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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64883	The anatomy of the body of man wherein is exactly described every part thereof in the same manner as it is commonly shewed in publick anatomies : and for the further help of yo[u]ng physitians and chyrurgions, there is added very many copper cuts ... / published in Latin by Joh. Veslingus ; and Englished by Nich. Culpeper.	Vesling, Johann, 1598-1649.; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.	1653 (1653)	Wing V286; ESTC R23769	131,573	204

Nose which stops the flowing of tears by the Nostrils and for that very cause is called Lacrymalis in the Cartilaginous brims of the Eye-lids about the greater angle are two small holes a callous lightly hanging over them which are called Puncta Lacrimalia because if you put a Hogs bristle into them they produce tears they are most conspicuous in great Beasts and Men that are prone to weep But how comes it to pass you will say that tears are so rife and ready in time of grief Truly not from the Eyes but from the Brain by the second hole of the wedg-like bone also from the top and sides of the Head they flow to the forementioned holes hence it comes to pass that the skin between the external angle of the Eye and the Helice of the Ear together with the panicle under it being wounded much watry substance issues out and continual weeping against ones will instantly ceaseth To the extremity of the Eye-lids are hairs inserted growing out straight and when they are grown to their natural length cease growing these not only keep small bodges which fly in the air from getting into the Eye but also by giving a gentle shadow they make the sight the more piercing but this famous use is lost so often as these hairs are thicker than naturally they should be and when they are turned inward and prick the Eyes The office of the Eye-lids is conspicuous Viz. to moisten the Eyes to open shut and defend them and their office is of so great necessity Nature will perform when we are so far from willing of it that we never think of it for it is very rare to forbear winking when any thing threatens To the confines of the Eyes and Forehead hath the Divine Creator produced the Eye-brows being a thick skin sticking out and rough with hair not so much for beauty sake and to shadow the Eye as to keep the sweat which falls down from the Forehead out of them But the Eyes themselves which are the organs of Sight are variously furnished with vessels Muscles Membranes and Humors of the Veins some are external and visible on the white of the Eye other some are internal and hidden the external veins proceed from the external branches of the Jugulars the internal which accompany the optick Nerve from the internal Jugulars and are helped by the Plexus Choroides The original of the Arteries is not unlike this the interior of which arise from the exterior Branch of the Carotides the internal come from the Carotides where with the Vertebrals they make the Rete Mirabile hence it comes to pass that in external provocations the blood being mingled with Spirit the Eyes look red and sometimes are inflamed they have diverse Nerves the most famous of which is the Optick Nerve which carries the visive vertue to the Eye and by its expansion or opening abroad of its own substance seems to bestow a three-fold Tunicle upon the Eyes the next to this is less which with the two small Nerves its companions distributes its Branches to the two Muscles of the Eyes which are called Motorii from their office which we discoursed of in the foregoing Chaprer The bigness of the Eyes in a Man grown up is mean in number they are two that so when the one is hurt the common office might be performed by the other and yet their consent is admirable so that the one being hurt by internal causes against Nature the other is hurt also or else grows weaker or is blood-shot If we look upon their qualities by reason of their contained humors they are cold and moist and yet this is wonderfully lesned by the copious influx of heat and Spirits by so many vessels whereby waxing hotter than a natural mean they not only infect Looking-glasses being held neer them but also other mens Eyes with the same distemper Nay the Eyes have light in themselves and a certain Splendor not only in the humors but also in the Membranes indeed this is but mean in Man because the actions God hath ordained for him are to be performed in the day time but it is greater in such living creatures as get their food by night the inbred light of whose Eyes overcomes the darkness round about them there is scarce another part of mans Body that gives more manifest signs of health and sickness than the Eyes do In a man that is in health they are full and bright in a Man that is ill they are sunk sad troubled or obscure till death hath overcome Nature that they fail in strength and sight and give warning of changing this life for another Lastly Consider that the Ancients were perswaded that the whol force of the mind was insisted in the Eyes and that there was no Beast so fierce but if his Eyes were covered would be milder Their figure ought to be round not so much that they might move the easier as that they might receive visible objects the better they carry the same form the Stars do that by them we may measure their rising and sitting and therefore it was a custom amongst the ancient Romans to carry men that were neer death out into the air that they might behold the Heavens The wise Creator hath placed them in a high and strong hole of the Skull high that they might perform their office of watchfulness the better and strong amongst the Bones that they might be the better defended from wrong But that we may the better know their actions we will view first their Muscles then their Membranes and last of all their Humors the Muscles which move the Eyes of Man are six in number which have fat about them to defend them from the injury of coldness and driness Of these such are called Recti as perform the right motions of the Eyes some are called Oblique whose magnitude and thickness is almost equal with the right they take their beginning from that internal bone about the large holes which admit the Nerves and are carried under that Tunicle called Annata to that which is called Cornea these are four in number of which the first lifts up the Eye and is called Superbus because proud people usually go with their Eyes elevated The next opposite to the first depresseth the Eye which action because it is a note of modesty the Muscle is called Humilis The third draweth the Eye right to the inner angle and is called Bibitorius because when people drink they turn their Eyes inward that they may look in the Cup The fourth draws the Eye to the external angle and is called Indignatorius because men lear on that fashion when they are angery these are the right Muscles The Oblique Muscles are two and are called Amatorii because the glances of the Eyes intice Lovers Of these that which is less and inferior in Scituation riseth in that place the first Bone of the Jaw is joyned to the fourth in extream part of the inferior Orbita It