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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

Dissect the Bodies of other Living Creatures Democritus by his frequent Dissection of divers sorts of Animals is said to have first found out the proper Seat of the Bile Galen also accustom'd himself to the Dissection of Apes and Monkies Severinus Castellus Bronzerus Panarolus and many others were wont to Dissect the Bodies of dead Dogs But Asellius Dr. Harvey Walleus Bartholine Pecquet De Graaf and others did frequently cut open Dogs while they were alive and hereby found out the Lactean Veins the Circulation of the Blood the Thoracic Veins the Lymphaducts the Ductus Pancreaticus with its Acid Juice and many other useful Inventions by their diligent Scrutiny and Autopsy But our Discourse is to be limited to the Humane Body having chosen Man to be the sole Subject of this Treatise The Body of Man therefore as it is a Totum Quantitativum seu Integrale is divided by Galen and Hypocrates into Continentia The Division of the Parts of Mans Body Contenta Impetum Facientia that is into Solid Parts Humours and Spirits The Body of Man may also be divided either Ratione Finis or Ratione Materiae Ratione Finis The Principal Parts They are either Principal Parts or less Principal Parts The Principal Parts are the Liver the Heart and the Brain and the Vulgarly received Opinion is That the Veins have their Origin from the Liver the Arteries from the Heart and the Nerves from the Brain which they say are the Vessels that convey the Natural Vital and Animal Spirits thro the Body The less Principal Parts are either necessary The less Principal parts which are those without which an Animal cannot live as the Lungs the Ventricle the Intestines the Vesicula Bilaria the Porus Bilarius the Vesica Vrinaria c. Or not necessary as Caro Simplex in respect of the other Parts Ratione Materiae the Parts are either Simple Homogeneous and Simular or Compound Heterogeneous and Dissimular The Simular Parts are Ten. The Simular The Bones the Cartilages the Ligaments the Membranes the Fibres the Nerves the Arteries the Veins the Flesh and the Cutis The Dissimular The Dissimular Parts are the Members of the Body consisting of various Simular Parts They are also called Partes Organicae seu Instrumentales But the Modern and most Rational Division of the Body is into its Venters and Artus The Division of the Body into its Three Venters and Four Artus The Venters are Three the Infimus the lower Venter or the Abdomen which contains the Liver and the Natural Parts the Medius Venter or the Thorax which contains the Heart and Vital Parts the Venter Supremus or the Head wherein is contained the Brain and Animal Parts Having given the Division of the whole Body The Lower Venter its parts we shall now begin with the Lower Venter and this is all that Cavity which within is distinguished from the Thorax by the Diaphragm circumscribed by the Cartilago Ensiformis the Os Pubis Coxendicis and the Os Sacrum the Vertebrae of the Loins and on both sides by the Bastard Ribs the Fore-part of this is called Epigastrium the Lateral superior Part of which is called Hypocondrium which is next to the Inferior Cartilage of the Costae The Middle is Regio Vmbilicalis the two lateral Parts of which Aristotle calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Laxitate and Galen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Inania The Lower Part is Hypogastrium which descends from the Regio Vmbilicalis down to the Regio Pubis the Lateral Parts of which are called Ilia and in Flexu Femoris ad Pubem Inguina or the Groin Now this Venter consists of Exterior and Interior Parts The Exterior or Continent Parts are either Common which belong also to other Parts of the Body as the Cuticula the Cutis the Pinguedo with its Membrane the Panniculus Carnosus and the Membrana Musculorum propria or Proper only to this Venter as the Muscles of the Abdomen and the Peritoneum The Interior or Contained are those that serve either for Nutrition or for Procreation Those that serve for Nutrition belong either ad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Chylification as the Ventricle the Omentum the Pancreas the Intestines with the Mesentery the Lactean Veins with the Common Receptacle and the Lymphatic Vessels or ad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Sanguification as the Meseraic Veins the Vena Porta with its branches and the Vena Cava the Liver the Vesicula Bilaria the Spleen with the Vas Breve and the Hemorrhoids the Arteria Celiaca the Veins the Capsulae Atrabilariae the Ureters and the Bladder Those that serve for Generation are Vasa Spermatica the Corpora Varicosa or Parastatae the Testes the Vasa Deferentia the Prostatae the Vesiculae Seminariae and the Penis in Women the Vasa Ejaculatoria and the Vterus Having thus divided the Lower Venter we come now to speak of each of its parts in particular and the first is the Cuticula 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Cuticula this is a thin and close Skin void of Life and Sense without Blood made of unxious crass and viscid Vapours condensed by the Circumambient Cold to cover the Cutis it is thicker than the Cutis least there should be too great an efflux of Spirits and Heat it is generated of an Excrement that hath its beginning in the Womb and afterwards its perfection and this is the reason why Infants newly born look so red as they commonly do In Moors and Aethiopians it is black Next to this is the Cutis The Cutis which is the Common Covering of the Body generated of Seed and Blood the Instrument of Touching and the Defence of the Parts that are under it it is perforated in various places for the ingress and egress of that which is necessary those Perforations that are conspicuous are the Mouth the Ears c. The Insensible are the Pores in this ther● are observed several Nervous Filaments which Learned Cartesius calls the Organs of Sense Cartes de Homine which being moved by External Objects do accordingly make an Impression upon the Brain Under the Cutis is subjected the Pinguedo or Fat The Pinguedo or Fat which is a Simular Body without Sense made of unxious Blood concreted by the Cold of the Membranes for the defence of the whole it is not in those parts where it would hinder a convenient complication as in the Brain the Palpebrae the Penis the Scrotum and the Testium Membranae its Vessels are the three Veins of the Abdomen the Mamillary Veins the Venae Epigastricae elumbis emergentes its use is like a Garment to keep the Body warm to fill up the spaces between the Muscles the Vessels and the Skin to make the Body even smooth and round hence Lean Persons Old and Withered are Deformed Next is the Membrana Carnosa which is connexed to the Cutis by many Veins and Arteries The Membrana Musculorum

whole Body it is of every side encompassed by the Lungs yet its Motion is perceived most on the left Side 1st Because the great Artery is on that Side The reason why it beats more on the left side than on the right and the Cavity of the left Ventricle far exceeds that of the right and in this the Vital Spirit is contained Hence it is vulgarly reputed altho erroneously That the Heart hath its residence on the left Side and some Practitioners apply Cordial Epithems only to the left Side 2dly The Vena Cava being on the right Side and there ascending thro the Thorax the Heart cannot conveniently decline that way It is of a Conic Figure the upper part is called the Basis or Radix of it the lower Mu●ro Vertex Apex or the Cone of the Heart its primary Action is to be the Fountain of Heat this is manifest by that Disease called a Syncope and other defects of the Heart where its Heat is intercepted for then the Members of the Body destitute do faint and lose their brisk Activity wherewith they were before actuated Hence Cordials profit in such Affects How Cordials help the Heart in Syncope's by exciting the almost extinguisht Heat and stirring up the drooping Spirits this Heat is not caused only by the Motion of the Heart as the Car●e●ians say it is for there is implanted Heat in the Heart before its Motion and Motion is only the Preserver and not the Producer of Heat in the Heart but this Heat is excited by an Ebullition whereby the Blood dilating it self requires a more ample space and so breaks forth just as the mixture of Lime and Water produces an Ebullition and Flower of Brimstone mingled with Spirit of Turpetine and Salt of Tartar with Aqua fortis causes a great Fervescency 3dly Another great use of the Heart is to turn Chyle into Blood to be the Organ of Sanguification and to perfect and renew the depauperated Blood that returns in the Veins in its Circulation Another use of it is to move continually Hence it keeps the Blood from Putrefaction makes it more elaborate kindles that Vital Flame that 's in it and disperses it as a Nutriment adapted to every part This Motion is called the Pulse The Pulse which is continual and never ceasing stirred up by the Blood flowing into it and the Pulsive Faculty resident therein this consists of Systole Diastole It s Systole Diastole and Perisystole and Perisystole Systole the proper and natural motion of the Heart is a Contraction of it into a narrow compass that so the contained Blood might be forc'd from the right Ventricle thro the Arterial Vein into the Lungs and from the left thro the Arteria Aorta into the whole Body The Diastole which is Accidentary and not so properly called a Motion as the Systole because it is a Passion rather than an Action is a Dilatation of the Heart that it might draw in the Blood thro the Vena Cava into the right Ventricle and thro the Arteriae Venosa into the left Perisystole is the space of rest between the two preceding Motions In every Systole the Heart doth plentifully receive the Blood and in every Diastole it plentifully expels it After Dr. Harvey had found out the Circulation of the Blood laying down such evident and infallible Demonstrations as compell'd all to believe it yet many ignorant of the Fabric and Motion of the Heart thought that a few Drops a Scruple or a Dram at the most of Blood was thrown out of the Heart at every Pulse and so imagined that the Mass of Blood in the Body is many hours yea some days circulating thro the Body Yet I must acknowledg my Self to be a Proselyte of that Learned and Famous Physician Dr. Lower Dr. Lower De Corde who hath wrote an Excellent Book of the Heart and also of Exquisite Dr. Charleton The Circulation of the Blood the Author of Oeconomia Animalis That the whole Mass of Blood doth not only once or twice but very often pass thro the Heart in the space of an hour For if we compute how much Blood flows into the Ventricles of the Heart when it is dilated how much emptied out of it when it is contracted how many Pulses there are in an hour how much Blood there is contained in the whole Body we shall easily evince this Assertion for by Autopsy it appears and by the experience and testimony of Renowned Harvey that in a Healthful Man the left Ventricle of the Heart will at once contain two Ounces and so much is thrown out at every Systole and that there are Two thousand Pulses in the space of an hour which is the least Computation of all for Waeleus and Regius have numbred Three thousand and in some Four thousand Plempius 4450 Slegelius 4876 Rolfincius 4420 and Bartholine on his own Wrist 4400. tho these differ according to the Age Temperament and Diet c. And suppose that in a Man there are Twenty five Pounds of Blood which is a greater quantity than is granted either by Nature or Anatomists for the quantity of Blood contained in a Humane Body seldom exceeds Twenty five pound and is seldom under Fifteen If we suppose two Ounces of Blood received and thrown out at every Pulse and Two thousand Pulses in an hour How often the Blood circulates thro the Body in an hour the number of Ounces that pass thro the Heart in that space make up Three hundred thirty two pound Hence it necessarily follows that the whole Mass of Blood circulates thro the Body thirteen times every hour but seeing so great a quantity of Blood is seldom found in the Body of a sound Man and so few pulses in the space of an hour Vid. Dr. Lower de Corde it is very congruous to reason that the Blood passes thro the Heart more than Thirteen Times in an hour At the Basis of the Heart there are two Processes called Anricula their use is to receive the Blood and Air least it suddenly rush into the Heart and cause a Suffocation there are also on both sides two large Cavities which are called the Ventricles of the Heart of which the right receives the Blood from the Vena Cava to supply the Lungs and sends it into the left Ventricle to make the Vital Spirit and Arterial Blood of that Blood prepared in the right Ventricle and transmitted thro the Septum and the Lungs and of the Air drawn in thro the Mouth and Nostrils prepared in the Lungs and sent thro the Arteria Venosa with the Blood into the left Ventricle of the Heart The use of both these Ventricles is to generate and perfect the Arterial Blood to receive the Venal Blood make it more perfect and expel it thro the Arteries into the extreme parts of the Body and that they may thereby be nourish'd Between these two Ventricles there is an Interstitium or Partition called

the Nutritive Faculty into its three Branches Chylification Sanguification and Membrification or Assimulation that so we may the better understand the Processes of Nature in these Operations Chylification the first branch of this Function called the first Concoction how it is done First we must enquire into the method of Chylification This which is the first Concoction is thus performed When the Food is sufficiently chewed in the Mouth by the Dentes molares those Grinders appointed by Nature for Mastication it is detruded into the Ventricle or Stomach for Deglution is made by Detrusion wherewith the Stomach being replenisht the Appetite being satiate it doth dilate it self and being also endued with a power of Contracting its Membranous Tunicles according to the proportion of the Food received it doth closely and strictly embrace the same on all sides and then shut both its upper and lower Orifice the upper that Vapours may not ascend to the Brains and that Concoctions might be more perfect the lower lest any of the Meat should descend into the Guts before it be converted into perfect Chyle The Meat thus received into and embraced by the Stomach is by and by moistened and diluted partly by the drink received with it and partly by an Acid Humour the Relicts of the last Concoction which being endued with an Incisive Penetrating and Dissolving Faculty doth as it were cut and dissolve the Solid Meat into very small pieces and like an excellent Menstruum extracts a Tincture from its more Laudible and Alimentary Parts This Mixture being advanced Vsque ad Minima to the least Particles there presently succeeds a Fermentation whereby at last the whole Mixture is brought to a new Consistence and Colour not much unlike the Cream of Barley and is that which Physicians call the Chyle The Chyle being thus perfectly concocted is by the Gradual Contraction of the Stomach detruded into the Guts where the Guts by a Peris●alti● Motion contracting them downwards and this passing by the Intestines it s more pure and defecate parts are distributed thro the Milky Veins and the excrementitious and unprofitable parts are excluded by Stool These Lactean Veins carry the Chyle into the Common Receptacle called Receptaculum Commune and from hence it is transmitted thro the Ductus Thoracici to the Subilavian Branches of the Vena Cava near the extern Jugular Veins their being mixed with the Blood it is by the Ascendent Ttrunk of the Vena Cava soon imported into the right Ventricle of the Heart Sanguification or the Second Concoction The next Branch of the Nutritive Function is that of Sanguification it is in this Concoction that the Chyle receiving yet farther Exaltations by a greater Solution of the more Noble and active Principles once again deposites its old Color and Consistence and so at length becomes perfectly changed into that true Liquor How Chyle is transmuted into Blood which is called Blood for as soon as the Vena Cava hath committed the Matter of Nourishment into the right Ventricle of the Heart the Ferment therein contained working suddenly and throly upon it sets the Active Principles at a great freedom and so inducing a new motion and effervescence into the Blood doth happily impregnate it with Vitality hereby its Nature is exalted and those Natural Spirits contained in it are advanced into Vital or more Sublime and Active ones while the Vital Spirits pre-existent in the Ventricle of the Heart do enkindle the same Heat and cause the same diffusive or expansive motion in the Natural which they themselves have formerly acquired As for the Primary Agent or Efficient occupied in the Office of Sanguification it is not the Liver as Galen and his Sectators fictitiously conceived nor the Veins as some Anatomists have dream'd nor truly the Heart as Aristotle and his Disciples with several late Judicious Writers have asserted but by the Vital Heat residing in the Blood for the Heart borrows all its Activity meerly from the Vital Blood contained in its Ventricles The true Instrument that Nature makes use of in makeing Blood and distributed into them by the Coronary Arteries of which Vital Influx were the Heart deprived some few moments It would surcease its Activity and desist from its Sanguifying Function yea it would become as Torpid and Motionless as any other part of the whole Body so far is it from exalting the Chyle into so Noble a Nectar as the Blood is by any Simular Action of its own Yet we must acknowledge the Heart to be the Center and Chief Place of Residence for this Vital Flame and may notwithstanding be still properly styled the Fountain of Life As the Chyle in the first Concoction was seperated from its Faeces so in this second Concoction the Crimson Juice is depurated from its unprofitable Excrementitious Parts for the blood being an Heterogeneous Substance consisting of several different Principles when those Parts which are most prone to Volatility are dissipated and consumed and when the Sweet and Inflamable Spirits are exhausted certainly the remaining Mass must needs become useless and incommodious to Nature and so degenerating into Excrements ought as soon as may be to be sequestred from the Pure Mass of Blood ● which wholesome Liquor those Excrementitious Parts are no longer deemed fit to remain Ingredients The Excrements secerned from the Blood The Excrements that are seperated from the Blood are Choler Phlegm and Melancholy to which we may add or under these compehend Urine Sweat Tears and the Lymphatic Liquor Choler is a bitter Excrement generated of the Saline and Sulphureous Parts of the Blood exalted by Adustion and seperated from the Blood thro the Parenchyma of the Liver by a kind of Percolation and thence conveyed by its proper Vessels into the Intestines there rendring the Excrement of the first Concoction fluxile being excluded with them This Bilious Excrement is also in a small quantity effused out of the Capillary Arteries and collected in the Meatus Auditorius or Cavity of the Ears and there appears under the Form of that thick yellow and bitter Excrement we call Ear-wax Phlegm is a Cold and Moist Excrement as for its Sapor it is sometimes Salt somtimes Sweet and sometimes Acid to which we may add its Insipidness as another and as for its Consistence it is sometimes thin and serous sometimes thick viscid and mucilaginous and then it is called Glassy Phlegm and when it putrifies and corrodes it becomes Salt and Eruginous it is seperated from the Blood while it is wrought thro the Branches of the Celiacal Arterie terminated in the Stomach and there by Transudation immitted into the Cavity of it where it is found endowed with some Acidity It is also spewed forth out of the Mesenteric Arteries into the Substance of the Guts and transmitted into their Cavity by insensible passages here it is insipid without any Taste at all It also distils from the Brain being excern'd from the Blood either by the

Ears are called Tempora the Temples the superior part of the Face is called Frons The Inferior Parts are the Eyes the Nose the Ears and the Mouth in whch is contained the Tongue and other Parts The Pericranium and Periostium We shall begin with the Pars Capillata or hairy Part of this Venter the extern Membranes of this are two the Pericranium and the Periostium which encompass the Cranium The inward Membrances which enclose the Brain under the Cranium are the Dura Mater and the Pia Mater The Dura Mater and Pia Mater the Dura Mater o● Carssa Menynx divides the Cerebrum from the Cerebellum and the Brain into its right and left Parts and so constitutes four Sinus's o● Ventricles the receptacles of Blood and Spirits besides these four Sinus's there are three more one at the bottom of the Calx the other two lateral ones Their use is to receive the Arterial Blood The Ventricles of the Brain which is superfluous in the Nutrition of the Brain and the generation of Animal Spirits and from these proceeds that Blood that is evacuated at the Nostrils The outward part of the Brain is called Cortex the inward Medulla The Cortex is soft but of on Ash Colour which some think ariseth from the innumerable Veins there disseminated the Medulla is more hard and compact of a white Colour it hath two Parts the one Globose which hath three Cavities or Ventricles the other Oblong called Medulla Oblongata where is the fourth Ventricle in which the Animal Spirits are generated and here is the Origen of all the Nerves as this Part descends down to the Spine so it is called Medulla Spinalis The Motion of the Brain consisting of a Systole and Diastole The Brain is observed by some to have a Motion consisting of a Systole and Diastole in its Diastole or Dilatation it draws in the Vital Spirits with the Arterial Blood and Air thro the Nostrils In its Systole or Contraction it forceth the Animal Spirits therein elaborated into the Nerves The Cerebellum hath the same Substance Colour Motion and Use with the Cerebrum only it hath several circular Gyrations in an exact Order which the Cerebrum hath not it hath two Processes called Processus vermi-formes whose use is that the Calamus Script●rius being press'd by the Cerebellum might not be obstructed thereby The other Parts observed in the Brain are the Rete Mirabile the Glandula Pituitaria the Infundibulum the Corpus Callosum the Fornix the Plexus Choroides the Glandula Pinealis c. The Rete Mirabile or Plexus Retiform●s is at the Basis of the Cerebrum it consists of Carotid and Cervical Arteries brought up from the Heart to the Basis of the Brain and bring in them Blood and Vital Spirits to this Rete for the first preparation of the Animal Spirits The Glandula Pituitaria The Glandula Pituitaria is of a harder and more compa●● Substance than other Glandules it receives the Excrements of the Brain thro the Infundibulum and throws them out upon the Palate The Infundibulum The Infundibulum is an Orbicular Cavity made of the Pia-mater it hath four little Channels saith Riolan which distil the flegmatic Serum thro their four Foramina or little Perforations it hath two Glandules or Protuberances of the Brain thro which the Infundibulum receives the Serum from the Ventricles they do also stop and impede the great Impulse of that Matter that is carried to the Infundibulum least it should thereby be too much dilated or broken The Corpus Callosum The Corpus Callosum is in the Medulla of the Brain where its Substance is harder and where the two anterior Ventricles make two Extuberances it is distinguisht by a thin lax and wrinkled Membrane called Septum Lucidum because when extended and exposed to the Light it is Pellucid the inferior white part of it where the two Ventr●●●● are joyn'd together is of a triangular Figure Between the first Ventricle and the Fornix The Plexus Choroides is formed the Plexus Choroides its Contexture is of Veins and Arteries its use is the same with the Rete Mirabile The Glandula Pinealis its use The Glandula Pinealis is a Glandule of a conic Figure it is called by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Conarion by others the Penis of the Brain its use is the same with that of the other Glandules but especially to distribute the Vessels of the Brain Cartes and his Followers imagined the Soul to reside in this part of the Brain Cartesius and his Followers Regius Hogelandus and Meyssonierius say that this Glandule being placed in the middle of the Ventricles which are always distended with Spirits doth receive the Motion of all Objects and the Soul being placed here doth by these Motions apprehend all sensible Species or rather external Idea's which proceed from the five Senses and as it were in the Center of them discerns them all and then by the help of this it sends the Spirits to the Nerves just as all things that are conspicuous in a large Field are in their Order represented in a little Spheric Looking-glass This therefore according to Cartes is the common Seat of Sense and Imagination but because many of the Cartesian Sentiments of the Soul contrary to our Hypothesis depend upon the verity of this Assertion I shall here take occasion to manifest the falsity of it For 1. This is too exile and obscure a Body to represent the Species of all things clearly Eight Reasons why it cannot be the Seat of the Soul for the Species of one thing would impede and hinder the Species of another it being of too small a Magnitude and therefore the Cartesians being conscious of this to make their Hypothesis more plausible make it a great deal bigger in their Cutts and Pictures than really it is 2. The Species of all the Senses cannot arrive hither because the Nerves do not touch this Glandule 3. It is situated in the place of Excrements where they are excern'd thro the third and the two anterior Ventricles and certainly here the Species would be greatly contaminated which Le Forge a Cartesian is forc'd to grant 4. There then would be a great Confusion of different Ideas in this Corpuscle for the Species must remain there otherwise there would be no Memory 5. There is no Duct or Passag● from this Glandule to the Nerve● neither any communion with the Nerves of the extern Senses 6. This Glandule is bigger i● those Animals which the Cartesia● will have to be void of reason 7. It is sometimes found to b● full of Sand and little Stones without any hurt to the Reason sometimes it is black and infected how then can it be capable of performing such noble Operations 8. There was never any prope●… Motion seen in it but only violen●… either of the whole Brain its Concussion or some extern Flatulencie●… for it

other is united to them The Material or Constitutive Principle of this is now commonly reputed not to be the Blood tho Aristotle greatly contended for it and the School of Physicians hath given its Suffrage to verify this Tenent but a certain sweet mild and balsamic Liquor analogous to the White of an Egg out which a Chicken is formed The next is the Vital Function The Vital Function this is that whereby Vital Spirits are generated in the Heart for the Conservation of Life in the whole Body Life primarily consisting in the procreation of Heat and Spirits and their due Contemperations with the Blood and Members of the Body and hereby vivifying them it is most necessary a living Body should be furnished with them and seeing that they are dissipable and soon ready to be spent the Body would soon be left in a state altogether inactive and liveless were it not supplied by a continual Generation of Vital Spirits By Vital Spirits I mean nothing else but the more fine What Vital Spirits are volatile aetherial sublim'd and subtiliz'd part of the Blood by which the Fermentation and Intern Motion of the Particles in that Liquor is maintained and that in its Circular Motion preserved from Stagnation and Coagulation and when the Body remains in a state of Health a seperation is continually made of all Immiscible and Heterogeneous Bodies which are either taken in with the Aliment or else come in the Blood from the Ambient The Archeus of the Pseudochymists a meer Fiction This is that Vital Flame I before mentioned and it is nothing else that the Pseudochymists do understand by that great Term their Noble Archeus that Vox praeterea Nihil To the Conservation of this Lamp of Life or the Generation of Vital Spirits there are two Actions or Motions subservient viz. Pulsation and Respiration Pulsation how performed Pulsation is not made a Motive Faculty inherent in the Blood either in respect of its Ebullition and Rarefaction or Vection and Attraction but partly by the Influx of the Blood distending the Ventricles of the Heart and partly by that pulsific Faculty residing in that Fountain of Life this Pulsation consists of three parts the Systole the Diastole and the Perisystole or intermediate rest The Systole is the Contraction of the Heart to a narrower compass expelling the Blood contained in the right Ventricle thro the Vena Arteriosa into the Lungs and that contained in the left into the great Arterie and so into all the parts of the Body Hence we may see the reason why the Motion of the Heart is most sensibly perceived on the left side without imagining the Heart to be more situate on that side than on the other The Diastole is a Dilatation of the Heart to receive the Blood in the right Ventricle out of the Vena Cava and into the left out of the Arteria Venosa The Perisystole is a certain quiet or short rest between the Systole and Diastole but of this see more pag. 108. Respiration it s two parts Inspiration and Expiration Respiration is an Act of the Lungs and Thorax consisting of two contrary Motions alternately successive Inspiration and Expiration Inspiration is caused by the Dilatation of the Lungs and Breast that so the Ambient Air might be received Expiration is the Contraction or Compression of those Parts whereby the same Air is expelled just as the Air is received in and expelled by a pair of Bellows The use of Respiration is not as hath been vulgarly held by the Ancients to refrigerate or cool the heat of the Heart for we see Air blown out of a pair of Bellows doth not any way extinguish but promote the accension of Fire but the use of Respiration is as Dr. Charleton saith 1. The use of Respiration in Eight particulars To subtilize the Blood and by the admistion of Air make it more convenient Fuel for the Lamp of Life and matter of Vital Flame 2. Or as Dr. Henshaw ingeniously supposeth To perform the Office of a Tonic Motion which is wanting in the Lungs for saith he In all the Musculary Parts of the Body there is a Natural Contraction of the Fibres whereby the Blood proceeding from the Heart and diffusing it self thro these parts is expelled thence and caused to recede to its Fountain again now the Lungs being a lax spongy and Parenchymous part is devoid of this Motion and certainly did not Respiration supply its defect it would soon be overwhelmed with the redundancy of Blood coming upon them and so a Suffocation of the Animal would immediately ensue 3. It serves for the Creation of Voice whether Articulate or Inarticulate 4 For the distribution of Chyle both out of the Stomach and Guts thro the Venae Lactea into the grand Receptacle and out of that Receptacle into the Ductus Chyliferi 5. For the Exclusion of Excrements 6. For Smelling 7. For Coughing Sternutation Excretion and Emunction 8. To assist the Body in any strange violent Motion The Sensitive Function The next is the Sensitive Function this is that whereby a Man doth exercise his Sense Whether or no Sense be performed by the Influx of Animal Spirits I cannot here determine there being so many almost inextricable difficulties on both sides The Senses are commonly known to be five The number of the Senses The Visive Auditive Tactive Gustive and Olfactive or Seeing Hearing Touching Tasting and Smelling each of which Senses have their proper Organs In every Sensation there are these four things requisite What things are requisite in every Sensation First An Instrument well disposed Secondly A proportionate Object Thirdly An adapted Medium Fourthly A convenient distance between the Object and the Instrument The Loco-motive Function The next Function in order is the Loco-motive whereby a Man performs local and voluntary Motion the Instruments that Nature hath supplied a Humane Body with for the performance of this are Muscles Tendons Ligaments and the Junctures of the Bones The Enunciative Function The Enunciative is that Function whereby a Man expresses the Sentiments of his Mind by his Voice the Organs of this Function are the Lungs the Aspera Arteria the Mouth that the Voice might be at pleasure either intended or remitted the Tube of this Arterie is furnished with Ringy Cartilages the lower of which if when contracted the attracted Air doth meet How a strong and a weak Voice is caused there is instantly caused a strong percussion and hence a great Voice results but by the uppermost a smaller re-percussion is made And hence an acute and squeeking Voice ariseth and that the sound after it is modelled in the Larynx might be articulated Nature hath given us a Throat Tongue Lips Teeth and Nostrils The Generative Function The last of all the Functions is the Generative this was appointed for the multiplying of Mankind it is from the mutual Congress of two Sexes the prolific