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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66881	Speculum matricis hybernicum, or, The Irish midwives handmaid catechistically composed by James Wolveridge, M.D. ; with a copious alphabetical index.	Wolveridge, James, d. 1671.	1670 (1670)	Wing W3319; ESTC R15116	60,220	225

senses by reason of the vital spirit are justly made After the nerves The original of the pith of the back-bone called the Silver cord Eccles cap. 12. ver 6. from the brain also is formed the pith of the back-bone not of an unlike nature from the brain so that it scarce can be called marrow because it hath no likeness to marrow either by sight or in substance for the marrow is a kind of superfluous aliment arising from the blood of the members The marrow what and how generated The Spinalis medulla what appointed to moisten and make the bones of the body grow but the brain and pith of the back have their original from the seed not deputed for the nourishment and growth of the other members but that by themselves they might make private parts of the body The brain and Spinalis medulla ordained for the use and motion of the senses for the use and motion of the senses that from thence all the other nerves may take their rise For from the pith of the back many nerves arise from which the body hath sense and motion as may appear by the difference betwixt the vital and animal faculties as hath been before hinted Cartilages bones c. generated from the seed Moreover here it is to be observed that from the seed it self cartilages bones coats of the veins of the liver and of the arteries of the heart the brain with the nerves and again the tunicles and as well other pannicles or membranes as those that wrap up the infant are generated but from the proper blood of the infant is the flesh it self ingendred and all those parts that are of a fleshy substance as the heart the liver and lungs And then at length all these grow together by the menstruous blood attracted by the small veins of the navil which are observed to be directed with their orifices into the womb All parts distinct by 18 daies All which are distinctly made by the eighteenth day of the first moneth from the very conception at which time it may be called seed but afterwards it becometh to be and is called a child When called a child which the Ancients have comprehended in these two verses Sex in lacte dies ter sunt in sanguine trini Bisseni carnem ter seni membra figurant The lesser figure denotes the Nerves derived frō the Back and dispersed through the whole The explanation of the larger figure see in the following page Cross sculpsit ' Englished thus Six daies in milk thrice three the seed's in blood Twice six makes flesh thrice six makes members good FF Sheweth a young one of 18 daies though some hold it but 14 daies in which all the members may be discerned apart GG The four Umbilical Vessels meeting in one HH How the Umbilical Vessels become thick by degrees that that doubt amongst some may be resolved whether they spring from the womb or no. III Sheweth how the Umbilical veins and arteries are spread throughout the Chorion by infinite branches KKK Sheweth the membrane called Amnios in which sweat and urine are gathered together in which the infant swimmeth and sits as safe as in a Bath SECT II. Of the Nutriment of the child in the womb and by what nourishment it is preserved and when it groweth up to be an Infant Infant how nourished WHilest the young one is in the womb it is nourished by blood attracted by the navil by which it is that women after they have conceived have their terms stop'd Why courses stop'd after conception for then the infant begins to crave and attracts much blood For the blood presently after conception is discerned by a three-fold difference A threefold dist nction of blood after conception The first and purest part of it the young one attracts for nourishment The second less pure and thin the matrix forceth upwards by certain veins to the breasts Venae mammariae The generation of milk where it becomes milk by which the infant is nourished so soon as it is born The third and more impure part of the blood remains in the matrix and floweth out with the secundine both in the birth and after the birth Hence it is that Hippocrates saith Hippocratis Aphor. lib. 5.39 52. there is much affinity betwixt the flowers and the milk since the one happeneth to be made out of the other And Galen also by reason of this thing The infant hath more from the mother than the father elegantly adviseth that the infant hath more from the mother than from the father for this reason because the seeds are first increased by the menstruous blood and then by these the infant is presently nourished in the womb and again being newly born it is nourished with milk And as roots have more nourishment from the earth than the plant that bare them that is from whence they came so also infants receive more from the mother than from the father And hence he saith that it comes to pass that so much more is attributed to the mother by how much more she contributeth more towards generation A rule to know it If the infant be formed in 45 daies it will stir in 90 daies which is the middle time that it lies hid in the womb for in the ninth moneth it will come forth and make haste to the birth although females are oftentimes born in the tenth moneth And so much for the formation increase and perfection of the infant according to the account of daies and times SECT III. How the infant doth in the womb the fifth the sixth the seventh and eighth moneth and also of the difference of sexes and forms AFter the third and fourth moneth the infant useth a more plentiful nourishment by which it groweth more and more untill the time of birth shall come Therefore it is to be understood that when it is born in the sixth moneth it cannot in nature live because though it be formed distinctly yet it is not of its just perfection But if it be born in the seventh moneth Why an infant born in the seventh moneth may live it may easily live because then it is sufficiently perfect And whereas those that are born in the eighth moneth can rarely live whereas such as are born in the seventh moneth are often times living it is not without reason for on the seventh moneth the infant is ever moving towards the birth at which time if it be strong enough it comes to the birth but if not it remaineth in the womb till it groweth stronger viz. the other two moneths After the motion at seven moneths end if it be not born it removes it self into some other place of the womb and is so weakned by that motion that should it come to the birth in the following eighth moneth Two mortal signs by the infants moving it cannot live by reason of that motion and neither is the

instruct the Learned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Noctuas Athenas lest I seem to bring Owls to Athens but to inform the less knowing And ending this Preface we will begin with Generation it self and the rest in Order SECT I. Of the True generation of the Parts and Increase of the Infant in the Womb according to the daies and times till the time of the Birth The property of the womb WHen the womb whose property it is naturally to receive seed unto generation as a Loadstone attracts iron or as Jeat straws or feathers hath received the seed for generation and by its virtue hath shut up the seed for generation Presently from the first day untill the sixth or seventh there grow and arise very many and very small fibres or hairs beginning with a hot motion See the figure marked by which vital heat the liver with his chiefest organs are generated by a natural virtue as this following Scheme may the more illustrate marked as in the margin The small first fibres For the vital spirits giving down seed towards conception forms and distinguisheth the chiefest members by the tenth day being let in by certain veins of the secundine The navil ' how generated to which the matrix is fixed and by which the blood is imported and of which the navil is generated But at the very same time three smal spots not unlike to curds of milk arise where the liver the heart Nourishment of the Infant by the navil Vena bifurca and the brain have their places and then presently a vein directed by the navil attracts the thicker blood confused with the seed and makes it fit for nourishment from whence also there ariseth a vein with two forks which is generated according to the form of this figure In the one of which branches there is a collection of blood of which first the liver is generated by a natural faculty The genetion of the Liver From whence it easily appears the liver to be a congealed and concrete blood and also it may be manifest how many and various veins it hath prepared and fitted for the expulsive and attractive virtue But in the other branch are generated those textures or rather web of veins with the dilatation of other veins as of the stomack spleen and intestines in the lower part of the belly And from hence immediately all veins are recollected together as so many branches into one trunk in the upper texture of the liver towards the hollow vein Venae Cavae truncus ascendens descendens Diaphragma truncus descendens and this trunk by and by sends down branches to make the midriff and directs not a few branches to the lower parts even to the very thighs and then the heart with his veins extended into seed from the navil is generated by a vital virtue Spina dorsi and is directed towards the spine of the back as is demonstrated in this figure 3. But those do attract the hottest and more subtile blood The generation of the heart Pericardium vel Capsula Cordis of which the heart is generated incased in a membrane naturally fleshy and thick necessary upon the account of so hot a member But the hollow vein extending it self and penetrating the inward concavity of the right side in the heart c. derives thence blood for the nourishment of the heart From the same branch also of this his vein and in the same part another vein ariseth called by some Truncus Phrenicus vel Diaphragmatis by some the immoveable or quiet vein because according to the account of the pulsation of other veins it beats not at all but lyes quiet ordained for this end Vena Coronaria that it should let go the purest blood to the lungs being vested with a double tunicle like an Arterie from whence it is called the Arterial vein Vena arteriosa er Pulmonaria But in the left concavity of the heart there are two Arteries that is to say the Venal Arterie and the Great Arterie which carries a great pulse with it and diffuseth the vital spirits by the blood of the heart into all the pulsatile veins of the body For as the hollow vein is the original of all veins by which the body doth attract its whole nourishment of blood so Aorta Venae p●…satiles Aorta from the Aorta or great Arterie all pulsatile veins are derived diffusing the vital spirits through the whole body For the heart is the fountain and original of vital heat without which no creature or member can thrive Arteria Venosa Under the abovesaid Arterie in the left concavity of the heart another vein ariseth called the Venal Arterie And although that be really a pulsatile vein and doth direct the vital spirits yet according to the manner of all pulsatile veins that have blood It hath but one coat and therefore made for that end that it should derive the cold air from the lungs to refresh the heart as also to attemper its over-much heat The generation of the lungs And because veins issue out from both the concavities of the heart and are inserted into the lungs and of which the lungs are formed for the vein that proceeds from the right concavity of the heart produceth the most subtile blood which by small fibres dispersed here and there is changed into the fleshy substance of the lungs But from the great vein of the heart viz. the Aorta and from the great vein of the liver viz. the Vena Cava Vena Cava the great vein of the liver whence the brest arms and thighs proceed or hollow vein the whole brest is generated and so successively the Arms and Thighs Within the time aforesaid also is generated the highest and chiefest part of this noble structure The generation of the brain the Brain in the third Region of this mass for the whole mass of seed being filled with the animal spirits that contracts a great part of the genital moysture and concludes it in a certain concavity wherein the brain may be formed but as to the out-side The Cranium or the Dura mater The Scull it is inveloped with a certain covering which being toasted and dried with heat is brought into a boney substance and becomes a scull as appears by this precedent figure But the brain is so formed that it may conceive retain and change the natures of all the vital spirits from whence also proceed the beginnings of all Reason and of the Senses For as veins have their original from the liver The original of the nerves and as arteries have their rise from the heart so also nerves being of a softer and milder natural existence arise from the brain and are not hollow as the veins are but solid for they are the first and chiefest instruments of all the senses by which the motions of all the senses by which the motions of all the