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sense_n	body_n	motion_n	nerve_n	1,652	5	10.7938	5	false

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A78521	The compleat midwifes practice, in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man. Containing perfect rules for midwifes and nurses, as also for women in their conception, bearing, and nursing of children: from the experience not onely of our English, but also the most accomplisht and absolute practicers among the French, Spanish, Italian, and other nations. A work so plain, that the weakest capacity may easily attain the knowledge of the whole art. With instructions of the midwife to the Queen of France (given to her daughter a little before her death) touching the practice of the said art. / Published with the approbation and good liking of sundry the most knowing professors of midwifery now living in the city of London, and other places. Illustrated with severall cuts in brass. By T.C. I.D. M.S. T.B. practitioners.	Chamberlayne, Thomas.; Boursier, Louise Bourgeois, ca. 1563-1636.	1656 (1656)	Wing C1817C; Thomason E1588_3; ESTC R14527	137,828	305

vein and the Aorta is the whole breast generated and after that the arms and legs in order Within the foresaid time is generated the last and chiefest part of this substance that is to say the brain in the third little skin of this mass for the whole mass of the seed being repleat with vital spirits that vital spirit contracts great part of the Genital moisture into one certain hollowness where the brain is formed outwardly it is covered with a certain covering which being baked and dried by the heat is reduced into a bone and so is the Cranium made Now the brain is so formed as to conceive retain and change the natures of all the vital spirits whence are the beginnings of reason and of all the sences for as out of the liver arise the veins out of the heart arise the arteries so out of the brain arise the nerves of a more soft and gentle nature yet not hollow like veins but solid These are the chiefest instruments of all the sences and by which all the motions of the sences are made by the vital spirit After the nerves is generated by the brain also the pith of the back-bone which cannot be called marrow for the marrow is a superfluous substance begot out of the bloud destined for the moistening and for the strenghthening of the bones but the brain and pith of the back-bone take their beginning from the seed being not destined for the nourishing or strengthening of the members but to constitute certain private and particular parts of the body for the motion and use of the sences that all the other nerves may take their beginning thence for from the pith of the back-bone do arise many nerves by which the body obtaines both sence and motion Here is also to be noted that out of the seed it self are generated gristles bones tunicles for the veins of the liver the arteries of the heart the brain with its nerves besides the tunicles and pannicles and the other coverings which the infant is wrapt in Now of the proper bloud of the birth the flesh is formed and whatever parts are of a fleshie substance as the heart the liver and the lights Then are all these nourished by the menstruous bloud which is attracted through the veins of the navel This is all distinctly done from the conception unto the eighteenth day of the first moneth in all which time it is called seed After which it receives the name of Birth CHAP. IV. Of the nourishment of the birth in the womb VVHile the birth remaines in the womb it is cherished up with blood attracted through the navel which is the reason that the flowers doe cease alwayes in women as soone as they have conceived Now this blood presently after conception is distinguished into three parts the purest part of it is drawn by the child for the nourishment of its selfe the second which is less pure and thin the womb forces upwards to the breast where it is turned into Milke The third and most impure part of the blood remaines in the matrix and comes away with the secondines both in the birth and after the Birth Now the infant being thus formed and perfected in the womb for the first moneth sends forth its Urine through the passages of the navel but in the last month that passage being shut up through the privie members yet notwithstanding while the Infant is in the womb he voyds nothing out at the fundament because he hath taken no nourishment in at the mouth After the fourty fifth day it receives life and is then called an Infant Now though the infant hath by this time obtained sence yet doth he not move He most commonly moves in twice the time that he was formed and in thrice the space after he began his motion he hastens into the world as for example if the Infant were formed in forty five dayes it will move in ninetie and be born the ninth month after that and thus much of the formation and nourishment of the child in the womb CHAP. V. Of the condition of the Infant in the womb in the sixth seaventh and eighth moneth AFter the third and fourth moneth the infant is nourished with more plenty of nourishment until the time of deliverie approach Now you must observe that a childe born in the sixth month cannot live by reason that it is not come to its just perfection but if it be born in the seventh moneth it will very easily live because it is come to its full perfection Now the reason why those that are born in the eight moneth doe not live when as those which are born in the seventh doe is plaine for in the seventh moneth the Infant stirs it self to come forth so that if it have so much strength it easily performes its desire if not it remaines in the womb till it have gathered two months more strength After this motion of the seventh month if it be not able to come forth it changes it self into another part of the womb by which motion it is so weakened that if it should be born in the eight moneth it were impossible that it should live for it is weakened by a double motion not only that of the seventh moneth but also by that motion whereby it strives to go forth in the eight moneth SECT IV. CHAP. I. Of the situation of the child in the womb COncerning the scituation of the child in the womb it may be considered either generally or specially specially either as it concerns the male or the female The male is commonly scituated in the right side of the womb the female in the left The general situation of the childe either male or female in the womb is always the same Which hath been observed and seen to be in this posture when the infant lies with his back and his buttocks leaning against the back of the mother the head enclined and touching his breast with his chin resting his two hands upon his knees his navel and his nose between his two knees with his two eyes upon his two thumbs his legs folded backward and touching his buttocks with each leg This figure is the most natural as being least subject to suffer any accident being less inconvenient and less troublesome to the mother The most naturall form for the childe to come into the world is when the head comes forward the hands being stretched upon the hips The things which are the causes of a womans delivery are three first the want of respiration and air for the infant The second is the want of nourishment of which when the infant finds a defect in his mothers womb he is forced to seek it in another place The third is the narrowness of the place where the infant lies so that he is forced to seek room other-where which makes him to break the membranes wherein he was contained pressing and constraining the mother by the sharpness of those waters to do her

XII Of the kernelly Prostatae or forestanders THe glandulous prostatae or forestanders are two little testicles as it were seated at the foot of the yard a little above the sphinctere of the Urinarie vessels they are wrapt about with a membrane which doth also cloath the seminarie vessels and vesiicles before and behind they seeme more flat on the sides they are more round they have a substance like other kernels loose and spungie only they differ from them by reason of their whiteness and hardness they are endued which an exquisite feeling to stir up a greater desire of copulation These Glandulae or kernels have certaine pores that open themselves into the Ureter through which the seed these forestanders being squeezed by the lower Muscles of the yard distils into the yard The use of these kernels is partly to beget an oylie fat and slipperie substance with which the urinarie passage is sometimes anointed to defend it from the acrimony both of the Seed and Urin and to keep it always moist The other use is taken from the name of Prostatae which word in the singular number signifies a tutor or defender for they are there placed to preserve and strengthen the ends of the different vessels lest by over much distention of the yard the teminary vessel should be either burst or moved out of their places They have a third use for being placed between the bladder and the right gut they serve instead of cushions for the vessel to rest upon and to guard them from all compression Hence it hapned sometimes that those who are very much bound in their bodies while they strain themselves over-vehemently do now and then void a kind of seed which happens by a violent compression of those parts CHAP. XIII Of the structure of the Yard THe structure of the Yard is not unknown that is to say at the root of the share bone in the hinder part of the Hypogastrion or lower part of the belly where the hair grows which bone is called Os pubis Though the greatest part of it is not pendent without but adjoyning to the podex is scituated near the joyning of the share bone being fast knit to it in the perinaeum or space between the cods and the fundament the other part is pendent and is seen hanging outward This scituation is most appropriated to the manner of the act of generation usual and peculiar to men who do not couple after the manner of beasts The figure of it is in a manner round though not exactly broader in the upper part which is called the back of the Yard The Thickness and Longitude of the Yard is so much as is required for procreation The quantity of it yet it is not so long as in many other creatures Yea and in several men there is a very great diversity little men being for the most part best provided in that part It is also thought that there is a national difference as to the bigness of this member it being a general received opinion that the often use of Venery doth increase the quantity of it in all dimensions The Yard will also be longer if the Navel strings are not bound up or knit too close by the midriffe in children that are newly born but at some distance from the navel This happens by reason of the ligament coming fron the navel to the bottom of the bladder which if it be too much abbreviated draws up the bladders and consequently shortens the yard but if the navel string be left at a longer distance the Urac hos is inlarged and consequently the yard hath more liberty to extend it self and therefore the midwifes are from hence advertised that they do not spoil the harvest of Generation by cutting the sithe too short The substance of the Yard As to the substance of the yard it is not of a bony substance as in dogs wolphs or foxes for so it would become always hard and erected and hinder men from all business but the act of venerie Neither is it grisly for so it could neither erect it self nor flag when occasion required neither is it full of veines for so it could not be emptied and repleted on such a suddain as often happens besides that tunicle of the veins are so thin that they could not suffer so great a dissention neither can it be full of Arteries because it wants a continual pulsation neither can it consist of nerves because they having no hollowness cannot be extended and loosened as it must of necessity happen to the yard It is therefore necessary that the yard should have such a substance as is not peculiar to any other part of the body It is therefore to be understood that there do concur to the framing of the yard two nervous bodies the passage for the Urine which is called Urestua the glary or nut of the yard four muscles the vessels and the skin Here doth arise a question why the yard hath not any far which is in brief this because that there should be no hinderance to the perfect sence of the yard which could of necessity not be avoided if that member were subject to any obesity the fat being subject to be melted by frication CHAP. XIV Of the several parts constituting the Yard AMong the parts that compose the structure of the yard is that skin which with its cuticle and fleshy pannicle is common not only to this but to other members only it hath this peculiar to it self that it may be reflexed and drawn back from the nut of the yard This skin that turns back is called the preputium because that part in circumcision was cut away with which prepuce the nut of the yard is covered The Glans or nut of the yard is a fleshy part soft thin repleat with bloud and spirits The nut of the yard endued with an exquisite sence something sharp and acute at the end This is fastened to the prepuce at the lower part by a certain ligament which is therefore called the bridle or the filet which commonly is broken in the first venereal assaults which are for the most part the most furious The greatest part of the yard is constituted by two nervous bodies on both sides one The two nervous bodies which terminate both together in the nut They rise from a twofold original leaning or resting upon the hip under the share bone whence as from a sure foundation they go on till they arrive at the nut of the yard They consist of a double substance the first is nervous Their substance hard and thick the inner part black loose soft thin and spungy It is called the Nervous pipe These two bodies are joyned together by a certain membrane thin yet nervous which is strengthened by certain overthwart fibers being there placed in the likeness of a weavers shuttle and though in their original they are seperated the one from the other that there might remain