Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	artery_n	blood_n	vein_n	5,874	5	10.2889	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07786	The true knowledge of a mans owne selfe. Written in French by Monsieur du Plessis, Lord of Plessie Marly. *And truly translated into English by A.M..	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.; Xenophon. Memorabilia.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1602 (1602)	STC 18163; ESTC S103514	52,106	260

that doe agree with her actions It remayneth therefore to know what vertues are in the Soule in what parts of the body she performes her actions by vvhat meanes how her vertues are extended with the full effects of her strength The Phylosopher numbers fiue seuerall powers in the soule which are discerned by offices organs and obiects that is to say those thinges whereon shee grounds her action The first of these powers or perfections is called vegetatiue which by the meanes of such thinges as doe preserue her namely ayre eating and drinking sleeping and watching rest and motion euacuation of superfluities and the affections of the hart nourishing the bodie doe giue increase and power to beget Nourishment is made by the vertue of naturall heate which conuerts the meat drink into the substaunce of him that takes it The organes instruments which haue vse of this power in operation are those parts of the body appointed to receiue change and transport our foode as are the mouth the pipe or passage of the throate the ventricle the liuer and the veines which doe conuey the blood Howbeit all the bodies parts doe serue to make nourishment conuert the seuerall aliments or sustenaunce into their substaunce whereupon one vvell saith that each part hath his peculiar power to receiue retaine alter and expell The maner how the body is nourished is necessary to be known as well in regarde of health as also behauiour which makes mee the more willing to describe it for all mens easier apprehension When the stomacke or ventricle hath receiued the foode it locks it vp afterward to heate conuert it into a kind of white matter which beeing so changed according to his qualities discends by degrees into the guts and bowels certaine veines wherof doe sucke and draw the very purest best substaunce and so do cary it to the Liuer When it is grosse superfluous it discends into the nether guttes but when it is elaborate and refined by the Liuer then doth it make some ample distribution For the chollerick humour in the greatest part is with-drawne receiued into a little pursse coÌ„monly called the purse of the gaule Mellancholie which is the very grossest and most earthy bloode is sent into the Spleene The part cold dry coÌ„monly called fleame is dispersed by diuers proportions into the veines according to the oppinion of many the very best whereof the kidneies doe drawe to them for theyr nourishment and the rest is caried by vessels attending on the bladder whereof vrine is made in that part What else remaineth of this masse or substance is transported to the hart where the right ventricle thereof receiues and purifies it to the ende it may bee conuenable and fit for nourishment Moreouer one part of the bloode so receiued into the right ventricle of the hart is deriued vnto the left ventricle conuerted into the spirits vitall So called because by them the life natural heate of the bodie is preserued and so are the animall spirits of the braine made which are the instruments of moouing and vnderstanding and of those noble actions that conduct our life Againe from thys right ventricle of the hart is the blood distilled into the veines and from them an apposition commutation of them is conuayed into our substance There are three seuerall digestions made onely to perfect thys nourishment the first is in the ventricle which vulgarly is called the stomack wheÌ„ the food is conuerted into matter dry and white the second is in the Liuer where the said matter is altered takes a kind of red colour the third is in the veines where this matter already coÌ„uerted red and made blood is purified thinned and heated by the vertue and warmth of those spirits which are in the arteries as the nature of sweat doe passe ouer the heads of those arteries and subtilly is mingled with the blood of the veines Heerein truly nature gaue vs the lawe example of communicating our graces gyfts and perfections from one to another for the arteries which are the pypes appoynted for carriage of the spirits where the finest perfectest blood regularlie placed vnder the veines by poares little holes almost imperceptible doe make coÌ„munitie of their spirits with the veines to the end that the bloode of those veines most corsiue and cold might be heated altered subtiled by the meanes of those spirits in recompence of which benefit the veines doe impart theyr blood to the arteries to moisten and temper theyr spyrites which without thys helpe would be verie dry burning and too hote The like argument deriued from nature vseth S. Paule 1 Cor. 12. coÌ„ferring the offices of the bodies members the vtilitie dignitie and coÌ„munication of them with the spirituall graces which god hath distributed to euerie one perticulerly to make a coÌ„plete body an intire church as it were the place is well worth the noting Wee commonly say that the hurte or defect of the first digestion cannot be corrected repaired by the other euen so when the ventricle dooth not iustlie performe his dutie the matter which remayneth ouer-rawe or cruded can neuer ingender good blood Therefore such as giue not due leysure to theyr stomack to make digestion doe fill their bodies with hurtful humours abating and weakening the vertue of theyr stomacke and likewise of theyr liuer whence groweth Palsies trembling or shaking of the members age hastened sooner theÌ„ should be with blisters and bleanes which deforme and much mis-shape the bodie Yet is not this all the inconuenience hurt that ensues heereby for if the blood be impure the spirits made therof cannot be cleere or noble of which spirits are vapours fumes subtilly extracted drawn froÌ„ the blood of which spirits are begotten and heated the left ventricle of the hart made like industrious liuelie sparkles to giue heat and vertue to the parts of nature as both proffer and produce theyr actions These sparkles haue been by reason of their dignitie excellence in so great admiration that diuers entred rashly into this errour that those spirits were the substance of the soule then the impure blood badly digested grosse and disorderly concocted can neuer be made spirites nor by ouergrosse and impure spirits can be doone anie noble actions neyther can the soule be freelie exercised in her offices onely through theyr most harmefull hinderances For we see those men that are giuen to intemperancie be commonlie sleepie dull of slender capacitie not able any long while to contemplate retaine well conferre or vnderstand the order discourse causes and effects of thinges neyther what conuenaunce or difference is among them nor can they promptly or expeditiously apprehend and iudge the benefite or harme which ensueth on any thing taken in hand so great is the intemperance of the mouth Heraclitus the Ephesian by impuritie

but it is also for other vses beside for thereon are placed and imposed infinite veines arteries to the end that by them the menstruall bloode might be caried for the nouriture and encreasing of the fruite which veines arteries haue their originall not only of the spermaticke vessels that is to say those which draw prepare carie this seed but likewise of a great truncke or veine planted and rooted on the liuer This skinne is as it were folded and wrapt about the matrix to the end the sayde matrixe might giue warmth to the fruite round about There is in this wrapper or membrane many small threds of veins or arteries which spreading and extending themselues one among another doe constitute and make two veines and two arteries and in the midst of them a conduit These veines and arteries like rootes of fruite beeing planted in the seede doe make the nauil where by the first sixe dayes nature cloatheth these stringes and threds of veines and arteries and the seede softly boyleth in his folder Then about the seauenth day when the nauill is formed and these veines and arteries ioyned through them is drawn the blood and spirits caried mingled with the saide seede for forming of the principall members For in thys enuellopper there are diuers entries like the entring into some little vault or seller in which entries or concauities they are conioyned together thorow those vaultes the little rootes doe attract blood and spirit And while the seede thus heats boileth it is made like three litle bladders or purses which are the places for the liuer the hart and braine There is then drawn along by a veine proceeding from the nauil some thicke bloode as nourishment vvhich thickens shuts it selfe into the seede The fore-said veine is forked and alongst one of those braunches passeth this blood and settles it selfe to a thicke substance behold then how the liuer is formed Wee see by experience that the Liuer is nothing else but thickned blood grown hard together and this liuer hath many smal threds which serue to attract retaine change and expell according as vve haue before declared Alongst the other branch of this veine is formed a gutte or passage which soone after carieth contriueth and fasteneth the bowels or inwards to the backe of the creature and it is a vessell where-with to sustaine the veines wherin prospereth the verie purest part of blood in the smallest intestines or inwards and so conueies it to the liuer In like manner alongst the same braÌ„ch the stomack the spleen and the bowels are formed So wheÌ„ the liuer is perfected he makes an assembly of the smallest veines as of little rootes and by their assembling is made a great veine on the vpper part of the Liuer which vaine produceth some high braunching foorth whereof is formed Diaphragma to wit a strange rounde muscle lying ouerthwart the lower part of the breast seperating the hart and lites from the stomacke with the Liuer and the Spleene And so is made a part of the bones belonging to the backe and there be braÌ„ches which shoote out some-what lower whereof is also formed the rest of the said back bones The arteries dispersed from the nauill amongst the seede doe tende toward the ridge of the back by little and little haue a place designed for forming and engendring of hâ—e hart These arteries doe drawe the hotest and most subtile bloode whereof in the little purse therfore appointed is the hart engendered and formed vvhich hart is a solide flesh hard and thick as is most conuenable for so very hott a member The great plant or veine extends goes iust to the right ventricle of the hart onely to carry and administer blood for his nourishment and beneath this veine ariseth or springs vp another vein which carrieth the purified blood to the lites made subtile and hote onelie to nourish and keepe it warme At the left ventricle of the hart ariseth a great arterie which carrieth the spirits vitall formed of blood by the heat of the hart thorow all the body And euen as by the braunches of thys great trunck of veines the blood is conueyed thorowe all the bodies parts for nourishment thereof So by the boughes or armes of this arterie are the spyrits likewise caried thorowe all the bodie to furnish it with vitall heate And doubtlesse the hart is the beginner of vitall heate without which the other members can not produce their actions neither can theyr nourishment be dulie made Vnder this artery of the fore-said left ventricle springs vp another arterie which serues to carry the sweet ayre froÌ„ the lungs lites to the hart to refresh it and likewise to recarry the ayre beeing first made warme by the hart So then wheÌ„ of these two ventricles of the hart are those veins brought forth which doe intend to the lites of the subtile bloode vvhich is transported by this veine of the right ventricle of the hart is the lungs and lites formed and made and so successiuely all the height of the body is made by these arteries veines which are conueyers to the spirits and bloode whereby nature fullie makes vp all her building Soone after the brain which is the place and seate for the very noblest functions and offices of nature is formed in this manner A great part of the seede with-drawes it self is receiued into the third little purse before specified heereof is the braine coÌ„posed whereto is ioyned a couerture hard and dry by force of naturall heate like vnto a tile in a fornace that is the skul of the heade So the braine is onely made of the seede to receiue conserue change the spirits which are the instruments and causes of voluntary moouing and of vnderstanding it behoueth then that it should not be made of vile or simple matter but of the aboundance of seed fullest of spirits Novve euen as the veines are bredde in the liuer and the arteries in the hart So are the nerues in the braine which are of the nature of the braine viscuous clammie and hard Nor are they holow like the veines and arteries but solid massie except those two that are called Opticke which doe coÌ„uey the spirits of the braine into the sight of the eye From the braine discends the marrowe in the chine of the backe and there is great difference between the marow of the other bones and this heere spoken of for the marrowe in the other bones is a superfluitie of nourishment engendred of blood ordained to norish and moisten the bones but the marrow in the chine bone of the back is engendered and made of the seede appointed for producing of the nerues sensitiue and motiue VVee may by that which hath been saide in some sort knowe the beginning and fashion of our humaine bodie VVhile the fruite is in the wombe it is

conceiuing thinges fore-sees the commodities and disprofit of al enterprises whatsoeuer exciting or restraining and accordingly moderates the affections of the hart and this manner will hold out very well if daily our affections be managed by sound iudgement But because in thys case nature being disrancked and made vnrulie by the first offence cast generallie on all the affections are not moderated by iudgement deliberation or honest councell the will as mistresse of the affections forbids the motiue power that shee transport not the members to perpetrate vnreasonable or pernicious things As a man hauing a Feuer affects to drinke inordinately but yet the will checks the hande that it shall not approche to the cup or glasse Thus see we two direct formes of gouernment the one to hold back the rebellious insulters in theyr office and the other by sweet exhortations and reasons drawne from the rule of vnderstanding to guide the obedient and sway their actions to publique profit and honour Concerning the offices we owe by dutie to our parents we haue a most cleere example in nature as we may easily see in the young Storkes who wheÌ„ they attaine to strength and age doe nourish assist their fathers mothers The following commaundements forbid to doe iniury or harme to the bodies of one an other Man is created to be sociable communicatiue as is sheweÌ„ vs by our procreation carefull nourishment and dilligent regard of our propagation but the principall ende of this societie is for our ioynt instruction and erudition together in the lawe of God and al laudible actions whatsoeuer And because improuident and ill aduised men haue neede of directours therefore to the end our coÌ„munitie might continue sound intire the obstinate stifnecked are to be exempted for that cause were paines and corrections by lawes instituted Againe in this vnbrideled communication and nature the auarice and greedines of the wicked negligent and slothful is so great as they will not permit any one to liue in equalitie or proportion and therefore the deuision of possessions was thought necessarie for if all shoulde bee common then the idle negligent and carelesse wretches woulde in short while deuoure all the riches of the industrious and dilligent for this cause therefore was coÌ„mitting of theft forbidden Notwithstanding because that men should haue dealings one with another it behooued that the communication of theyr goods and labors should be made by certaine measure reasons for an vnequall communication that is to say when the price or recompence shal be ouer-exceeding or else of too light or little value such entercourse among men cannot be long maintained heereupon ensued iustice which renders to euery one his rightfull proportion in dealing contracting thus one with another More-ouer our accords contracts transactions coÌ„federations appointments made by voluntarie agreements are to be kept for without truth fidelitie loyaltie of promise in our contracts humaine conuersation can neuer be coÌ„tinued Marke then howe nature desires conseruation of her selfe In eating and drinking temperance must be obserued for inteÌ„peraunce corrupts nature and inordinate lubricitie spoyles the sanctified combination of marriage troubles titles of succession wardshippes cases of dowrie al pollitique order all which are indeede most pernitious woundes to pollitique and discreete societie Thus see we the law to agree with nature which first of all established Religion afterward constituted Magistrates theÌ„ they deuised to ordaine lawes for defence of such as were oppressed either in goods or bodie coÌ„maunding honor to be giuen to men of worth and desert and they to be committed to al politique functions by certaine formes and lawes So grew establishing of mariages and perfect discerning of possessions as also iust orders and degrees of correction for all loose wantons ouer-daring resisters and wilful coÌ„temners of the lawes Assuredly the principall and chiefest causes of these lawes are euen theÌ„selues the voice and sentence of nature restored reformed that is to say the actions of the light of vnderstanding ordered by the very purest and sincerest braines illumined and renued by the grace of God doe declare in what estate this life is guided and gouerned and the prescriptions in the Decalogue apointed which expresse to the very life the forme of liuing according to the integritie of nature Nowe to returne to the poynt of the harts moouing there are two sorts of moouing one is called the pulse wheÌ„ the spirits engendred at the hart moue the same by meanes of the organes thereto deputed by nature and likewise when by dilatation or coÌ„traction of his ventricles the arteries driuen forward by the subtile spirits within them doe conuay administer heate thorow all the body Novve albeit these thinges are very admirable yet notwithstanding the affections which are the mouers of the hart as we haue heeretofore saide are worthy of farre greater and much more admiration The hart dilated or shut vp mooueth also by diuersitie of humours as in anger it is mooued by the chollerick humour in ioy it is mooued by the verie sweetest blood and sends the same as witnesse to the exteriour parts In feare it calls it selfe backward in griefe it is trobled with the humour of mellanchollie Doubtlesse in these motions of diuers humours are fumes and risings vp of diuers coÌ„plexions nor is it anie easie matter to coÌ„prehend the causes of these moouings or the couÌ„sell of God in these their natural functions The efficient causes of these affections are in vs interiourly the hart and exteriourly the things which offer theÌ„selues vnto vs eyther pleasing or offensiue but it is necessarie that knowledge shold preceede affection for as one saith no man euer desired what hee had not first knowledge of Ye haue the very like combination betweene the powers of nature and that the motions of the hart doe iustly answer to the knowledge which a man hath of any thing but there is a difference in the complections or temperatures of the hart the spirits and the bloods present beeing for the hart beeing hotte and dry is the sooner kindled whereon wee see some more suddenly to bee enflamed with anger then others are the moouings of the hart the spirits moueth the blood not euer-more after one kinde but diuersly and according to the diuersitie of the affections Therefore in griefe or sadnesse the hart being shruncke vp and crowded together the blood runnes to him as willing to helpe him and this is the reason why men or vvomen being sad agreeued or fearefull are pale meager and ill complexioned or colloured In ioy or anger the hart dilates it selfe and sends his bloode to the parts exteriour therefore because in anger the hart is enflamed it mooueth redd choller which spreading it selfe ouerprodigally abroad infecteth all the rest of the blood And if it continue long in that heat it

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