Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	blood_n	body_n	heart_n	5,603	5	5.0093	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15052	The tree of humane life, or, The bloud of the grape Proving the possibilitie of maintaining humane life from infancy to extreme old age without any sicknesse by the use of wine. By Tobias Whitaker Doctor in Physick of London.	Whitaker, Tobias, d. 1666.	1638 (1638)	STC 25356; ESTC S119853	23,147	94

familiarity with all animals then it doth not seeme so unreasonable to grant it in its temper a complicate mixture or comprehensive nature and to comprehend the quality of other Plants inferiour to it selfe and in its owne perfection to obtaine a degree though not so high as in the more proper subject And thus is man the Epitome of the whole world How ever wee know these aforesaid qualities to bee in wine and may bee with as little contradiction as in Guiacum which doth by constringing evacuate and Rhubarb which doth bind by purging But still I spy more possibility then that which is only extracted out of a Simile and this is aliquid Catholicum or an incorruptible spirit in Wine more powerfull then in any other such thing And this moveth freely contracting or dilating its selfe in its spheare adde distance weaker or stronger according to the power of the forenamed agent and disposition of the Spheare wherein it moveth It may also be said to move thus from its materiall principles as by vertue of its fluent and fixt heate the one oleaginous continuating binding and uniting the parts together the other fluent attenuating the humours and loosening the belly or the body universally And thus it is possible to effect these contrary actions out of its owne naturall mixture And since it can doe thus there is a great deale of reason why it should be thus practised for there is no other vegetal or minerall so safe harmlesse and familiar in it selfe to humane constitutions as being naturally more pure and better concocted then any other juyce either of milke egges corne fruits or the like all of them more subject to putrefaction more onerous to nature in concoction by reason of their crudity the most of them breeding little bloud or vitious bloud or no bloud at all But wine especially Claret or red is sanguified before it be taken Nay the Ancients seeme to perswade mee when they call it the old mans milke that it hath received a concoction more then bloud as it is cited in Iecore For milke is bloud dealbated or thrice concocted This is the phisick which doth not dull but set a true edge upon nature after operation leaveth no venemous contact Sure I am this was ancient Phisick else what meant Avicenna Rhasis and Averroes to move the body twice every month with the same as it is familiar to Nature so they used it as familiarly As for my own experience though I have not lived yet so long as to love excesse yet have I seene such powerfull effects both on my selfe and others as if I could render no other reason they were enough to perswade me of its excellencie seeing extenuate withered bodies by it caused to be faire fresh plumpe and fat old and infirme to be young and sound when as water or small-beere-drinkers looke like Apes rather then men My eye now is converted to the vulgar and I see their hearts dance systole and diastole disorderly without observation of true time the heart being too much dilated with this report of preservation from death sicknesse and paine For naturall death or extreame old age suffereth dissolution without any paine and all these to bee affected by so familiar a medicament as Wine this surely verifieth the Proverb Every man now must bee a foole or a Physician But bee not deceived the application of this medicament to every temper age distemper with its circumstances of Sex and Clime will exercise the best Philosopher rightly to dispose and order and if disorderly applied or ignorantly advised the principles of Nature must suffer decay and in stead of being extended shall bee sweetly shortned how sweet then must extension bee Empericks here stand like Tantalus with apples at their mouth but cannot be the better for them They see this subject but can never reach it their Logick from a particular to an universall is of no force here nor in this course can any man have experience but he that knoweth what he doth in every one of these respects following which are not rightly to be apprehended by any Emperick quatenùs an Emperick Yet before I fall upon the foresaid respects give me leave since I see Plato to salute him amicus Plato magis amica veritas The prohibition he bringeth concerneth Kings Magistrates Souldiers Women and servants absolutely forbidding Wine at any time place or to any of these persons and confineth them altogether to water So that whether hee meant none but the Common-wealth of Schollers should enjoy this happinesse makes no matter for assuredly hee chiefly intended sobriety Yet reason is not satisfied nor is his politique rule or law so agreeable to reason as to bee received in any Republique except Platonicall First because it binds those from the use of Wine which are most capable of it in respect of judgement and reason which Princes and Iudges have above other people and therefore know how to use it rightly and being continually in services of trouble care and paine exhausting their spirits and courage stand in need of such a refreshment as shall exhilarate the mind and maintaine the principles of nature What panick feares doth Wine prevent in the Souldier subtilising their drooping spirits which before were quenched with puddle water and in time of famine how doth this cherish and defend their bodies against distempers which by other stinking vnsavoury meat and drinke might be generated As for servants this is meat for their masters but Physick for them upon just occasion And so I passe to the tempers of bodies in generall and the Wines generally agreeing with those tempers and then more directly to this or that individuall Temper it selfe being the reason of mixture or the harmony and consent of the prime qualities in elements and by the exuperancy of each simple quality these foure simple tempers are created as hot when the heate surpasseth the cold and yet of siccity and moisture remaineth an equality and so of the rest as cold and dry and moist Besides there are foure conjugate tempers which proceed from the exuperancy of the two first qualities as hot and moist hot and dry cold and moist cold and dry which are the foure compound tempers their fixation consisting in that oleaginous humour which wee call innatum calidum and this innate so praestantious so necessary as without it mixt bodyes cannot subsist 't is also fomented and cherished by influent heate contracted in the heart veines and arteries as their proper channels consisting of spirituall bloud lying hid in the heart as the middle of the body which by sympathie doth defend and maintaine innate heate and doth absolve and perfect the temperament with all the functions of the body even as the Sunne like a blazing Lampe inlighteneth the world so doth the heart ejaculate the influent spirit into the universall body besprinkling every part conserving life and excitating to particular functions so as in truth such as is this fluent spirit such