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Show 0 V... we. .- . _.____ _., , ..__,__._...---v------"' Book 31. Book ll. .1" 0f the Tar/ao/ogy oft/ye NIotion oft/9e Heart. Suflbcation the Heart immediately enfueth, and the motion of the Blood wholly taken away. C H A P. X I 1Y. . a Sir Robert Fen, a worthy Gentleman, and Servant of King Char-[er the An iri'lanccof Firfi, ofmofl blelled Memory, being lubjeét to great Pallion, was (0 highly "mm" furprized with Fear, upon the occafion of a conceived imminent loll, that _ 0f the Tatlaologj (if the WOHW 0/ fl)" [184m he fell down dead in a moment , which was (as I humbly conceive j cauled by a great fourch of Blood fuddainly impelled into the right Ventricle, and Suflbcated the Heart. given a Hiltory of the Motion of the Heart, Mechanically Aving performed by the Contraction of various ranks of Helhy Fibres , . ‘ ' ' ' nd Nervous FibreS' M deli n at this aiiOC'fltEd hlthldmlinyl T313113)? aof its Motion as it is, aftez a mfnner abotime 15 to pea"1 0d tieda .1ng ' killed; d'mlm e 2 or eprave ' Tthyuenpc A third caule of a Lipothymy or Sync0pe, may be deduced From a grof- Aflfirdmfl. nefs or coucretion of Blood proceedin from an over-Ebrous dif ofiti . . . ' g . . i " p on, ""L'Pm‘y‘ Hthat is, from numerous Films and Velicles containing grofi Atoms of Blood Ky full of fixed Saline Particles, Coagulating the Blood in the Ventricles, often producrnga Polypm, inducing thefe illaccidents of the Heart. The tw0 firlt irregular Motions of the Heart may be compriled in a Syn- Thefe fyinptoms may alfo be caufed by fome Helhy ExcrelEence filling up Tl\~"rcfrmr~‘ :.;rorr,-t,;‘ucair- cope, and Lipothymy, which do not formally or eilentially difler, but only Hamlin"? gradually, fecmzdum Magi: (a), Minm, as the firlt is higher than the latter; either of the Ventricles; So that they are not receptive of Vital Liquor; [om-S "W whereupon the Heart lofeth its life and motion, as being dehgned by Nature 151' _ hymn"). So that they being both fymptoms attending the Motion of the Heart are near akin to each other as proceeding from the fame caufes, as afi'céted with higher or lower degrees, raid. From the defect of Blood, or too great a quantity, or from its grohiel‘s or Concretion, or from Corruption, or lallly, by the de- to tranhnit Blood into all parts of the Body. A Woman of great Honour and Birth, was frequently tortured with a pain of the Heart, and great Fainting Fits, which could not be taken away by the pOWer of Art, and at lalt the pain and Lipothymies growing more and more alfliétive, Death became the bell: remedy. Andiatflterward her fect or fault of the Animal Spirits. Tl'cfirllcaufi: The defeé'r of Blood in the Heart, may proceed from a weak concoé'rive 3:2,:er "f faculty of the Stomach, derived from a want of due Fcrinents and kindly Body being opened, and her Heart iufpefled, a black Flelh iiibltance fomewlhaltlrefembling a Medlie in figure, was difcovered in the left Simt: of t e cart. heat in Chronick and acute difeafes; whereupon a {mall quantity of Chyle 1, ( the Materiiz [uh/tram Sanguinir) is produced. The (Emmi Another caufe of thefe ill fymptoms of the Heart , may be taken from a A sum: Purulent Matter flowing from an Ulcer of the Heart, tainting and difioning :15 BESSIE, Another caiife of the defeé‘t of Blood in the Heart, may be deduced from fi'flfirg'o‘? an oblirucftion of the afcendent Trunk of the chz Cat/it, caufed by fome 31"" Flclhy lubfiance, or by home concreted Blood intercepting the current of the mals of Blood pafiing through the Ventricles ; whereupon the Fibres of fgrfmfli‘f; Blood into the right Ciltern of the Heart, or by the fame carries in the Pul- monary V'cilels, giving a check to the motion of Blood out of the Lungs into the left \"entricle. the Heart grow faint, and at lalt lofe their Contractions proceeding from a ‘. . _ _ . _ _ _ _ :‘ljclfli‘i‘Qf'F "mated dlfpmthd corrupted 510°C!) received "1'50 the" inward Compage, Whehce {CHOW Lipothymies, Synco es, and‘ Death it felf. An lnfiance may be given of the hindred circulation of Blood, produced A Omen long, afllic‘ted With a high Hypoc‘or‘id‘riacal pallion, and an 39‘1"? from its Coagulation in the Trunk of the Van: Cat/a, in a Maid of Four- my?" accompamed With Lipothymies and Syncopes, determining in a hap- teen years old, who after lhc had been highly afliié‘ted for a dayyr'irhagreat hearinefs, and a \‘ei'tigiuous indifpofition and frequent Syncopes, took her 1:); (:Clparture,.as the PCl'iOd 0f pain and miféry, his BOdY bhihg Diflhfi' th, tne Cav1ty of the Thorax was found full of a thin, red, fartide humor, " ICh was alfo lodged in £119 19h? Ventricle of the Heart, flown from at! Ulcer. farewell of her Friends and her milErable life; and afterward {he being opened to infpeé‘t the caufe of her death, the Brain was Found to be free from any diiiitii'c'iion and the Vemz CII‘Z/tt to be filled with coucreted Blood. which rcndred the right Ventricle empty of it, which proved fatal to this ' 7 n - 4 Thefe l‘evere accidents of the Heart do often arife' Out of the Ulcers of the Tficrcfrmn ) :Eighbouring parts, as the Lungs, rFla-1m: , Mediafline, Midriff, Liver, iiigiiiah'r young Virgin. V A fecand ‘ Another caufe of a Lipothymy or Syncope (often attended with a ' ivaouicvvruxirihh firolte) may arife out of ['0 great a torrent of Blood, carried into the Vt , A ' "‘"Y‘K‘E‘i' iiiaii. t" monar ) ' Aitcr )7' nor out of the left into the Amer: T ' ;, ; 1 Tilda" Trunk 0f the C4714; and from thence into the right Ventricle OF t ‘6 Hear-r, \vhereby its Fibres are highly difCOmpofed by @m- imbibcd in~ 3": :‘ s rricles, that the Heart is not able to dit‘charge it out of :l : ti :pleen, @amrms, which being opprelled by Ulcero'us Matter, do tranhnit figfifi‘e‘ngfif it by final!" hthhCS 0f Veins PCChh" ‘0 the h‘id V1755": into the 2f- . t9 them With the Blood. B 9 Tllé‘lo |