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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
A41254	A new and needful treatise of spirits and wind offending mans body wherein are discovered their nature, causes and effects / by the learned Dr. Fienns ; and Englished by William Rowland ...; Flatibus humanum corpus molestantibus. English	Feyens, Jean, d. 1585.; Rowland, William.	1668 (1668)	Wing F841; ESTC R40884	57,605	138

be alike is joyned to these The natural Spirit is made when the more pure or aerial part of nourishment turns by concoction into thin blood like a vapour This takes force from the imbred spirit in the Liver and goes to the Heart by the hollow vein with the rest of the blood then by heat being more refined it turns to a sort of air and becomes a vital spirit which spread through the whole body by the arteries gives life part of this carried by the arteries of the neck into the net-work of the brain and so into the ventricles increaseth by the air received at the nose and by force of the spirit imbred in the brain becomes animal and being sent to the whole body gives sense and motion The spirit we shall speak of differs much from these and is the fourth spirit in our bodies of the same nature with wind and it is so called It is gross and not so aery or thin as the other You may best know the nature of it if you consider the air in a South or North wind The windy spirit in us is like the South wind and the natural is like the North. Let us leave the innate or imbred spirits which are well described by others and speak of the flatuous or windy spirit CHAP. II. Of the Analogy or Proportion between the flatuous Spirit and Wind or the Wind in Man and in the Earth THere are two things that chiefly blow up our bodies and prepare them for diseases diet and the air Food though at first unlike is at length made like us and turned into the substance of the body Therefore by long use the body will be of the same nature For all Diet though well concocted keeps it in a natural and genuine condition therefore Lettice and other cold things though they be overcome by concoction yet cool the stomach and whole body and produce cold blood So Wine and Garlick produce hot blood Fish Cheese and salt Meats gross blood By which it is clear that not only the spirits and humours by which we are preserved are changed but the constitution of the whole body Therefore a cool diet prepares the body to breed wind by oppressing the native heat Also too much of the best meats and drinks such as burdens Nature cannot be well concocted or turned into good blood but many crudities will be which will cause obstructions and rottenness or corruption by which the natural heat is suffocated as the wiek of a candle by too much grease This crudity and abundance of humours is gathered in all chiefly the Northern Inhabitants these as if it were too low a thing to slay with a sword or hang with a halter or fight publickly kill themselves with kindness they contend in drinking healths and riot night and day and add new surfeits to the former and leave not off till they vomit what they take in or are ready to burst forgetting the saying That gluttony and drunkenness kill more then the sword When too much food is taken it causeth a disease It is no wonder if such have many excrements and wind which for their abundance are not easily voided Also the Country and air is of much force For a hot Country as the Summer inflames the spirits dries the humours and increaseth Choler which causeth most acute diseases But a cold and moist air as it is in the North is like the Winter stupifies the spirits stops the Pores and burdens the body with many superfluous humours and oppresseth the native heat Hence the concoction is weakned and there are crudities and fluctuations of food in the stomach distillations chronick diseases stones worms wind and the like These breed in Man the little world as in the great unto which Aristotle compares him For as in the great world there are four Elements Fire Air Water Earth so there are the same in the little and as in all those Elements are divers substances bred as in the earth stones and trees in the water divers Creatures in the air thunder lightning rain so in man there are bred bones as stones and worms and lice as living Creatures and distillations as rain and wind or a flatus like the wind in the earth To be short the image of the Universe is clear in man For God when in six days he had wonderfully made the world and set all things in order so that nothing seemed to be wanting made man as the abridgment of all the rest to extol his Divine power and wisdom and admire his works Moreover there is nothing in Heaven or Earth the like whereunto may not be found in man if you diligently search and consider the Soul is his God the understanding and will are his angelical Spirits heat cold moisture and driness answer to the outward Elements In the heat appear divers flashes and fiery representations Frenzies Inflammations Erysipelas Feavers In the moisture are distillations and Nodes that come from thence like hail also the humours ebbe and flow in the veins and arteries But the earthy Element of this little world is most like the great in which are stones which our bones do resemble and Ovid calls the stones the bones of our great mother Earth As the Plants Corn and Trees are in the Earth so are the hairs in man As Galen saith hairs grow as Plants For as some grow by the art of the Husbandman others by natural causes only so in animals the head is like a Wheat or Barley-field and the hair in other parts is like other plants in drier ground What shall I say of the Earthquake when many exhalations are bred in the bowels of the Earth by force of the Sun and Stars from a moisture that is sunk into the Earth and from the matter of the Earth when they cannot get forth by reason of the Earths closure or the grossness of the wind there must needs be an Earthquake in part So when flatuous spirits or wind is shut up in the cavity of the body and strives to get out there is great trembling as Langius saith if we may confer great things with small as wind shut up in the bowels of the Earth makes it tremble when it strives to get out so a flatulent air or wind being kept in by the covers of the Muscles and other parts that may be stretched shakes them till it breaks through the Membrane that covers them the vulgar ignorant of this suppose this to be the soul or life-blood While it goes forth without doing hurt at the Pores there is no trembling but if they be stopt it hunts about and gets into cavities and strives to break through so the wind striving to get out shakes the body There is another reason of this trembling The wind shut up in the cavities being beaten back by the heat of the bowels and natural motion grows hot by reason of the want of freedom and so thinner This insinuates it self into any part even the

parts and what evils it causeth we shall now shew what Symptoms it produceth in the habit of the body For it is thin and not only fills vacuity but dissolves continuity tears the membranes in themselves and from the bones and swiftly strikes like a dart upon any part causing great pain Sometimes like cold air it affects the sensible nervous parts without great pain but this is little and very thin and easily vanisheth by the natural heat and Fomentations But it is harder to be discussed when it gets under the skin or membranes of the bones being thicker and more and swells them to a windy Impostume Galen distinguisheth this from Oedema which is from water and yields to the finger and pits deep But an inflation is from wind either under the skin or membranes of the bones or under the Muscles This pits not with the finger but sounds like a drum with a fillip Sometimes it causeth no tumour but lying under the skin through which it cannot breathe being thick it only beateth this the Vulgar call the life And Langius in an Epistle wittily shews the arrogancy and ignorance of some Chirurgions that when they see the Muscles of the Temples Forehead Cheeks or Jaws tremble by wind in the skin and to swell they say there is the soul or life as in a prison also without purging which is less dangerous then bleeding they let blood and beholding the blood to tremble in the Porringer by reason of wind they fear that life is gone forth with the blood and therefore they make the patient drink it off hot Silly fellows that know not that air feeds the vital and animal spirits gets not only into the Arteries of the Brain Lungs and Heart but into all parts by inspiration and the pores and is mixed with the blood by the Anastomosis of the Arteries with the Veins and wind will breed from clammy humours not only in the Muscles and all parts that may be stretched as the Stomach Guts Liver Spleen Midriff and Womb in teeming women which move the womb so that they think the Child moveth And it causeth a trembling not only in the Muscles and other members but chiefly in the Heart And as wind shut up in the bowels of the Earth shakes as it is ready to get forth so wind in the body being comprehended in the muscles or other stretchable parts shakes them till it gets forth Thus Langius and Galen lib. 2. de Art curat ad Glauc confirms him saying that that sort of wind which is gross sometimes lyes under the membranes of the bones sometimes under the Peritonaeum sometimes in the guts and belly sometimes under the membranes about the muscles and the membranous tendons and the spaces of the muscles and other parts Therefore the force of wind is wonderful that like Thunder passeth through insensible passages into private places even into the bones and marrow and causeth pain but being between the bone and the Periostium it teareth them asunder with great pain Hence many complain of pain of the Shins by fits when there is no distemper external neither tumour nor pain when it is pressed except there be much gathered So much of the Symptoms now we shall speak of the Prognosticks of Wind. CHAP. XI Of the Prognosticks of Wind. ALL diseases of wind in any part are hard to be cured if it cannot get forth the thicker and more close it is the longer it remains and causeth worse Symptoms When it separates the parts it causeth pain and pain causeth flux of humours and the humour getting into the crannies of the part stretched causeth a tumour the tumour distends the skin and membranes and contracts them hence the blood being not cooled comes corruption and increase of preternatural heat If this tumour be hard and yield red and beating it is an inflammation if it be white yielding to touch and pit it is an Oedema if it be white yielding and transparent it is an inflation Sometimes wind makes a Dropsie as Hippocrates lib. de Flatibus saith wind gets through the flesh and makes thin the pores and then follows moisture to which the wind before had made a passage and the body is moistned the flesh melts and the humours fall down to the Legs and then comes a Dropsie They in whom wind hath long remained are subject to all these diseases as the Aphorism saith They who have pains about the Navel and Loyns that will not away with Physick or other ways will have a dry Dropsie This wind is not discussed by medicines or other things by reason of the habitual distemper of the part which persevering causeth a Tympany the worst of Dropsies I never knew it cured when confirmed If then it be so dangerous because the wind will yield to no remedies by reason of the cause that feeds it Hippocrates Prognost lib. 1. said well it is very healthful for wind to pass forth without noise but it is better to break with noise then stay and move about and cause pain If any from modesty when they are sound will rather dye then fart let them know that they dote or must endure pain If one fart willingly it signifies no ill but only it were better to be voided without noise For a noise shews much wind or straitness of the vessels but that noise which is heard in new diseases in the Hypochondria pains or swellings is not bad Hippocrates lib. 2. Prognost saith new pains and swellings in the Hypochondria without inflammation are dissolved by noise chiefly if there be stools and urine and if the wind goes not forth it is good that it goes downward These tumours being only of wind are dissolved by their rumbling it shews wind joyned with a humour and sign fies good that is that the wind will go forth with the humour it is mixed with or if not that it will go downward and the pain and tumour will cease And Hippocrates Aph. 73. lib 4. saith they who have stretched Hypochondria with rumbling and after that a pain in the Loyns will have a moist belly or loosness except they fart or piss much The Hypochondria rumbles and swells from wind alone or mixed with humours and if it alone breaks forth upward or downward with the humour it is without danger and the pain and tumour suddenly depart For the Liver and Spleen lying in the Hypochondria if they be much pained it is from strong inflammation or wind if from wind a Fever coming removes the pain As Hippocrates Aph. 52. lib. 7. saith they whose Liver is much pained are cured by a Fever for the heat of it doth discuss the wind Now a Fever doth not follow an inflammation but comes with it nor doth it take off pain but increase it It appears that the heat of a Fever discusseth wind because they in the Jaundice seldom have fits of wind because they are hot of constitution as Hippocrates Aph. 78. lib. 5. saith they in the Jaundice are not