as in hot Impostumes of the Paps Rice is a great Binder and therefore used in Clysters to stop Lasks it generates thick Juice and Obstructions in the Veins if it be much eaten All Fish do of themselves yield a cold and moist Nourishment and much Flegm yet let the quality of Meat be never so good too much in quantity or unseasonably taken will cause the Nourishment to prove Evil for Gluttony and Intemperance are the greatest Maintainers of the Physicians Therefore if we regard our Healths we should eat and drink to live and not live to eat and drink and certain it is that those who regard their Healths ought to be moderate in both and therefore it is the best way to eat little at a time that there be always a good Appetite and Digestion likewise to keep due order and time in our Meats and Drinks Good VVine is nourishing as also the Liquors of our own Country growth that have Age and Clearness Labour and Rest how thy contribute to Health MOderate Labour or Exercise where the whole Body is actively employed contributes much to Health by stirring the Humours and sweating out what is noxious or offensive but the Body continuing in idleness gathers much Flegm and Excrements which would be dissipated by Exercise for it helps the natural Heat quickens the Spirits makes the Senses the better perform their several Offices opens the Pores of the Body and by perspiration wasts the Excrement that other ways would afflict it finally it comforteth all the Spirit and Members that they may the better undergo their Function In Exercise consider first the time which is the fittest before Meat secondly the manner of the Exercise which is general or particular as playing at Ball or Leaping particularly as when one Part only is exercised as the Legs by walking the Arms by another Motion the Belly is stirred by riding and the Lungs by much Discourse or loud calling Now as there are many Conveniencies by Exercise used in due quality and time so are there many inconveniencies and dangers proceeding from Rest and Idleness as Crudities Obstructions Stone in the Reins and Bladder Gouts and Apoplexy and sundry others and it not only dulleth the principal Instruments of our Body but also of our Mind Sleeping and Waking how they contribute to a healthful Constitution SLeep is a Rest and Quietness of the Body in its 〈◊〉 and a Cessation of the animal Spirits and Faculty 〈…〉 Sense and Motion It fortifieth the Strength 〈…〉 Digestion corrects the Passions of the Mind and is caused when the Brain is possessed with Vapours that ascend which by the Brain 's Coldness are turned into Humours and these close the Conduits of the Nerves for when we are waking the Animal Faculties as Sense Motion and all are at Work but when we sleep the natural Functions are better performed because the Heat goes into the Bowels whereby is made Digestion but this is meant by Sleep in the night but sleeping in the day is hurtfull for the Sun draws the Heat and Spirits unto the outward Parts of the Body and being many times suddenly wakened by Noises c. the Concoction begun is not perfected but it fills the Stomach with Crudities and sowre Belchings and the Brain is filled with gross Vapours and Excrementitious Humidities and is the Cause of divers Sicknesses as Catarrhs c. and in the night not to exceed 8 hours sleeping is the most healthfull because a longer time hinders the Evacuation of the Execrements both upward and downward and the Natural Heat which is not idle draws from them some ill Vapours into the Veins and principal Parts of the Body there to become some Matter for a Disease Also in our lying down to sleep we must observe to do it on the right side that the Digestion may be more easie in the bottom of the Stomach which is hotter and about an hour after if you be waking you may turn on the Left side that the Liver with its Lobes may embrace the Ventricles and as a Fire under a Furnace hasten the Digestion but lye as little as may be on the Back or Face for Excess of the first often causes Inflammations of the Reins and Stone Palsie Convulsions and the usual