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A34010	A systeme of anatomy, treating of the body of man, beasts, birds, fish, insects, and plants illustrated with many schemes, consisting of variety of elegant figures, drawn from the life, and engraven in seventy four folio copper-plates. And after every part of man's body hath been anatomically described, its diseases, cases, and cures are concisely exhibited. The first volume containing the parts of the lowest apartiments of the body of man and other animals, etc. / by Samuel Collins ...	Collins, Samuel, 1619-1670.	1685 (1685)	Wing C5387; ESTC R32546	1,820,939	1,622

Nature to enact Laws and Constitutions Rules and Measures to govern all Persons and Families lineally descending from him but when this Parent this great Sufferaign was laid aside by that common Fate of Death that universal Power was abrogated in him And every Master of a Family grew co-ordinate in Power having no coercive Authority over each other but on the one side might violate common Justice at their pleasure and be disturbers of the quietude and surprisers of the Liberty and invaders of each others Propriety and might on the other hand which holdeth greater Analogy to right Reason and primitive Law of Nature as Persons oblige each other to Virtue and Honour to each other in Brotherly kindness and in the performance of mutual Offices of Friendship and Justice as the great instruments of Happiness Whereupon every Master of a Family having an equal Power in Nature and could not exercise a jurisdiction over each other were forced in order to satisfy their own Appetites in accomplishing the great design of Nature founded in a happy Life to enter into mutual Contracts The mutual Interests of Families Sacred by Contracts as so many Laws which they most solemnly obliged each other to keep inviolable to secure their just Liberty and Property The various passions as different Emanations of the Irascible and Concupiscible Appetite expressed in the fear of evil as destructive and the choice of Good as perfective of our Nature were the first and grand sollicitors of Families and Societies in Politie to bind up each others persons in mutual Covenants for the preservation of the publick Peace and private interest of Mens Fortunes and Liberties and upon this account are Sanctions ordained for regulating the extravagancies of Men and Societies who being their own Carvers upon the stock of Self-love would unequally preserve themselves and unreasonably destroy others unless they were bounded with Laws equally instituted for their mutual happiness Covenants may be altered by mutual consent of persons And because many necessities do frequently intervene our first Contracts which cannot be made so absolute upon one foresight as to prevent all errors and inconveniences that may ensue it is very reasonable to alter our Covenants which though after Sanctions yet are to be observed with the same Faith which engaged us in our first Contracts And though all parts of the natural Law have the same obligation Some obligations have a precedence before others and we must pay an Obedience chiefly to the Supream Power yet some have a precedence in order before others and do challenge a greater necessity as being of more importance and use and such do speak our Obedience and Submission to Governors upon whom dependeth the Life of the Law in order to its execution and here we must pay Obedience to the King as the Protector of the Law and the Father of the Countrey and the Supream Governor and Law-giver in whom the Legislative Power principally resideth and to all Magistrates for his sake as acting by his Power and Authority And although sometimes the appetite of some inferior Good All things subservient to the first Being are within the verge of the Law of Nature be far distant from the appetite of our first Being yet as it relateth to necessities subservient to the preservation and happiness of it it is still within the verge of the Law of Nature which descendeth to the utmost circumstances and most minute cases of our happy Life And to offer no violation to the Life Fortunes Relatives of our neighbour are great instances of that Justice by which we accomplish the great design of Nature of being Happy The primitive Laws of Nature were handed from Persons to Families and from them to Societies speaking our Duty to our Maker our Selves and Neighbour The primitive Laws of Nature were very few and afterward were handed down from Age to Age from Persons to Families from Families to Societies from Societies to Kingdoms and were in truth and in the main but two First our Duty to our Maker and our Second to our Selves and to our Neighbor which is performed by that great Bond and endearment of Love which rendreth those high obligations due to God and Man more pleasant and easy when acted with qualifications of being amiable as the one is essentially the other derivatively good And by the design of our first production Our Duty to God and Man is managed by Love as a great instrument as we are the Emanations of that essential Being we are obliged by the Law of Nature to pay him all Homage and Obedience and all Justice and Charity to our Neighbour as he participateth of the Image of God in his Being and here our Duty to God and Justice to our Neighbour managed by Analogy of Equality as relating to our Selves is accomplished by the bond of Love which doth not here speak a Passion but a Duty which floweth from a rule of Nature and regulateth our neighborhood by proportions of Justice and Equality The Law of Nature is performed by the Law of Equality and all other our equitable Treatings of him in reference to promote our well-being which is most excellently set forth in that Golden Rule of Retaliation expressed by our Blessed Saviour in the Gospel Whatsoever ye would that Men should do to you do you to them And these without doubt are the greatest Endearments of a most signal Love because it advanceth that most desirable end which was designed by God for the accomplishment of our Nature and all other instruments ordained for the attainment of this end are so many instances to prosecute that general love of Nature attended with a third Law that of Self-love which is only tacitely implyed in the Moral Law Man is naturally instructed with instruments tending to Self-preservation The moderate enjoyment of our sensual Appetite is called Sobriety and no where clearly set forth because every Man is supposed to be so much akin to himself that he is sufficiently instructed by Nature with such instruments of Sense and Reason as are subservient to Self-preservation and will so regularly Treat his Body in gratifying his Appetite in order to the enjoyment of sensual Objects that he will not pervert the choice Aeconomy of Nature which Christian Philosophy calleth Sobriety and is a moderate fruition of our sensual Appetite as far as it is perfective of our Nature and serveth the ends of our Creation by not indulging our selves in the over-free Cups of Wine and strong Liquors or the more brutish and luxuriant use of grosser Meats which dwindle our briske vivide parts in a dull sottish stupidity or when we debauch our selves in the deordinate use of Venery and unkindly Lusts and in frequent frolicks our very Appetites grow faint in the enjoyment of Objects which we have passionately desired at last most unnaturally propagating not our Selves but Diseases which proveth disadvantageous to the great interest and Designe of Nature which is Self-preservation so that

Licensed September the 25th 1685. ROBERT MIDGLEY Librum hunc duobus Voluminibus conscriptum cui Titulus SYSTEMA ANATOMICUM Dignum Judicamus ut Praelo Mandetur THO. WITHERLEY Praeses SA COLLINS Sen. Registarius Censores THOMAS BVRWELL PETRVS BARWICK THOMAS MILLINGTON HVMPHREY BROOKE SYSTEMA ANATOMICUM W Faithorne ad Vi●●m delin● et Sculp Samuelis Collins Med. D. ris Effigies Aetat Suae 67. A SYSTEME OF ANATOMY TREATING Of the Body of MAN Beasts Birds Fish Insects and Plants Illustrated with many SCHEMES Consisting of Variety of Elegant FIGURES drawn from the Life and Engraven in Seventy four Folio Copper-Plates AND After every Part of MAN's BODY hath been ANATOMICALLY Described its Diseases Cases and Cures are Concisely Exhibited The First Volume containing the Parts of the Lowest Apartiment of the Body of MAN and other Animals c. BY SAMUEL COLLINS Doctor in Physick Physician in Ordinary to His late Majesty of Blessed Memory and Fellow of the Kings most Famous College of Physicians in London and formerly a Fellow of the Royal Foundation of Trinity College in the most Flourishing University of Cambridge In the Savoy Printed by THOMAS NEWCOMB MDCLXXXV TO THE SACRED MAJESTY Of the Most SERENE Most MIGHTY and Most AUGUST JAMES the Second By the Grace of GOD Of ENGLAND SCOTLAND FRANCE and IRELAND KING Defender of the FAITH The Authour in Commemoration of many high Obligations as a Token of his Duty and Gratitude doth most humbly offer and Dedicate this his Sisteme of ANATOMY Dread SIR My Soveraign Lord KINGS and Princes being called Gods as having Divine Characters of Wisdom Power and Goodness are graciously pleased to give a kind reception to a Free-will-offering though never so small I humbly Devote my self to your Majesty and shall account it a high Honor if You shall condiscend to give me Your Patronage which rendreth that acceptable by Your Value which can pretend to no Merit in it self I most humbly cast my Book at Your Feet relating to the parts of the whole Body to receive the Favour of your Royal Protection to whom I give my Heart the Fountain of Life and the Faculties of my Soul and Members of my Body as so many Oblations Dedicated to your Service Your Majesty being a most Illustrious Personage of most Eminent Gallantry Courage and most Prudent Conduct in Military Affairs both by Sea and Land of which You have given many signal Testimonies hath Preserved and Endeared your Kingdoms and made your Self Great and Glorious in the Esteems of the World And I humbly take the boldness in speaking what I am assured is Truth without any Flattery in which I do YOU and my self Justice That your most Gracious Temper and most Noble disposition of Mind do entertain all Persons that have the Honor to be known to your Majesty with all Favour and Kindness and highly reward all those who have the Happiness to serve You with an open Hand And out of an Heroick principle of Love and Gratitude have made a good provision for the Loyal Party that have suffered for and faithfully served your Royal Father of ever Blessed Memory now in Glory And your Majesty is not only a Patron of Charity and Remunerative but of Commutative Justice too in making good all Contracts and in the observance of that Golden Rule Do as You would be done by do speak Your returns where You have received any Obligation And your Majesty is not only a Master of Justice but of Friendship too and where You profess a Kindness and espouse a Person in love your Majesty is most Constant in your Affection And nothing that is not highly Base and Dishonorable can alienate Your Esteems from your Favourite which is a most Noble Quality highly becoming a Prince made Renowned by Fidelity and Veracity who are most just to your Word whereupon Your Promises are reputed Sacred of which I have had great Experience and received high Obligations wherein your Majesty hath made me perfectly your Votary Your Princely Vertues are made more Illustrious as vailed with Humility of which your Majesty is a great Example for us Your Subjects to revere and imitate Among other your Majesties most Glorious Perfections Your Quick Apprehension and Profound Judgment are none of the least whereby You have made a great Inspection into the Secrets of Government and Nature of Things After your Majesty hath been pressed with the weight of deep Thoughts and fatigue taken in the Careful and Prudent administration of Justice at Home and in the understanding the various Intrigues of State Affairs abroad and in giving Satisfaction to Foreign Ministers espousing the Interests of several Kingdoms and Republicks I humbly beseech your Majesty to divert your Self per passe le temps with a History of Animals contained in a Systeme of Anatomy wherein You may treat Your Eye with a pleasant Prospect of the divers Apartiments of a Humane Body beautified with choice Hangings encircling the Bowels as so much rich Furniture which are illustrated by the Dissection of other Animals which I performed with Care and Diligence speaking the wondrous Works of our most Glorious Maker rendring the Parts of Man's Body more clear and intelligible In the ensuing Discourses I most humbly present your Majesty with many Essays of Experimental Philosophy relating to the Curious Frame of the Body of Man and other Animals which are as full of Wonder as Excellency in reference to their Variety of Parts disposed in elegant Order Ministerial to each other and all subordinate to one Head whose Commands they most readily obey So that the Oeconomy of Nature hath much Affinity with the Monarchial Government of the Body Politick as it is Composed of divers Ranks of Subjects as so many Members Constituted in great Order wherein the Inferior are subordinate to the Superior and all Subject to the KING as their Head and Supreme to whose Authority all the Members ought most humbly to submit themselves in Active and Passive Obedience without any Dispute or Resistance Great SIR Let all Your Subjects be ever Loyal and Pay Your Majesty their most humble Duty and Thanks for Your most Gracious Declaration and Obey You as Gods Vicegerent in unanimously resolving to Sacrifice their Lives and Fortunes in the Defence of Your Royal Person Authority and Government in Church and State as by Law Established O KING Live for ever and let Your Glorious Name shine in the Histories of all Ages and be Written in the Book of Life Let Your Crown Flourish and let Your Enemies be scattered and let Your Royal Successors Lineally Descended from Your MAJESTY sit upon the Throne as long as the SUN and MOON endureth which is the constant and earnest Prayer of Great SIR YOVR MOST DVTIFVL AND OBLIGED SVBJECT SAMUEL COLLINS THE PREFACE MAN being the Masterpiece of the Creation the Lord of the Creatures Man is compounded of different principles and the Epitome of the lower World may be styled A Miracle of Nature as being 〈◊〉

The King is the head of the Parliament is excellent and satisfactory because all Interests of the Kingdom having in some sort a share in Government as they are concerned in the Legislative Power can give such an account of and make an inspection into the general Grievances of the Nation and rectifie them by sober Debates and deliberate Councils in reference to wholsome Laws which being stated are made first Bills by the approbation of both Houses and are afterward recommended to His Sacred Majesty for his Royal Assent as the Essence of the Law The Essence of the Law is founded in the Royal Signature of the King The Bills of the Lords and Commons being only preparatory as giving the rough draughts of Laws which are afterward finished as receiving their form birth and life from His Majesty's Royal Signature Wherefore it is most just and equitable for Subjects to pay their most humble Duty and Reverence to the King in their humble Addresses to His Majesty and comply with his Sacred Commands in active and passive Obedience Resistance of the King is unlawful by reason it is not lawful upon any occasion whatsoever for the Subject to take the Sword into his own hand and dispute the Commands of his Soveraign because in so doing he maketh himself Absolute and Supreme and as much as in him lieth dissolveth the Government setled by Law and is guilty of Rebellion Murder Injustice and Anarchy which horrid Crimes would be much aggravated with ingratitude if acted in the Reign of our most Gracious Sovereign a King of great Clemency Love and Mercy and other Christian Graces who out of His Royal Inclinations to do acts of Grace Justice and Honor is always willing to gratifie His Subjects with any thing that may tend to their good and happiness And again It becomes all His Subjects to speak their return of gratitude and obedience to His Sacred Commands by endeavouring by all means possible to approve themselves true Sons of the Church of England in being Pious to God Loyal to the King and Just and Charitable to one another and to their utmost to maintain the truly Antient Reformed Religion of the Church of England The Church of England is excellent for Doctrine and Discipline as the most Excellent for Purity of Doctrine according to Holy Writ and Uniformity of Discipline as now established by Law according to the practice of the Primitive Church immediately succeeding the holy Apostles under which the Nation of England hath been rendred most happy even to the admiration if not the envy of other reformed Churches in the Reign of Edward the Sixth Queen Elizabeth King James King Charles the First of Blessed Memory And I hope will continue as long as the Sun and Moon endures under the most Gracious Protection of our now Soveraign Lord the King and His Royal Successors Natural and Christian Philosophy Natural and Christian Philosophy are nearly related to each other although they seem at first sight to be great opposites by reason of their different principles and dispositions as the one is natural and the other supernatural yet upon more deliberate thoughts they are very much akin as near relatives to each other in reference one belongeth to the structure and the other to the superstructure of the same subject whose essence they do not innovate but only refine its qualifications and both terminate into the same end the preservation and accomplishment of Man's life and health Theology and Ethicks The Principles of Theology and Ethicks are more sublime then that of Physick as treating of Piety and Morality have elevated supernatural principles and refined precepts to enoble the Soul in the speculative part of Knowledge and Practice in relation chiefly to spiritual actions as they tend to Eternal felicity which is seated in a higher sphaere then Physick which is of a lower Orb as propounding the knowledge of natural principles of the faculties and operations of the Soul as confined to the Body only ministerial to it and as Physick giveth methods consisting in the salutary Aphorisms tending to the easie and safe administration of proper Medicines directed to the conservation of Life and Health the perfection and enjoyment of it as they are subservient to a present happiness Health and Happiness are the end of Christian and Natural Philosophy which only is ambulatory to that of future Glory Although Natural and Christian Philosophy of which Physick is a Branch seem to be at as great a distance as Earth and Heaven Nature and Grace Grace and Glory yet they may be well reconciled and comply with each other as the Body is the Organ of the Soul as Nature is the Subject of Grace and Grace the Perfection of Nature and Glory the Consummation of both And Piety Morality Life and Health ought to be Friends and not Strangers to each other by reason they are nearly allied and have joynt subsistence and interest as they preserve and perfect each other as Art accomplisheth Nature and Piety refineth Morality and both do minister to Life and Health as their choice and necessary Preservatives Whereupon I hope this will make my Apology which beggeth the favor of the Courteous Reader to entertain with Candour my following Discourses of Piety and Morality as conducive to my Faculty of which I treat not as a Divine but as a Philosopher not only as a Physician but as a Christian too who have thereupon a peculiar obligation lying upon me to advance Life Health and Happiness by all fit Instruments of every Rank and Degree whatsoever The procurement and preservation of Health is my proper work and to promote it by all due ways and methods The preservation of Health is the duty of a Physician is my great Interest and Duty and in order to it to advise Piety towards God Justice to our Neighbour and Sobriety to our own Persons as the best Diateticks and great preservatives of Health and Life The Body and the Soul being two substances of which we are essentially constituted are nearly akin to each other Body and Soul are the essential parts of Man the one being the Cabinet and the other the Jewel the one the Matter the other the Form the one the Organ the other a divine Particle acting it the one being ministerial to the others more excellent Essence and Operations So that these intimate Friends and Companions do highly sympathize in each others happiness They are both subjects of Health and Life Body and Soul are the subject of Life and Health in a different capacity the one natural and the other spiritual the last is perfective of the former these two dear Associates are highly compleasant in congratulating and condoling each others health and sickness The Soul being acted with spiritual graces and divine perfections doth highly improve the Body in giving it salutary rules of Justice and Temperance which confine the irregular and sensual Appetities within their due limits in order to the fruition of

obtaineth the same nature and definition with the whole their Health consisteth in a due temperament flowing from the happy union of disagreeing Particles of sulphureous and saline of volatil and fixed of solid and liquid of spirituous and gross Particles reduced by Fermentation in the mutual action and passion of contraries to a due mediocrity Health made up of many requisites The First is a due number of parts The Second a due Magnitude The Third is a decent conformation of the Integrals and to an amicable disposition productive of the operations belonging to similar parts The health of Organick parts made up of many similars is supported by more requisites which give them their natural Constitution the first is the definite number of their Parts that integrate the Organ The Second is their due Magnitude confined within the proper limits of Nature The Third is the decent conformation of the Integrals compounding the Organ implying First a convenient Figure Secondly proper Cavities or Pores Thirdly a fit Surface The Fourth qualification of Organick parts The Fourth is a connexion of one part with another as they are quantitative is to have one part seated without another and so they must necessarily have a place and coherence with other parts whereupon they include Situation and Connexion The health of the Body is founded in the natural exercise of its Operations flowing from several Faculties Health is founded in a due exercise of the operations of the Faculties which are the powers of the Soul as so many rays acting with diverse influxes difinitively existent as they are in such and such parts endued with various structures and qualified with peculiar dispositions fitted to entertain the faculties of the Soul in order to celebrate their different operations Hence the Eye hath its Faculty of seeing and its proper Organ affected with many transparent Coats and Humors through which the various Images representations of visible objects as are transmitted and make appulses first upon the Retina and are afterward imparted to the optick Nerve As the Body hath its health attended with natural operations so the Soul too may be said to obtain its Health from the due disposition of its rational and sensitive Faculties The First and more noble celebrating their operations in the upper Apartiment in the Brain are acted with Animal Spirits seated in the nervous Liquor The rational Faculties are Two The rational Faculties Truth the object of the Understanding The nature of Truth the Understanding and Will the first in Order as well as Nature as guiding the Will is enobled by the excellent Object of Truth whose Nature is founded in a conformity with that of the Divine understanding whether Truth be considered in a simple Notion whereupon Entities are said to be true when their Essences perfectly agree with the Ideas in God's understanding and so is the verity of Enunciation when it holdeth Analogy with the Heavenly Mind and Good an Object perfective of the Will receiveth its Being as it keepeth a Conformity with the Divine Will And the rational Faculty may be entituled to Health as it is rectified by good natural Principles and enobled by supernatural Truths whereupon it being illuminated giveth wholsome Dictates to the Will The Will is guided by the Dictates of the Understanding whereby its indifferency is determined by the election of Good and refusal of Evil and the Will being acted with the good and salutary advice of the understanding giveth its Commands to the Irascible and Concupiscible Faculties and thereby regulates the Deordination of their acts Thus I have Treated of the several Apartiments of Man's Body The Analogy between the Body Natural and the Body politick and their fine Walls and rich Furniture which are disposed in an excellent order by reason the inferior parts are subordinate to the superior and as being serviceable to each other which speaketh the admirable Artifice of the All-wise and Omnipotent Agent The Oeconomy of the Body politick doth much resemble that of the Body natural in which all the Members are subordinate to one Head which is much akin to the best constitution of Monarchical Government having most of Unity as all the lines meet in one Center whereupon it is most excellent as it is farther removed from Anarchy All Governments consist in the due administration of Justice The nature of Governments and the subordination and obedience of inferior persons to superior The Supreme power is accountable to no body but God himself till we come to a supream Authority accountable to no body but God himself are of Divine Institution derived from God himself the fountain of all Power and Authority Commanding Reverence and Obedience to the Sanctions and Persons of Governors who are more or less eminently Gods Vicegerents as they are invested with greater or less Power Whereupon Governors being in some sort Particles of the Divine Nature Covernors do in some sort participate of a Divine Nature are styled Gods in Holy Writ in reference to the Royal Functions of Remunerative and Vindicative Justice And it were to be heartily wished and prayed for That all Governors and especially the Supreme in all Nations may truly so participate of the Divine Nature That they be like God in those most excellent Characters of Sanctity and Power to influence as well the Souls with virtuous and Pious inclinations as to command the Bodies of others by coercive Laws The Supreme Power hath diverse qualifications The kinds of Government and is founded in one in Monarchy in the best in Aristocracy and in the People in Democracy which is the worst of Governments as it is most near to Anarchy and Confusion And therefore Monarchy is judged the best Monarchy is the best of Governments as it resembles Gods Government who is the most truly supreme in Goodness Justice and Wisdom as it hath most of Unity because all Subjects do unite in one King as all Members in one head And Aristocrary is of a middle nature Aristocracy is worse then Monarchy and better then Democracy more degenerate then Monarchy in that it consisteth of many Governors and more exalted then Democracy because it is framed of the best And these being premised I beg the favour to speak my own Sense which as I humbly conceive is that of our Nation Parliamentary Government compriseth all sorts of Governments That Parliamentary Government is an excellent Constitution by reason in it all these are comprised in the King as Supreme and in the Two Houses of Parliament as His Majesty's Great Council First the Government is Constituted in the King as Supreme and so it is Monarchichal Secondly in the Lords as His greatest Ministers and so in some degree the Government may be styled Aristocratical Thirdly it is in the House of Commons as the Representatives of the People and so the Parliamentary Government after a manner may be called Democratical Whereupon this kind of Government being united in the King as the Head and Fountain of it