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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
A50470	Rhachitidologia, or, A tract of the disease rhachitis, commonly called the rickets shewing the signes, cause, symptoms, and prognosticks : together with a most accurate and ingenious method of cure / written originally in Latin ... by ... Dr. John Mayow ... and now ... faithfully rendred into English by W.S. ; to which is subjoyn'd a profitable appendix, touching weights and measures us'd in the composition of medicines and exhibition of medicinal doses.	Mayow, John, 1641-1679.	1685 (1685)	Wing M1534; ESTC R43442	29,746	155

blood would affect all of them more or less which notwithstanding in this infirmity never happeneth For the Head as also the Bowels are well disposed only more than usually great yea the very Parenchymaes which chiefly consist of affused blood whereas they are found very much like to those of the Healthful they in like manner argue the blood to be good and laudable For it were absurd to assert I know not what Elective attraction whereby the head and bowels well disposed do attract all the good blood but send away the bad into other parts For this Attraction were there any would be from all parts alike since to every part there is a congruity and necessity of good blood which are thought to bring to pass a motion of that kind Secondly we affirm the Foundation of that Affect not to consist in the depraved constitution of the parts themselves as if the parts molested with frigid and moist Intemperature were unapt for receiving the Heart's influx For whence doth arise this so great an Humiditie and Coldness of some parts in comparison of the rest since all of them are irrigated with the like hot blood and spirits alike For neither do I suppose the frigiditie innate to the parts but to be preternaturally in them neither truly must we believe the parts themselves to withstand their own nutrition For those operate nothing in the Act of nutrition but only receive the nutriment brought to them by toleration So that I certainly believe there is no other unaptness in the parts whereby they become not nourished except Obstructions only by means whereof they cannot take Aliment Wherefore the cause of this Malady cannot be in the constitution of the parts them selves nor is it reasonable to judge Humidity the cause of the disease but rather the Effect CHAP. IV. That the Nerves as well as the Blood do help to nourish and this disease doth peculiarly depend upon the defect of the Nervous Influx HOwever whereas the parts are really Cold. and tho largely supplied with blood good enough are not nourished We must altogether conclude that something else besides the blood alone is requisite to heat and nutrition Whatsoever this be there is a necessity that it be carried through some of the Vessels The Arteries conveigh the blood the Veins carry back that which is brought and the Nerves only remain which can conveigh the Liquor or at least nutritious spirits But that no man may doubt whether the Nerves carry any thing necessary to nutrition I shall alleage an Experiment known to every body to wit if a Nerve serving to any part be cut off from it not only the sense of that part but also all manner of nourishment is utterity lost insomuch as the same for the time to come shall become as it were withered But however this nervous Liquor alone doth not perform the whole duty of nutrition For besides it the blood diffus'd through the Arteries obtains not a small part as to nourishing Forasmuch as the nervous juice being mingled with the blood doth cause a certain Effervescence or Heat whereupon the matter meet for the nourishing of the parts is precipitated and through the defect of this nervous liquor 's influx tho the blood in this affect be pretty laudable yet wanting its due ferment it is neither available te excite due heat in the parts nor to execute the office of Nutrition CHAP. V. The Definition or Description of the Rhachitis together with the Cause thereof Wherein is shewed that it proceeds not from the faultiness of the Brain but from the obstruction of the spinal Marrow FRom what hath been said we need not be affraid to affirm that The RHACHITIS is a Disease arising from the unequal distribution of the Nervous Liquor through the defect or superabundance whereof some Parts defrauded of Nutriment are attenuated other parts being over-cloyed therewith grow too bulky But this Vice of inequality consists not in the Influx of the Brain for from this fountain being vitiated meet nutriment would accrew to no part at all and truly the Head and other parts which partake of the nerves that have their original from the Brain do enjoy Nutriment laudable enough tho in too great abudance yet whereas those Parts which have Nerves springing from the spinalis Medulla do become lean it is certainly manifest that altho in the brain as it were the publick store-house shop or work-house of the whole body an increase or store of vital spirits ample enough is elaborated yet the Spinalis medulla as it were the Princely road or high-way tending from that mart or empory is altogether overcharged and incumbred by thick and glutinous humours whereby the Passage for the nervous nutriment is blocked up whence it cometh to pass that the Nerves which descend from the Spinal marrow being destitute of that nutritious liquor bring no aid at all to the languishing parts which they approach Hence comes an Atrophy and very great extenuation of those parts So at last 't is reasonable that we determine this to be the cause of this malady and the rather for that the reason of all the symptoms proper to this disease may more clearly and easily be deriv'd from this Fountain as frō what follows shall be manifest CHAP. VI. The Reason of the Symptoms and first of the too great Augmentation of the Head IN this affect it falls out that the head is increased to an unreasonable bigness which indeed from our supposition must needs be For the nutritious liquor of the brain is wont in a great measure to be discharged on the Spinal Marrow but that Passage now being stopped the whole is distributed to the nerves descended from the brain Hereupon whereas the head doth acquire too liberal an increase of nutriment from those nerves turgid with nutritious juice it must on necessity be advanced to an extraordinary bigness From this cause also the countenance in respect of the Age is over-big and the wit too acute for as the spirits being exhausted do render us dull and languid in like-manner plenty thereof congested in the brain maketh us wise and witty CHAP. VII Of the swelling or puffing up of the Abdomen THe inward Parts of the Abdomen are wont for the most part to exceed their just proportion there is indeed the like reason or cause for this as there is for the symptoms of the head For t is very certain that these Plexus or foldings of so many nerves serving to the lower most belly as chiefly of the Wandring Pair and Intercostal Nerves are the Ofl spring of those which are descended from the Brain That now it is no wonder if the aforesaid Viscera enjoying more plentiful nourishment brought unto them by the said nerves do grow larger For altho the Intercostal Nerves receive Branches from the spinalis medulla such as can bring unto them no nutritious Liquor yet that too liberal influx of the brain doth abundantly recompense for this defect