Selected quad for the lemma: sense_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
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
A24961	An Account of the causes of some particular rebellious distempers viz. the scurvey, cancers in women's breasts, &c. vapours, and melancholy, &c. weaknesses in women, &c. gout, fistula in ano, dropsy, agues, &c. : together with the vertues and uses of a select number of chymical medicines studiously prepar'd for their cure and adapted to the constitutions and temperaments of all ages and both sexes / by an eminent practitioner in physick, surgery and chymistry ...		1670 (1670)	Wing A259; ESTC R7121	53,236	92

afflict Mankind being generally the most uncomfortable lasting and dangerous It truly and most stupendously repairs weak Memories bad Eye-sight and Hearing being inwardly taken and outwardly made use of and strengthens and preserves the same removing dulness drowsiness and heaviness from the Spirits and Senses rendring the Intellectuals lively quick and apprehensive c. being peculiarly adapted to remove all Head-diseases even to help such that are craz'd whose Senses are almost gone occasioned from over-whelming Perplexities for which and all Discontents vain Fears foolish Fantas●es and Imaginations which discompose and enslave the Mind hurry and disorder the Spirits thereby hurting the Brain impairing the Memory Sight Hearing c. it has been experienc'd to do more than many other Medicines of greater repute It comforts and strengthens the Brain and Nerves powerfully refreshes the Sensitive Faculties relieves the Animal Spirits being excellent also in several other Diseases of the Head whether recent or inveterate as Stuffings of the Head Colds Catarrhs or defluxions of Rheum whether upon the Eyes Nose Teeth Palate c. cures the Palsie of the Tongue running Sores or Imposthumes in the Ears being admirable against Deafness or thickness of Hearing noise and pains in the Ears c. swellings of the Throat Jaws and the like from a defluxion of Humours It is a certain Remedy in the Apoplexy both for Prevention and Cure that Distemper of late being very frequent and fatal and will do more in that case than any Person is aware if it be inwardly taken and outwardly us'd in the beginning of the Disease and reiterated in the Intervals of time as necessity requires it discussing Flatulencies absorbing the Acid Humour which are many times the original Causes of the Disease attracting or drawing away the Morbifick Matter from the Parts affected destroying and carrying it off the right way that the the like can scarcely be done by any other Medicines In the Megrim Vertigo Giddiness or Swimming in the Head and in the most cruel vehement and inveterate Head-achs they do wonders taking away the Pain in many Persons in 3 or 4 minutes time and that with the use of it inwardly taken and a little snuft up the Nostrils and the Head Temples Forehead and behind the Ears being bathed therewith and that so perfectly as never to return more from that present Cause This I can assure you upon my own Experience for they radically cure after all other things have been found ineffectual and when the hope of Cure has been past by removing the cause or occasion thereof without doubt in the cases of an old and vehement Head-ach Giddiness Swimming c. whether continual or coming by Fits it has no equal in the whole World This Tincture and the English Pills before mentioned cured a Woman that had the Head-ach from her Minority so violently sometimes that it was thought she would be distracted and at all times so extream as to make Life very uncomfortable and unfit for the doing of any Business and this was done with only two Boxes of Pills and two Bottles of the Tincture tho' she had gone through Courses of Physick with Blistering Cupping Shaving c. for near 20 Years together to little or no purpose In the Palsie and Dead-Palsie as some call it it is the greatest and noblest Medicament known for being taken inwardly and also used outwardly it takes away the benumedness of the Parts and restores its Sense and feeling curing the shaking or trembling of the Head and Members arising from weakness and relaxation of the Nerves caused either by old Age or a coldness of Humours and so strengthens those Parts affected that they seem to put new life into them again Nor do know or believe there can be any equal to it for the Cure of the Epilepsie or Falling Sickness and that not only in Children proceeding from Faults of the Stomach Wind corrupted Food Worms c. but also in elder Persons it having cured in both Sexes of 20 30 and 40 Years of Age having done so great Cures of that kind which should they be related they would not easily be believed except by those who were Eye-witnesses of the same and likewise it cures Convulsion Fits almost to a Miracle for it digests that pituitous Humour which so much abounds in such Persons by exciting their inward heat and strengthening the Brain which is in many Persons the cause of this Disease it separating and consuming in the Stomach and Bowels those Acrid and Malign Vapours which ascend to the Brain and which by pricking with their sharp Points the Membranes and Nervous Filaments excite and induce this terrible Disease This Medicine by its subtle and penetrative Particles enter into the very substance of the Nerves opens their Pores removes their Obstructions refreshes and causes a free course and circulation of the Animal Spirits it acuates or sharpens all the Senses both internal and external facilitates and expedites the motions of the Members thro' the whole Body And by taking this Tincture inwardly and using it at the same time outwardly warms comforts and strengthens the Brain and Nerves after a very wonderful manner thereby helping the weakness of the Sight strengthning the Eyes fortifying the visive Faculties and Nerves and multiplies and clears the Animal and Visive Spirits taking away Darkness Clouds Vapours c. which obfuscates the Sight or obstructs the Optick Nerves But during taking the Tincture in all the several cases before spoken of it is necessary now and then to purge gently with the English Pills aforemention'd which together with the Tincture performs after a wonderful manner and proves thereby the most absolute and exquisite Method that the World can afford Directions TAKE of the Tincture 60 80 or 100 Drops more or less as your Distemper requires and that in extremities twice thrice or four times a Day well mix'd in a Glass of Sack or other Wine taking it the first thing in the Morning and the last thing at Night and once or twice in the Day time at convenient distances but if the case be not extream,6o or 80 Drops Night and Morning will be sufficient and this do daily as well those days you take the Pills as not without any observation as to Diet or Confinement it being not Purging but cures by a Specifick Property and such as care not to take it in Wine may take it in Ale or Beer or in Sage or Rosemary Tea but then they must drink it off immediately well stirring it Also in Pains of the Head Megrim Apoplexies Palsies and all other the Distempers of the Brain and Nerves for outward use pour a little of it into the Palm of your Hand and snuff it up your Nostrils doing so twice or thrice in a day and in extremities oftner bathing also some of it in with your Hand all over the Head Neck Forehead Temples upon the Eye-brows behind the Ears rubbing it in without the use of any Fire it will sink