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spirit_n	blood_n	body_n	part_n	8,155	5	4.9083	4	false

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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

notice to be given to the Dverleers of their Remove that care may be taken they shall not wander until they be sound That by the whole is meant that part or such persons as remained whole and well in Sick-houses is evident by the Hypothesis if the whole be to be removed but I leave that Honourable and Learned Society to be their own Commentators as the occasion shall require Errors in this nature by the Wise mans words being as stones cast upon the waters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one circle raiseth up another until the latter is bigger then the former However as to my self others as yet keeping silence so far as my reason can insure me any thing I cannot but think that the medium 'twixt the two extreams of letting all infected persons loose or * the shutting up all well persons with the infected would be the only expedient to preserve the whole the one when things grow to extremity though never so much endeavoured cannot be observed nor the other prevented or avoided neither can I by all that I have as yet heard in favour of the * latter perswade my self but that it is as well as the former rather a great promoter then preventer of the Plague the Mortality being hereby greatly increased and after such hard and severe usuage those that are left alive having done their penance and thereby absolved and released become far more Infectious unless the Longer the Lesser they are tainted then if they had been never been so shut up or restrained Neither is it any absurd Annotation That the greatest Plagues that ever were in England were when it first was Instituted and most observed Something dissonant to this An. 36. in as formidable a Plague in its beginning as ours was with good success constituted by his late Sacred Majesty of ever blessed memory Charles the First and I have by some persons of good Quality now alive then Visited and so disposed of been informed that not one of Twenty among the well persons so removed fell sick nor one in Ten of the sick died which next to Gods Goodness they imputed to their freedom of Airing Walking Recreating and refreshing of themselves by an honest and free Conversation one with another hereby also they had the voluntary free and freequent Visits of the best and most able Physitians Chirurgeons and Apothecaries little hazard by this means attending their Cures the dejection horror fear and consternation of their Spirits great Incendiaries and Promoters of a Pest were hereby also taken off and much abated Searchers Bearers Nurses and other licensed Visitors whose walks are far more perillous then divers that are occluded and shut up would hereby also become almost void and useless Would to God upon no less penalty then death they were debarred the Society of all well people and not only have some visible and signal badge about them when they go abroad for persons to avoid them but they also severely enjoyn'd to avoid others especially Children and Fools that are not sensible of their danger Four of each if any in every Parish would be requisite Two of each to be assign'd only for such houses where the diseased upon good grounds may be thought not to die Infected it being most unreasonable that Families which are clear should run the hazard of such Searchers and Bearers as are allotted for the Infected This Paragraph my Lord I have added only with the breath of a Transition and large Parenthesis to blow upon the feather of Custom and and Opinion which often weighs down by a kind of nonsense its Levity the most weighty profound and solid actions of our lives Hereby also the Publick Magistrate may with Courage Confidence and Security manage City affairs Citizens and Tradesmen safely keep their houses and follow their imployments many childing-women and sucking children fatherless helpless and friendless persons supported and preserved The Cunning and Craft of such as have Soars and dissemble their Sickness to the ruine of those they converse with only to avoid shutting up might be detected The outrages insolencies number and neglects of Nurses restrained prevented and abated Thousands of persons lives preserved poor people cheaper and better provided for and attended and above all God better pleased and the well effectually kept from the Conversation of the Sick whereby the Contagion and Mortality as to Natural Causes is chiefly if not only augmented and increased I have given you my Lord herein a draught of my private thoughts but no otherwise then Apelles painted his Pictures with his Pencil ready to strike out or put in what ever may seem necessary and acceptable to Your Lordship RULES FOR Returning CITIZENS AND Such as are already Returned TO give a precise and ample account of the Nature Causes Signs and Symptoms of the Disease and of all that may or can be said in Physiology Pathology the Semiotick Hyg●ine and Thearepeu●ick parts of Physick relating to it were like reading Lectures of Martial Discipline to a Souldier when he should fight stand upon his guard and be on service or teach the Art of Navigation in a storm and shipwrack whereas the Maxmium urgens and only thing then to be thought on is how to escape drowning and throw over-board all things of less concernment then themselves To this end I have avoided all the parts of Physick unless the Hygeiastick also all that concerns that but the First of the Six Non-Naturals viz. Air it being in submission to better Judgments the Unum Necessarium or at least One of the most necessariest things that concern the Subject I referr all unto viz. the Preservation of such as are Returning or are Returned out of a good sound wholsom and generous Air into one that is vitiated infirm crazy and sickly As Meat and Drink is to the Body so is Air to the Spirits which are weakned and corrupted preserved and supported as much by a good or bad Air as our Bodies by good or bad Diet And hence it is that all Physitians and Philosophers in all ages have in their Institutions made as great provision for Air as Aliment it being of as great force and power to alter our Bodies as the very food we eat in regard it communicates its qualities to the Spirits and by the Spirits to all the parts of our Bodies and therefore Physitians have in this Infection been all along so important for the use of all such rational helps as might cleanse and rectifie the Air as among many others the making of large fires in every street which had it been rightly managed was as brave and as effectual an expedient for the ridding quantum res humanae patiuntur the City from this Infection as ever was or will be thought on and if over God should give the City the like deplored occasion if then instead of making Fires as formerly within the City they were but to be made without it I mean the Suburbs also and at the same