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Show Of f/JL' Dyed/er of 15/30 Heart, and their Cures. Book ll. large7 vulgarly and improperly called Melancholick Blood. And the whole extravalated Mails, both in the bottom, middle, and crult, or furface, is in- cent quality ol'the Blood, turning the Tartar of it (compofed oi many bahne and {time earthy Particles) into a hard {tony Fuhliance, lodged in the Chainberofthe Ileart ', whereupon the contraéled Fibres cannot perfeélly clofe With each other to fqueeze the Blood out of the Right Ventricle into the pulmo. Blood be highly infpeé'ted, many oblong Appendices, or Filaments, may be an Intermittent Pulfe, Lypothymies, Syncopes, and Palpitations, caufed bya termingled with a concreted Serum, coated with a pale Alli-colour, Pome- what refembling the White ofan Egg; And moreover, if the cxtravafared feen pafiing through the Whole Compage, to which the numerous Veficles ( containing the Serous and Red Particles 0fLiquor ) are appendant. That theTruth of this Hypothefis may be fartherillul'trated, how all the 3° :1??? parts of the Blood may be f‘tyled Khan, in reference to its many Filines, brgiis.) x. befet with divers Sinus, you may take a Polypus (generated in the Left quantity of Blood (lodged in the Cif'terns ofrhe Heart) threatning a Suffocanon. Thefe lad lymptomes are alfo attendants of an obfiruétlon of the Heart, produced by Cat-uncles growing in the Veutricles, generated out of. grofs red Filaments of Blood, united together in the form of Veilels, interlined With i'eliques oi the Red Craffimeut, {0 that thefe concretcd parts of Blood,feem to relemble a ilelhy fubllance, which being adherent to the Walls of the Ventricles, made of {leiliy Fibres, do intercept their Contrafiion, and give divers thin Films. A Polypusis alfo faced with a \Vhite Crul‘t, or high clammy Skin, under which is Feared a Red Concreted lirbltance ( interlined with many Fibres, refembling the Red parts of Blood. , Ihave feen a Third Polypus different from the former, which had its Anon." kind a great check to the motion of the Vital Liquor. outward and interior Receiies clothed with White, and its Ambient parts °f WY?" L'l‘he Ventriclcs of the Heart are allo liable to an Obflruétion coming from a white Concretcd Mucous Matter, called a Polypus, from the likenefs it hath, with a Filli in Figure; The caufe of'it is ( as [humbly conceive) the \rhice Fibrous part of Blood (which maketh a cruf't or clammy membranous fiibllauce, when extravalated ) confifiing of many long Threads, fomewhat. [C'lic‘inbling nervous Filaments, which do much contribute to the Body and Compage olithe Blood, by which it Coucretes when it hath loft its Motion and Heat, as extravafated 5 Thefe oblong Filaments in an ill mafs of Blood not \vel attenuated, do not wholly pals the Ventricles of the Heart, and do Prop while the more thin and Spirituous, well attenuated parts of Blood do run into the Lungs, {0 that by degrees, the grois Fibrous parts do more and more allociate, and being Concreted, do clog the Cavities of the Heart, and Fometimes through thele Fibrous grois parts of the Blood (having their Compage loofe, as not perfec'tly coagulated) themoreiiibtle and fluide pars oi the vital Liquor do inlinuate and make a Channel, and make good the Circulation through the Right Ventricle into the Lungs, and afterward by the acceis of new grois Fibrous parts, the Filamentous pailage is wholly clofed up, and the l'olypus compleated, filling up the Right Ventricle, pulmona- Ventricle of the Heart) fometimes befpotted with Red ipecks, and other times endued all over with a deep Red, or Purple colour, proceeding from the Red Crailament of Blood, fetled in many Velieles, orencompalfed with inclofed in a White Membrane, which proceeded from the Scrolls or Chymous parts of the Blood (fevered from the Purple Particles) which were coriapoibd of White Filaments, and Veficles, containing a White Concreted Liquor, making up the Body of the Polypus, which clogged the Right Ventricle, the pulmonary Artery, Vein, and Left Chamber of the Heart, which I {aw in the Heart of worthy Dr. Timothy Clarke, (one of His Majeiiies Phyiicians in Ordinary) DilTeéted by Learned Dr. Walter Need/14m, in the prefence of renowned Dr. Croyolen, and Dr. Bclz/oir. The Fibres of the Blood, ( if diluted with Liquor , as fireaming out AnErpcri- of the Vein , and received into hot boiling Water,) grow leis, and if they be much boiled, the Filaments of the Blood are conjoyned, and coaleice into a thin Tunicle, very much refembling that which encircleth the coagulated lubiiance of a. Polypus. A Polypns flowing from the Chymous,Serous, or Red part of the Blood Concreted, is more eafily, and commonly generated in the Trunks of the Vein, and in the Right Chamber of the Heart, thenin the Arteries and Lef; Ventricle , by reafon the Blood after it is much divefied of its thin and {pirituous Particles, expended in nutrition and trairfpiration in the habit and cu- $535,331,," $52?" I APfflrrus iiiiiiiiiiii: m' taneous parts of the Body ) and when a grofs malls of Blood is confound- ry Artery, Vein, and LeitVentricle. \‘i lire lliJ' merits. 0f the ‘Di/wyér of the Heart, and their Cures. of Spirit of Hartfliornkof 8;: Armoniack fuccinared, Compound Sprritof . . c. ' er Suirit of 8:1 ron "TBS V'cniricles oi the Heart are liable to many Obfirué‘tions, proceeding from variety of Matter, fometimes with Stones, produced by a Lapidel. nary Artery, and out ofthe Left into the Trunk ofthe Aorta, whence arile i'uli -, "(lets)". of aét'y'ws. Book ll. it any Man {hall doubt the truth of this Concretion of Blood in a Poly, pus, as being made up of many White Filaments, or little Cells, in which the i‘erous and Red parts of the vital Liquor arelodged, he may diicovet this ed with Chyle in the fubclavian Veins, its White Fibrous Particles being precipitated by the contiguity of Heterogeneous Atomes, are apt to coa- Fibrous Contexture ( after the manner of a membranous Compage, made with crude Chyle,) is exalted and attenuated by the affociation of nitroacreal Particles in the firbftance of the Lungs. up ofoPen Fibres ) when the Blood is delpoilcd of its Red aray, by frequent walhings in fair water; whereupon1 thewhite Filaments, giving folidity to the Blood, may be clearly dil‘cerned'j as allo the many veficlcs, entertaining the Albuminous parts of the vital juyce, as {‘0 many finall repelltories, makingakindof reticular Compage, which is repleniihed with a Diaphanous, and more light Liquor. If a more deep inlpeéirion be made after the Ambient parts have been viewed,into the more inward receiles of e)".travafateti Blood, where the concreted Particles grow Bed, the Fibrils may be leen ilitCl‘FpCi‘de with divers Sinus , immurinq the Red Atomcs of Bloood, and if a farther i‘earch be had into its lower Reuiou, it beeometh hued with a Purple or deep Red, (bcfer with the ultimate produrf‘tion of more 1001:: an gulate in the Right Ventricle, before the depauperated Blood (mixed The produétion of a Polypus holdeth fome Analogy with that of the Thefimiiitude Stone of the Kidneys, and other parts, as the Stone is made up ofdivers thin "1 d" "0"" {lion Ufa l'o' Concreted Lamine, clolEly conjoyned and lodged one above another; The 'rigfffifg generation of a Polypus may in fome manner refemble this of the Stone, as Swim i it isa Compage integrated of many thin Filmes (fomewhat like the flakes oFa (tone) to which are appendant feveral Sinews, containing Serous and Red Particles of Blood, which being Concreted in the intermediate [paces of the Pellicles, do increaib the Body of the Polypus, which is more and mlore enlarged by the accretions of new Fibres, and Saline Particles ofcrude B 00d. 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