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sense_n	body_n	motion_n	nerve_n	1,652	5	10.7938	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01454	Historie naturall and experimentall, of life and death. Or of the prolongation of life. Written in Latine by the Right Honorable Francis Lo. Verulam, Vis-count St. Alban; Historia vitae et mortis. English	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. Instauratio magna.; Rawley, William, 1588?-1667.	1638 (1638)	STC 1158; ESTC S100506	99,149	463

For as for the Deadly Hiccough it is a Kinde of 〈◊〉 But the Deadly Labour of the Pulse hath that unusuall Swiftnesse Because the Heart at the point of Death doth so tremble that the Systole and Diastole thereof are almost consounded There is also conjoyned in the Pulse aweaknesse and Lownesse and oftentimes a great Intermission Because the Motion of the Heart faileth And is not able to rise against the Assault stoutly or constantly 30 The Immediate preceding Signes of Death are Great Vnquietnesse and Tossing in the Bed Fumbling with the Hands Catching and Grasping hard Gnashing with the Teeth Speaking hollow Trembling of the Neather Lip Palenesse of the Face The Memory confused Speechlesnesse Cold Sweats The Body shooting in Length Lifting up the White of the Eye Changing of the whole Visage As the Nose sharp Eyes Hollow Cheekes fallen Contraction and Doubling of the Tongue Coldnesse in the Extreme Parts of the Body In some shedding of Bloud or Sperme Shriking Breathing thick and short Falling of the Neather Chap And such like 31 There follow Death A Privation of all Sense and Motion As well of the Heart and Arteries As of the Nerves and Joynts An Inability of the Body to support it selfe uprigh Stifnesse of the Nerves and Parts Extreme Coldnesse of the whole Body After a little while Patrefaction and Stinking 32 Eeles Serpents and the Insecta will move a long time in every part after they are cut asunder Insomuch that Countrey People think that the Parts strive to joyne together againe Also Birds will flutter a great while after their Heads are pulled off And the Hearts of Living Creatures will pant a long time after they are plucked out I remember I have seene the Heart of one that was bowelled As suffering for High Treason That being cast into the Fire leaped at the first at least a Foot and Halfe in Heighth And after by degrees lower and lower For the space as we rememher ber of seven or eight Minutes There is also an ancient and credible Tradition of an Oxe Lowing after the 〈◊〉 were plucked out But there is a more certaine Tradition of a Man who being under the Executioners Hand for High Treason After his Heart was plucked out and in the Executioners Hand Was heard to utter three or foure words of Prayer which therefore we said to be more credible than that of the Oxe in Sacrifice Because the Friends of the partie suffering do usually give a Reward to the Executioner To dispatch his Office with the more speed That they may the sooner bee rid of their Paine But in Sacrifices wee see no Cause why the Priest should bee so speedy in his Office 33 For Reviving those againe which fall into sudden Swownings and Catalepses or Astonishments In which Fits many without present Help would utterly expire These Things are used Putting into their Mouths water distilled of Wine which they call Hot Waters and Cordiall Waters Bending the Body Forwards Stopping the Mouth and Nosthrils hard Bending or Wringing the Fingers Pulling the Haires of the Beard or Head Rubbing of the Parts especially the Face and Legs sudden Casting of Cold Water upon the Face shreeking out aloud and suddenly Putting Rose-water to the Nosthrils with Vinegar in Faintings Burning of Feathers or Cloth in the Suffocation of the Mother But especially a Frying Pan heated red hot is good in Apoplexies Also a Close Embracing of the Body hath helped some There have beene many Examples of Men in shew Dead Either laid out upon the Cold Floare Or carried sorth to 〈◊〉 Nay of some Buried in the Earth which notwithstanding have lived againe which hath beene found in those that were buried The Earth being afterwards opened By the Bruising and Wounding of their Head through the strugling of the Body within the Coffin Whereof the most Recent and Memorable Example was that of Ioannes Scotus Called the Subtile and a Schooleman who being digged up againe by his Servant unfortunately absent at his Buriall And who knew his Masters Manner in such Fits Was found in that State And the like happended in our Dayes in the Person of a Player buried at Cambridge I remember to have heard of a certaine Gentleman That would needs make Triall in Curiositie what men did feele that were hanged So hee fastened the Cord about his Necke raising himselfe upon a Stoole and then letting himselfe fall Thinking it should bee in his power to recover the Stoole at his pleasure which he failed in But was helped by a Friend then present He was asked afterward what he felt He said Hee felt no paine But first he thought he saw before his Eyes a great Fire and Burning Then hee thought he saw all Black and Darke Lastly it turned to a pale Blew or Sea-water-Greene which Colour is also often seene by them which fall into Snownings I have heard also of a Physician yet Living Who recovered a Man to Life which had hanged Himselfe And had hanged halfe an Houre By Frications and Hot Baths And the same Physician did professe that he made no doubt to recover any Man that had hanged so long so his Neck were not broken with the first Swing The Differences of Youth and Old Age. 1 THe Ladder of Mans Bodie is this To be Conceived To be Quickned in the Wombe To bee Borne To Sucke To be Weaned To Feed upon Pap To Put forth Teeth the First time about the Second yeare of Age To Begin to goe To Begin to speake To Put forth Teeth the Second time about seven years of Age To come to Pubertie about twelve or fourteene yeares of Age To be Able for Generation and the Flowing of the Menstrua To have Haires about the Legges and Arme-holes To Put forth a Beard And thus long and sometimes later to Grow in Stature To come to full years of Strength and Agility To grow Gray and Bild The Ceasing of the Menstrua and Ability to Generation To grow Decrepit and a Monster with Three Legs To Die Meane while the Mind also hath certaine Periods But they cannot be described by yeares As to decay in the Memory and the like Of which hereafter 2 The Differences of Youth and Old Age are these As Young Mans Skin is Smooth and Plaine An Old Mans Dry and Wrinkled Especially about the Forchead and Eyes A young Mans Flesh is Tender and Soft An old Mans Hard A young Man hath Strength and Agilitie An old Man feeles Decay in his Strength and is Slow of Motion A young Man hath good Disgestion An old Man Bad A young Mans Bowells are Soft and Succulent An old Mans Sale and Parched A young Mans Body is Erect and Straight An Old Mans Bowing and Crooked A young Mans Limbs are steady An old Mans Weake and Trembling The Humors in a young Man are Cholerick and his Bloud inclined to Heat In an old Man Phlegmatick and Melancholick and his Bloud inclined to Cold nesse A young Man Readie for the Act of

The Islanders of Corcyra were Ancienely accounted Long liv'd But now they live after the rate of other Men. Hippocrates Côus the Famous Physician lived an hundred and foure yeares And approved and credited his own Art by so long a life A Man that coupled learning and wisdom together Very conversant in Experience and Observation One that hunted not after Words or Methods But severed the very Nerves of Science and so propounded them Demonax a Philosopher not only in Profession but Practice lived in the Daies of Adrian almost to an Hundred yeares A Man of an High Minde and a Vanquisher of his owne Mind And that truly and without Affectation A Contemner of the World and yet Civill and courteous when his Friends spake to him about his Buriall he said Take no Care for my Buriall For Stench will bury a Carleaise They replyed Is it your Minde then to be cast out to Birds and Dogs He said againe Seeing in my life time I endevoured to my uttermost to benefit Men what hurt is it if when I am dead I benefit 〈◊〉 Certain Indian People called Pandorae are exceedingly long Liv'd Even to no lesse than Two Hundred yeares They adde a Thing more Marvellous That having when they are Boyes an Haire somewhat whitish In their old Age before their gray haires they grow coale blacke Though indeed this be every where to be seene That they which have white 〈◊〉 whilest they are Boyes in their Mans estate change their Haires into a Darker colour The Seres another People of India with their Wine of Palmes are accounted Long Livers Even to an hundred and thirtie yeares Euphranor the Grammarian grew old in his Schoole And taught Schollers when he was above an hundred yeares old The Elder Ovid father to the Poet lived Ninety yeares Differing much from the disposition of his Son For hee contemned the Muses and disswaded his Son from Poetry Asinius Pollio intimate with Augustus exceeded the Age of an Hundred years A Man of an unreasonable Profusenesse Eloquent a Lover of Learning But Vehement Proud Cruell And one that made his Private Ends the Center of his Thoughts There was an Opinion that Seneca was an extreme Old Man No lesse than an Hundred and fourteene yeares 〈◊〉 Age Which could not 〈◊〉 be It being as 〈◊〉 that a Decrepit old 〈◊〉 should bee set over 〈◊〉 Youth As on the contrary it was true that he was able to manage with great 〈◊〉 the Affaires of State Besides a little before in the Midst of Claudius his Reigne hee was banished Rome 〈◊〉 Adulteries committed with some Noble Ladies which was a Crime no wayes competible with so extreme old Age. Ioannes de Temporibus amongst all the Men of our latter Ages out of a common Fame and vulgar Opinion was reputed Long-liv'd even to a Miracle Or rather even to a Fable His Age hath been counted above three Hundred yeares He was by Nation a French Man And followed the Warres under Charles the Great Gartius Aretine Great Grand-Father to Petrarch arrived at the Age of an Hundred and foure yeares He had ever enjoyed the Benefit of good Health Besides at the last He felt rather a Decay of his strength than any Sicknesse or Maladie which is the true Resolution by old Age. Amongst the Venetians there have been found not a few long Livers and those of the more eminent sort Franciscus Donatus Duke Thomas Contarenus Procuratour of Saint Marke Franciscus Molinus Procuratour also of Saint Mark Others But most Memorable is that of Cornarus the Venetian who being in his youth of a sickly Body began first to eat and drink by measure to a certaine weight Thereby to recover his Health This Cure turned by use into a Diet That Diet to an extraordinary Long Life Even of an Hundred years and better without any Decay in his Senses And with a constant Enjoying of his Health In our Age William Postell a French-Man lived to an hundred and well nigh twenty yeares The Top of his Beard on the upper Lip being black and not Gray at all A Man crazed in his Braine and of a Fancie not altogether Sound A great Traveller Mathematician and somewhat stained with Heresie 20 I suppose there is scarce a Village with us in England if it be any whit populous but it affords some Man or Woman of Fourescore yeares of Age Nay a few yeares since there was in the Countie of Hereford a Maygame or Morris-Dance consisting of Eight Men whose Age computed together made up eight hundred yeares In so much that what some of them wanted of an hundred others exceeded as much 21 In the Hospitall of Bethleem corruptly called Bedlam in the Suburbs of London there are found from time to time many Mad Persons that live to a great Age. 22 The Ages of Nymphs Fawns and Satyres whom they make to be indeed Mortall but yet exceedingly Long-Liv'd A Thing which Ancient Superstition and the Late Credulitie of some have admitted we account but for Fables and Dreames Especially being that which hath neither Consent with Philosophie nor with Divinity And as touching the Historie of Long-Life in Man by Individuals or next unto Individuals thus much Now we will passe on to Observations by certaine Heads 23 The Running on of Ages and Succession of Generations 〈◊〉 to have no whit abated from the Length of Life For wee see that from the Time of Moses unto these our Dayes the Terme of Mans life hath stood about Fourescore years of Age Neither hath it declined As a man would have thought by little and little No doubt there are Times in every Country wherein Men are longer or shorter liv'd Longer for the most part when the times are barbarous and Men fare lesse deliciously and are more given to Bodily Exercises Shorter when the Times are more Civill and Men abandon themselves to Luxury and Ease But these Things passe on by their Turnes The Succession of Generations alters it not The same no doubt is in other living Creatures For neither Oxen nor Horses nor Sheep nor any the like are abridged of their wonted Ages at this Day And therefore the Great Abridger of Age was the Floud And perhaps some such Notable Accidents As particular Inundations Long Droughts Earth-quakes Or the like may doe the same again And the like Reason is in the Dimension and Stature of Bodies For neither are they lessened by succession of Generations Howsoever Virgil following the vulgar Opinion Divined that After-Ages would bring forth lesser Bodies than the then present whereupon speaking of Plowing up the Emathian and Emonensian Fields He saith Grandiaque effossis mirabitur ofsa sepulchris That After 〈◊〉 shall admire the Great Bones digged up in ancient Sepulchers For wheras it is manifest that there were heretofore Men of Gigantine Statures such as for certaine have beene found in Sicely and elsewhere in ancient Sepulchres 〈◊〉 Caves yet within these 〈◊〉 three Thousand yeares A Time whereof we have sure Memory Those