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A43108	Anthropōlogia, or, A philosophic discourse concerning man being the anatomy both of his soul and body : wherein the nature, origin, union, immaterality, immortality, extension, and faculties of the one and the parts, humours, temperaments, complexions, functions, sexes, and ages respecting the other are concisely delineated / by S.H.	Haworth, Samuel, fl. 1683.	1680 (1680)	Wing H1190; ESTC R28065	83,471	253

Seed being emitted from both and treasured up in the Magazine of the Females Womb that the first Rudiments of a tender Foetus do emerge There being abundance of Natures Curiosity under this Head I shall take occasion a little to amplifie hereupon and shall treat of 1. The Nature and Origin of the Seed 2. The Manner and Signs of Conception 3. The Formation of the Child in the Womb and its Position 4. The Manner of its Exit or Coming forth The Nature and Origin of Seed The Seed is a Humid and Spirituous Substance elaborated in the Testicles from the residue of the third Concoction or from the Arterial Blood having a prolific Vertue and concurring to the procreating of the Foetus not only Virtually but also Materially The Efficient cause of Spermification is the Parenchyma of the Testicles these by their hot and moist Temperature and also an Intrinsic Specific Propriety doth convert the Arterial Blood into Sperm which after it is here prepared is reconded in the Seminary Vessels and if there be a redundancy that which abounds is either carried back thro the Spermatic Veins to the Heart or goes to the Nutrition of the Testicles or else is excern'd thro the Lymphaducts for without the Testicles Seed is not unless extraordinarily generated for it is from them that the Seed receives both its Form and Colour and if a Conception happen from one that is castrated it is by reason of some Seed before the Amputation of them prepared and reconded Women also do emit Seed and have likewise for that purpose Testicles given them by Nature In the Seed there are two parts The Spirituous part and the Colliquament The Spirituous Part is that which causeth in the Seed a Turgency and Frothiness by reason of the extream Mobility and Volability of the Spirits The Crass Colliquament is that moist and watery Substance which manifestly appears when the Spirits vanish and evaporate for it then lays down its Whiteness and Spumosity This fruitful Liquor by its prolific Vertue after the Spermatic Contact in Coition doth so affect the Vterus of the Female as to impregnate it with Fecundity and make it also become Prolific which having received this Plastic Generative Power communicated to it from the Male doth put this Power into exercise and so procreateth its own like and truly the Vertue proceeding from the Male doth so largely fructifie the whole Female that it produceth a thoro Change and Alteration as well in the Frame of their Minds as Constitution of their Bodies 2. The Manner and Signs of Conception Conception the Manner of it The Vterus of the Female by the previous Converse she hath had with the Male and his Incitements which he useth to entice her as also by Natures own Inclination and Tendency is adapted for Conception which preparaion of the Vterus consists in this First The Vterus appears thicker and more fleshy and afterwards in the interior Superfice which is the place where the future Conception is to be received groweth more tender answering in Lubricity and tenderness the intern Ventricles of the Brain in some places it hath little Knobs which do swell inward and become exceeding soft the Vterus thus reduced to a state of Maturity and Coition immediately succeeding the Seeds of both Sexes being effused at the same time the Males into the Neck of the Vterus and th● Females into the Cavity of her own Matrix the Womb being endued with the property of attracting and drawing to it self the Virile Seed it greedily sucks it in and there the Seed of both Sexes being exactly mixt together and strictly contained within the Confines of the Vterus the whole Body of the Womb doth contract it self and the intern Orifice of it becomes so closely shut that the Point of the sharpest Needle cannot be admitted the two sorts of Seed there reconded are cherished by the Heat of the Vterus and thereby their Heat and Spirit stirred up and the Plastic Vertue which before lay Dormant there is now reduced into Act and hence immediately Conception ensues The Signs of which are these Seven Manifest Signs of Conception 1. A kind of horror and trembling after Coition which is caused by the Contraction and drawing together the Womb. 2. Retention of the Seed If the Seed fall not out again we may Conjecture there is Conception 3. A close Occlusion of the Orifice of the Vterus 4. A Suppression of the Natural Courses 5. A Swelling Hardness and Pain in the Breast 6. A Languid Appetite and Desire of Venery 7. A Nauseating and Loathing of Meat 3. The Manner of the Formation of the Foetus and its Position in the Womb. The Efformative Vertue being now excited by the Heat of the Womb doth wrap up the whole Seminal Matter into two Membranes or Tunics the one is called Chorion and the other Amnios and in seven days time after the Conception the Lineaments of the Spermatic Parts begin to appear for if a Geniture after the seventh day suffer an untimely Exit and be cast into Water there will appear in it three little Bubbles which are the Rudiments of the three Principal Parts and abundance of little Filaments which are the Threds of the other Spermatic Parts All the Spermatic Parts are perfected in Males in the space of Thirty Days in Females in Forty the fleshy Parts in Males are perfect in Three Months in Females in Four and then the Foetus begins to be quick The Spermatic Parts are generated of the Seed of both Sexes but the Fleshy Parts of Menstruous Blood which hath an Influx thither till the whole Structure of the Foetus is compleated The Position and Situation of the Infant in the Womb. The Situation or Position of the Infant in the Womb is commonly found to be thus His Knees drawn up to his Belly his Thighs bent backward his Feet hanging down his Hands elevated to his Head whereof one is placed about his Temples or Ears the other upon his Cheeks in which Parts there are white spots discovered in his Skin as Signs of Confrication his Spine or Back-bone bent-round and his Neck being inflected his Head hangs near his Knees the Embryo is situated with that Position of Parts wherewith we commonly apply our selves to rest with his Head uppermost and his Face directed towards his Mothers Spine but a little before his Birth his Head being bent downwards he dives towards the Bottom and Orifice of the Matrix as if he were seeking his way out Lastly The Manner of its Birth The Manner of its Exit or Birth After the Foetus hath acquired its due Conformation Nutrition and Augmentation not finding a sufficient Aliment and wanting Air to Ventilate the abounding Heat begins to seek a larger Space and being irritated distends the Membranes of the Vterus and endeavours to extricate himself out of that Prison wherein he is so confined and incarcerated and hence results a double Motion one

Septum it hath several Meanders Caverns Windings and Perforations in it to admit the thinner part of the Blood from the right into the left Ventricle of the Heart The Heart hath many Vessels The Vessels belonging to the Heart the chief are the Vena Cava and the Vena Arteriosa inserted in the right Ventricle and the Arteria Venosa and Arteria Magna in the left Ventricle opposite to which within the Ventricles there are eleven Valves or little Doors which when they are open receive the Blood when shut stop it from coming back again The Vena Cava hath a membraneous Circle at its Orifice to strengthen the Heart which is divided into three membraneous Valves called Tricuspides The Vena Arteriosa also hath three Valves which united give the similitude of a Bishops Mitre The Arteria Magna likewise hath three Valves like those in the Vena Arteriosa exactly shut called also Sigmoides The Lungs The Lungs are divided into the right and left part by the Mediastinum that so when one part is shut the other might perform its Office both these parts are subdivided into two Lobes about the fourth Vertebra of the Thorax the upper of which is shorter than the lower their substance is lax spongy and soft that they may easily be extended and receive the Air. Their use Their use is to ventulate and refrigerate the Heart and free it from that fuliginous excrement which it carries off with the Blood thro the Vena Arteriosa it exhibits Breath to Men to make an articulate Voice and to Brutes to make an inarticulate one Sylvius addeth that it condenseth the Air taken in and so represseth the rarified Blood in the right Ventricle of the Heart and so hereby doth allay the aestuation that is excited in it but this is as much as to say the Air taken in doth temperate the heat of the Heart Dr. Henshaw's Aero-Chalinos which is no more than hath been acknowledged by Sylvius's Predecessors Pecquet will have its use to be to distribute the Chyle and detrude it into the Intestines and Lactean Veins but Dr. Henshaw no contemptible Author a Member of the Royal Society saith That the principle use of respiration is to be instead of a tonic Motion to free the Lungs from Blood whereby they would be overflown did they not drive it back again to the Heart as the tonic Motion doth in all the muscular parts of the Body The Fistula Pulmonum The Aspera Arteria Aspera Arteria Trachaea or Wind-pipe is carried streight from the Mouth to the Lungs thro the Neck and at the fourth Vertebra of the Thorax is divided into two parts both of which enter into the Lungs those are also subdivided into two more and these again into two others till at last at the superfice of the Lungs they end in very small ramifications The lower part of the Aspera Arteria is called Bronchus the upper Larynx it is invested with a two-fold Membrane the one External the other Internal it serves both for Inspiration and Expiration to receive and let out the Air as thro a Pipe The Larynx its Muscles The Larynx or the Head of this is the proper instrument of Voice its Figure is almost circular it hath thirteen Muscles four common and nine proper The first pair of the common is called Sternothyroides from the Sternum the second pair Hyothyroides which hath its Origination from the Os Hyoidis the first pair of the proper is called Crycothyroides or rather Thyrocricoides The second pair Crycoaritenoides posticum The third pair Ctycoaritenoides laterale the fourth pair Thyroarytenoides and the ninth Muscle Arytenoides the Cartilages of the Larynx are five the first is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Scutiformis the second 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Annularis because it is round like a Ring the third and fourth which some make but one is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Guttalis it hath two processes in its superior part which joyned together make a little Rimula to modulate the Voice which by some is called the little Tongue or Glottis the fifth is called Epiglottis which shuts the Larynx that so the Meat and Drink may descend the right way In the upper part of the Larynx there are two Glandules called the Tonsils The Tonsils which are of a spongy substance to receive the moisture of the Brain and convert it into Spittle whereby the Fauces the Larynx the Tongue and the Oesophagus are humected Dr. Wharton assigns more noble uses to them viz. To be the Organs of Taste and to promote the Concoction of the Ventricle by a kind of fermentative Vertue because they contract Acidity but the Tip of the Tongue tastes before gustible Objects reach the Tonsils and when these are evilly affected the Taste remains also when these are inflamed the Stomach nevertheless doth concoct At the lower end of the Larynx there are other Glandules called by Dr. Wharton Thyroides on both sides one thro which the Veins are disseminated from the extern jugular their use is to irrigate the Larynx with a fat and viscous not fluid Humidity that the Cartilages might ●o more apt to move and the Voice become sweeter Hence Women have a clearer Voice than Men Why Women have clearer Voices than Men. because in them those Glandules are larger and so afford more of this oleaginous and smooth moisture As the Aspera Arteria ●s the Pipe of the Lungs so the Oes●phagus is the Pipe of the Ventricle or Stomach its beginning is at the Mouth where it is called Pharynx and hence it descends streight to the Ventricle under the Wind-pipe it consists of three Tunics it hath four Muscles the first is called Oesaphagus the second Sphenosparyngeus the third Stylopharyngeus the fourth Cephalopharyngeus by these Muscles is perform'd Deglution or Swallowing which is the proper Act of the Oesopha●s An appendix to the middle Venter is the Neck The Neck which is a medium between the Thorax and the Head its use is to serve the Oesophagus the Wind-pipe and the Lungs Hence those Animals which want Lungs as Fish also want a Neck it also affords Nerves to the fore-parts as the Shoulders the Cubits the Hands and the Diaphragm for those Creatures that want these Parts have no Neck Thus we have briefly delineated the parts of the two lower Regions of the Body namely the Abdomen and the Thorax we come now to view the upper which is the Head The upper Venter or the Head its Division It is divided into two parts Capillata and Facies Capillata is that part upon which Hairs do grow the fore part of which is called Synciput from the Frons to the Coronal Suture the hinder Part is called Occiput from the beginning of the Sutura Lambdoides to the first Vertebra of the Neck the middle Part between these which is Gibbose is called Vertex the lateral Parts between the Eyes and the