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A29782	Nature's cabinet unlock'd wherein is discovered the natural causes of metals, stones, precious earths, juyces, humors, and spirits, the nature of plants in general, their affections, parts, and kinds in particular : together with a description of the individual parts and species of all animate bodies ... : with a compendious anatomy of the body of man, as also the manner of his formation in the womb / by Tho. Browne ...	Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682.	1657 (1657)	Wing B5065; ESTC R16043	87,410	340

in air by inspiration and they continue out of the water upon the earth or at least receive their nutriment most part from thence 11. And they are either such as go or creep or fly Arist. 1 de Hist. An. c. 1. 12. They that go or creep are such as move on the face of the earth 13. And they are either four-footed beasts or creeping vermine 14. Fourfooted beasts are those that go upon four feet or at least consist of four such parts as man hath two arms for two former feet 15. There is a diverse constitution of these as also of the temperament of man for in Dogs choler doth abound in Hogs phlegme and in others other humours whence their temperament doth chiefly depend 16. Fourfooted beasts are distinguished by the manner of their generation in oviparas and viviparas 17. Those are oviparae which bring forth eggs or breed after that manner out of which afterwards the animal is produced as Frogs Crocodiles Lizards Salamanders Chameleons and Serpents all which are endowed with four feet 18. Although these in many faculties of the soul and parts of the body have no little similitude to man yet they differ much nay more then such as are born alive called viviparae for neither do we see the same ingenuity in them which is in these nor altogether the same parts and strength of body 19. Viviparae are such as bring forth perfect animals 20. And those have a large lung dense and carnous filled with blood and therefore they breath 21. The yong also D is nourished and brought almost after the same manner in the bellies of their damms as the childe in the womb of a woman 22. Therefore erroneous is that opinion of Avicenna Albertus and Cardan himself who think that all animals that are gotten in the matrix may arise without it meerly of putrefaction if so be it be true that animals do proceed from a mutual copulation onely but never any man or dog did ever proceed from putretude but seed Scal. Exer. 193. 23. Viviparae are wont to bring forth either those which have solid feet as an Horse or Ass and many others which want horns so likewise many cornuted beasts as the Ox Hart Goat and the like or such as have their feet divided into divers parts as Dogs Apes c. 24. And their yong are multifarious for the many cells in the womb where the seed is contained 25. Creeping beasts E are those which crawl upon the ground and they are either Serpents which by convolving themselves do move or all other kind of worms upon the earth 26. Furthermore F there are volatile beasts which do use to fly much in the air and they are otherwise called birds 27. Aereal birds G have by nature two feet and they do move themselves above the earth by their feathers by flying 28. Their bodies do consist like to other bodies of the four elements of a legitimate commixtion and they have both similar and dissimilar parts 29. Yet they want reins and bladder whereby it happens that they never urine because they drink little and by reason of the heat and dryness of their nature which converts their water into aliment 30. Their generation is of an egg and chiefly of the white for it is nourished by the yolk till it is excluded these eggs engender and do receive life from the heat of the damm sitting upon them 31. And they are sooner hatched in summer then in winter Hens in summer usually sit but eighteen days but in winter twenty five 32. And unless they bring forth they labor under a disease and perish Arist. 33. Birds H are distinguished by their meat for some are very carnous because as they feed upon flesh as those which have crooked claws as the Crow and Hawk and some are fed by worms others by herbs and some by fruits 34. So much concerning Terrestrials Now concerning such as live in the water and they are called fish 35. Fish I is a sanguineous animal of cold and watrish substance of a long body and squamous skin diving in the water 36. Their propagation is much by seed onely this difference some lay eggs which are committed to the water and thereby cherished others bring forth their yong alive as the Whale Dolphine and the sea-Calf 37. In the time of copulation male and female are conversant and the female by a gentle touch conceives eggs in the matrix but they are not perfected till they be sprinkled with the seed of the male for these eggs into which the seed is ejected do become 〈◊〉 the rest remains barren 38. Of the particular parts of Fish these things are to be observed There is a heart in most of them but inverse or much turned in contrary to other animals whereby a certain passage is made to their gills by which they return the humor which they receive into their mouths 39. All their teeth are serrated yet some have teeth upon their tongues 40. Their tongue is hard and almost thorny and so 〈◊〉 to the roof that they seem ●…o be without a tongue 41. They have the parts of hearing and smelling but none of sensuality but the eyes for the passage is broad and open where they should have that sense their 's eyes are without lids 42. They want lungs K and asper arteries therefore they neither have a voice nor breath 43. Aristotle proves it First because in breathing water must be drawn in as well as air which two bodies do mutually hinder themselves Secondly because they do not move any particle of the belly as other breathing creatures do Thirdly because when they dye in the water we cannot perceive any bubbles to be made which happens when there is any animal that breathes suffocated in the water Fourthly because if it were so other animals also might breath in the water which experience denies 44. But some ancient writers and Neoterick Philosophers defend the contrary opinion who conclude that all manner of fish do breath 45. It is not for the former Arguments onely that we part from the doctrine of the Peripateticks but also Julius Scaliger defends it 46. But some fish do onely live in the waters some partly on the water and some partly on the earth 47. Those that dive in the water are either those that have blood or are without blood 48. Those which have blood are properly called Pisces 49. And those are great small middle or little according to their adjunct quantity 50. Those are called great the Whale the Salmon Dolphine and sea-Calf 51. Those that are of the middle rank the Eel Pike Carp Pearch Stockfish Tench c. 52. The least are these a Horsleech Turdus Sprats c. 53. Those that are called Exsangues are such as are without blood and do consi●… in its stead of a certain vital humidity and these are either soft or hard 54. Those that are soft Albertus calls them Malachias and they are those that

of this noxious humour is gathered into the bottom of the ventricle to excite appetite the rest slides into the intestines and so is thrust out of doors 39. The reins and bladder purge out a wheyish or serose humidity 40. The reins O which are in number two are carnous parts thick and solid purging out blood with a s●…rose humor 41. Both the emulgent veins and ureteres serve to evacuate serose humidity 42. The emulgent veins do arise from the vena cava and are inserted into the reins dispersing abroad an aguous humidity with blood and carried to the reins 43. The ureteres are two urinary channels arising from the cavity of the reins white consisting of one simple tunicle deducing the urine by the force of the reins into the bladder 44. The bladder P is a nervous part consisting of two tunicles interwoven with a treble kinde of fibres round and somewhat long placed in the Hypogastria taking the urine brought from the ureteres and conveys it out of the body 45. There are two parts of it the bottom and the neck 46. In the bottom is contained the urine and this passes by degrees thorow the neck a muscle there as a portēr obstructing its fluor lest it come at unawares upon us 47. And thus much of the members of the nutritive faculty Lastly there are organs of generation which are accommodated to continue and propogate their kinde 48. And these are either common to both sexes or peculiar to one 49. The common are the seminary vessels cods and stone●… 50. The seminary vessels do ascend from the stones upwards inserted in the cods Parastaten adunoeide and the seed is the profitable superfluity of the mass of blood which is the matter of the seed and vital spirit producing heat into the act of the seed and carries it to the stones 51. And they are two the right and left the former arises immediately from the trunk of the cava the latter from a branch of the emulgent veins 52. The testicles Q are soft parts glandulous and white rare and cavernous in which the seed is perfected and cocted 53. In men they hang without the body but in women they grow on the back one on each side 54. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 R are two vessels candid cavernous and glandulous arising from the testicles carrying feed into the testicles In men they are placed at the root of the yard in women at the bottom of the matrix 55. To conclude there are members peculiar to one sex either to man or woman 56. Competent to man S is the yard which hangs on the forepart of a man of a good length fistulous on every side a fit instrument for the conveyance of seed 57. And it doth consist of two hollow neres one passage common both to the seed and urine four muscles and as many veins and nerves and lastly of a nervous membrane and skin 58. The end of it is called glans consisting of a fleshly substance which is covered by a loose skin growing over it which is called Preputium 58. Proper onely to a woman is the matrix or womb and it is the membranous part of a woman consisting of a tunicle coagmented as it were of two things divided round and placed in the bottom of the belly forming the yong of prolifick seed and by a proper faculty cherishing the same and when it comes to maturity it excludes it The Commentary A THe aforesaid natural members are involved in three pannicles the Peritoneum Omentum and Mesenterium The Peritoneum is a thin membrane broad and continued like to a Weavers Loom or Spiders Web involving and containing all the bowels of the inferior belly binding them to the back lest they should fall down it helps also the putting forth of the excrements which when it is too little it is broken The Omentum is a double membrane arising from the Peritoneum interwoven with many nerves and arteries and covers the ventricle and intestines Its use is that it may cherish the ventricle in whose bottom it lies and holds the heat of the intestines which is shut up and so to increase with its own heat it is called with the Greeks Epiploon because of its fatness with which it overspreads the belly This tunicle is the first that appears after the incision of the belly The Mesenterium is a double member consisting of two firm tunicles of the Peritoneum and of many veins arteries and nerves placed in the middle of the intestines as its centre its use is to contain the intestines that they may not lose their proper foldings and that it may contain them more strongly it consists of a hard and double tunicle which arises from the Peritoneum the veins which are in the Mesentery do arise from vena porta and from thence do run between two of their membranes to the intestines that they may 〈◊〉 take chyle and they are called mesaraicae venae B There is onely in man one ventricle but in other animals more sometimes two sometimes three as in sheep goats oxen and harts that those hard meats wherewith they are fed may pa●…s through divers ventricles for their better preparation and coction The ventricle is called by the Greeks Gastor and Colia its substance ought to be membranous that it may be extended and again corrugated according to the plenty or scarcity of nutriment its figure is spherical or round like the form of a long gourd for the capacity of aliments for if it were square a portion of the food would remain in the angles which if it should happen man would continually be in a feaver it is long also by reason of its situation̄ and hath two orifices the one whereof is at the top for the receiving of aliment the other at the bottom to convey it to other parts of the body when it is made and converted into chyle it hath two tunicles constituted of its proper substance one whereof is internal the other external the internal is wholly nervous gross and woven with straight fibres running down the back that it may better contain humid bodies lest they pass as it were through a strainer and also that it may be extended to all positions the External is wholly carnous and soft consisting of many fibres and those transverse that after the meat is cocted it may the better be driven out it hath also a third tunicle arising from the Peritoneum and doth involve the ventricle to the duodenum intestinum of which the temperament of the ventricle doth appear which is cold and dry and therefore convenient to the nature of nerves it hath also a native heat without which it cannot make a perfect concoction which is increased from the liver and spleen and other vicine members its seat is thus the superior part of it doth touch the Diaphragma in the left side and so falls into the the right side of the liver where it rests its bottom reaches from

poured into the greater veins from the fleshy parts that are already filled and satiated 13. Therefore this blood is laudable and alimentary whose efficient cause is the weakness of the heat of the woman 14. For the female is always more colder then the male therefore she cannot make all the last al●…ment and convert it into the substance of the body and therefore by little and little it is sent into the veins of the womb that it may he excerned 15. The time of excretion is not designed but in many it begins at the fourteenth year of their age and ceases about the fiftieth year because then heat grows weak and doth not longer generate the reliques of laudable blood neither can it expel them if they do abound 16. The use of this menstruous blood is very necessary both that it may cause a conception and afterwards nourish after conception 17. Therefore seed is the principle from which as it were the efficient cause the conformation is made from which as from the matter the spermatick parts are generated but blood hath the name of the matter alone and passive principle 18. For of it are both the carnous parts generated and both the spermatick and carnous nourished 19. But to the seed is alotted the nature both of the efficient and matterial principle because it consists of two parts for the efficient is by reason of the Spirits on which on every side is poured the material by reason of the thickness of the body and crassament of which the spermatick parts are generated 20. And the seed is double the one of the male the other of the female but the seed of the male is of greatest force 21. Neither do the Peripateticks altogether deny women to emit seed as Galen and not a few more have exclaimed against them but as they say they do not emit seed as men neither have they such seed 22. For women do put forth seed but not such as men do that is not so crass white and full of spirit 23. For when mans seed is poured out into the womb it is exquisitely mixed with the womans and is as it were in a fruitful field and immediately upon the permixion of the seeds the womb is gathered up together and doth contract it self so close that no empty space be left within 24. Seed so E taken and strictly comprehended is cherished in the womb by its heat and ingenital property exciting its strength lurking within it and stimulates it to act insomuch that it breaks out into action 25. This action of the womb they call conception which is a promotion of the retained seed to duty 26. The Signs of conception F are these a tickling over the whole body upon the meeting of the seeds a retention of the seed if the inward mouth of the womb doth exquisitely shut and open a small pain wandring about the belly if the Tearms be stopped if the brests swell and grow hard a nauseous stomach and frequent vomitings 27. Therefore the spirit of the seeds is used as an instrument for this divine faculty of generation in going to the bottom or centre whereby the work of conception is carried on and of which the conception it self is constituted 28. This work cannot be made without ordination position secretion concretion densation rarefaction extension contraction Arist. 29. Therefore when the spirit begins to act in the substance of the seed consisting of Heterogeneous parts it first divides its dissimilar parts those that are thin and tender and full of spirit it hides within those that are cold and thick which arise from the seed of the woman it covers without 30. The middle and more nobler parts of the seed are puffed up or blowen up by heat and spirit to the effiguration of the members 31. The number of these membranes are yet undetermined we reckon onely three the first whereof is called Amnios which is next to the yong wrapping it from the neck to the feet containing the excrements also with it in which the yong swims as it were 32. The second is called Alantois it is the middle between the first and the third thin and narrow onely going to the middle of the yong and it is the receptacle of urine 33. The third tunicle is called Chorion and it is the outermost covering the whole body of the yong and adheres to the womb by the interposition of the umbilical veins and arteries 34. These 3 membranes mutually connated to themselves do seem to constitute one tunicle which is called by the Latines secundina 35. The interior and subtil part of the seed being encloistered in these and as it were environed the formative vertue and as it were vital spirit of the same seed which contains in potency all parts both similar and instrumental doth coact together and as it were delineated so that the rude exordium of these parts or at least a resemblance of them may be seen which is wont to be made in seven days 36. For when the vital spirit which is the framer of generation is the same and doth act in one and the same moment disposited into the same matter and altered by heat what hinders but that this agent may decline all parts natural once and again 37. Yet there is an order observed in the formation of members I one member is perfected before another 38. And the more nobler and most necessary the first of all the ignobler and least necessary the last of all 39. Therefore the formatrix faculty doth perfect in the first place the spermatick parts of the male in thirty days of the female in forty or fourty two 40. Nor doth it hinder what some learned men do object that so little seed doth not suffice for the constituting of these parts for the sperme is appointed not onely to suffice the formation but the auction also 41. Again if this sperme which proves Abortive or may be known by the section of the living animal be cast into cold water it will scarce exceed the bigness of a large Emme●… 42. The carnous parts are framed after the spermatical delineation from the other principle of generation to wit blood which flows by the navel vein 43. There are three sorts of flesh which grows in the bowels First the flesh 〈◊〉 Secondly the flesh of the Muscles which is called properly and absolutely Flesh Thirdly the peculiar flesh of every part and it is likely that these three sorts of flesh are not generated together but in order 44. For first of all the flesh Parencyma which is the substance of the Liver Spleen and Biters afterwards the peculiar flesh of every part and lastly the flesh of the Muscles 45. And amongst the fleshes Parencymate that of the Liver is the first made because the umbilical vein doth first pour blood into it which concretes after fusion and becomes flesh then that of the heart and lastly that of the rest of the bowels 46. So that the infant begins

to be Dearticulated and absolute after forty five days living at first the imperfect life as it were of a Plant after the manner of an animal and at last the life of a man 47. And this happens not by reason of the form which is simple and individual but by reason of the matter that is of the organs 48. But the embryon takes aliment onely by the navel but after the liver is made it ministers to all the members but it doth not yet move though it hath life by reason of the imbecility of the brain and softness of nerves 49. The weak and tender members of the infant by little and little are dried by heat and so made more solid and then the yong begins to feel by perfect Sensories and by and by to be moved in the womb 50. But a man-childe doth move sooner then a female for boys because they are conformed in thirty days do move on the ninetieth day which compleatly make three moneths but because the female is framed in forty or forty two days she moves not till the hundred and twentieth day which is about the latter end of the fourth moneth 51. And the infant is nourished and doth increase all this space of time and when it is ripe it is brought forth partly by the endeavor of the womb for it being burthened with its weight and abundance of excrements it strives to be exonerated partly by its proper motion for the necessity of breathing the want of aliment and the narrowness of the place do enforce the yong to endeavor a passage out 52. At the time of birth the doors are opened which immediately after delivery are shut again This we see done saith Galen but how it is done we know not onely we may admire it Avicen calls it a work to be wondred at above all wonders 53. The womb being opened the infant begins to come out by the head and by many painful throws it draws out and brings with it three membranes and thus by the prescript of nature are we born into the world 54. The time of bringing forth is not fully defined nor can it for some are delivered at seven moneths end some at nine and most then some at ten but seldom and very seldom at eleven but in the eighth moneths end seldom any are delivered with a live childe 55. And this is the manner of the Conception Conformation and Procreation of the noblest of Creatures The Commentary A THe definition of a Man delivered consists of a Genus and Difference As to the Genus he is an animal and as to the Difference one endowed with reason And in this it is that man hath a Prerogative Dignity and Excellency above all other Creatures for his minde which is Divine is the Image of God and he differs much from other animals and as it were exercises a regality over them for are not Lyons and Elephants tamed by the strength of man and overcome and made subject to him Man is created with his face looking up to Heaven as it were contemplating upon God Hence Ovid could say Pronaque cum spectent animalia caetera terram Os homini sublime dedit caelumque tueri Jussit erectos ad sidera tollere vultus For whereas God created all other animals with their faces downwards to the ground man alone he erects with his eyes fixed upon heaven whither he should tend B The generation of man is made after this manner the seed of both Sexes being perfectly mixed the whole doth proceed from thence therefore the matter of the generation of mans Body is the seed both of the man and the woman plentiful and fruitful This seed doth consist of two parts watrish Humidity and Spirit the watrish Humidity proceeds from the blood whence Aristotle affirms blood to be a profitable excrement of the last aliment that is of the sanguineous aliment I say it is an excrement not supervacaneous in its nature or substance as Stones and Worms nor in its quality as Dung Sweat c. but onely in its abundance or quantity for because it superabounds from nourishing the parts of the body and cannot be assimilated thereunto it obtains the place of an excrement C The spiritual part of seed is no other thing then the vital Spirit which by reason of this Spirit it becomes hot and sometimes this Spirit is ingendred in the heart and thence sent out into the whole body so doth the Seed also according to the Spirit proceed from the whole because the Spirit is communicated from the heart to the whole Hence Aristotle saith if the Seed did not proceed from every part of the animal the cause of the similitude were false therefore seed ejected by the yard into the womb becomes fruitful when it is exquisitely mixed with the womans seed and it is the principal motion that is the first agent for the formotion of the yong by reason of the spirits contained in it For this going to the bottom as to its centre is cherished and preserved and so proceeds to action as to formation all which things are necessary for the framing of the yong for besides the seed of the man and the woman it is necessary that this vital spirit concur to the conception because the seed of man cannot besmear all the parts of the womb which else will impede conception and if the seed of the woman be onely present that will not cause conception by reason of its imperfection for the seed of man is more hot then womans and although this seed be not so perfect yet it concurs as an agent to the formation although not as the first agent for as Galen observes the mixture of the seed of man and woman is perfect seed whence Aristotle saith that what arises from the seed of man and woman do arise from contraries as when there are contraries in the same Genus and although each seed according to Aristotle is in its Genus an agent yet they do not act alike in power and strength but differ in these functions magis minus the seed of the woman doth concur as the matter of which both by reason of the seed of man which is its aliment for mans seed is nourished and made more perfect by womans seed as also by reason of the membranes which are produced out of it But in this place we may take notice what the Peripateticks in a manner aledge that the woman emits no seed but they are basely and injuriously dealt withall it is an aspersion cast upon them by some later Philosophers because Aristotle saith That the seed of the woman is not so crass while hot and full of spirit as the seed of man but he doth not say that women emit no seed at all D Besides the seed of both Sexes the menstruous blood of the woman concurs to generation it is called menstruous blood because it is an excrement yet it differs from that blood whereby a woman is

nourished and it is called exerementitious blood to difference it from the seminal excrement and it is an excrement of the second concoction which is made in the liver and veins and therefore it is that it hath a red colour furthermore that matter which is contained in the veins and expurged by the veins of the womb is this superfluous blood and excrement of the second coction for whereas the Bodies of women are more colder then mens they cannot make perfect their last aliment nor convert it into the substance of the body to be nourished whereupon that which is above and cannot be converted by little and little is thence conveyed to the veins of the womb where it gathers together into one place and what of it cannot be sustained by nature is expelled It s use is necessary for as it helps conception so it nourishes the yong But here a question will arise how the yong whilst it is conceived and framed in 〈◊〉 ●…omb is gotten nourished by this same blood when it is endowed with a bad quality and puts forth many ill affections I answer This blood is not always so bad as is imagined for those women whose bodies are temperate their blood also must needs be temperate and when the body is vitious the blood also must needs be infected But again this pravity in women is purged away every moneth and in them it is otherwise then in those who keep their tearms beyond their accustomed time the former hath no noxious quality in it as to hurt what is generated of it which need not seem strange but if the same blood be not evacuated at its accustomed time but retained it will stir up and cause many bad affections as the suffocation of the matrix 〈◊〉 and the like But now if it be considered in a woman that hath milk in her brests it is otherwise for then blood is conflated of a treble substance for then the alimentary or pure portion of it goes to the nourishment of the yong and part somewhat impurer goes to the brests and converts to milk and the worst of all is contained as excrements in the tunicles where the yong is enrolled which is evacuated at the womans delivery E After the seed of both Sexes together with the menstruous blood is received into the womb it closes up and the seed therein contained is cherished by its heat and begins to act the spiritual part of the seed passes to the bottom and begins the formation and of the crass part of the seed the spermatick parts are engendred and of the menstruous the sanguineous parts F The Notes of conception are these The close shutting up of the womb A kinde of trembling and tickling over the whole body And after that an exceeding refrigeration Loss of stomach Nauseating of victuals Vomitings c. G Generation is made by the mutation of the power into the act and an artificial composition of many existents in the act the Soul is the act of an organical body but the seed is not the organ therefore not the animate then the power above will be the animate for as the Sun not hot doth calefie the Whetstone not sharp yet doth sharpen so also the seed may animate that is the yong is animated by the seed although there be no soul or life in it I It is a great and difficult dispute among Physitians and Philosophers in what order the parts of the yong are framed some think the liver first to be generated others the heart which they say is the first that lives and the last that dies In this Controversie we are to observe that neither the Liver nor the Heart nor any other principal member nor umbilical vessels are generated first as divers have judged ●…everal manner of ways but that all are inchoated in one and the same moment and that for this subsequent reason The vital spirit which is the efficient cause of the generation and the internal natural agent not the external voluntary hath the whole formatrix faculty in every part where it is joyned to the matter fitly disposited it must necessarily act secundum potentias and therefore all the parts of the body are produced by it at once this experience confirms by those who have miscarried in ten twenty or thirty days after conception when the whole substance hath not exceeded the bigness a grain of Barley a Bee or the figure of a Bean yet all its bowels are formed as some late Anatomists have observed CHAP. 16. De Zoophytis or of things that are partly Animals and partly Plants 1. HItherto we have illustrated the first Species of Nature Aisthetices to wit an animal the other which remains to be explained is part Plant and part Animal 2. And these Zoophyta's are corporeal Natures endowed onely with certain senses contracting and dilating themselves by motion 3. Whence Hermolaus Barbarus calls them Plantanimalia Budaeus tearms them Plantanimes because they have a middle and as it were a third Nature between Plants and Animals 4. Whereas they have a certain sense with Animals Hence they dilate themselves pleasantly to such things as they attract and affect but contract themselves if pricked or offended 5. But in the effigies of the Body they come nearest to the Nature of Plants 6. Their formes differ according to their greater or lesser vertue of feeling all of them adhere to Rocks Sand or Mud of which sort are these Holothuria Stella marina Pulmo marinus U●…tica spongiae 7. To these may be added that Tree which grows in the Province of Pudifetanea to which if a man draws nigh it will gather in its boughes as though it were ashamed and when he is gone spread them abroad for which cause the inhabitants thereabouts have nominated it the Chaste tree Scaliger Exer. 181. Sect. 28. 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