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
A33533	Hygieinē, or, A plain and practical discourse upon the first of the six non-naturals, viz, air with cautionary rules and directions for the preservation of people in this time of sickness, very necessary for the gentry and citizens that are now in the country to peruse before they come into London / by Tho. Cock.	Cock, Thomas.	1665 (1665)	Wing C4791; ESTC R24767	18,295	42

draw and stinks repell and drive back whereas the contrary may be thought rather the truth This the surmising Vulgar are very prone to call in question from that common mistaken experiment they take from Hysterick distempers where they say sweet smells draw up the vapour and stinks drive it down and so taking non causa pro causa the Controversie is occasioned Whereas the Hysterical vapours ascent nor descent is simply from the odoriferous or foetid fume but because its Receptacle being delighted and pleased with delicious and grateful odours and as much offended by noisome and unpleasant savours it greedily riseth up though in its own wrong to enjoy the one and as hastily flies as an Enemy the other which is as great a proof as any need be produced of natures detesting and abhorring as prejudicial and hurtful to it self all foetid stinking and unsavoury scents and that is the common and received opinion of Physitians Though I am inclined to think that the heart the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of all motion and vital spirits by its Systole and Diastole is the efficient and material cause of those vapours assention and declination the heart by the heat of the Arterial blood dilates lifts up and moves the lungs by which motion they attract Air and suck in such thin subtil and aereal bodies as scents and odours which being communicated by the lungs to the heart the heart as in a Throne by its Prerogative Royal and Legislative Power acts Rex and truly examines and determines approves and disallows whatever is Homogeneal and Heterogeneal to it self and when it apprehends any inimical blood scent or vapour contained and lodged in its Kingdom the Body to approach its presence by the communication of inferiour parts it speedily throws off and expells it by the coercive power of its Systole for as is the motion of the Heart and Arteries so is the Venal blood Vapour and Natural Spirit which are fluxil parts and in any part of the body neither is it more absurd for perfect and imperfect blood to be mingled in this motion then for the excrementitious humours to be mingled with the pure Alimentary blood and as the muscles of the Abdomen and the Peristatick motion of the Intestines expel the foeces so the Heart by its transverse Fibres labours to expel such homonymous blood spirits and noxious vapours as are proffered to it or may assault it in Circulation or by the communication of parts But this I leave as too Problematical and difficult to be made evident by a Transient discourse and that the Question may not render the practice dubious or insecure I shall have recourse to Authority discentem enim credere oportet and resolve all into the opinion and judgement of the most able and learnedst Physitians who unanimously agree that fragrant sweet and pleasant fumes and odoriferious exhalations tend much to the prolongation of life and prevention of very many great diseases and infirmities The Jewish Doctours if credible Historians are to be believed used them frequently in their Synagogues and the Primitive Christians in their Churches however did they or did they not yet so far as the reasonableness of an act and custom or Physical use may oblige I think there is not a more necessary and useful thing to be thought on And though I will not be so arrogant nè agyrtarum vocibus uti videar as to pronounce this Pastil or Fume I have appointed to be the only and most absolute that can be thought on or produc'd yet I may boldly say that I never saw or was the Author of a more acceptable safe and profitable Topick both for the preventing diseases and preservation of health Galen who lived 140 years lib. 5. cap. 10. De sanit Tuend makes them his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the solace and support of his life and one of the three Principles he left to Posterity for the prolongation of long life was to be careful not only to avoid all noisom stinking and infectious smells as things hurtful to nature but also to be very mindful to remain among sweet savours wholesom scents and odours that were agreeable to the temper and constitution of the body and did constantly keep to them himself to prevent the mischief that might happen by the want of them Limorleus also an Author more obscure than questionable accounts them the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the averters and drivers back of all Evils and in his Treatise De Odoramentis hath these words Partim ad voluptatem partim ad sanitatem maximè ver à ad graves odores fugandos ad auram venenatam pestilentem ad cordis etiam vires spiritus vapore odorato per nares in fauces una cum acre deinde in cor effuso the means is that those things we now treat on are not only sawce for the senses but are also for the banishing pestilent and venemous blasts by a fragrant odour received by the Nostrils and from thence transmitted with air into the Heart aud Lungs What an influence they have upon the principal parts of life might did I intend a Volume be plainly demonstrated by their great and manifest effects per nates fauces in the cure of Consumptions and most distempers incident to the Brain and Lungs but I am mindful of my intended brevity and shall only advise all such as are troubled with bad Lungs or would secure themselves from such distempers to apply themselves as much as may be to the use of these or such like specifick odours not only now but hereafter the Lungs Vital Animal and Natural Faculties being much injured and Consumptions much increased by the noisom smells as are at the best of times in such populous places as this City Thus far for outward Helps and Applications the next thing to be considered and treated on is Inward Antidotes and they consist of such things as do resist Malignancie and strengthen the Heart and Vital parts inwardly as the other things we have spoken of do the animal and natural faculties outwardly This venemous vapour which breedeth the Pestilence is conveyed together with the air or breath first to the Lungs then to the heart from thence it is dispersed by the Veins and Arteries into all parts of the body And first it surpriseth the Spirits next the Humours and at length tota substantia and firm substance of the body and then commonly within three or four dayes it grows to extremity Now the best armour against this Enemy that I know of in all Art and Nature for outward means is what I have already advised and for inward helps they are almost infinite some are for one thing some for another never was more variety to cure Corns and the Tooth-ach so that I may say with the Poet Inopem me Copia fecit However to make good and short work of it I shall give you a practical draught of what I do my self and advise my best