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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

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32712	Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, or, A fabrick of science natural, upon the hypothesis of atoms founded by Epicurus repaired [by] Petrus Gassendus ; augmented [by] Walter Charleton ...	Charleton, Walter, 1619-1707.; Epicurus.; Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655.	1654 (1654)	Wing C3691; ESTC R10324	556,744	505

them their pr●y 2 It is worthy a serious Remark that sundry Animalls bear a kind of 〈…〉 to the Persons of such men as are delighted or conversant in the Destruction of those of the same species with them as we daily see that 〈◊〉 are highly offended and angry at Butchers that Dogs bark 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 Glovers that deal most in Dog skins and 〈…〉 killing of Dogs in time of the plague to praev●nt 〈◊〉 diffusion 〈…〉 and encrease of Putrefaction by their 〈◊〉 that Vermin 〈◊〉 the trapps and gins of Warrenners where●● 〈…〉 their owne kind hath been taken and destroyed c. As 〈…〉 or strong Aversions t is manifest that they arise 〈…〉 or Character of Providence 〈…〉 Natures or Essential Forms but only 〈…〉 upon the sense For the 〈…〉 any Animal of the same species excite a kind of Horror in the like Animal that smells them and so cause it to abhor and avoid all such persons and places for fear of the like harm and internecion as their fellowes have suffered from them Now that which makes these odours insinuate themselves with such ●ase and familiarity into the Sensories of animals of the same species is the similitude and Uniformity of their Specifical Constitutions which yet the rough hand of Corruption seems not totally to have obliterated in the long since extravenated blood and spirits but to have left some Vestigia or R●mains of the Canine nature in the Doggs blood of the Porcine in the Sw●●●s c. And that which makes them so horridly Odious is the great A●●●●●ion of the blood from its genuine temper and conditius For the smell of the Carcass or blood of any Animal having once suffered the Dep●avation of Corruption is always most hateful and dangerous to others of the same Species and it hath been observed that the most pernicious in●ections and Plagues have been such as took their Original from the Corruption of Humane Bodies which indeed is the best reason that hath ●een yet given why the Plague so often attends long and bloody Sieges and is commonly the second to the Sword We conceive the same to 〈…〉 the ground of that Axiom of the Lord St. Alban Nat. Hist. cent 10 ● ●enerally that which is Dead or Corrupted or Excerned hath Antipa●●●●●th the same thing when it is Alive and when it is sound and with those 〈◊〉 which do excern as a Carcass of Man is most infectious and odious ●●man a Carrion of an Horse to an Horse c. Purulent matter of 〈◊〉 and Ulcers Carbuncles Pocks Scabbs Leprousy to Sound flesh And the Excrements of every species to that Creature that excerneth them But the Exc●ements are less Pernicious than the Corruptions 3 The 〈◊〉 and according to some reports the opening of the Eyes● of the Carcass of a murthered man at the praesence and touch of the Homicide 〈…〉 in truth the noblest of Antipathies and scarce any Writer of the Secrets or Miracles of Nature hath omitted the Consideration thereof This Life in Death Revenge of the Grave or loud language of silent Corruption many Venerable and Christian Philosophers have accounte●● holly Miraculous or Supernatural as ordained and effected by the just 〈◊〉 of God for the detection and punishment of the inhumane 〈◊〉 And least we should seem too forward to expunge from 〈◊〉 mind of any man the beleif of that opinion which to some may 〈…〉 more powerful Argument than the express Command of God to 〈◊〉 them from committing so horrid and execrable a Crime as Mu●●er we shall so far concurr with them as to conceive this Effect 〈…〉 Divine only in the I●stitution but meerly Natural in the Production or Immediate Causes Because the Apparence seems not to 〈◊〉 the Capacity of Natural Means and the whole Syndrome and 〈◊〉 of it Causes may be thus explained It is an Opinion highly C●●●entaneous that in every vehement Passion there is forme●● certain 〈…〉 well of the Object whereupon the Imagination is 〈…〉 the Good or Evil connected unto and expected from that Objec● and that this Idea is as it were impressed by a kind of inexplicable 〈◊〉 upon the Spirits at the same instant the Mind 〈◊〉 to Will the praesent Prosecution or Avoidance or the object 〈…〉 by the mediation of the Spirits those Angels of the Mind the same Idea is transmitted to the Blood and through the Arteries diffused into all parts of the body as well as into the Nerves and Muscles which are inservient to such Voluntary Motions as are requisite to the execution of the Decrees and Mandats of the Will concerning the Prosecution or Avoidance of the Object This being so we may conceive that the Phansy of the Person assaulted by an Assassine having formed an Idea of Hatred Opposition and Revenge and the same being Characterized upon the Spirirs and by them diffused through the blood though the blood become much less Fluid in the veins after death by reason the vital influence and Pulsifick Faculty of the Heart which Animated and Circulated it is extinct yet because at the praesence of the Murderer there issue from the pores of his body such subtile Emanations as are Consimilar to those which were emitted from him at the time He strove with overcame and killed the Patient and those Emanations entering the Dead Body doe cause a fresh Commotion in the blood remaining yet somewhat Fluid in its veins and as it were renew the former Colluctation or Duell betwixt the yet wholly uncondensed Spirits of the slain and those of the Homicide therefore is it that the Blood suffering an Estuation flows up and down in the veins to seek some vent or salley-port and finding none so open as in that part wherein the wound was made it issues forth from thence And where the Murthered Person is destroyed by strangulation suffocation or the like unbloody Death so that there is no manifest Solution of Continuity in the skin or other Exterior parts of the body in that case it hath been observed that the Carcass bleeds at the Mouth or Nose or both and this only because in all vehement strivings and especially in Colluctation for life the Spirits and Blood flow most plentifully into the Arteries and Veins of the Herd as is visible by the great Redness of the Eyes and face of every man that Fights and where the blood fixeth in most plenty there will be the greatest tumult aestuation and commotion when it is fermented agitated and again set afloat by the Discordant Effluvia's emitted from the body of the neer appro●ching or touching Murtherer and consequently there must the vessels suffer the greatest stress distension and disruption or apertion of their orifices 4 And this magnale of the as it were Reanimation of the vindictive blood in the veins of a Dead body by the Magick of those Hostile and Fermenting Aporrhaea's transmitted from the body of Him who violently extinguished its former life ushers in Another no less prodigious nor less

of its fume the space might easily have received of grains of Frankinsense equal in dimensions to the seed of a Lupine according to its Altitude 720 according to its Latitude 900 in the Longitude 1200 in the Superfice of the whole figure 5184000 in the Superfice of the end only 648000 in the Area or whole enclosure 777600000 Since therefore our nostrils ascertation that in all that space of Aer there is no one particle which is not impraegnated with the fragrant exhalations of that combust grain of Frankinsense which while it was entire might be by a steddy hand a sharp incision knife and a good magnifying Glass or by that shorter way of trituration divided at least into a thousand sensible particles it must follow in spite of Contradiction that the sensible odorous particles of it do fulfil the number of 777600000000. And insomuch as each of these sensible Particles is mixt it being lawful and commendable according to the subtile speculations of Archimed in Arenar to assume that the smallest of them is composed of a Million of Elemental Atoms therefore by the same rule must there have been in the whole Grain of Elemental Atoms 777600000000000000 at least If so we have but one step lower to Insectility and so may guess at the Exiguity of a single Atome Consider we the delicate Contexture of Atoms in the body of that smallest of Animals a Handworm First if we speculate the outside of that organical tenement of life a good Engyscope will praesent our eye with not only an oval-head and therein a mouth or prominent snout armed with an appendent proboscis or trunk consisting of many villous filaments contorted into a cone wherewith it perforates the skin and sucks up the bloud of our hands but also many thighs leggs feet toes laterally ranged on each side many hairy tufts on the tail and many asperities protuberances and rugosities in the skin Then our Reason if we contemplate the inside thereof will discover a great variety of Organs necessary to the several functions of an Animal For Nutrition there must be Gullet Stomach Intestines Liver Heart Veins or at least parts in their offices and uses perfectly analogous thereto For Vitality there must be Lungs and Heart for the praeparation and confection and Arteries for the general diffusion of Spirits for Locomotion voluntary and sensation there must be Brain Spinal Marrow Nerves Tendons Muscles Ligaments Articulations and for the support and firmitude of all these there must be some more solid stamina or a kind of Bones and Cartilagineous contextures in a word there must be all members requisite to entitle it to Animation with a double skin for the investiment of the whole Machine Now if we attentively compute how many particles go to the composure of each of those organical parts and how many Myriads of Atoms go to the contexture of each of those particles for even the Spirits inservient to the motion of one of its toes are compositions consisting of many thousands of Atoms as we shall think it no wonder that the exile and industrious fingers of Nature have distinguished sequestred selected convened accommodated coadunated and with as much aptitude as decorum disposed such an incomprehensible multitude of Parts in the structure of so minute an Animal so may we in some latitude of analogy conjecture the extreme Parvity of Her common Material Atoms On this ingenious pin hung the thoughts of Pliny when in lib. 11. cap. 1 2. He exclaimed Nusquam alibi Naturae artificium spectabilius est qu●m in Insectis in magnis siquidem corporibus aut cer●è majoribus facilis officina sequaci materia fuit In his verò tam parvis atque tam nullis que ratio aut quanta vis tanquam inextricabilis perfectio ubi tot sensus collocavit in Culice sunt alia dictu minora Sed ubi visum in ea praetendit ubi Gustatum applicavit ubi odoratum inseruit ubi truculentam illam proportione maximam vocem ingeneravit Qua subtilitate pennas adnexuit praelongavit pedum crura disposuit jejunam caveam uti alvum avidam sanguinis potissimum humani sitim accendit Telum verò perfodiendo tergori quo spiculavit ingenio atque cùm prae exilitate pene non videatur ita reciproca generavit arte ut fodiendo acuminatum pariter sorbendoque fistulosum esset c. Here had we haulted a while and wondered how Pliny could without the assistance of a Magnifying Glass an Invention whose Antiquity will hardly rise above the last revolution of Saturn deprehend so vast a multiplicity of Parts in the machine of an Insect of so small circumscription that to commensurate the Base of the visive Cone by which its slender image is transmitted to the pupil of the eye would trouble a good Master in Opticks and drive him to the Minimus Angulus of Euclid but that it soon came into our thoughts that He speculated the same by the subtiler Dioptrick of Reason which indeed is the best Engyscope of the Mind and renders many things perspicuous to the Understanding whose exceeding Exility is their sufficient Darkness To put more weights into the Scale of Conjecture let us moreover observe how great a quantity of Water may be tinged with one grain of Vermillion how many sheets of Paper may be crimsoned with that tincture how innumerable are the points by the apex of a needle designable on each of those sheets and when 't is manifest that many particles of Vermillion are found in each of those points who can longer doubt that the particles comprehended in the compass of that grain are indefinable by the exactest Arithmetique Again for we could be content to let the Almund tree bud before we take off our cogitations from this pleasant Argument consider we how small a portion of oyl is consumed by the flame of a Lamp in a quarter of an hour and yet there is no moment passeth wherein the stock of flame is not wasted and as fast repaired which if it could be conserved alive all at once would fill not only whole rooms but even ample Cities and if so what need we any further eviction of the extreme Exiguity of those Parts of which all Concretions are material'd Had the Ancients indeed been scrupulous in this point their want of that useful Organ the Engyscope might in some part have excused their incredulity but for us who enjoy the advantages thereof and may as often as the Sun shines out behold the most laevigated Granule of dissolved Pearl therein praesented in the dimensions of a Cherry stone together with its various faces planes asperities and angles such as before inspection we did not imagine most clear and distinct longer to dispute the possible Parvity of Component Principles is a gross disparagement to the Certitude of Sense when it is exalted above deception and all possible impediments to its sincere judicature are praevented Conclude