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A25812 Aristoteles Master-piece, or, The secrets of generation displayed in all the parts thereof ...; Aristotle's Masterpiece. 1684 (1684) Wing A3689; ESTC R4283 73,397 190

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fell into his divine Rapture and Admiration expressed in Psal 138. I will praise thee O Lord because I am wonderfully made thy Works are wonderful Mr Soul searcheth and knoweth it right Well thou knowest all my Bones when I was fashinned in the secret place and when I was wonderfully formed in my Mothers Womb. Thy Eyes beheld me yet unmade and in thy Book were all my Members written which day by day were fashioned Thy Knowledge is wonderful unto me whereby I was made I cannot understand it c. And Physicians that have narrowly contemplated Mans Nature constitute four different times wherein this Microcosm or little World is framed and perfected in the Womb. First When after Copulation and mutual embracing it hath the nature of Seed at which time it is called Conception or Geniture because the Seeds of the Man and Woman mixing and fermenting become like Cream and are perfect in the first week if no Eflux happen which sometimes falls out through the slipperiness of the Matrix or the head thereof that shuts over like a Rose bud opening on a sudden by reason of some cold distemper or over-weariness in Travel The second time of forming is constituted when Nature and the force of the Womb by the use of her own inbred forces and vertue makes a manifest mutation in the Seed so that all the substance seems congealed Flesh and Blood rather than Seed which happens about the 12 or 14 day after Copulation and though this Concretion or fleshy Mass abound with hot fiery blood yet it remains undistinguishable without form of figure and may be called the rough draught or Embrio and well likened to Seed which is sown in the ground which through kindly heat and moisture grows up by degrees into a perfect form either in Plant or Grain or as when a Potter fashions a Vessel out of a rude Lump of Clay The third time to make up this Fabrick is set when the three principal Parts shew themselves evidently and perspicuously viz. The Heat from whence proceeds the Arteries the Brain from which the Nerves proceed like many small threads running through the whole Body and the Liver from whence the Veins derive their Original These are the Seeds and Fountains of Life that nourish and support each part of the Body in framing which the Faculty of the Womb is busied from the time of Conception to the eighteenth day of the first Month. But lastly which time reacheth to the 28 or 30 day the outward Parts are seen exquisitely claborated and distinguished by Joynts and then the Child begins to grow and pant from which Progress of days by reason the Limbs are divided and the whole frame is perfect it is no longer held an imperfect Child or Embrio that is a Concretion that springs sorth but is held to be a perfect and absolute Child Males for the most part are perfect by the 30 day but Females seldom till the 42 or 45 day and the reason why the one is sooner perfected than the other is that the heat of the Womb is greater in producing the Male than the Female for heat extends the humour like soft wax diffusing delating it and hen by its force contracting framing and fashioning it so heat and vigout of the Body and Alacrity of nature in the Man makes the Male to move in 3 months but the Female rarely under 4 at which time also his Hair and Nailes come forth and the Child begins to stir kick and tumble in the Womb so that the motion is plainly perceived and the Women are troubled with nauseating and loathing of their meat and oftentimes covet and greedily long for things contrary to Nutriment as Coals Rublish Chalk Lime Starch Oat-meal ●aw Flesh and Fish or the like which desire proceeds from a former contraction of evil humours occasioning im pure Blood in their containing Vessel within and often occasions abortion and miscarriage some Women as it has been noted by divers Authors of Credit have been so extravegant in their longings that they have coveted Hob-Nails Leather Herse Flesh Mans Flesh and the Flesh of divers ravenous Be asts for want of which they have cast their Birth untimely or the Child has contiued dead in the Womb for many days to the eminent hazard of the Womans life But to proceed in this great mystery I shall unfold by what means the Infant is sustained in the Womb and the posture it there remains in The Infant being arrived to some perfection is fastened by a long string to the Navel as the Apple by the stalk is fastened to the Tree by which through the help of the Umbelical Vein it is nourished by a Fountain of pure Blood not taking it in at the mouth as some ignorant People have imagined that being of no use during the aboad in the Womb neither do any Excrements fall from the Vessels of Evacuation but the Umbelical Vein springing from the Matrix enters the Liver in two parts terminates in Vena Porta from which the most pure Blood from the Seminary Vessels are derived to the Matrix And hende it is that the Blood and Spirits like Auxiliaries are always convey'd downwards that so none of them be wanting whereof are those Channels and Rivers of Veins and Arteries that proceed from the Mothers Body are carried to the Womb and then fastened into the Navel feed the Child by insensible ways and by the faculty of the Seed that is fostered by the heat of the Womb and moistened with Blood being perfected at the times specified in all its parts equal ballanced it is in the midst of the Womb as in the Center lying all on a heap and being something long is turned round so that the Head a little inclines and it lays its Chin on its Breast his Heels and Ancles upon his Buttocks its Hands on its Cheeks and its Thumbs to its Eyes but its Legs and Thighs are carried upward with its Hams bending so that they touch the bottom of its belly the former and that part of the body which is over against us as the Fore-head Nose Face are turned towards the Mothers Back and the Head inclining downwards towards the Cocyx or Rump-bone that joyns to the Os Sacrum which Bone together with Os Pubis in the time of the Birth parts and is loosened whence it is that Male Children commonly come with their Faces downwards or with their Heads turned somewhat Oblique that their Faces may be seen but the Female children with their Faces upward tho' sometimes it happens that Births follow not according to Natures order but Children come forth with their feet stradling their Necks bowed and their Heads lying Oblique with their Hands stretch'd out which greatly endangers themselves and the Mother giving the Midwife great trouble to introduce them nto the World but when all things proceed orderly and naturally the Child when Natures set bounds are accomplished is desirous to break its bounds and come forth