ad libidinem eam fortiter stimularet atque sicuti in viris stimulus iste Glande Penis frictione suscitatur seminis transitu ad summum augetur ita in Mulieribus quoque stimulus iste in tentigine seu Clitoridis Glande frictione suscitari seminis transeuntis titillatione ad summum deduci necesse fuit Hinc codem modo ut viris per Veneream Cogitationem ac Clitoridis frictionem copiosi Spiritus Animales una cum Sanguine Arterioso ad obscaenas partes defluunt illas multo gratoque Calore perfundunt ac earum poros valde rarefaciunt sicque Semen eodem Calore attenuatum aliqua sui parte è testibus tubis per Vasa deferentia illa scilicet quae antehac male Ligamenta uteri rotunda fuerunt appellata Eliciunt seu ad Clitoridem Defluxu faciunt per cujus tentiginem summa cum voluptate Extillat The meaning of this Learned Author is that Women as well as Men are gratified with a Venereal appetite seated in the Glans of the Clitoris into which the Semen is conveyed from the Ovaries and Oviducts è Testiculis Tubis Fallopianis as he calleth them through the Round Ligaments as deferent Vessels into the Clitoris to which I make bold to give my answer That I humbly conceive the Round Ligaments not to be Concave and thereupon not fit Organs to convey Seminal Liquor into the Clitoris but if this be granted it will be difficult to apprehend how the Semen should be transmitted out of the Tubae Fallopianae into the Round Ligaments which are affixed to the sides of the bottom of the Womb so that the Semen sliding out of the Extremities of the Tubae Fallopianae into the beginning of the Cavity of the Womb should there stop and not farther fall down into it which is more ready and easie to receive the Seminal Liquor naturally tending downward into a larger Sinus passing in a strait Course than for the Ligaments to admit the semen into small holes if any seated in the sides of the VVomb and above all the Round Ligaments hold no communion or entercouse with the Clitoris as having their Extremities inserted into the Fat covering the Share-bone and no where into the Clitoris so that they cannot convey Liquor into it of which I shall give a more full Discourse when I shall Treat hereafter of the Semen in VVomen Here a Question may arise The motion of the Womb forc'd upwords is improbable How the VVomb can move upward and make its approach near the Liver and Stomach which seemeth to oppose Reason because the broad and round Ligaments do detain it within the Pelvis so that the Uterus cannot move upward in Hysteric Fits as the Antients have conceived and it is not a good Argument by reason the VVomb can move downward as the Ligaments become relaxed and so fall down as oppressed by its own weight that therefore the Vterus should move upward contrary to the nature of solid Bodies except they be forced by some external Cause as the VVomb is driven upward by the bulk of the Foetus distending it by degrees Again The ascent of the VVomb being empty in Hysteric Fits The swelling about the Navil in Hysteric Fits may be judged the distention of the Guts by a Flatus contradicteth Ocular Demonstration by reason VVomen dying of violent Convulsive motions upon Hysteric Fits having been Dissected their VVombs have been found to be confined within the narrow bounds of the Pelvis And the hard Bunch or Globe that is found about the Navil or near the Stomach in Hysteric Fits is not the body of the VVomb but the Guts distended as I humbly conceive by some great Flatus puffing up the Guts in the form of an Egg which is quickly discussed by Spirit of Castor Harts-horn Sal-Armoniac either Simple or Succinated which is the more milde c. CHAP. XVII Of the Menstruous Flux OUr most Gracious Maker and Judge out of his infinite loving kindness to VVoman hath appointed a Monthly Sickness attended with Pain as a frequent Monitrix of her primitive Aberration in the state of Innocence to cause her to make often reflections upon her great Guilt in the glass of Punishment To make repeated Confessions of her fault in Paradise and crave Pardon of her Maker in the Name of the Holy Jesus our Glorious Mediator who once offered himself upon the Cross as an All-sufficient Sacrifice for the Sins of the whole world The Menstruous Flux so much discoursed by Physicians as the cause of divers Diseases in VVoman is very obscure how it is produced in the womb The cause of the Menstruous Flux very obscure and by what ways it is transmitted into the Cavity and whether the Matter of this Flux doth offend in quantity or quality and how the Fluor Albus differeth from a Gonorrhaea which cause many Disputes among Professors of our Faculty Some are of an opinion that the Flux is performed by the Arteries terminating into the Vagina The manner how the Menstruous Flux is performed and others that it is managed by the Arteries ending into the body of the Uterus And I humbly conceive that both Opinions are true by reason the Flux is made both in the Vagina and Body of the womb and principally in the last by reason it hath more numerous and greater Branches of preparing and Hypogastrick Arteries than the Vagina and farthermore if these fruitful Branches did not import Blood into the Glands of the Uterus wherein the gross parts are severed from the more refined and transmitted by the Pores of the inward Coat into the bosom of the womb how could this Flux cause an Abortion which frequently happens in the three or four first Months when the tender Foetus floating in the Uterus as not fastned to it by the interposition of the Placenta is carried with the Flux through the relaxed orifice of the womb into the bearing place and thence out of the confines of the Body The inward Coat of the Uterus is rendred unequal in divers places and especially in the bottom of it which is caused by the terminations of the Excretory Ducts coming from the Glands wherein streams of Purple Liquor flow into the Cavity of the Uterus in the time of the Menstrua and Lochia And as to the time of the Flux of the Menstrua The time of the Menstruous Flux the Professors of our Art have various Sentiments the great Master of Philosophy in his Second and Fourth Book de Generat Animalium consigneth the cause of this Menstruous Flux to the motion of the Moon others attribute it to the great quantity of Blood lodged for the space of a Month in the Spermatick and Hypogastrick Vessels till they are so much solicited by their distention that they discharge the great trouble of the Blood into the Cavity of the Uterus As to the Menstruous Flux it doth not depend upon the Change of the Moon as the
complain of Pains about the Urinary Duct and Share-bone and of Acrimony of Urine proceeding from a sharp Ulcerous Matter coming out of the Prostates seated near the passage of Urine The Gonorrhaea differeth also from the Fluor Albus The Ulcerous Matter is less in quantity in a Gonorrhaa then the Matter of the Fluor Albus because the Ulcerous Matter of the former is less in quantity then the Serous Recrements of the other bedewing the parts of the Pudendum adjacent to the entrance of the Urethra with a mucous Clammy Matter but the Fluor Albus doth only besmear the neighbouring parts of the Origen of the Vagina CHAP. XVIII The Pathology of the Menstruous Purgation THe Pathology belonging to the Menstruous Purgation in Women is either abolished diminished too exuberant or depraved The first is founded in a total Suppression caused by a want of superfluous Blood proceeding from external causes as defect of Aliment c. or from internal Causes the small proportion of Chile not assimilated into Blood flowing from the ill temper of it producing Chronick or acute Fevers or from great evacuations of Blood by the Nostrils Haemmorhoids c. But the great cause of the suppression of the Monthly Flux in Women is the undue Fermentation of Blood The cause of the Suppressed Purgation as not consisting of good Fermentative Elements in ill habits of Body whereupon the ill principle Vital Liquor doth not observe its Monthly times of Recourse by the Spermatick and Hypogastrick Arteries into the Glands of the Womb or if the Vital Liquor be impelled by the said Arteries in due times and Periods yet it being not well disposed as not having its Compage opened by due Fermentative Principles a Secretion cannot be made in the body of the Glands of the more fine from the grosser Particles of the Blood so that it is returned Confused without any separation of the one from the other by the Preparing and Hypogastrick Veins toward the Heart whereupon no part of the Menstruous Blood being disposed by due Fermentatives Principles of Acides and Alcalies of Volatil Saline and Sulphurous Particles hath no power to open the extremities of the Excretory Ducts to pass through the Perforations of the inward Coat into the Cavity of the Womb and the narrowness of its Cavity and Vessels is more rare and the dyscrasie of the Blood is more common caused by the want of a laudable Effervescence whence the Blood becometh gross and thick when the good Fermentation of the Blood is defective A Countrey Maid being of a Plethorick constitution expressed in a Floride Countenance and a Fleshy Body was above twenty years old and never had her Courses whereupon she grew Sickly and fell into a very acute Fever of which she died the Fourth or Fifth day And afterward the Abdomen being opened the Viscera appeared very sound and the Vterus being Dissected the Blood was found putrid and the Cavity of the Womb wholly shut up by Nature whereupon the Blood being Stagnant lost its due tone and became Putrid proceeding from a want of due Fermentation whereupon the impure parts of the Blood being not severed in the substance of the Uterine Glands from the more pure were not discharged by the Excretory Ducts into the Cavity of the VVomb so that the sides of it did close and take away its Concave-Surface This cause of the suppression of the Monthly course of the Blood relating to the womb Another caus◠of the uppression of the Menstrua and proceeding from the defect of a due Fermentation of the Blood denoteth Antiscorbutick and Chalibeate Medicines which impart good dispositions to it and repair its lost tone by exalting its gross fixed Saline and Sulphureous Particles and rendring them Volatil and Spirituous whereby the Vital and Nervous Liquor acquire a laudable Fermentation consisting in due Acides and Alkalys the true Principles of Effervescence opening the Body of the Blood carried into the Uterine Glands and disposing it for Secretion so that the faeculent parts of the Blood are transmitted through the Pores of the inward Coat into the Bosom of the womb whence it is expelled by the Vagina to the utmost Confines of the Body The suppression of the Menstruous Flux is caused by straitness of the Vessels and ways of the Womb by Constipation Compression Coalescence Ulcers Scirrhous and Gangraenes of the Uterus As to the first The obstruction of the Hypogastrick and Preparing Arteries the preparing and Hypogastrick Arteries are obstructed by gross and viscide humours by Blood rendred thick as accompanied with crude Chyme not assimilated into Blood and stagnant in the Vessels or in the Glands of the Vterus causing a stoppage of the Flux into the Cavity of the Womb Learned Veslingius giveth an account of a Woman labouringwith a Suppression of her Menses The Cause of the Suppressed Menstrua in whom he found the Spermatick Vessels full of Pituitous Matter Sometimes the Neck and Vagina of the Uterus is shut up with the Hymen imperforated giving a Check to the Flux of the Menstrua Dodonaeus giveth an Instance of this case in a Cloistered Virgin Monialis Virg. 55 Annorum multo tempore circa Inguina Pubem doluit nullis interim ex Utero prodeuntibus Excrementis supervenit tandem Ventris Tumor quo inde majore facto Mors tandem supervenit c. Hymen autem obstitit qui Naturâ Virginibus concrescit nam hoc integro nihil ex Utero descendere aut deferri vel hinc apparere potuit A Suppression also of the Menstrua may proceed from a white Concreted Matter A Suppression of the Menstrua from a Concreted Matter obstructing the Spermatick and Hypogastrick Arteries somewhat resembling the Polypus of the Heart and is produced in like manner from Chyme coagulated in the Vessels of the Womb and hindering the recourse of Blood into the Uterine Glands and Cavity of the Uterus A stoppage of the Menstruous Course may proceed from the Constipation dum Corpus Uteri densius redditur or from the hardness and induration of the Neck of the womb of which Cabrolius maketh mention concerning a Lying-in-Woman whose Neck of her womb grew hard and grisly and ever after lost her Menstrua Mulier post Puerperium Menstrua amplius non habuit Mortuae Cervix Uteri spississima est reperta ac velut Cartilginosa quae transversi Digiti spissitudine coaluerat A Suppression of the Menstrua may be deduced from Compression by the Tumors of the womb A Suppression of the Menstrua from the Tumors of the Womb. in Inflammations Scirrhus c. whereby the Cavities of the Vessels are so contracted and the extremities of the Preparing and Hypogastrick Arteries so shut up that the Blood cannot pass into the Glands of the womb and after Secretion be conveyed through the Pores of the inward Membrane into its Cavity These small holes may be also shut up by external Causes by the cold Air or
cum Fallopius testetur se a iis fide dignis Spectatoribus praesentibus in Meatibus illis Exquisitissimum Semen reperisse simile quid ab aliis quoque observatum sit and farther adds That this Seminal Liquor found in the Tubes cannot proceed from the Testicles neither can it be generated in the Tubes whence it may be well inferred that the Semen is injected into the womb by an external Prinple alias proveniret quandoquidem à testibus non procedat nec in Tubis generetur Non in Testibus generari patet ex Fallopii discursu exquisitissimi Seminis titulo Insignientis sensuum testimonio constat nullam similem Materiam in Mulierum Testibus contineri Nec alia forma eo deferri posse per Membranas quibus Testibus alligantur quia nulla in illis Semini Vehendo destinata Anatomicorum unquam detexit industria neque in Tubis ipsis generari probatur inde quod Organum illud pro Seminis generatione nimis simplex This Author Farther saith that the Semen doth ascend to the Testicles And this Famous Author farther confirms the Hypothesis That the substance of the Seminal Liquor not only passeth through the cavity of the womb and Tubes but also the Fimbriae or Fringes adjoyning the Testicles with great pleasure as insinuating it self as I conceive through the Minute Pores of the Fimbriae confining on the Testicles Cum Membranosa Fimbriarum expansio blanda subeuntis Seminis titillatione undique sese Testibus applicet ita ut Seminalis aura aliorsum quam ad Testes properare nequeat To which I cannot perfectly assent because I humbly conceive that not only the Steams of the Seminal Liquor which could not speak so great a pleasure to the enjoyed Spouse but a thin Substance is highly Impregnated with Spirits as it is first attenuated and colliquated in the Vesiculae Seminales of Man by the repeated motions of Coition and afterward is farther exalted and rarefied by heat and ferments of the Bosom of the VVomb and it being carried thence through the cavity of the Tubes and secret passages of the Fimbriae doth afterwards insinuate it self through the Pores of the Membrane of the Testicles as well as Sweat through a much thicker Coat of the Skin and last of all transudes the thinner Membrane of the next Vesicle and there embodies with the Seminal Liquor contained in it whereupon it acquireth râ—w fermentative Elements derived from the Masculine Semen and thereby becometh more exalted and fruitful Having given an Account in the former Chapter of the Vesicles contained in the Testicles called by the Modern Anatomists Ova The Impregnated Eggs are conveyed through the Oviducts into the body of the Vterus from the similitude they have with the Eggs of Birds and other Animals my task at this time is to speak of the deferent Vessels through which the Impregnated Eggs of the Ovaries do pass down from the Testicles into the Bosom of the Womb to receive a greater Maturity Some Professors of our Faculty hold the Deferent Vessels to have one single Origen near the Testicles and afterward too in their progress Some affirm the Oviducts have a doubâ—e branch near the Fundâ—s Vteri till they approach the bottom of the Womb where they have two Branches the broadest and more short is implanted into the Fundus Uteri and the other Branch being more long and narrow doth insinuate it self between the Membranes enclosing the sides of the Womb and extendeth it self to the Neck of it by the first Branch they imagined Women not with Child to inject Semen into the bottom of the VVomb and by the other Impregnated Women to transmit their Semen into the Neck of the Uterus I humbly conceive the cause of their Mistake might be the Division of the Spermatick Arteries near the bottom of the womb which descend on each side of it Or rather I conceive that those processes whether they be broader and more short or longer and more narrow wheresoever they be found running down the sides of the womb to be Branches of the Ligaments by which the womb is detained in its proper place The Ligaments are branched into the Fundus Vteri and no part of the Tubae Fallopianae conveying the Impregnated Eggs from the Testicles into the inward Recesses of the womb or any Seminal Liquor into it by reason these Processes of the Ligaments are endued with no Cavity in which any Liquor may be transmitted from part to part and farthermore these Appendages of the Ligaments are affixed only to the outward Integuments of the womb and no where perforate the inward Coat belonging to the Cavity of the Uterus and if any hole can be discovered in the bottom of the Womb a Probe may be put through it into one of the Tubae Fallopianae or Deferent Vessels Other learned Anatomists do fancy Vessels like the Lacteae to pass through the Coats by which the Deferent Vessels are tied to the Testicles and carry Seminal Liquor into the Tubae Fallopianae The Oviâ—ucts have no Seminaâ— Vessels To which I make bold to give this Answer That the Membranes of the Womb are furnished with Arteries Veins Nerves and Lymphaeducts and have no other Vessels through which the Semen may be conveyed from the Testicles to the Deferent Vessels And I apprehend the Vessels which the Learned Authours say resemble the Lacteae must be Nerves divaricating themselves through the outward Membrane of the Womb which cannot be Channels transmitting Semen into the Tubae Fallopianae as having no proper Cavities fit for it and are Vessels appointed by Nature for another use to convey Succus Nutricius between their Filaments Other Professors of Physick not well versed in Dissections The Ligamenâ—s are not Deferent Veâ—sels do think the Round Ligaments to be Deferent Vessels which I conceive very improbable because they are composed of a solid Membranous substance destitute of any Bore but grant them to be Pervious yet they could be of no use to dispense Semen from the Testicles into the bosom of the Womb by reason the Round Ligaments are inserted into the Fat covering the Share-bone near the Clitoris into which if they were true Channels they would transmit the Semen and not into the Cavity of the Womb which is the due place for Semen to be injected Having discoursed some Opinions of the Deferent Vessels of the Womb The description of the Oviducts which seem somewhat improbable I will now present you with a description of them out of Learned Fallopius which is more agreeable to the Structure of the Parts in his own words Observat Anatom p. 472. Meatus vero iste Seminarius gracilis angustus admodum internerveus ac Candidus à cornu ipsius Uteri cumque parum recesserit ab eo latior sensim redditur Capreoli modo crispat se donec veniat prope finem tunc dimissis Capreolaribus rugis atque valde latus redditus
kind of creeping may be Vndulation 128 The second kind is Fluctuation Ibid The third kind of creeping may be made by extension and contraction 128 Creeping made by Spines as in Serpents 129 Creeping made by one great Arch 131 Creeping made by Traction 132 The Cuticula and its production and how it is repaired 47 Cuticle and Bark of Trees 51 Cuticle and Bark of Plants 52 53 D. THe deferent Vessels being an elongation of the seminal Ducts and their origination and insertion 528 Deferent Vessels are in part receptacles of Semen 531 The deferent Vessels or Oviducts of Women 593 to 603 Deglutition and its Diseases and Cures 260 to 264 Of the Delirium and its seat and how it is a Symptome rather then a Disease 1139. and of its Causes and Cure 1140 Delirous dispositions may be illustrated by Chymical Liquor extracted by Distillation 1147 Dense parts in Bodies 13 14 Diarrhaeas and Dissenteries are suppressed by Astringents in the Small Pox 62 Difficulty of Breathing proceeding from Chyme lodged in the substance of the Lungs 320 Dissimilar parts 26 Diseases determine through the Skin by a free Perspiration 48 Drink being made of subtle saline parts is scon cocted 309 Dropsy 166. And how it cometh from an exuberant Liquor contained in the Pericardium In Dropsies Chalybeats are proper as refining the Blood 170 In a Dropsy a Paracentesis relieveth when the Viscera are sound 171 Dura Menynx and its part and how it is not only compounded of Blood-vessels 979 but of nervous Fibrils as proper Ingredients and the Brain of Fish is covered with a company of minute Filaments and how the Dura Mater is strengthened by numerous Filaments running in various positions 980 The Dura Mater is beset with many carnous Fibres Ibid. And of their Rise Progress and how they run counter to the Blood-vessels and how many minute Glands are in the Dura Mater among the capillary Vessels near the third Sinus and how the carnous Fibres are a cause of the motion of the Dura Menynx in Sneezing and of the description of the nervous Fibres and of its Parenchyma 981 The serous Vessels of the Dura Mater and of the orbicular Glands in its outward surface and of the Glands seated between the Coats and how the Dura Menynx covereth the Cerebellum and of its Blood-vessels The serous Vesicles of it in a Doe 980 The situation and connexion of the Dura Menynx and of its Perforation and Origen of this Membrane according to Hypocrates 982 The motion of the Dura Menynx is conceived by some to be akin to the motion of the Heart and of the Convulsive motions of this Membrane 985 Dysenteries or Vlcers of the Guts 374 E. OF the Ear and its parts and Cartilage and seat 929 The inward Ear and auditory passage the Membrane of the Tympanum and its description and external Muscle of the Ear 931 The internal Muscle of the Ear and its Tympanum and Bones 930. The Origen of the Bones and the higher and lower hole of the Tympanum and the Labarinthus of the Ear 933 A Cavity of the Ear called Coclea consisting of many Flexures and their end and the use of the Cavities of the Ear 934 The diseases of the Ear and its Cures The causes of a lessened Hearing of the obstructions of the Auditory passage and its Cure 939 The disaffection of the Ear produced by a relaxed Tympanum and of its thickness and of the Hearing vitiated by noise and of their Causes and Cures and of the inflammation of the Ear 940. and of its Cures and of Vlcers of the Ear and their Cures 941 Earth divested of saline and sulphureous Particles is again rendred fertile as inspired with Airy and Aethereal Particles 38 The Effluvia of the Blood are discharged by the extremities of the Arteries 33 The Effluvia will infect the Air at a great distance Ibid. The Effluxes of Animals Vegetables and Minerals 36 Effluxes move in a circle 37 Eggs of Beasts 643 Glands of the Membrane encircling the Eggs of Fish 656 Eggs of Birds and their different Liquors 648 Eggs of Fish 656 Eggs of Silkworms 661 The impregnated Eggs of Women are carried through the Oviducts into the body of the Womb 601 Eggs or Seeds of Plants 671 to 675 Empyema or purulent Matter lodged in the Cavity of the Breast flowing from an inflammation of the Pleura Lungs Muscles of the Larynx c. 704. The continent cause and Diagnosticks of an Empyema 705. Its Prognosticks 706 In a desperate Empyema an Apertion of the Thorax may be made between the Ribs 707 Epiglottis and its Compage and glandulous substance 815 Enterocele and its Cure 553 Epididymides 526 Epiplocele 552 Expulsive Faculty of the Stomach 329 Pathology and Cures of the Expulsive Faculty of the Stomach 334 to 344 Expulsive Faculty of the Stomach is performed by a more strong contraction of the Fibres then the Retentive 329 The first requisite of the Expulsive Faculty is the slipperiness of the inward Coat of the Stomach 329 A Second requisite of the Expulsie Faculty of the Stomach 331 The Expulsive Faculty of the Stomach is disaffected by the ill tone of its Fibres 334 The Expulsive is disordered by a compression of the Fibres of the Brain by a quantity of extravasated Blood 335 The depraved Expulsive Faculty of the Stomach made by over-contracted Fibres in Vomiting and Purging 336 Of the Eyes and their description Eyelids Muscles 876. Supercilia excretory Vessels arising out of the Cilia and diverse kinds of excretory Vessels of the Glands of the Eyes 877. And a Duct passing out of the Glandula lacrymalis into the Nostrils and of the use of the Glands of the Eyes and their Figure 878 The Muscles of the Eyes 979 The Membranes of the Eyes the Adnata Cornea and of its Figure Surface and Origen 880. Of the Uvea called Iris from its various colours and of its seat and of the Pupil of the Eye 883. And of the various Dimensions Motion the Processus Ciliares 884. And their Origen and Vses and of the Tunicle of the Eye called Retina 885 The watry humor of the Eye and its configuration and use 886 The Cristalline Humor of the Eye and of its Membrane Figure Seat and Transparency 887. The formation of the Cristalline and of the vitreous Humor 889 The diseases of the Eye-lids and of their Redness and Thickness Tumors Scabs and Causes of these Disaffections 909 The diseases of the Glands of the Eyes and their Cures of an Inflammation Abscess Vlcer and Absumption c. 910 The Excrescence of the Glands and its Cures and Epiphaera proceeding from an Afflux of Humors into the great Angle of the Eye 911 The diseases of the Muscles of the Eyes of their Resolution Convulsion Palsey and trembling motion And of Solutae unitatis 912 The diseases of the Adnata and of its Inflammation called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and another called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Cure of an Inflammation
structure and various Coates 224 And of its Fibrils consigned to Tasting 225 The Tongue is endued with Cartilaginous Processes inserted into the Glandulous Coat 232 The Tongue is furnished with diverse Muscles and many ranks of Fibres 226 227 Diseases of the Tongue Apthae Inflammations and Vlcers 249 Transparent Bodies 13 14 15 16 Of Transparency 308 Tumors are to be opened when they cannot be discussed 146 Tumors of an Erysipelas Oedema Scirrhus Cancer c. 147 148 149 into Tumors when hollow cleansing and drying Medicines are to be injected 147 Tympanitis 171 A Bastard Tympanitis proceeding from a Flatus lodged in the Stomach and Guts 171 Tympanitis arising from watry vapours is of a gentle emollient Nature without great pain 175 A true Tympanitis caused by a meer Flatus lodged in the Belly is veryrare 177 An instance of a Tympanitis commonly derived from wind and watry Humors 178 A strang History of a Tympanitis taken out of Smetius 177 U. VAcuum improbable 7 8 Vapours of a Malignant Nature are dispelled by saline Steems 34 Vapours the Materia Substrata of a Flatus 336 Vapours differ according to several subjects 137 Vegetables are a fine composition of Bark Wood and Pith 31 Vegetables have a thin Coate made up of many minute filaments interspersed with numerous Perforations 31 Vegetable Juices are inspired with Air 32 The Veins relating to the Heart the Veins implanted into the Cava the Annular fleshy Fibres of the Cava 787 The first production of the Veins their substance Coats and frame 788 The fleshy Fibres of the Cava the Valves and their use their Figure and Number and how the motion of the Blood is first performed in the Veins 787 The Pathology of the Veins and its Cures The Obstruction of the Veins 790. Their Compression various Tumors 791 The right Ventricle of the Heart and tricuspidal Valves 721 The left Ventricle and its Figure 722. Its furrows and mitral and semilunary Valves 723. The Fibres of the Semilunary Valves 724 Ventricles of the Brain which seem to be four but in truth are two and their seat and how they are equal to each other and how they are severed by the Speculum Lucidum 1009 The Third and Fourth Ventricle and of a sinus called Calamus Scriptorius and the round process to which the Cerebellum is affixed 1010 Salt Water found in the right Ventricle 1011 Of a Vertigo or Meagrum often a fore-runner of Sleepy Diseases and how it proceeds and of its Paroxysme and evident Causes 1135. Of the inward Causes making an irritation of the Nervous Fibrils 1136. And of the essence and of its seat and continent Cause of a Vertigo and of its manner how it is produced and as it is inveterate 1137 The Indications and Cure of this Disease 1133 The Viscera and Muscles are Systemes of Vessels 201 Voice is Organized by the Wind-pipe Larynx Arch of the Palate Gooms Teeth Uvula and Nose 236 Vomiting and Purging are performed by the various Motion of Fibres in the Stomach and Guts 329 In Vomiting the Fibres of the Stomach begin their Motion about the right Orifice and then move toward the left 330 Vomiting a kind of Convulsive motion of the Stomach 331 Vomitings are derived from Inflammations Abscesses Vlcers proceeding from ill Humors troubling the Nervous and Carnous Fibres of the Stomach 338 Vomiting coming from Poysonous Medicines 339 Vomiting coming from Colick pains and from Gravel and Stone 339 Vomiting proceeding from the Abscesses of the Intestines Mesentery Liver Caul c. 339 Vomiting and Purging Medicines Cure belchings coming from a foul stomach 344 Vreters 494 to 495 Vreters of other Animals 496 Vreters and their Pathology 497 498 The Vreters their Description Number Origen and Progress Connexion Figure Membranes and use 494 495 The Vreters and their Diseases Obstructions Ischury c. 495 The unnatural expansion of the Vreters 498 The Vrethra and its seat spungy and Membranous substance and Fibres 535 Vrine its Origen and parts 505 Vrine 505 to 509 The watry parts the Consistence Quantity and Quality of Vrine 506 The Colour and cause of Crude and gross Vrine 507 The Hypostasis and Contents of Vrine 508 The Vterus and its Vagina according to its seat magnitude substance inward surface and Carnous expansions Contracting the Orifice of the Vagina 563 564 with the Vessels and Action of the Vagina 565 566 The inward parts of the Vterus and its situation Connexion Figure 566 567 The Vterus of Women is void of Hornes and hath a simple Cavity without Cells 567 The Neck Orifice and inward Cavity of the Vterus 568 The substance of the Vterus groweth more thick in the time of the Foetus 568 The Coates and Glands of the Vterus 569 The Fibrous and Carnous Compage of the Vterus 570 The Vessels vid. Arterys Veins Nerves and Lymphaeducts of the Vterus 570 Diseases of the Vterus or Womb and their Causes 608 Inflammations Carnous Tumors Abscesses Vlcers of the Womb 608 609 Gangreens Cancers Dropsies of the Vterus or Womb 610 611 Vterus of Beasts and its Vagina Orifice Cavity Connexion Glands Coats Cornua and Body 640 641 642 Vterus of Birds and of its situation Coats Glands c. 644 645 The Coats of the Vterus of Fish the Chorion and Amnios 658 The Figure of the Vterus or Womb in little Worms 660 The Vmbilical Vessels of Plants 672 The Vvula is Composed of a Glandulous substance of its use according to D. Holder 222 W. THe Weight of the Body is equally received on both Limbs in an erected posture by the Muscles put into a Tonick motion 113 Whispering 237 Wind and its Causes 177 Winds have their Origen from various Exhalations 34 Wind receiveth its different sort from variety of Vapours 173 Wind how it is produced 174 Wind proceeding from exalted Vapours caused by an intrinsick heat 174 The Wind-pipe 810 811 812 Of the Larynx or Head of the Wind-pipe and of its Figure Composition the Buckler Cartilage and its four processes 813 and the Muscles of the Larynx and the several Cartilages 814 The Wind-pipe of other Animals 816 The Wind-pipe of Birds 817 818 The Wind-pipe of Fish 819 The Wind-pipe of less perfect Animals 820 Wine contributes to the Concoction of Aliment 310 Wine turneth acide in the Stomach when its parts are brought to a Fluor Ibid. Wine is kept sweet by its united saline and sulphureous parts 310 Wine resembleth the Heterogeneous parts of Blood when extraneous Ingredients are cast into it 1204 Wine and Blood are debased when their active and spirituous principles are overpowred by gross ferments 1204 Wine and Blood are dispirited by too great an Effervescense caused by exalted Oily Particles and Wine and Blood turn Acid when the saline parts overact the sulphureous Ibid. Wine and Blood grow Mucilagenous as over fermented 1205 The Wing of Birds is extended and expanded by Muscles called Tensors and the various Motions of the Wings 948 Woman and the end of her making and manner of Production 510 The first Woman full of Beauty and perfection Ib. A Woman Created to propagate Mankind 559 Woman is Created after Gods Image and full of Beauty and Vertue Ibid. Wombs seated about the Seeds of Plants 668 Wombs of Plants are furnished with variety of Vessels 671 Cells of the Womb in Plants are filled with Congulated Liquor 671 The Motion of the Womb upward is improbable 575 The Diseases of the Womb are Inflammations Abscesses Vlcers Gangreens Cancers Dropsies c. and their Cures The Womb is not carried upwards in Hysterick Fits 612 Diseases of the Womb or Hystorick Fits attributed by Sylvius to the Pancreas 613 Wood is a Compage made of many small Tubes 31 Words 236 Y. YArd or Penis its Situation Figure Structure Nervous Bodies and their Fibres Progress and dimensions 534 The Yards spungy substance 535 The Arterys of the Yard lacerated by strong Compression 535 The Glans of the Yard and its spungy substance 536 The Prepuce of the Yard and its Fraenum and Connexion 537 The Muscles of the Yard called Erectores and Acceleratores Urinae 537 Erection of the Yard and its cause and manner how it is performed 538 Diseases of the Yard Distortion Priapisme Inflammation Vlcer Gangreen and Mortification and their Cures 557 558 The End of the Second Volume
of the Teeth The mucous matter of the Teeth is first Concreted in the outward and afterward in the inward part is first Consolidated in the Ambient parts which are first of all Concreted into Bone and afterward the more inward recesses of the Mucous Matter are indurated and minute Cavities left in the Teeth about the Gooms and reacheth to the Roots of the great Teeth and are scarce visible in the lesser The inward Cavities of the Teeth are encircled with a thin Membranous Expansion The inward Cavity of the Teeth lined with a fine Membrane consisting of many fine Nervous Threads the instruments of Sensation and as the Mucuous matter being more and more Consolidated the Teeth acquire greater Dimensions and their Roots do perforate the Membranous Case which afterward degenerates into a Ligament fastning the Teeth to the Mandibles to secure them in their proper places for future use speaking a great advantage to the support of the Body The Teeth speak an Ornament as well as Use The Teeth are Ornaments to the Mouth subservient to the whole Body as Instruments to maintain it and are rendred Graceful in the fineness of their Set composed in great variety and elegant order and are placed in a fit Decorum encircling in each Mandible a great part of the Mouth beautifying it with a double rank seated in the upper and lower Jaw The beauty of the Teeth consisteth much in their whiteness as also in their likeness of proportion one with another and their Elegancy is very much accomplished in their white Array and their Symmetry and Proportion is eminent as they observe a likeness and equality in each Jaw In which when they are duly modelled by Nature they answer each other in an exact Similitude in reference to Number Magnitude Figure and Vessels and are different from all other Bones by reason their upper Region is not invested with any Membrane and hath no Periostium which would give a trouble to Nature as being a fine Contexture made up of Nervous Fribres which being of an acute Sense would highly discompose us in the motion of the Teeth and hinder the due Comminution of Aliment in keeping the Teeth from an immediate Contact in Mastication The second use of the Teeth The second use of the Teeth is to contribute to Speaking is to be Instruments of Speech which is very conspicuous in those of the fore part of the Mouth contributing very much to the Articulation of divers Letters by giving a stop to the expired Air and by receiving the appulses of the Tongue whereupon the fore Teeth either being ill set in a disorderly Position or being fallen or pulled out the formation of our Words are rendred imperfect whereby we lose the grace of our pronunciation in a Lisping Tone The third use of the Teeth in Bruits The third use of the Teeth in other Animals 〈◊〉 to guard them is to perform the Office of Weapons as in Lions Dogs Wolves Bears and the like as Instruments of Nature which is always Ambitious to preserve it self by encountring those with fit instruments that are reputed Enemies to their quiet and security of their being or well-being The fourth use of Teeth in Fish is to catch their Prey The fourth use in Fish in to catch their Prey and to detain it till by degrees they can dispose it by Deglutition whereupon Nature hath wisely provided not only one Row but divers ranks of Teeth sometime besetting the Mandible Palate Tongue and parts near the entrance into the Gulet to secure live Fish caught in their Mouths which else would leap out and quit their Confinement were they not violently siezed by numerous Teeth as so many Engines darted into the bodies of these slippery and nimble Animals The fifth and prime use of the Teeth in Men and more perfect Animals The fifth and prime use in Men and other great Animals is the comminution of Aliment is ordained for the Mastication of Aliment in the Mouth whereupon Nature hath most prudently ordered divers kinds of Teeth some Incisors which are first in Production and are placed in the fore part of the Mouth and do divide and cut the Aliment and the greater Teeth called by the Latines Molares seated in the sides and hinder part of the Mouth consisting of various unevenness of divers Cavities and Prominencies and being acted with different Motions made by the several agitations of the lower Jaw lifted up and pulled down again by the temporal and digastrick Muscles and drawn backward and forward by the Musculi Pterigoeidei Externi and Interni whereupon the Meat is broken into small Particles and moistned with Salival Juice to render it more fit for Concoction in the Stomach CHAP. III. The Pathologie of the Teeth THe Teeth are subject to divers Disaffections of Colour undue Dimensions Figure Order Laxity and Shedding Pains and Gnashing of Teeth As to the alteration of Colour The causes of the discolouring the Teeth they are frequently dispoiled of their Ivory Whiteness and degenerate into an unnatural Yellow Livid and Black Colours which proceed from nasty Humours adhering to the surface of the Teeth disrobing them of their fine native hue which is produced also by foul Vapours arising out of the Stomach and from Humours destilling out of the Termination of the Arteries relating to the Gooms and from the common use of Sugar and other Sweets and from frequent eating of Black Cherries Mulberries and other black Fruits as also from Meat and Broth boiled and kept in Copper and Brass Vessels and from Mercurial Ointments used in order to Salivation in Venereal Distempers and from Washes prepared with Mercury which Women use to Beautifie their Faces thereby rendring their Teeth disfigured with Blackness which is also derived from Scorbutick and Venereal Distempers tainting the Blood which is transmitted by small Capillary Arteries insinuating themselves into the cranies of the Teeth These Instruments of Mastication loose their due Dimensions The causes why the Teeth loose their due proportion both outwardly and inwardly when their Exterior and Interior parts are Corroded by sharp Humours in Venereal and Scorbutick Diseases which perforate the Teeth and by depraving their proper Nutriment do corrupt their substance and render them Carious and Rotten whence they are scabed piece by piece and are lessened in their Dimensions which is caused also frequently by Mercurial Medicines by way of Unction and Fucus made with Mercury Curious Artists have discovered Fistula's in Teeth Fistula's in the Teeth produced by corrupt matter out of which being perforated doth destil a thin Gleet and sometimes corrupt sanious Humours which give a faetide taste to the Tongue and Palate this noisome Matter passeth sometime through the Roots of the Teeth into which the Arteries and Nerves do creep and afterward dischargeth it self through the Cavities of the Jaws the Allodgments of the Teeth and at last maketh its way between the Gooms
its bottom to any neighbouring part it hath liberty to contract it self upon the exclusion of the Foetus and its appurtenances the Amnios Chorion and Placenta Uterina The Uterus is adorned with variety of Figures The Figure of the Vterus in Maids it is endued with somewhat of a Pear-like figure and not with a round or quadrangular as some will have it in Women great with Child in the first month it somewhat resembleth the Bladder of Urine and it becometh more and more expanded according to the greater and greater Dimensions of the Foetus the body of it being considered without the Neck and Vagina is adorned almost with an Orbicular Figure The Neck and Vagina of the impregnated Womb is not co-extended with the body of the Uterus but reteineth the same figure and distention it had before its impregnation which is observable not only in Women but in Cows Sheep and in other Animals too Galen being only versed in the Dissection of Bruits The Vterus in a Woman is destitute of Horns did assign Horns to the Uterus of Women which is endued only with one Cavity and not with two as in other Animals who have distinct Cavities parted one from another who begin almost immediately after the termination of the Vagina and Neck and pass afterward in a kind of Semicircles endued with many incurvations somewhat resembling the horns of Rams and in the Uterus of bruit Animals not impregnated the horns are carried without variety of Flexures in a more even circumference The Vterus as some imagine The body of the Vterus hath but one simple Cavity void of Cells is parted into many distinct Cells as so many different places of Conception some are seated in the right side as peculiar to Males and others in the left ordained for Females and the seventh placed in the middle of the other six as instituted for Hermophradites which are Monsters of Nature and therefore it is most improbable that she should contrive any place or take any care of them and as for the other six Cells they oppose Ocular Demonstration by reason I have seen Wombs often dissected and have very much inspected their inward Cavity relating to the Body of the Uterus and have found it wholly destitute of Cells as being one simple Cavity which is very small in Maids and not much greater in Women unless it be distended with a Foetus The Womb may be said to consist of two Cavities The neck and body of the Womb hath two Cavities the one seated in the Neck and the other in the body of it which is somewhat oblong and appeareth more narrow in its beginning near the Neck and is somewhat larger toward the bottom of the Uterus whose inward Orifice is so strait that it is not receptive of a small Probe and therefore is not capable to admit the Glans of the Penis in Coition as Learned Spigelius imagineth and if this Orifice be overmuch relaxed it hindereth Conception which happeneth in an immoderate Flux of the Menstrua which being over the Orifice of the Uterus is shut up close to keep it from the coldness of the Air which would else prove very offensive and prejudicial to the Vterus The Uterus is endued with an Orifice as some say resembling the mouth of a Tench The Orifice of the Vterus And Galen thinketh it to be like the Glans of the Penis in shape upon this apprehension that it doth enter in Coition into the Neck of the Vterus conjoyned immediately to the body of it which cannot be done but by a Penis of a Monstrous length which giveth a high discomposure to the orifice of the Uterus as being very small in circumference which is somewhat less in Maids than in Women having born Children and if it be too much relaxed is one cause of Barrenness The Cavity with which the body of the Womb is endued The Dimenfions of Vterus is small in Maids hath but small dimensions in Maids and Women not great with Child scarce admitting a very small VVallnut into its bosom The Figure of this Cavity is somewhat Triangular of which the most long angle is that of the Neck The Figure of the Cavity of the Vterus and the other two relating to the bottom of the Uterus have two small holes through which the most thin and spirituous Particles of the Seminal Liquor are transmitted into the Tubae Fallopianae the Oviducts leading to the Ovarys The inward Cavity The inward Coat of the Vterus appertaining to the body of the Uterus is encircled with a thin Coat pinked with many minute holes as well as the inward Integument of the Vagina and Neck through which a serous thin Matter doth ouse into the Cavity of the Uterus which speaketh great pleasure in time of Coition This Matter hath been conceived by the Antients to be Seminal Liquor which I intend to handle more fully in a subsequent Discourse The Magnitude of the Uterus in point of Dimensions is very Various by reason of Age Temperament indulgence of Venery Child-bearing c. and its ordinary length from the Orifice to its superiour Region commonly called the Bottom is aequivalent to three or four transverse Fingers breadth and about the Termination two and a half and not above two about the Neck of it and above all the Uterus is endued with a very great thickness equalling a Fingers breadth which is very much if regard be had to small length and breadth The Uterus in Maids and VVomen not with Child is confined within the walls of the Share-bones Os Sacrum and Bones of the Ilion which are of a narrow compass which the uterus impraegnated doth not only fill but extend it self to and sometimes above the Navil compressing the Guts by its great distention and which is more wonderful speaking the great VVisdom of the Omnipotent Protoplast that when the Uterus is highly enlarged that it increaseth in thickness as well as circumference contrary to the nature of a distended Bladder and Stomach which grow thinner and thinner as they are more and more expanded by a greater and greater quantity of Contents but on the other hand the Uterus when its Cavity is more and more amplified according to the greater and greater dimensions of the Foetus as it obtaineth more and more perfection of parts The Coats of the Vterus grown thicker when enlarged by the Foetus then the substance of the Uterus groweth more plumpe and the Coats become thick and fibrous and the Carnous and Nervous Fibres are made more great and strong to comport with the weight and motion of a sometimes heavy and vigorous Foetus so that its strong and thick Fibrous Compage doth preserve it self secure against all danger of Laceration The substance of the Womb groweth more fleshy about the time of the birth of the Foetus The inward substance when the Foetus approacheth
Transparent like Water and others are Wheyish or whitish in Hue most of which are unkindly and one only is natural which is of a Transparent Colour somewhat resembling the white of an Egg in Colour and is somewhat thinner in Consistence as the Semen of VVomen is more watry than that of Men by which it is rendred more exalted as endued with more active Fermentative Principles Whence may be easily inferred that the use of the Ova lodged in the Testicles of Women is to be a material Cause in the Formation of the Foetus which being exalted by the Seminal Liquor of the Male is an efficient principle of Generation giving an Effervescence to the Faeminine Vesicles by vigorous Fermentative Elements productive of Conception These Veficles of the Testicles may be truly styled Eggs in reference to the great Analogy they hold in likeness with the Eggs contained in the Ovaries of Birds The Vesicles of the Ovaries are Eggs. by reason these Vesicles are filled with Liquor much resembling the white of an Egg which being boyled is Concreted into a white solid Substance the same in Tast Colour and Consistence with the white of a Birds Egg coagulated by the heat of Fire And it is of no great importance that those of Women are not immured within thick and hard Shells as well as those of Birds appointed by Nature to secure them from outward violence of cold Air as excluded the Uterus of the Fowl whereas the Eggs of Women encompassed with a soft Membrane are laid in the warm bed of the Uterus to preserve it against the severity of ill Accidents Eggs may be discovered not only in Birds but in all kind of Viviparous as well as Oviparous Animals as all sorts of Fish Fowl Quadrupeds Eggs are found in all kind of Animals as Cows Sows Bitches Hares Cunneys Squirrels Polcats Hedghogs Porcupines c. Curious de Graaf hath made many good Observations upon Dissections how the Eggs of the several Animals differ from each other and that the Vessels of the Testicles relating to Cunneys and Hares do not exceed a Rape-seed in Dimensions and are so little in some Animals that they can scarce be discovered and Coition and Age make great alterations in the Eggs of several Animals and though they be very minute in younger Creatures yet they grow much advanced in greatness in more mature age and receive a high change after Coition and resemble the Globules found in the Testicles of impregnated Animals full of clear Water and sometimes Albuminous Matter like the white of Eggs. If any shall be so inquisitive as to demand a reason why the Vesicles of old and other barren Women cannot be impregnated to which it may be replyed that Sterility may proceed either from the ill Conformation of the Testicles or from the Indisposition of the Faeminine Seminal Liquor not capable to be advanced to a Conception by that of Man But how may the difference be known between the Hydatides of the Testicles and the Vesicles filled with Seminal Liquor The difference between the Seminal Vesicles and Hydatides to which it may be answered the first will grow hard in Coction like the white of an Egg and the other will retain its Fluidness and no way admit any Concretion by the heat of Fire Again The Hydatides are appendant to the Membranes of the Testicles as by a kind of Stalks which cannot be found in true Vesicles belonging to the Testicles of Women When the Ova are impregnated by Coition the Glandulous substance adhering to the Vesicles groweth more large whence arise Globules made of great variety of Glands which Secern the Albuminons part of the Blood from the more hot and fierce Particles and the more refined Atomes of the Nervous Liquor from the Lympha to propagate the Seminal Liquor included in the Vesicles impregnated with the more Spirituous parts of the Genital Juice relating to the Male. CHAP. XXI Of the Deferent Vessels of Woman HAving treated how the Seminal Liquor of the Male ascends the Womb deferent Vessels and how it insinuates it self through the Fimbriae and Coats of the Testicles and Vessels and how it encorporates with the Seminal Liquor contained in them The Eggs pass through the Oviducts to receive a greater perfection in the Vterus and how it is Impregnated by Masculine Semen my Concern at this time is To shew how the Vesicles or Eggs being rendred fruitful do part from the other Vesicles and pass through the Coat of the Testicles and descend through the Tubes into the bosom of the Womb to participate a greater Maturity The manner and way how the Impregnated Vesicles of Seminal Liquor are parted from the other and excluded the Testicles and received into and transmitted through the Cavity of the Tubes is of no less difficulty than importance to be understood whereupon I humbly conceive that the Ova when Impregnated have an extraordinary Integument Accrescing to the Membrane The Expulsive Faculty of the Tubes is founded in fleshy Fibres encompassing the Albuminous Liquor endued with an Expulsive faculty founded in fleshy Fibres excluding the Ova the confines of the Testicles Presently after the Coition is performed a Glandulous Substance interspersed with Vessels and fleshy Fibres encircleth the Impregnated Vesicle whose Membrane is Diaphanous before Coition and afterward groweth Clouded and Opace the first sign of Impregnation and Rudiment of a Glandulous or Fleshy Coat Immuring the fruitful Egg and no other which after it cometh to perfection is Enameled with Divarications of Arteries and Veins striped with variety of Fleshy Fibres This Glandulous Compage enclosing the Ova and interposing it self between the Membranes of the other Vesicles doth part them one from another by breaking their tender Ligaments The Eggs are parted from each other by an Intervening Glandulous substance by which they were mutually fastned So that the Impregnated Ova being loosened by the breach of their fine Bands is thrown out of the Testicles through a small Foramen dilating it self according to the capacity of the Egg gently conveyed through a narrow passage of the Testicle which is accomplished by a soft Contraction of the fleshy Fibres lessening the circumference of the Glandulous covering encompassing the parted Egg whereby it is expelled the confines of the Testicle through a small hole and entertained immediately after by the Fimbria and from thence slideth into the Extremity of the Tube and so descends through its Cavity first into the botom and afterward into the bosom of the Womb. Perhaps some Ingenious Person may be dissatisfied how the Ova can creep through such a small passage of the Testicle to which it may be replyed The Eggs may be carried through the small passage of the Tubes that the Foetus when come to Maturity is brought into the World through straights of the inward Orifice Neck and Vagina Uteri which all give way by being dilated according to the Dimensions of the Foetus
the Head and all other parts of the Body communicating their likeness to the first Elements of Semen in Woman as well as Man Another Argument may be offered to prove that Women have Seed as well as Men from the Furniture of Organs as Spermatick Veins Arteries Nerves Womens seed may be deduced from their Spermatick Vessels Lymphaeducts Testicles and Tubes ordained by Nature for the importing by the Arteries and Nerves proper Liquors for the generation of Genital Juice in the Testicles and to export those Liquors that are Recremental through the Lymphaeducts and the redundant Blood by the Veins and when the Seed is Elaborated in the Testicles of VVomen it is there laid up as Natures treasure in proper Vesicles as so many Cabinets till they are successively Impregnated by the Spirituous Particles of Masculine Seed and afterward being parted from the Ovaries do descend through the Tubes as Deferent Vessels into the Cavity of the womb to receive a farther accomplishment Again The Spaying of Women Women grow barren upon taking away their Ovaries or Testicles which is the taking away their Testicles whereupon they grow Barren doth clearly demonstrate the use of these Organs which is to procreate Semen and afterward to lodge it in these Ovaries as in many Repositories till the time of Coition whereby they are inspired by Spirituous Particles and rendred fruitful in the first rudiment of Conception which is performed not by mixture of Seminal Liquor of both Sex in the womb as the Antients imagined but in the Ovaries whose Pores are penetrated by the Volatil Particles of the Masculine Seed till it arriveth the Faeminine contained in the Vesicles and Confederates with it in order to Conception which is brought to greater Maturity in the bosom of the womb wherein the Impregnated Egg descended from the Ovary appeareth filled with so great quantity of Seminal Liquor so that it cannot in reason be apprehended to flow wholly from the Masculine Seed which is small in quantity and great in vertue seeing only the Volatil parts of it do ascend through the body of the womb and deferent Vessels into Vesicles of the Testicles great with Seminal Liquor which being pregnant year after year are carried down the Tubes into the freer capacity of the womb Learned Fallopius is of an opinion that the Vesicles of the Testicles in Women are receptacles of watry humours and not of Seminal Liquor Fallopius saith the Vesicles of the Testicles do contain watry humours Observat Anatom p. 472. Omnes Anatomici uno ore asserunt in Testibus faeminarum Semen fieri quod Semine referti reperiantur quod ego nunquam videre potui quamvis non levem operam ut hoc cognoscerem adhibuerim Vidi quidem in ipsis quasdam veluti Vesicas aqua vel humore aqueo alias Luteo alias vere Lympido turgentes Sed nunquam Semen vidi nisi in Vasis ipsis Spermaticis vel delatoriis dictis saith this Renowned Author Modern Anatomists do assert with one voice the Seed of Women to be made in the Testicles and that they are found full of Seminal Juice which I could never see although I took great pains that I might know it I have seen truly in them as it were certain Vesicles swelling with water or watry humours sometimes Yellowish and sometimes Lympide but I never saw any Seed except in the Spermatick Vessels called Deferent This may be replyed to this great Authour That the thinner Seed lodged in the Seminal Vesicles of Man may be endued with the same colour and consistence with that of the Testicles of VVoman I confess the Genital Liquor conserved in the Prostates to be whiter and thicker than that which is seated in the Seminal Vesicles of Men or other Animals And I humbly conceive that it is not the essence of all Genital Liquor to be of the same thickness which is of less consistence in Women then Men who have a more thin watry Seed and yet very serviceable to the production of a Foetus Here a Question may be started whether the Faemine Seed be not only requisite as the Matter of the Foetus The Faeminine Seed is an efficient cause of the Foetus but also as an Efficient cause in which the Plastick Faculty is seated as well as in the Masculine Genital Liquor to which it may be answered That the Masculine Seed is the principal Efficient cause as Impregnated with the Architectonick Spirit and the Faeminine is the Instrumental Efficient cause The Faeminine Seed may be called Passive as the less active Principle and being taken comparatively as less active may be said in some sort a Passive principle in the formation of the Foetus which is produced by the Seeds of both Sexes termented in one mass in the Impregnated Seminal Vesicle lodged in the Testicle of a VVoman which being parted and carried down the Tube into the Cavity of the womb The Faeminine Seed is exalted by the Masculine the Active principle of the Faeminine is exalted by the more noble Architectonick Spirit of the Masculine Seed So that these divers Genital principles having Fermentative Particles do both concur to the delineation of the members relating to the Foetus and this may be alledged to prove that the Faeminine Seed is not only a material cause but an Efficient too subordinate to the Masculine as being inspired with its more Volatil Particles by which it is much exalted and refined the Causality of the Faeminine Seed may be demonstrated in the Formation of the Foetus by reason the Child obtaineth a likeness with the Mother which must be deduced from the actives Particles of the Seminal Liquor belonging to the VVoman imprinting the same Images upon the Face of the Foetus and more especially forming the peculiar parts distinguishing a Female from a Male wherein the Semen of the VVoman is chiefly concerned as an Efficient cause and not that of Man as not having any Ideal Particles productive of the preparing Arteries Veins Nerves Lymphaeducts belonging to the Uterus Testicles and Deferent Vessels Another Argument may be taken from the manner of Generation of Seminal Juice in the Testicles of VVomen The manner of Generation of Semen in the Ovaries which I apprehend to be accomplished after this manner The Vital Liquor being imported by the preparing Arteries into the Glandulous substance of the Ovaries wherein the more soft the Chymous and Serous Particles of the Blood being Secerned from the more fierce the Purple Liqnor as the Fibrous parts are carried through the Secretory Vessels of the Glands and Pores of the Membrane into its Cavity This Seminal Liquor is not only composed of the gentle parts of the Blood The matter of the Seminal Liquor but of the Nervous Juice too Destilling out of the extremities of the Nerves inserted into the Parenchyma of the Glands interpersed with the Seminal Vesicles of Women wherein the finer parts of the Succus Nutricius being
white viscide and blewish Seed and the Tubes or Deferent Vessels were overcharged with it Sometimes the Ovaries the Preparing and Deferent Vessels are rendred Turgid with a highly Concreted Liquor in Gypseam duritiem Coagulato resembling Plaister by reason of its hard Consistence which is attended with violent Hysterick Fits and a great Delirium The Lady of a Person of Honour was highly afflicted with great Suffocations of the Womb and high Convulsive Motions much discomposing the Brain as accompanied with a Delirium and Death And afterward her Body being opened A case of Suffocations and Convulsive Motions caused by the Stoppage of the Vessels and Tubes of the Womb by a Concreted Seminal Liquor the Organs of Generation were highly disaffected so that the Testicles and the Spermatick Vessels and Tubes of the Womb were discovered to be overburdened with a Seminal Liquor in Gypseam soliditatem Concreto which I conceive proceeded from some Chymous and Serous parts of the Blood confederated with the Seed as consisting of saline and earthy Atomes cemented with viscide Matter CHAP. XXV Of the Principles and Manner of Generation THe Omnipotent Creator out of a generous diffusive Principle of doing Good in Communicating himself to another hath made Man originally like himself by imprinting on him a divine Character of his own Image and hath not only enobled Man in Creating him like himself Man is created after God's Image and hath a power to beget somewhat like himself but hath endued him with a Communicative Nature in giving him an Appetite and power to procreate his own Image in begetting somewhat like himself in imparting his Being to another wherein he becometh Aemulous of Eternity by Propagation in perpetuating his Essence to his Progeny in a continued Series of Generation which could not be accomplished by Man alone whereupon the All-wise Agent out of kindness to him made Woman as a fit help for him not only for Converse but Enjoyment too to Compensate the death of one by the propagation of another which is effected by choice Liquors proceeding from both Sex mutually associating and assisting with various Fermentative Elements exalting and serving each other as efficient and material Causes cooperating in mutual embraces ministerial to the conception and formation of a Foetus The chief Seminal Liquor is that of Man's which is white and frothy The Elements of Man's Seed which consisteth of the more milde parts of the Blood and Nervous Juice impregnated with Spirituous and Volatile Saline Particles proceeding from Blood impelled by the terminations of the Spermatick Arteries into the substance of the Testicles wherein the more milde serous Particles of the Vital being embodied with the Nervous Liquor and elaborated in the Parenchyma of the Testicles are afterward received into the Roots of Seminal Vessels and from thence carried through the Parastats and deferent Vessels into the Seminal Vesicles and Prostats as the receptacles of Genital Liquor This Seminal Liquor is compounded of two parts The Masculine Seed hath some parts Spirituous and Volatil and others gross and fixed the one thin and spirituous impregnated with Volatil Saline parts and inspired with Animal Spirits which are the efficient and Architectonick cause the other parts of this Liquor are the material cause the more gross saline sulphureous and earthy Particles which do confine the more Spirituous and Volatil Atomes from quitting the bounds of this choice Elixir The Seed of Woman is more cold watry and crude than Man's The Feminine Seed is more watry crude and cold than that of Man as derived from the crude Chymous and Serous parts of the Blood separated from the red Crassament in the Glandulous Substance of the Testicles wherein the Albugineous Particles of the Vital Liquor do associate with the Succus Nutricius and compleat the body of the Seminal Liquor which is highly exalted by the Animal Spirits giving it fermentative dispositions So that the Crystalline parts of the Blood being enobled by the association of the Nervous Juice ousing out of the termination of the Nerves in the Parenchyma of the Glands are received through the Pores of the Vesicles into their Cavities where they are preserved as in safe Repositories till they become impregnated after Coition by the more Spirituous parts of Man's Seminal Liquor rendring it more exalted and fruitful Having given a short description of the Seminal Masculine and Faeminine Liquor by themselves I will now shew how they confederate with each other upon Coition The manner how Masculine and Faeminine Seed espouse each other after Coition which is performed after this manner as I humbly conceive The Seed is rendred hot and spumous by the repeated agitations of the Penis whereupon it groweth thin and prurient giving brisk Appulses upon the Seminal Receptacles composed of Nervous Filaments full of acute Sense which draw the Carnous Fibres of the Seminal Vesicles into Consent causing them to contract the Cavities of their Cells with a kind of Convulsive Motions squeesing out the Seminal Liquor out of their Receptacles through small Meatus into the Vrethra and from thence into the Vagina Uteri in time of Coition which being irritated by the heat of the Semen doth contract its Bore caused by the fleshy Fibres and force the Seminal Liquor through the inward Orifice and Neck into the bosom of the Womb which being contracted through its fleshy Fibres protrudes the Semen into one of the Tubes which then ascendeth through the Fimbria and Pores of the Membranes relating to the Testicles and adjacent Vesicle of Seed which is impregnated with the Spirituous parts of the Masculine Liquor whereupon the Egg hath its Coat first rendred Opace and afterward encircled with a fleshy substance full of numerous Fibres which being aggrieved by the swelled impregnated Egg do contract themselves and propel it through the hole of the Testicles into the neighbouring Fimbria and Tube into the bosom of the Womb. Here some Curious Person may demand a reason how the Seminal Liquor can move upward contrary to its natural inclination to descend as a heavy Body from the Vagina Uteri into which it is first injected out of the Penis The manner how the Seed can move upward through the Cavity of the Womb and Tube into the Egg lodged in the Testicles To which this may be humbly offered That the Seed is carried upward not by its own instinct but by proper Organs of fleshy Fibres seated in the Vagina Uteri and Membrane of the Womb and Tubes which all contracting themselves one after another do protrude the Genital Liquor by narrowing their several greater and less Cavities into the Vesicle of Albuminous Liquor lodged in the Ovary Another question may be propounded why the Seminal Juice is first injected into the narrow confines of the Vagina Uteri The Seed is first immitted into the Vagina Vteri and not into the body of the Vterus and not into the more open Cavity relating to
be taken from an undue fermentation of the Blood may be fetched from an undue fermentation of the Blood as consisting of unactive and too much depressed Elements hindring the Intestine motion of the Vital Juyce which is often found in Cachectick bodies in the Scorbutick Distempers of Men and Women wherein the dispirited mass of Blood is apt to Coagulate in the Ventricles of the Heart So that the Heart is forced to make many brisk and often repeated Systoles and erections of the Cone against the left side A third cause of this Disaffection may take its rise from the great effervescence of the Blood proceeding from a high Fermentation of it A Palpitation of the Heart arising out of an effervescence of the Blood as composed of too much exalted saline and sulphureous Particles often found in Hypocondriacal and Hysterical Distempers Wherein the Fibres of the Heart being highly aggrieved with the fiery heat of overmuch fermenting Blood do produce vigorous Constrictions of the Ventricles and strong Vibrations of the Cardiack Cone against the Thorax The fourth cause of this disorderly Convulsive motion of the Heart The Palpitation of the Heart proceeding from the indisposition of the Brain may be derived from the indisposition of the Cortex of the Brain in which an ill Animal Liquor is generated as partly consisting of exalted Saline and Oyly Particles produced from ill Blood whose Albuminous part is the Materia Substrata of Nervous Juyce which is transmitted through the Fibrous parts of the several processes of the Brain into the Origens of the eighth pair of Nerves and from thence into the Cardiack branches whereupon numerous Nervous Fibrils inserted into the Carnous Fibres being highly irritated by an ill Succus Nervosus do draw the Fibres into violent irregular Convulsive motion So that the elevated Cone of the Heart maketh many impetuous strokes against the Thorax As to the Cure of the Palpitation of the Heart arising from too great a quantity of Blood clogging the Heart Blood-letting is good in a Palpitation of the Heart flowing from an exuberance of Blood and putting the Fibres upon irregular Contractions it denoteth a free mission of Blood which will speak an Alleviation to great Vibrations of the Heart An instance may be given of this disaffection in a Knight a Pensioner of his Majesties who being endued with a Plethorick constitution was often afflicted with a great Palpitation proceeding from an exuberant quantity of Blood evidenced in a high Pulse oppressing the Heart and was immediately freed from this troublesome Distemper in opening a Vein by which a large proportion of Blood was immediately discharged and the Patient relieved The irregular motions of the Heart derived from the want of Fermentation of Blood Bitter Medicines are proper in a Palpitation of the Heart produced by improper Ferments do indicate bitter Medicines which Corroborate the Stomach and Anti-Scorbutick Medicines mixed with Chalybeates which rectifie the fixed saline and sulphureous parts of the Blood and endue it with proper Fermentative Principles A Mercers Wife in Covent-Garden endued with a thin Body a weak Pulse and an ill Concoction of Stomach was often highly afflicted with Palpitations of the Heart proceeding from the defect of a good Intestine motion of the Blood whereupon it grew depauperated and the Patient liable to fainting Fits and a great difficulty of Breathing which were much alleviated by bitter Decoctions Pearl Julaps Spirit of Hartshorn and Chalybeates given in Apozemes made of opening Roots Sarsa Parilla Pine and Fir and at last by the drinking Tunbridge Waters The Palpitation of the Heart arising out of the Blood over acted with too high an Intestine motion of the Blood Testaceous Powders are good in an undue fermentation of the Blood produced by exalted saline and sulphureous parts doth denote Testaceous Powders as Pearl Crabs Claws Crabs Eyes Coral and the like which do dulcifie the mass of Blood given with temperate Diuretick Apozemes and discharge the fixed saline Particles by Urine and attemper the hot Atoms of Blood In this case also Chalybeates mixed with temperate Anti-Scorbuticks may be given with good success Dr. An instance of the Cure of the Palpitation of the Heart derived from an ill fermenting Blood Huit a Person of great Vertue Learning and most eminent Loyalty for which he was Murdered in the time of Usurpation was affected with a hot Scorbutick habit of Body and highly discomposed with great Palpitations of the Heart taking its rise as I humbly conceive from too great a Fermentation of the Blood as consisting of active Heterogeneous Elements whereupon I advised him to take Testaceous Powders taken with cooling Julaps and temperate Cordials mingled with Pearl as also Chalybeate Syrups taken with Diureticks and temperate Anti-Scorbutick Apozemes by which the Patient God be praised was perfectly recovered The fourth kind of irregular motion of the Heart being Convulsive Cephalick Medicines are proper in the Convulsive motions of the Heart as produced by an ill Succus Nervosus transmitted into and irritating the Cardiack Nerves doth denote proper Medicines to refine the Albuminous part of the Blood the Materia Substrata of Animal Liquor and also Cephalick Medicines to Corroborate the Brain and Nerves of the Heart Palpitations of the Heart are accompanied also with Convulsive motions of the Nerves seated in divers parts of the Body A second cause of the Convulsive motions of the Heart and chiefly about the Base of the Heart which is backed by the Sentiments of Learned Dr. Willis encircling the Trunks of the Aorta and Vena Cava to hinder the immediate flux and reflux of the Blood and its great effervescence and Stagnations produced by vehement passions of Anger Fear Sorrow and Joy which highly disorder the various Nerves inserted into the Coats and make irregular motions in the Arteries and especially in the Aorta near the Heart whereby its Nerves are drawn into Consent and are productive of Convulsive Motions Another cause of the unkindly motion of the Heart may proceed from the frequent Pulsation of the Arteries caused by the Carnous Fibres A third cause of Cardiack Convulsions irritated by the Convulsive motion of the great company of Nervous Fibrils implanted into the fleshy Fibres of the Trunks relating to the Arteries which renders their repeated Contractions very violent whereupon the Blood is impetuously moved first through the Arteries and then through the smaller and greater branches of the Vein into the right Ventricle of the Heart So that the Carnous Fibres are highly sollicited to make many irregular Motions which are in truth Convulsive in order to discharge the great torrent of Blood into the Pulmonary Artery which being highly aggrieved by impetuous streams of Purple Liquor doth make irregular Contractions to discharge the exuberant source of Blood into the Pulmonary Vein which draweth the Heart into a Sympathy as the Orifice of the Pulmonary Artery is implanted into the right Ventricle of
in the Renal Glands do vitiate the temper of the Blood and incline its hot mass to an effervescence The mass of Blood is not only composed of different Liquors The spirituous parts of the Blood not well regulated do produce a Fever but of various Elements too of Spirit Sulphur and Salt The Spirituous as the more subtil and volatil parts of the Blood are bounded and kept in due order by the more fixed whence ariseth a good Fermentation but if heterogeneous Particles of crude Chyme not easily to be subdued be mixed with the Blood the bond of Mixtion is relaxed then the spirituous parts are too predominant and the ebullition of the Blood is raised often ending in a Fever When the sulphureous part is too much exalted The sulphureous parts of the Blood too much exalted cause a Fever as being triumphant in the mass of Blood its temperament is perverted whereupon the Chyme being not well Concocted as being over bilious doth raise a great effervescence of the Blood inducing a Fever If the saline Atomes of the Blood be too much elevated The saline parts brought to a Fluor do generate into a Fever The cause of a Fever is seated in the Blood as compounded of divers Fermentative Liquors The Nervous Liquor being soft cannot be said to be a cause of a Fever Many critical evacuations of Blood determining a Fever do shew the cause to be placed in the Blood they are brought to a Fluor and the Blood turneth Acide which is found to be the cause of a Quartane Ague These being premised it is most probable that the Causes of various Fevers are seated in the Blood as it is made up of divers fermentative Liquors and Elements producing many Feverish Inflammatory Dispositions But the nervous Liquor cannot be so truly said the cause of Fevers as most acute Borellus will have it as being a mild Liquor not consisting of many several Liquors contrary Principles and Recrements with which the Blood is endued and therefore the animal Liquor is not subject to so many various Ebullitions and Feverish indispositions Farthermore the apertion of a Vein and the critical evacuations of Blood by the Nostrils Hemorrhoids and Menstrua in Women do determine a Fever which plainly evinceth that the Morbifick cause in a Fever is seated in the mass of Blood whose hot steams and watry saline Particles are severed from the Blood in the cutaneous Glands and discharged by the excretory Ducts of the Skin And in order to the more clear understanding of the nature of Fevers consisting in the various ill Crasis of the Blood disturbing the Motion of the Heart I will give you a short History of the various constitution of the Blood as productive of its Ebullition in the Heart Galen and his followers made four Temperaments The temperament of the Blood as composed of Four Humours supposing the mass of Blood to be compounded of four distinct Liquors Phlegme Bile Melancholy and laudable or pure Blood but I conceive it will be very difficult according to this Opinion to solve the Phaenomena that may occurr so that it seemeth more probable to determine the Blood as well qualified to be one Liquor consisting of Heterogeneous parts and not of those different humors which do not constitute the mass of Blood but are only accidental to it in a depraved habit of Body in which three of those humors may be called Recrements of the Blood and not constituent parts which Nature endeavoureth to secern from it and therefore it is more consonant to Reason and Sense not to believe the Blood to be made of many distinct Humors but one Liquor consisting of different parts pituitous framed of crude indigested Chyme The melancholy constitution of the Blood or bilious made of exalted Oily Particles or melancholick compounded of Tartareous or earthy Saline put into a Fluor as the chief Spirituous and Oily parts are breathed out Hence spring the four Constitutions of the Body derived from the several Temperaments of the Blood when it is integrated of different Elements reduced to a good harmony in due proportion The constitution of hot oily and saline Particles not too much exalted nor the gross and fixed too much depressed and the solid and liquid Atomes well mixed may be truly stiled the Sanguineous temper of the Blood The sanguineous constitution of the Blood and is the rule from which the others may be termed more or less ill as they have greater or less deflections from it as being ill tempers upon which the Pathalogy of the Blood dependeth The First I will Treat of The Pituitous constitution of the Blood is the Pituitous Constitution derived from cold moist or gross Aliment not well concocted for want of a fit Menstruum or good natural heat whence proceedeth an ill prepared Chyle conveyed through proper Channels to the Heart where it being not well attenuated and colliquated runneth confused with the Blood without being broken into small particles by reason of its over viscide substance generating a crude mass of Blood which being imparted by great and less arterial Branches to the whole Body maketh a cold and moist temperament commonly called Pituitous seated in a gross mass of Blood apt to be stagnant which produceth various inflammations in reference to several parts in which the crude Blood is lodged vid. a Perinumonia in the substance of the Lungs and Pleuritis in the Pleura An Angina in the Muscles of the Larynx A Polypus in the Ventricles of the Heart and the Trunk of the pulmonary Artery and Veins An Apoplexy in the substance of the Brain and an Anasaerca in the habit of the Body Some Physicians and those Learned too do conceive the Phlegmatick mass of Blood to be composed much of Chyle or nervous Liquor as being akin in colour and manner of consistence Whereupon it being thick and indigested when extravasated and Cold doth concrete into a white and discoloured Cruor or skinny substance facing the upper region of the Blood when it is let out of the Vein into a Porringer and coagulated But upon a more curious inspection The Cause of the tough surface of the Blood this white clammy tough surface of the Blood will be found to be a Fibrous contexture made up of many thin Membranes seated one within another in whose Interstices are formed a reticular Plexe composed as it were of nervous Fibrils interspersed with divers small Cells resembling little holes interceding Combs The Compage of the Blood when it is coagulated filled with Honey in which a serous Liquor is contained This Compage of the Blood may be made evident by ocular demonstration which I saw in concreted Blood covered with a white Surface almost halfe an inch thick which was integrated of many fine Membranes as so many thin Flakes constituting this coagulated Systeme framed of numerous Filaments curiously interwoven and closely set together which I discerned by my naked Eye without
Willis illustrates by Mineral Waters Cap. 12. De Mania Pag. 345. Primo Aquae Stygiae particulae smmme agiles irrequietae in motu perpetuo existunt hinc ut effluvia aliis decedentia nares continuo feriant atque liquor e vase effusus corporibus quibusq aliis occurrens valde effervescat eorumque poros meatus penetrat cujus ratio est quod particulae salinae sulphureis Conjunctae seinvicem exagitant cumque nullis alias generis cohaerent pariter opinari licet Spiritus Animales e sanguine uberiori quasi nitro sulphureo extillatos insigni mobilitate five inquietudine praeditos esse qui proinde e cerebri meditullio quaquaversus tum in ambitum ejus tum in systema nervosum expansi indeque perpetim rereflexi phantasmata efferata fere nunquam interrupta atque functionis tam sensitivae tum locomotivae inordinationes maximas perpetuas producunt The steams exhaling out of the nitrous Spirits of Mineral Liquors do not arise out of free and open Pores but do form new Meatus and perforate Bodies upon which they have an influx and render them feeble and turn them into innumerable Atomes which is most evident in the solution of Metals caused by proper Menstrua impregnated with nitrous and vitriolick Salts which emit innumerable restless Effluvia making troublesome Appulses upon the nervous Fibrils seated in the inward Membrane encircling the inside of the Nostrils and somewhat in a Maniack Disease the disposition of the Animal Spirits being infected with the steams and ill Liquor of the Blood are rendred very impetuous in their motion making many new Tracts in the Brain between the nervous Fibrils receding from the common road of the Animal Spirits whereupon they wander and produce absurd Conceptions in the understanding and phancy and make incongruous enunciations by compounding things present with things past and to come and confounding right notions by their disorderly conjunction with opposite and contrary sentiments And it may be observed that many vaporous minute Atomes arising out of nitro-sulphureous Spirits do not confine themselves within narrow bounds as steams ascending out of acide Liquors but do diffuse themselves every way at a distance which may be easily experimented when Spirit of Nitre is embodied with Butire of Antimony whereupon the whole room may be infected with a Black Fume arising out of those stygian Liquors or when Aqua-fortis or Spirit of Nitre doth ascend out of the Alembick a most sharp vapour being diffused from thence doth affect the Nostrils and Lungs seated at a distance which happens by the various Particles of fluide Salt and fierce Sulphure espousing each other which do exalt these different Elements and promote their activity at a distance by making them to expatiate themselves to a remote Sphaere in which they briskly exert their operations After the same method the Animal Spirits seem to deport themselves in Mad persons as Dr. Willis hath observed The manner how the Animal Spirits move in mad persons Pari equidem modo circa Spiritus Animales in Maniacis habere videtur qui siquidem ejusdem ac aquae stygiae indolis fuerint idcirco tum cerebri Compagem tum appendicem citissime trajicientes aflectos non tantum furiosos sed velut Daenioniacos efficiunt adeo ut metu aut languore quoque immunes quodvis audaciter aggrediantur sese intrepidos objiciunt etiam ob prodigiosas Spirituum exertiones robore immani polleant vincula Catenas saepe disrumpant atque viros fortissimos iis obstantes coercere nitentes siâ—ul plures debellent Whereupon the Animal Spirits may seem in mad people The Animal Spirits in a Mania may seem to resemble the motion of Mineral Waters to resemble the steams arising out of the nitro-sulphureous Particles of Mineral Liquors as they are of a fierce restless Nature passing every way through the Interstices of the Compage of nervous Filaments seated in the Brain highly disordering its Oeconomy in reference to the higher and lower operations of rational sensitive and locomotive Faculty too placed at a distance from the Brain by reason the Nerves are greatly discomposed in the muscular parts of the Body caused by the enraged Animal Liquor and Spirits The continent or immediate cause of Madness The cause of Madness may be conceived to come not so much from adust Choler consisting much of sulphureous Particles afflicting the Brain as in Melancholy but from saline Particles rendred fluide and combining with ill tempered oily Particles of the Blood resembling a kind of Arsenick Sulphure depraving the nervous Liquor and enraging the Animal Spirits But a scruple may be made how these acide Humors mixed with malignant Sulphure can be generated in the Body to which it may be replyed that highly acrimonious Recrements may be in confaederacy with the Blood in Cacheotick Habits as I have often seen in persons committed to my care a a Physician Acide Humors may be discharged by Vomiting particularly in a person of Honour who frequently vomited a quantity of acide Humors and in a Doctor of Physick who was perpetually afflicted with violent pains of his Limbs proceeding from acide saline Particles of the Blood which appeared in a great proportion of sower salival Liquor flowing out of the Oral Glands which vitiated the masticated Aliment and spoiled the Chyle of the Stomach these ill conditioned Recrements do often infect the nervous Liquor and produce Apostemes foul and malignant Ulcers which are found in the parotide axillary and inguinal Glands and by reason the putrid Humors of these ulcered parts are thin and watry Acide Recrements of the Blood vitiate the Succus nervosus it is manifest they take much of their rise from the acide Recrements of the Blood vitiating the Succus nervosus having recourse to the said Glands the Colatories of it which often degenerates in Scorbutick Constitutions into a faetide corrosive Humor which sometime proveth cancrous And the reason seemeth plain because the nervous Liquor is impregnated with numerous Particles of volatil Salt which being depraved hath its more refined Atomes depressed as confaederated with the more fixed saline and serous parts of the Blood vitiating the genuine temper of the nervous Liquor in its first production whose volatil parts being gone as becoming fixed do easily degenerate into a Fluor and being accompanied with sulphureous Atomes do make a corrosive Liquor not much unlike Mineral Water which being of a Septick nature doth generate foul strumous and cancerous Ulcers in the Emunctories of the Body and in the Glands of the Tongue Palate and Breasts of Women and other parts This depraved nervous Liquor productive of Apostemes A depraved nervous Liquor may be the cause of many diseases Ulcers and Cancers in the Glandulous and nervous parts may be reasonably apprehended to vitiate the purity of the Animal Spirits residing in the nervous Liquor as their subject and vehicle which being endued with a hot
c. 913. And of an Unguis Oculi and its Cause and Cure 915 The diseases of the Cornea and their Cures the disaffection of the Transparency and its Causes and the Cure of an Albugo 917 The Vlcers and Rupture of the Cornea and their Cures 919 The Cancer and Cause and Applications in its beginning 919 The diseases of the Uvea and their Cures and of the too great Perforations of it called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 921. And the overmuch contraction of the Pupil 922 The diseases of the watry Humors of the Eye and their Cures and of a Cataract 923 The Prognosticks of a Suffusion and its Cures in which a Vein may be opened 924. The manner of Couching a Cataract 925 The diseases of the Aranea and the cristalline and vitrious Humor and their Cures and of the grossness of the Aranea and Rupture and of a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or ill colour of the cristalline Humor the cause of a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 926. The grossness of the Vitreous Humor 927 The diseases of the optick Nerves and the Retina and their Cures The Gutta Serena and its Causes 927 The Cure of it 928. The wrinkles of the Retina and its cause and the Density of this Coat 926 F. OF the Face Eyes Nose Lips 862. and the description of the Face and of its Lineaments finishing Lines Symmetry and Elegancy 863 Faculty and the meaning of it 290 Falciforme Process and of its Figure and Vse 983 Of the Falling Sickness and of its Names Diagnosticks description Fits and their degrees 1175 Of the subject of this Disease and how in it the Coats of the Brain cannot be every where vellicated the Nerves and the fibrous parts of the Brain are primarily concerned in Convulsive motions and of the Animal Spirits the subject of this Disease according to Dr. Willis 1176. And of its true subject and of its various Symptomes and their causes 1177. An Epilepsy coming from an Abscess Polypus and wound of the Brain and from the fracture of both Tables of the Skull 1179 A Falling sickness proceeding from an ulcered Pancreas Spleen Worms and from the diseases of the Stomach and Guts 1180 Of the Indications and of specifick Medicines in this Disease and how they operate by secret qualities 1181. And how the Cure of this disease is performed by sweetening the Blood and by corroborating Cephalicks Vomitories Apozemes Bleeding and Topicks 1182 And by Suffumigations Sternutatories Powders Conserves Electuaries Pills Apozemes Amulets Emplaisters and how Mercurial Medicines weaken the Nerves and how a Salivation may be raised in a strong constitution of Body 1183 Fat is originally oily and Fluide and afterward concreted 181 The Fat of the Caul hath many Cells and minute Glands Ibid. Fat is not produced by Heat but rather by Cold 75 Fat is not produced by nervous Liquor but by the oily part of the Blood 76 Feathers of Birds and their Analogy with Hair and description of a Quil and of a its filamentous parts and structure of a Filme its Blood-vessels and Pith and Figure of the Stemm 945. Its Surfaces and Margents and oblong and broad Filaments and Fringes of the Stemm and of the colours of Feathers and their production 946. And uses of Feathers Ferments of the Stomach some work by Secretion others by Precipitation 301 Ferments are active Bodies affected with spirituous saline and sulphureous parts exalted by heat 301 Of the nervous Liquor a Ferment of the Stomach 301 Ferments work upon some Bodies of agreeable temper though in the main of an opposite Ibid. Ferments are most in Bulk and great in Virtue 302 Ferments work in Bodies opened by airy and aethereal Particles Ibid. Ferments compounded of small Parts are easily brought into action by reason they cannot oppose the contest of contrary Agents 302 Ferments endued with Angles do more easily insinuate themselves into laxe Bodies Ibid. Ferments agreeing in Figure have a disposition to motion Ibid. The serous Ferment of the Stomach is severed from the Blood 305 Serous Liquor is ministerial to the concoction of Aliment in the Stomach Ibid. The serous Ferment of the Stomach is not acted with acide but saline Particles which is evident in the Stomach of Fish 308 The various Ferments of the Stomach do embody with the homogeneous part of Aliment and precipitate the Heterogeneous 309 Fermentation is double in concoction the first perfective in the extraction of Aliment The Second corruptive in point of excrements the reliques of Concoction 317 Fermentation doth not only consist in Acids but in mutual opposition of contrary Agents proceeding from Heterogeneous Elements 402 Ferments of the Kidneys 479 The Fluor Albus or Whites and their difference from the Menstrua 584 The cause of the Fluor Albus which containeth many kinds of Recrements 584. And how it is conveyed into the Cavity of the Womb Ibid. Natural and artificial Fermentation of Liquors how they hold Analogy with those of Man's Body 17 Artificial Fermentation in point of Aliment as that of Doe Beer-Wort c 18 19 The Fermentation in point of Aliment and the Cures of it 20 21 Fermentation in Animals hath great affinity with Vegetables 21 Various Ferments productive of intestine motion in reference to alimentary and vital Liquor 22 The different operation of Ferments some by ebullition others by precipitation Ibid. Ferments which are most potent consist of different Elements working briskly in contrary Agents Ibid. Fermentation is made by an expansive and also by a precipitating power 25 The first Ferment of Chyle is Salival Liquor in the Mouth The second are the serous and nervous Liquors in the Stomach The third is the pancreatick juyce The fourth is nervous Liquor in the Glands of the Mesentery 27 The Fermentative Power of aethereal and airy Particles advancing the Chyle and Blood of Humane Bodies 28 The descript on of a Fever and the cause of it and Borellus his Opinion 753 And the causes of a Fever 755 Fevers proceeding form a Succus Pancreaticus 759. And Fevers that are continued have no perfect intermission but remission only 759 The kinds of continued Fevers and their several steps and crisis 760 761 The nature and symptomes of malignant Fevers and how the Blood is putrefied and the bond of mixtion dissolved in them 762 And the way how infection is made 763 Of a Quartan intermittent Fever 764 And of its Cure 765 The Cures of intermittent Fevers 766. And the Cures of continued 767 A great instance of Poison imitating the types and periods of malignant Fevers Ibid. The Fibres of the Brain are implanted into the Cortex and propagate the Processes of the Brain into the Medulla Spinalis 1071. The Fibrils of the Brain and Cerebellum are composed of many Filaments 1191 The Fibrils are rendred Tense in the exercise of Sense and Motion 798 The numerous Fibrils of the Brain coagulated into Trunks about the Medulla oblongata 1085 The progress of the Fibres of the Brain 1090
The depraved Flux of the Menstrua 583 Menstruous Blood cannot be the matter of a Foetus 604 Membranes of the Mesentery 384 Description of the Mesentery Ibid. Origen of the Mesentery 385 Vessels of the Mesentery Ibid. Mesenterick Plexes of Nerves 386 387 The Mesenterick lacteal Vessels of the First and Second kind 388 The use of the Mesenterick milky vessels 389 The manner of conveying Chyle through the Mesentery Ibid. Mesenterick Glands 390 391 Inflammation Abscess and Vlcer of the Mesentery and their Cures 392 393 The Hydatides and serous Tumors of the Mesentery 393 The lost and lessened distribution of the Chyle through the Mesentery 394 The Cures of Mesenterick diseases 396 The diseases of the Mesenterick Glands 397 Midriff 684. and its Situation Connexion and Figure 681 and its structure Membranes Fibres Vessels Perforations and how it is made a double Muscle by Bartholine 686 Midriff is countermanded in its motion by the abdominal Muscles as its Antagonists and of its Diastole and Systole 688 The Pathology of the Midriff and of its inflammation and wounds 689 Midriffe of greater and less Animals Beasts Birds and Fish 690 691 692 693 Milts of Fish supply the place of Testicles and have Vessels Glands and the manner of production of Seminal Liquor in them 549 Minerals divested of their qualities are revived by new impregnations of Air 38 Mons Veneris 559 The Mouth is arched above with the Palate and floored below with the Tongue 219 Mouth and its Inflammations Vlcers Gangreens 251 Mucous Matter lining the Guts 347 The Muscles are rendred stiff by the spirituous Particles of Animal Liquor 1091 The Muscles 80 to 115 and their composition of tendinous and carnous Fibres 80 to 111 Muscular motion and its manner as the Muscle is contracted by various carnous Fibres inserted into a Tendon 99 The Diseases of the Muscles 133 to 143 Muscles of the lower Jaw 244 Muscles of the Yard called Erectores 537 Muscles of the Yard called Acceleratores Urinae 537 Muscles of the Belly and their several motions 87 The Muscles called the oblique descendent and their description Ibid. The description of the oblique ascendent and transverse Muscles of the Belly 88 Muscles of the Belly called Pyramidal and their progress and rise 90 The use of the abdominal Muscles and how by a different progress of their Fibres as by a various bandage they keep the inward parts of the Abdomen in their due places 94 The description of the abdominal Muscles in reference to their Situation Figure Connexion Vses and Actions 98 The motion of the Muscles of the Belly 96 Muscular motion somewhat resemble to artificial motion by Levers 100. And it is somewhat like the motion of a Pulley Ibid. Motion is founded in somewhat immoveable as a Center 100 The Muscle according to Steno acquireth greater dimensions 101 Muscles are lessened in motion 102 Muscles are abbreviated in motion as one extremity is brought toward the other 102 Muscular motion according to some is made by Inflation and is truly inforced by the irritation of the Fibres caused by the spirituous elastick parts of nervous Liquor 182 Muscles of the whole Body are antagonists to the Muscle of the Heart 103 The motion of the Muscles quickeneth the motion of the Blood by compressing the Blood-vessels 103 Muscular Motion is not performed by Explosion 104 Muscles do naturally contract themselves 105 In a Muscular tonick Motion one Muscle ballanceth another Ibid. Antagonist Muscles are prevalent in motion as they are acted with greater Appulses of Animal Spirits 105 Muscular Motion is performed by the Commands of the Will as the prime efficient cause 106 N. NAtiforme Processes 1018 Nauseousness of the Stomach 337 The Origen of the Nervous Liquor and of its constitution 999 Nervous Liquor is a Ferment of the Stomach 301 to 305 Nervous Liquor is necessary in point of Nutrition 303 Nervous Liquor issueth out of the wounds of Tendons Ibid. The Nervous Liquor appears upon a Ligature made upon the Nerves Ibid. Nervous Liquor may be proved by the multitude of Nerves implanted into parts destitute of motion 303 Nervous Liquor is impregnated with volatil saline parts doth easily insinuate it felf into the Compage of Meat and Drink Ibid. Nervous Liquor inspired with Air in the cortical Glands of the Brain obtaineth elastick parts and is active in Fermentation 304. And is impregnated with the influences of the Planets 1026 Nervous Liquor being endued with active principles is the cause of muscular motion 305 Nervous Bodies of the Yard their Fibres Progress and Dimensions 534 Nervous juyce exalteth the Liquors passing through the Viscera and Muscles of the Body 203 The Nerves having no Cavities are not capable of Valves 104 The Nervous Liquor made in the Brain is carried by Nerves into all parts of the Body 200 The Nervous Liquor exalteth the Blood in the Spleen and Kidneys 199 The nervous Liquor enobleth the Salival in the Mouth and Chyle in the Stomach and Guts 200 Nerves arising from the Brain within the Skull and the nervous Fibrils coming from the Cortex are united in the Medulla oblongata 1039. The description of a Nerve and the treble substance of Nerves of which the soft tender substance is seated in the middle of the Nerve 1039 The olfactory Nerves of other Animals of Birds 1042. And of Fish 1043 1044 The optick Nerves of Man and other Animals and their rise and are not mutually embodied as some conceive 1045 And of Fish and Birds 1045 1046 Of the Motory and pathetick Nerves of the Eyes and their Origen and their First and Second Branch and the rise of the Pathetick Nerves of the Seat and Origen of the fifth pair of Nerves 1047 Of the largeness of these Nerves and of the First Branch of Nerves and of their Second and their progress 1048 The Sixth pair of Nerves Ibid. The Seventh pair of Nerves 1049 The Eighth Ninth and Tenth pair of Nerves and of the accessory Nerve and of the Ganglioforme Plexe of the Par vagum and the use of the knots in the Body of the Nerves and of another Plex of the Par vagum united with the intercostal Nerves 1050 Nervous Fibrils twining about the carotide Artery are sometimes inserted into its Coat And a Plex of the Par vagum out of which many Fibres are propagated to the Heart and how the Par vagum dispenseth many Fibres into all the regions of the Heart and how a Branch of the Par vagum encircleth the Pulmonary Artery and of the lesser Cardiack Plex of the Par vagum 1051 Of the Branches of the Par vagum implanted into the Stomach and the cause of the Sympathy between the Heart Larynx and Stomach and of the rise of the upper and lower Stomacick Branch 1051 The Ninth pair of Nerves and those of the Tongue derived from them and association of a Branch of the Ninth pair with one of the Tenth 1053 A Branch of the Ninth pair is distributed into