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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
A59999	A short compendium of chirurgery containing its grounds & principles : more particularly treating of imposthumes, wounds, ulcers, fractures & dislocations : also a discourse of the generation and birth of man, very necessary to be understood by all midwives and child-bearing women : with the several methods of curing the French pox, the cure of baldness, inflammation of the eyes, and toothach, and an account of blood-letting, cup-setting, and blooding with leeches / by J.S., M.D.	J. S. (John Shirley), M.D.; Shirley, John, 1648-1679.	1678 (1678)	Wing S3496; ESTC R38236	39,001	140

mal non ha morte chél pensar a morire E chi morir pur duce quanto piu tosto more Tanto piu tosto al suo morir sinvola A Faculty is a certain disposition of the Body whereby it can do something though it may be it doth it not so that it is only a power of acting It s division is needless since it is but one power though it produceth several actions according to the Vacuity of its Organs A Function is described the exercise of a Faculty and is only distinguisted in Natural and Animal Pulse being referred by the Moderns to sanguification whereof we have spoken in the Theorem of Blood and Respiring to motion of which will be said hereafter The Natural Function is divided in 1. Nutrition 2. Growth 3. Generation To the first whereof the Antients made four others to be subservient for as Dykes saith of the Soul Here she attracts and there she doth retain Here she decocts and doth the food prepare There she distributes it to every Vein And here expels what she may fitly spare Yet the Moderns do exclude from thence all similary attraction and retention Deglution being performed by Detrusion only the several parts of the Mouth the Tongue the OEsophague c. contributing thereunto Retention being also effected by the Oblique Fibres of the Stomack but Hunger is produced by the sourish Vapors of the acid in the Stomack which do gently Vellicate its upper Orifice and the apparent cause of Thirst is the want of moisture To Concoction three others are subordinate 1. Chylification 2. Sanguification 3. Assimilation The two first whereof together with Expulsion are explained in the describing of Humours so that only Assimilation and Growth are here to be expounded which take thus When the Arteries begin to swell as aforesaid the particles of the Blood which in them are convey'd to the roots of certain filaments issuing from the ends of the smallest Arteries whereby they compose the Bones Flesh Skin c. according to the various manner of their application and contexture or directed by the same Plastick virtue whereby the said parts were formed which they nourish something distending them and intruding themselves in their vacancies where they remain when the Arteries return to their former state And Growth is likewise effected The pores of the matter of Chi●drens Bodies being easily extended whereby some particles of the Blood a little greater than those whose places they fill may enter and subsist therein which cannot be longer done when their Limbs are grown more solid Generation is a Function whereby a man produceth another like to himself whereunto the Antients did subordain two others 1. Alteration 2. Conformation Which the Moderns do rather attribute to the Plastick virtue of the Seed though denyed by Rhegius and other Cartesians who affirm That the particles of the Seed moved by its own heat and that of the Uterus because of their various figures are necessarily turned into the Brood of an animal whereunto they since attribute the whole formation of the Foetus without the Function of any intellectual faculty directing it The Animal function is divided in 1. Principal 2. Moving 3. Sensitive Whereof the first comprehends these three viz. 1. Imagination whereby all Objects Species offered to the external senses are perceived and discerned 2. Reasoning whereby a man discourseth and understands 3. Memory whereby the Species of things perceived conceived and understood are preserved whereof will be further spoken in the period of Sensation Motion is thus performed The most vivid and quickest particles of the Blood such as we may conceive the Vital Spirits do ascend from the left Ventricle of the Heart through the Caroties and Cervical Arteries into the Cavities of the Brain where they are turned into a subtile flame or wind usually called the Animal Spirits which being driven by grosser particles do not enter in the Pineal Glandule Steno having shewed us how unapt it is thereunto but in some yet unknown more convenient place of the Head whence they sally out into the Cavities of the Brain and the pores of its substance to be thence conveyed into the Nerves where they have a power which the learned Willis calleth Elastick to change the figure of the Muscles and so move the whole Body To this manner of moving Respiration is also to be referred for the Muscles of the Thorax drawing it up the Lungs to avoid vacuity are extended whereby their small cavities are opened and receive the inspired Air which is again excluded in expiration when the Lungs following the restriction of the Abdomen their said Cavities are again straightned The Sensitive Function is the exercise of the five external Senses which comparatively to certain Beasts are comprised in these two Verses Nos Aper Auditu praecellit Aranea Tactu Vultur Odoratu Lynx Visu Simia Gustu That is The Bore excels in Hearing and the Spider By sence of Touch is a subtil divider The Vul●ers Smell th' Apes Taste and Lynxes Sight Excells the Man by far that solid Wight Their respective Instruments are 1. The Eyes of Seeing in the Retin● 2. The Ears of Hearing in the Auditory Nerve 3. The Nose of Smelling not through the Os Cribriforme which is not pierced as the Antients conceived but by the Apophysces Mammillares or the extremities of the Nerves 4. The Tongue of ●asting by the Papillary eminencies noted by Bellinus whence Savours are conducted to the Filaments of the 4 and 7 pair of the Nerves that end there 5. The Skin of Touching by the Pyramidal papils observed by Malpigius and esteemed the extremities of the Nerves of the sixth pair ending in it Sensation is performed as followeth When the small Filaments of the Sinews are in the least moved by the Objects of the senses they draw to them the parts of the Brain from whence they take Origin whereby they open some pores of the inward superficy of it through which the animal Spirits being derived into the Nerves and Muscles do excite those motions which we perceive our senses being thus or so affected which is to be understood of all Sensation and if the said spirits having the Impression of some Id●a conceived or also discerned in some fit place of the Brain as Cartesius esteemed the Pin●al Gland●le do often pass through the same pores of the Brains texture they do dilate them so that the Objects being absent they may be represented to the Soul whence Memory doth depend But if opening one or more of them some others are dilated Reminiscency is effected and if the traces of the Ideas are conveyed by the smal Ar●eries to the heart and diffuse their beams throughout the mass of Blood it may thence proceed that the Foster is sometimes noted with certain markes Sleep is a Cessation of Motion and of the External Senses and is produced when the Braines substance is not sufficiently ●istended by the Spirits aforesaid or when it is over●whelmed with

Vapours for in these cases it falls together and oppresseth the Nerves of the several Sen●es that their Objects cannot be transmitted And Dreams which happen during Sleep have their origin partly ●rom the inequality of the Spirits issuing ●rom the Souls Domicil and partly from the occurring impressions of Memory Spirits are defined A thin invisible aethere all and most quick substance arising from the subtilest parts of the Blood t● be the Vehicle of all necessary actions The Antients did divide it in 1. Implanted 2. Adventitious Whereof the first is denyed by some who conceive it impossible that the● same cause acting in the same manner should last so long and produce so many and often contrary Functions They were formerly divided as th● Faculties were in 1. Natural 2. Vital 3. Animal But Sylvius de le Boe admits none bu● the Animal and other Moderns the V●● tal under which they comprehend th● Natural and the Animal taking th● subtilest parts of the Blood arising fro●● the left Ventricle of the Heart for th● first which are turned in the Brains int● the Animal serving First To sundry motions of the Sou● and Body Secondly To the exercising of the internal and external Senses 3. To the alteration of Humours Native Heat is a proper and special quality to all animated creatures whereby they live and exercise their functions uses and necessary operations Thus I think to have briefly explained not only the Natural things but also their Annexes except the manner of living which if it be watry and moist ●s obnoxious to diseases of that temper but if it be hot and dry the contrary must be expected In sum it appears by the Premises that the Body of Man is a Microcosme composed of several parts wonderfully effig●r●ted and adorned with sundry Functions created to be for a certain time the Domicil or dwelling place of the Rational Soul so that not without cause the German Poet exclaimes O Edles wundertheir zur weisheit auserkohren Uoll geist voll luft voll got vom himmel selbst gebohren Du Herr du Eben bild und auszug allerwelt Der unter ies den lauff der hohen sterner stelt Du weise Creatuur c. O thou noble Animal wonder to wisdom chosen Full of Spirit and God from Heaven it self rosen Thou Lord Type and extract of the whole Univers Disposing under thee the course of the high stars Thou creature full of Wit c. Those things are called not natural which do not enter in the Bodies composition but by a right use whereof it may long be maintained healthful and sound They are 1. Air. 2. Eating and Drinking 3. Motion and Quiet 4. Sleeping and Watching 5. Repletion and Evacuation 6. The Passions of the mind In the administration of all which we ought to consider 1. The Quality 2. Quantity 3. Manner of Using A free open serene and thin Air is to be esteemed the best as also the East and North Winds but the South and Western are held unwholsom The simpler our diet is the healthful●er it is to be esteemed for as Hora●e saith the variety of meat is very noxious viz. nam variae res Ut noceant homini credas memor illius escae Que simplex olim tibi sederit at simul assis Miscueris elixa simul conchilia turdis Dulcia se in bilem vertent stomachoque tumultum Lenta feret pituita vides ut pallidus omnis Coenâ desurgit dubiâ That thou mayst know how various things offend Think but what single meat did once defend Thee from approaching hunger but at last Roasted with boyld and Birds with Shels thou hast Together mixt In Choler what is sweet Will turn it self and thy Stomack surfeit With slimy Phlegm Consider then how pale Each riseth from his Seat and doubtful Meal Meats affording a good juice and substance are doubtless the wholsomest and nevertheless in expending them the sicknesses nature the strength age and labour of the Patient are to be perspicuously considered whereunto an inveterate custom is to be added for Country Men and Labourers convert meats of an easy digestion into Choler but extract a laudable substance of a courser● diet and thus Consuetudo valet longos mansura per annos Illaque Naturam vires si sumpserit aequat A constant use a second nature proves And if increast with equal force it moves Neither did the Antients neglect Order in Eating for they esteemed that what was easily decocted should enter first into the Stomach and that Lubrick meat ought to precede those that are Astringent But it is now believed that those niceti●s may be omitted since the Aliments are all converted in one mass whence the Chylus is afterward separated Whereunto I shall only add these two Verses of Drinking Aut nulla ebrietas aut tanta sit ut tibi curas Eripiat si quae est inter utrumque nocet Be never Drunk or so much let it be As to asswage thy Cares else 't will hurt thee Motion comprehends all kind of exercises the same ought to be moderate and we ought to leave it when Sweat begins to break out through the Pores for immoderate Labour weakens the Body and is very pernicious as Ovid saith of himself Me quoque debilitat semis immensa Laborum Ante meum tempus cogit esse senem Otia corpus alunt animus quoque pascitur illis Immodicus contra carpit utrumque labor Continual Toyl weakens my weary Limbs And makes me Old before my time be come Body and Mind by Rest are fed it seems But too much Work precipitates their doom Sleep as we said before Is a cessation from motion and sence whose Office is the restoring of the Bodies former strength It s proper time is Night an hour or two after Supper The first lying not being first on the Right Side as many believe but on the Left where the bottom of the Stomach is and the meat ought to lye and about morning when concoction is ended on the Right neither should it exceed the space of Fight hours wherewith if some are not satisfied certainly the sooner Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt The Fates will give sufficient time to sleep Dreams do in some manner indicate what ex●retion will be in the Crisis for if red and fiery they presage a Cholerick one if moist and watry a Phlegmatick Moderate watching quickens the senses and diffuseth heat and blood through the whole Body But if it be immoderate it weakens the same dries up the Spirits and spoiles the brains Temperature Repletion is either of quality or of quantity The first is seen in the Hectick Feaver or Marasmus The second hath a relation to the containing parts and is measured by their distention or to the Bodies strength when the same is fuller of humours than it can well bear The repletion of a single humour is called Cacochimy that of more Pletora Evacuation in the strictest sence Is an effusion of such humours as are superfluous