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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
A77712	Vade mecum or, a companion for a chyrurgion: fitted for times of peace or war. Compendiously shewing the yong artist the use of every severall instrument belonging to a chyrurgion; and the vertues and qualities of all such medicines as are needfull and necessary, with the maner of compounding them, according to the most approved authors. As also the perfect cure of green wounds, either incised or contused, ulcers, fistulaes, fractures, and dislocations. To which is added the maner of making reports before a judge of assize, of any one that hath come to an untimely end. By Tho. Brugis Doctor in Physick.	Brugis, Thomas, fl. 1640?; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver.	1651 (1651)	Wing B5225; Thomason E1357_2; ESTC R209491	89,747	252

the body if the ayr come forth at the wound making a certain whizzing noise if the Patient breath with great difficulty if he feel a great heavinesse or weight on or about the midriffe whereby it may be gatherered that a great quantity of bloud lyeth on the place or midriffe and so causeth him to f●el a weight or heavinesse which by little and little will be cast up by vomiting But a little after a Feaver commeth and the breath is unsavoury and stinking by reason that the putrifying bloud is turned into sanies the Patient cannot lye but on his back and he hath an often desire to vomit but if he escape death his wound will degenerate into a Fistula and at length will consume him by little and little We may know that the lungs are wounded by foming and spumous bloud comming out both at the wound and cast up by vomiting he is vexed with a shortnesse of breath and a pain in his sides We may perceive the heart to be wounded by the abundance of bloud that commeth out at the wound by the trembling of all the whole body by the faint and small pulse palenesse of the face cold sweat with often swounding coldnesse of the ex●●eam parts and sudden death When the Midriffe which the Latines call Diaphragma is wounded the Patient feeleth a great weight in that place he raveth and talketh idely he is troubled with shortnesse of wind a cough and fit of grievous paine and drawing of the entralls upwards Wherefore when all these accidents appear we may certainly pronounce that death is at hand Death appeareth suddenly by a wound of the hollow veyne or the great Artery by reason of the great and violent evacuation of bloud and spirits whereby the functions of the heart and lungs are stopped and hindred The marrow of the backbone being pierced the Patient is assaulted with a Palsie or Convulsion very suddenly and sense and motion faileth in the parts beneath it the excrements are either evacuated against the Patients will or altogether stopped the intestines putrifie and rot and death suddenly follows When the Liver is wounded much bloud commeth out at the wound and pricking pain disperseth it selfe even unto the sword like gristle which hath its scituation at the lower end of the breast bone called Sternon the bloud that falleth from thence downe into the intestines doth oftentimes infer most maligne accidents yea and most commonly death When the stomach is wounded the meat and drink come out at the wound there followeth a vomiting of pure choler then commeth sweating and coldnesse of the extreame parts and therefore we ought to prognosticate death to follow When the Milt or Spleen is wounded black and gross bloud cometh out at the woūd the patient wil be very thirsty with pain on the left side and the bloud breaks forth into the belly and there putrifying causeth most maligne and grievous accidents and oftentimes death to follow When the guts are wounded the whole body is griped and pained the excrements come out at the wound whereat also oftentimes the guts break forth with great violence When the reins or kidneys are wounded the patient will have great pain in making his urine and the bloud commeth out together therewith the pain commmeth down even unto the groyn yard and lesticles When the bladder and Ureters are wounded the pain goeth even unto the entrails the parts all about and belonging to the groyne are distended the urine is bloudy that is made and the same also oftentimes commeth out at the wound When the womb is wounded the bloud commeth out at the privities and all other accidents appeare like as when the bladder is wounded When the sinews are pricked or cut halfe asunder there is great pain in the affected place and there followeth a sudden inflammation flux abscesse Feaver Convulsion and oftentimes a gangrene or mortification of the part whereof commeth death unlesse it be speedily prevented If a Nurse through drowsinesse or negligence lies upon her infant being in bed with her and so stifles or smothers it to death which we call overlaying if the judgement and opinion of the artist be required whether it dyed by default of the Nurse or by some violent disease lurking in the body these rules following shall shew the truth of the matter If the infant were in good health before if he were not froward nor crying if his mouth and nosthrils now being dead be moystned or bedewed with a certain foame or froath if his face be not pale but of a violet or purple colour if when the body is opened the lungs be found swoln and puffed up as it were with a certain vaporous foam and all the other intrails sound it is a token that the infant was stifled smothered or strangled by some outward violence If the body or dead corps of a man be found lying in the field or house alone and it be questioned whether he were slaine by lightning or some other violent death these signes following will shew the certainty thereof For every body that is blasted or stricken with lightning doth cast forth or breath out an unwholsome stinking or sulphureous smell so that the Birds or Fowls of the aire nor dogs will not once touch it much lesse prey or feed on it the part that was stricken oftentimes sound and without any wound but if you search it well you shall find the bones under the skin to be bruised broken or shivered in pieces But if the lightning hath pierced into the body which making a wound therein according to the judgement of PLINY the wounded part is far colder than all the rest of the body For lightning driveth the most thin and fiery ayre before it and striketh it into the body with great violence by the force whereof the heat that was in the part is soon dispersed wasted and consumed Lightning doth alwayes leave some impression signe of some fire either by ustion or blacknesse for no lightning is without fire Moreover whereas all other living creatures when they are stricken with lightning fall on the contrary side only man falleth on the affected side if he be not turned with violence toward the coast or region from whence the lightning came If a man be stricken with lightning while he is asleep he will be found with eyes open contrariwise if he be stricken while he is awake his eyes will be closed as PLINNY writes Also it may be inquired in judgement whether any that is dead and wounded received these wounds alive or dead Truly the wounds that are made on a living man if he dye of them after his death will appeare red and bloudy with the sides or edges swoln or pale round about contrariwise those that are made in a dead man will be neither red bloudy swollne nor puffed up for all the faculties and functions of life in the body do cease and fall together by death so that thenceforth no spirits nor bloud

Speculum ani first but most commonly it is easily forced into the fundament of it self being anointed with grease and so put up the spoons end and therewith draw out the hard and over-dried excrements by which means the body will return again to his naturall habit The Diet-Pot IS made either of brasse or earth and serveth for boyling drinks of severall sorts or kinds in Feavers Calentures c. for boyling Lotions and other Decoctions upon severall occasions Weights and Scales THese are things in a manner sleighted by many yet they are the things upon which depends oftentimes the life or death of the Patient let the Artist therefore be stored with two paire of Scales one for ounces the other for grains with two good even beams both them and the pans kept clean scowred now because many having Scales and weights scarce have the true knowledge of them I will therefore set downe what kinde of weights we ordinarily use There are two sorts of weights now used the Troy weight containing twelve ounces and that is it which the Gold-Smiths use and we also divers times The other is Averdupois weight which contains sixteen ounces and is used by the Grocers and others and is indeed generally used amongst the Apothecaries A pound of Avoir dupois weight hath sixteene ounces and is marked thus lb An ounce hath eight drachms and is marked thus ℥ A drammne hath three scruples and is thus marked ʒ A scruple hath twenty graines and is thus known ℈ And a Barly corne Wheat or Pepper come may be used for a graine which is known by this marke gr Two drams is the weight of eighteen pence in money one dram of nine pence And our measures agreeing with our weights most usually are as followeth A wine gallon of water containeth eight pound A pottle foure pound A quart two pound and hath this mark qr A pint one pound and is thus noted pi And of ordinary Salet oyls seven pound and a halfe is accounted a gallon And thus much I thought good to write concerning the weights and measures that there may bee no mistake in the Artist Of the Lancet Next I would advise the Artist to be alwayes provided with a Case of good Lancets which he shall ever carry in his pocket that they may be ready upon any occasion and also the better to keep them from rusting let them be clean and well set not too speare poynted nor too thin for if they have either of those faults they will not make a good orifice When you come to use them you shall after you have taken notice of the veine you intend to open make a ligature about the arme some three fingers bredth above the place you purpose to cut in this manner take a yard of your wosted gartering or a strong List or in want of these a womans Fillet will serve but linnen and silke are apt to slip put your bandage upon the arme and turn the ends both round the arme and meet them together on the outside so that it come twice about the arme and then tye them on a single bow knot which will easily be loosed upon occasion then put a thick staffe in the patients stand to gripe fast and with your hand chafe well the vein that it may rise full if it lye deep and be small you shall foment it with warm water rubbing the place hard with a linnen cloth until the vein appeare make your orifice large not deep for the larger the orifice is so that it be not too large to spend the spirits by tumbling out the bloud too fast the lesse danger there wil be of apostumation when your orifice is too small the place wil presently puffe up with winde alwayes strike the vein in a little cross not just along the vein nor quite overwart but slanting and if you go not deep enough at the first stroake thrust in your Lancet quickly in the same orifice a little deeper but if you chance to strike besides the veine then strike presently a little higher when you have well noted the place you intend to cut you shall lay your thumb gently upon the vein just by that place and with your Lancet between your finger and thumb of the other hand and your little finger leaning upon the arme to rest your whole hand the more steddier gently thrust in your Lancet as far as you shal think wil reach the vein a little stretching up your hand whereby you shall gently enlarge the orifice you may partly feel when the Lancet hath entred the veine then take forth as much bloud as you shall see convenient then pull one end of your ligature and by the slacking of that the bloud will stay then with your fingers crush out the lappered bloud out of the orifice and lay on a pledget of Lint dipped in cold water and a linnen cloth twice double upon that both which ought to be layed in a readinesse before the ligation be made and then with the band bind up the arme going crosse above and below the elbow still making the band to crosse upon the boulder and pin or tye it fast but not too hard but so as the patient may easily endure it neither over the elbow for then the arme cannot be bended and this binding must remain until the next day and with a garter or linnen cloath let the arme be tied to the brest If the patient chance to faint in the bleeding let him put his finger far into his mouth and presse down the root of his tongue and force himself to keck as if he would cast and it will help but it he swound then bow him forward and clap your palm of your hand close upon his mouth stopping his nose between your finger and thumb and he will come to himself again presently Let none blood if he have not had a stool that day or the day before If any come to thee to be let blood do it not without good advice where the Physitian adviseth and thou dost according to his directions whatsoever happens thou shalt go blamelesse Many will upon the least distemper run to a Barber to be blooded which to get twelve pence he refuses not to do against all sense and reason divers times for he neither weighs the age nor considers the disease but fills the Porrengers the patient going away perhaps a little eased for the present perhaps worse but most of them grow to such maladies afterwards that they are scarce able to help themselves You shall have also young females that have been a little too bold with their sweet-hearts will come to you desiring to be blooded in the foot and tell you they want their naturall purgation when indeed just cause they have therefore have a great care in such cases and do it not without advice either from some learned Physitian or thy owne judgement and good consideration The veins usually opened are in number eight three in the arm