Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

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
A62433	Galeno-pale, or, A chymical trial of the Galenists, that their dross in physick may be discovered with the grand abuses and disrepute they have brought upon the whole art of physick and chirurgery ... To which is added an appendix De litho-colo ... / by Geo. Thomson ...	Thomson, George, 17th cent.	1665 (1665)	Wing T1023; ESTC R33830	49,948	138

acknowledge to have received most part of our Instructions CHAP. XII Of the two grand Supporters of the Galenical Physick Phlebotomy and Purgation DId the World rightly understand what destruction of mankinde hath been made by this Sanguinary way of curing Diseases in all Ages since this prodigal emission of Blood came first in use suggested without all doubt by that sworn Enemy to mankinde the Devil it would being enraged utterly abominate any such Physician or such a pretended remedy How happy may those Nations be reputed in this particular witness their Longaevity and Sanity above ours whom Nature hath so well instructed as not to part with this precious treasure of Life unless against their wills through some violent separation of the connexed parts And certainly were we but governed by Nature which intends all things for its own preservation and never erres therein unless interrupted or put by its scope through some transverse contingent we would by no means admit of this Bloody course for a Cure being sufficiently convinced that this Solar Balsom the pure Blood called by the Latines to distinguish it from Cruor Sanguis the very Stamen and Subtegmen the subject and material foundation of Life is never exterminated or cast out of the Body by Nature unless extimulated through some exasperating and hostile matter that is gotten into it And indeed to let out promiscuously Sanguis and Cruor good and bad together which is unavoidable for qua data porta ruunt is equally absurd as to cut off part of the fleshie substance of the Finger that the Splinter or Thorn therein fastened may be removed or to suffer generous Wine to run out that some distasteful and fracedinous odour contracted from the Vessel may be taken off or that the Ebullition or Effervescence thereof proceeding from the impetuous Spirits endeavouring a segregation of impurities in it may be asswaged whereas it is more consonant to reason to pick the Thorn out of the finger to impregnate the Wine and Vessel with some odoriferous fume or liquor that it may become fragrant and pleasing in smell likewise to take down the fermentation of the fretting acide Atomes thereof by some artificial means that is able to lenifie and appease the Spirits and settle all quiet Doubtless the same may be accomplished in mans Blood when at any time through some preternatural occasion it becomes tumultuous exorbitant and degenerate from its genuine goodness by ridding it of that pungitive acidity and cadaverous foulness which makes it disturbed and restless as long as it remains in it for omne vivens mortui impatiens esse solet And this we are certain an able Physician can effect being admitted while there is a competent strength which we are alwayes most careful to preserve and augment contrary to the tenour of your Practice For so soon as we have discharged the first and second Digestions of what did burthen and clog them we either exhibit some potent Arcanum which upon its first entertainment into the Stomack doth either pacifie the fury of the vital Spirit or by its illuminating beams doth disperse the black Atomes that obnubilate the same Spirit that it cannot act for the good of the whole Or we give some Volatile Alkali enriched with the specifick Virtues of fit Concretes capable to be circulated with the Blood into all parts of the Body being allied to the foresaid Spirit and symbolizing with it These are powerful in Opening Cleansing Expectorating Volatilizing any congealed Blood invigorating the natural and correcting the preternatural Ferment extinguishing the acidity of the Latex in the Blood dissolving Scirrous and Tartareous-like matter with which sometimes the Veins Arteries and other parts of Body are as it were parietted These are Diuretick Diaphoretick and Antimalignant mortifying Erysipela's breaking and profligating Vomica's or any Abscesses in the Body and this we can engage our selves to perform without any notable diminution of the strength or fear of recidivation or any dangerous lapse into some Chronick Disease which the Phlebotomists dares not promise with any security for it often happens that the Patient is sent Piece-meal to his grave being as it were grated into his first Elements because his Disease was never rightly mannaged in the beginning Now the greatest Plea the Galenists have for Blood-letting is taken from Plethora sanguinis an extraordinary fulness of Blood quoad vasa or quoad vires as they call it that is when the Vessels are over-filled or the strength oppressed with too great redundance of Blood and here they speak equivocally leaving us to seek what Blood they mean either that which is properly named Sanguis the most pure sincere and sublimest juyce in our Body in which the Soul is chiefly seated or that crude lately rubefied liquor called Cruor oftentimes abounding with superfluities and recrements If they take their Indication of Bleeding from the first we can confidently upon sound Arguments deduced from some experimental Demonstrations which we would set down at large if succinctness which we aim at did permit assert that there is no such thing really existent in the Body of man for never had any man too much of that most vital Balsom called Sanguis the encrease or diminution of which shortens or prolongs our dayes for could there be every way a plenary absolute and continuate reparation of the same our Lives would be protracted to an exceeding great length beyond what they are This therefore is by no means to be exhausted or squandered away upon trivial occasions at the unreasonable and arbitrary commands of a desperate Galenist but to be precisely preserved and hoarded up as the onely Treasure and Stock of Life Well if they take their Indication to Bleed from fulness of the last called Cruor then sith this consists of partly excrementitious matter and partly wholesom juyce disposed and in a fair way to be made Sanguis by long Circulation they must necessarily by opening a Vein let out without any election the laudable as well as the depraved parts in the Cruor and its inseparable companion the Sanguis and all to satisfie one supposed palliating Scope of little moment in comparison of the rest an inanition of that which erres in quanto which being attained produces more hurt then profit any way and might easily have been corrected by Diaphoreticks and those proper Medicines that respect a Quale in the Blood and cause a free Diapnoe thereof consuming insensibly according to Sanctorius his Statica no small quantity of our Substance in four and twenty hours sufficient in a very short space with Abstinence joyned thereto to take down any Athletick habit of the Body so that the principal Indication in this case ought to be taken from Cacochymie which frequently infests us to our destruction and that imaginary and insignificant plenitude to be neglected There is we confess something to be said for the defence of immediate derivation of some degenerate Blood impacted any where as when in a Phlegmon the