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A35961	The anatomy of human bodies, comprehending the most modern discoveries and curiosities in that art to which is added a particular treatise of the small-pox & measles : together with several practical observations and experienced cures ... / written in Latin by Ijsbrand de Diemerbroeck ... ; translated from the last and most correct and full edition of the same, by William Salmon ...; Anatome corporis humani. English	Diemerbroeck, Ysbrand van, 1609-1674.; Salmon, William, 1644-1713.	1694 (1694)	Wing D1416; ESTC R9762	1,289,481	944

Heart Lungs rough Arterie or Windpipe and the Oesophagus or Gullet This the great Creator placed in the middle that as a King resides in the mid'st of his Kingdom so the Heart the most noble and principal Habitaculum of Life should inhabit this middlemost Palace of the Microcosmical Kingdom and there sit as in its Throne from thence with more convenience to water the several Regions of the Little World with its Rivulets of enlivening Nectar and Heat XXIII The third Venter which is generally called the lowermost and concludes with the Abdomen or Paunch as the seat of the Liver Stomach Guts Reins Womb and many other parts serving for the Concoction of Nourishment Evacuation of Excrements and Generation of Off-spring therefore necessarily to be placed lowermost lest the manifold disturbances and abominable filth of this Kitchin should annoy the superiour principal Viscera in their Functions XXIV Limbs are the Members adjoyning to the Venters and distinguish'd with Ioynts These being granted to Man for the better accommodation of Life are twofold Arms and Legs XXV The Arms in Man are divided into the Shoulders Elbows and Hands The Legg is divided into the Thigh the Shin and Foot According to which Division we have divided this our Anatomy into ten Books In the first four of which shall be explain'd the History of those things which are contain'd in the several Cavities and Limbs In the six latter we shall discourse of those things which are common to the whole Body the Muscles Membranes Fibers Arteries Veins Nerves Bones Gristles and Ligaments CHAP. II. Of the lowermost Venter in general I. IN regard the lowermost Venter contains in it several moist Parts which are liable to putrefaction the sink of many Dregs therefore Anatomists begin their Dissections from thence to avoid the effects of swift putrefaction and to remove those Bowels first out of the way which might soonest infect the whole Body and so prevent a requisite consideration of the rest II. This Venter Aristotle Hist. Anim. lib. 1. c. 13. properly calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Common People simply the Belly in a more reserved signification which Celsus willing to distinguish from the superiour Venter calls Imum Ventrem the lower Belly III. The lower Venter is all that Cavity bounded above by the Sword-like Cartilage and the Diaphragma or Transverse Muscle on each side by the lower Ribs behind by the Ioynts of the Loyns and below by the Bones of the Hip the Os Sacrum and Share-bone or Os Pubis IV. The fore parts of this Cavity adjoyning to the lower Cartilages of the Ribs and comprehended under 'em were by the Ancients call'd Hypochondria and Praecordia being two a Right and a Left V. All that which falls upon the middle Ventricle of the Hypochondria and the Gutts next to it for more clear distinctions sake with Veslingius is call'd Epigastrium tho' Riolanus will have it to be the Region of the Stomach But the Ancients gave the name of Epigastrium to the whole Paunch which the Arabians call'd Myrach In the upper part of this Epigastrium is a certain Cavity by the Greeks call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the Latins Scrobiculus Cordis VI. The middle Region is the Region of the Navel lying equally from the Navel three fingers above and below whose sideling Parts are by the Greeks call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the Latins Ilia because the Gut Ilium lies chiefly conceal'd under those places VII That part which is comprehended between this Region and the space of the Share is call'd the Hypogastrium Imus Venter and Aqualiculus Whose lateral Parts from the bending of the Hip to the Share are call'd Inguina or the Groyns VIII The Share by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is that part next above the Privities covered with hair in persons grown to full Age. Of each side of which are the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which the Latins call Inguina or the Groyns IX The lower part between the Root of the Yard and the Fundament is call'd the Perinaeum X. The hinder parts of the Paunch or Abdomen above are fill'd up by the Loyns or Lumbi below by the Buttocks or Clunes which the Greeks call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Cleft dividing the Buttocks by Hierophilus is call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 where the hole of the right Intestine breaks forth vulgarly call'd the Podex or Fundament XI This Venter consists of parts containing or external or of parts contain'd or internal XII The Containing which they properly call the Abdomen or Paunch are either common or proper XIII The parts contain'd are adapted either for Nourishment Evacuation of Excrements or Generation The Physiognomists affirm that notable Conjectures may be made concerning the Disposition of Men from the form and bigness of this Belly Thus Aristotle affirms that a little Belly is one of the principal Parts from whence Wisdom appears in man Among others a ●…lat and hollow Belly denotes a man envious and covetous A round Belly betokens sobriety A swag-Belly marks out a sleepy slothful stupid Fellow A Navel swelling out very much is a sign of a person given to Venery CHAP. III. Of the common Containing Parts and first of the Cuticle and Skin I. THose are said to be the Common containing Parts that infold not only this Belly but cover all the rest of the Body except the Yard the Scrotum or Cod the Eye-lids and some other parts that want Fat II. These are the Cuticle the Skin the Fat the fleshy Pannicle the Membrane common to the Muscles III. The Cuticle or Scarf-skin which the Greeks call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as it were a thing spread over the Skin is a thin fast insensible little Skin spread over the Cutis and so closely sticking to it that it cannot be parted from it but by the raising of little Blisters by the force of Fire or Vesicatories Aquapendens observed it sometimes double under the Vesicatory divided into two very thin Skins an outermost somewhat closer and an innermost much thinner and sticking so close to the Skin that it cannot be taken off with a Pen-knife which was so provided by Nature that seeing the Skin is subject to outward violence that if one Skin should perish the other might remain entire and supply the uses to which the other was design'd IV. It is said to grow from the moisture of the Flesh condens'd by the dryness of the ambient Air but erroneously in regard it appears to have a Seminal Principle as well as the Skin or any solid Parts It covers the Skin and shuts up the Mouths of the Vessels that extend to the Skin and moderates its exquisite Sense and prevents the overmuch running out of the moisture Iulius Castor of Placentia and several other Anatomists will not

Judgment upon a Wound whether it be Mortal or no which is of no small moment to a Judge or Magistrate for their Conduct and Procedure upon Criminals in that particular Such likewise they must be who by dissecting a Diseased Body can procure any advantage to the living by finding out more proper Remedies according as by Dissection they have found in others the cause and seat of the Disease Though by what has already been said you see the Credit and Reputation Anatomy has in former Ages been yet the Study of it never flourished more than in this last Age wherein so many are so strenuously industrious that one would think in our Age it might be brought to perfection Who can ever forget the Learned Asellius for finding out the Lacteal Veins No less than immortal Glory can be due to the Renown'd Harvey our Country-man for finding out the Circulation of the Blood He that cannot acknowledge the Excellency of our Willis for his Anatomy of the Brain must never pretend to the subject Discourse The curious Researches of our Wharton on the Glands surpass what has been said in former Times The Scholastic and Learned Glisson has performed his Share in trasing the Meanders of the Liver-Vessels The acute Lower has shown in sensible Terms how the prime Mover of the Humane Machine exerts its Power The renowned Bartholinus in Denmark the Swammerdam's Bilsius's de Graaf's and others in the Low-Countries but especially the Learned and Laborious Diemerbroeck in Utrecht have raised to themselves immortal Monuments of their Learning and Industry about this Subject And upon Diemerbroecks Labours principally what I have here to say shall be employed He says he had for several Years been conversant in Anatomical Studies that in teaching others he had learned many things himself that were new and till his Time altogether unknown upon which he resolved to write a Book of particular Observations and make them publick as he saw several others had done before him But abundance of his Friends disswaded him from this and urged him rather to write a whole Body of Anatomy and to put into it besides what Galen Eustachius Vesalius and others had written who had been most excellent in Works of this Nature not only his own but all the Modern Inventions of all Learned Men whatsoever This Advice was not unwelcome to him because none had attempted this before him But the Attendance upon his Practice the Greatness of the Undertaking and the Criticalness and Censoriousness of this curious Age to say nothing of the Malice and Envy of some did a little deterr him However these Difficulties being surmounted he undertook the Business finished it and made it publick All the new things which either he could find out or were hitherto found out by the best of Anatomists he has here brought upon the Stage He further in his First Edition engaged that whatever hereafter he should find lying hid in obscurity he would bring to light and when he died that he would bequeath all to Posterity For as long as the Desire of advancing Anatomical Knowledge should continue in the World he knew innumerable other things would be produced which we cannot now so much as dream of such things he recommends to Posterity and that out of Love to the common Welfare Men would not hereafter scruple to undertake this Province In this Anatomy of his he tells you he is not so ambitious as to arrogate to himself the excellent Sayings or the new Inventions of others but desiring to give every one his due Honour he sets down the Names of the Authors of whom he borrowed any thing for as Pliny says He ever reckoned it a piece of Good Nature and Modesty to acknowledge his Benefactors but that it was an Argument of Guilt and Ill Nature to chuse rather to be catched in Theft than to restore another his own when he at the same time is in debt upon Interest And so he gives to all their Due For he professes he would not be accounted one of these that by writing of Books would procure themselves a Name who by raking and scraping all they can from others get a great deal together and vaunt it all for their own concealing the Authors Names from whence they stole when in the mean time they mis-apprehend perhaps the Authors Meaning and what they have thence transcribed neither they themselves well understand nor are they able to express it to others Nevertheless in quoting of Authors he uses not many Flatteries and Complements but avoids all fulsome and Adulatory Blandishments wherewith abundance of Books now adays are rather blotted than adorned while they style the Authors whom they cite the most Eminent never enough to be commended the most Acute the most Famous the most Learned the most Noble the most Celebrated c and adorn themselves especially such as are yet alive with I know not what Epithetes it may be to avoid and prevent some shrowd Objections which haply they might otherwise fear or that they themselves being ambitious and delighted with such empty Applause desire the same Favour at one time or other to be returned upon themselves he reckons all he quotes to be Learned Men nor does he doubt of it though he thinks some more Learned than others Therefore he would have no Man take it ill that he lards not his Name with many such Epithets because as Complements now pass indifferently upon all Men they rather fully the Illustrious Worth of the Deserving than add any Splendor to it In this Book he studies not so much Politeness of Style as the Truth which has no occasion for Bombast and Rhetoric But that he may the better discover what the Truth is in several places he opposes other Mens Opinions but in a friendly way some he refutes and wholly rejects but without any Malice here and there he ushers in his own but without Ambition and whereas he has observed that in most Authors several things are wanting about the True Use of the Parts many things either written or judged amiss in several places he treats more fully concerning it but without Disparagement or Reproach to others For he never reckoned it any Fault in a Learned Man that all other Mens Writings do not please him alike nor that he corrects many things and contradicts many provided it be done civilly and without Virulence and Calumny which alass is now the Practice of too many Supercilious Scriblers who the better to defend their Darling Opinions and these often taken and stolen from others and vouched for their own had rather attack their Adversaries with foul Words and Scurrilous Writings which does not at all become Learned Men then concert the difference in friendly Reasonings In the Seventh Book of this Work and other where in describing the Ducts of the Veins he takes a new and unusual Method for whereas other Anatomists heretofore derived the Branchings of the Veins from the Vena Cava and other great