judgement that it sendeth and committeth to Memory to be reserved as it were in a treasury or store-house and to be directed concerning his acts and effects 2. The Sensitive faculty The second vertue is the Sensitive faculty the which although we know that it is variable and diverse in respect of the senses yet we may understand that it is caused and effected in this manner The Animal spirit whose place of late we said to be in the braine proceeding from the interiour and inward little caves and ventricles of the braine The Animal Spirit doth forme and frame the senses by the mediation and assistance of certaine subtile and slender sinewes doth forme and frame the Senses and by his vertue through the ministry and furtherance of the sinewes directeth and transposeth sight to the eyes smelling to the nostrills hearing to the eares and tasting to the palate of the mouth which senses wee see onely to be numbred and nominated of the senses of the head The third is the Moving vertue 3. The Moving faculty ingendred and bred in the braine to whom it is said to be proper to move and give motion For as the Animal spirit disposeth and directeth the orders and properties of the senses The Animal spirit directs the motions as is before declared so by the benefit of the same facultie the motions also are directed by which the vertues and faculties of the Spirit are dilated opened and enlarged and are likewise conveyed and sent abroad to the other members But for the perfection and complement of all these vertues and faculties Spirit is necessarily required Spirit necessary for the perfection of the former faculties by whose benefit and continuall motion as well the senses as the faculties are instigated and provoked to performe and finish their faculties and actions And they say that the Spirit is a certaine airy substance which continually exciteth and stirreth up the powers and faculties of the body to fulfill and accomplish their actions And indeed this Spirit is a certaine subtile body What spirit is ingendred by the force of heat because of blood flowing and streaming in the Liver attracted and drawne by breathing and the Arteries and afterward diffused by the veines to all the members quickning the bodies serving to promote and further motion by the meanes and aide of the nerves and Muscles But first this is directed and conduced to the Liver in this manner Heate remaining in the blood How naturall spirit is ingendred there is caused a certaine boyling in the Liver from whence a certaine fume or vapour issueth and proceedeth forth which eft-soones being purified by the veines of the Liver is changed and transmuted into a certaine airie substance and is called Naturall Spirit which purifieth and clarifieth the blood and afterward is sent and distributed to the particular and severall members Afterward the same Spirit is transferred and carried from the Liver by certaine veines to the Heart How vitall spirit is ingendred where by the motion of the parts of the Heart and a mutuall coagitation it is made more pure and is converted into a more subtile and finer Nature and beginneth to be Vitall and truely Spirit because is diffuseth and spreadeth it selfe from the Heart by Arteries to the members of the whole body and doth augment and further the vertue of Naturall Spirit And againe How Animal spirit is ingendred the same Spirit mounting and penetrating upward from the Heart through Arteries to the little caves and ventricles of the braine is there more exactly laboured and refined and is transmuted and altered into the essence and substance of the Animal Spirit Animal Spirit most pure which is most pure of all from whence streight-way it is sent and conducted againe by the organs and instruments of the senses to corroborate and strengthen those senses in some measure Although therefore it be the selfe-same one Spirit yet because of his divers offices and functions in divers parts Why the Spirit is called Naturall Vital Animal it is diversly taken and understood as in the Liver it is named Naturall in the Heart Vitall and in the braine Animal But we must not beleeve that this Spirit is the immortall soule infused into man of God Whether the Spirit be the Soule but it is onely the instrument and as it were the Charriot of the same The Spirit but the instrument or Charriot of the Soule For by the meanes alone of this Spirit the soule is conjoyned and united to the body neither yet also is there any perfect exercise of the soule without the ministry and service of this spirit which thing might easily be proved but that already this discourse concerning the faculties and Spirit hath beene overlong CHAP. V. Of the true Generation of the parts and the increase of the Feature according to the daies and moneths A little while after also a veine directed by the Navell A two-forked veine ingendred attracteth the grosser blood confused in the seed fit and convenient for nourishment whereby a two-forked veine is ingendred according to the forme of this Figure And these veines doe attract sucke and draw unto them the hottest the most subtile and purest blood of which the heart is ingendred in the membrane or skinne of the heart involving and lapping the same round about named in Latin Pericardium and the heart is fleshie What the Heart is and of a grosse substance by nature as is necessary for such a hot member But the notable and great veine Vena cava spreading out himselfe and penetrating into inward concavitie vault or privie-chamber of the right side of the heart deriveth and carrieth blood thither for the nourishment of the heart The unmoveable and still veine Also from the same branch of that veine in the same part of the heart a certaine other veine doth spring up named of some the unmoving or still veine in Latine Vena immota vel tranquilia so named because it doth not beat and move as other pulsive moving veines of the heart doe named in Latine Venae pulsatiles but lieth hidden being calme and still ordained and destinated to this office namely The office of the unmoveable and still veine that it should conduct and convey blood digested in the Heart unto the Lungs and Lights which veine is environed and lapped about for which cause it is named Vena arteriosa an arteried veine with two coats like unto the Arteries But in the concavity hollow of the left part in the heart a most great and notable pulsive or beating veine Aorta called Aorta doth spring up diffusing and sending abroad vitall and lively spirit by the blood of the heart into all the pulsive and moving veines of the body For as Vena cava is the originall fountain and spring of all the veines by which the body attracteth and draweth to it the whole nutriment of blood Even so
THE EXPERT MIDWIFE OR An Excellent and most necessary Treatise of the generation and birth of Man Wherein is contained many very notable and necessary particulars requisite to be knowne and practised With divers apt and usefull figures appropriated to this worke Also the causes signes and various cures of the most principall maladies and infirmities incident to women Six Bookes Compiled in Latine by the industry of Iames Rueff a learned and expert Chirurgion and now translated into English for the generall good and benefit of this Nation LONDON Printed by E G. for S. B. and are to be sold by Thomas Alchorn at the signe of the Greene Dragon in Saint Pauls Church-yard 1637. Imprimatur THO. WYKES R. P. Ep. Lond. Cap. Domest To all grave and modest Matrons especially to such as have to doe with women in that great danger of childe-birth as also to all young practitioners in Physick and Chirurgery whom these matters may concerne Grace Peace and good successe in their undertakings heartily wished ALbeit the sundry presidents of bookes in this kinde formerly published might free me from Apologizing for myselfe for this worke yet will I adde to what others have said one reason of maine consequence not observed by any that I have read which will much strengthen these my endeavours It is observeable that in all ages of the world and throughout all countries in the world that the helpe of grave and modest women with us termed Midwives hath ever been useful for releife succour of all the daughters of Evah whom God hath appointed to beare children into this world which things so being and women with all being Vniversally as all men know for the most part unlearned any further then to understand their owne native language as a french woman to understand french a dutch woman dutch or an english woman english And the businesse whereunto God hath ordayned them of so great and dangerous consequence as concernes the very lives of all such as come into the world and withall for preventing of great danger and manifold hazards both unto the mother and unto the infant it being necessarily required that the parties imployed thereabout should understand the businesse which they take in hand which cannot be without the knowledge of many particulars concerning both the mother and the Infant which they can never attaine unto but either by the use of bookes penned by skilful Physitians Chirurgions or by conference with the learned and skilfull which can hardly or not at all in most places be had or else by practicall long experience which though it bee the surest mistresse yet is it the dearest and hath cost the lives of many both in this kinde and otherwise before knowledge could be therby obtained these things so being what reason hath any to seeke or debarre grave and modest women such as God hath called to that function or other grave and modest matrons such as though not so precisely thereunto called yet may bee assistant and helpefull unto the midwife in so great dangers and whose paines labours also are of an absolute necessity in the mid-wives absence of the use of such meanes as may inable them to the undertaking of matters so dangerous and so full of perill with much lesse hazard to the patients and paines and turmoylings to themselves for the unskilfulnesse and want of knowledge in the midwife in matters both concerning the mother and the infant doth questionlesse oftentimes indanger the lives both of the one and the other and procure much unnecessary trouble to themselves whenas perhaps had a skilfull midwife the matter in hand there would be neither perill to the one nor paine to the other but will some nicely precise perhaps say It is unfit that such matters as these should bee published in a vulgar tongue for young heads to prie into True if by other meanes it might be effected but the danger being great and manifold and the unlearned for their sex for the most part further then their owne tongue being in all ages and in all places as I have said thereunto assigned whether is it better that millions should perish for want of helpe and knowledge or that such meanes which though lawfull in themselves yet may by some be abused should be had and used doe we not see in many cases that those things which otherwise were monstrous are yet by necessity made tollerable Or shall we because some good things are by evill men and evill mindes abused therefore deprive the good of the use of good things If such slender reasons as these might prevaile then might there perhaps a great number perish before ever they saw the light who otherwise might live and increase the number of Gods church by their off-springs and perhaps also a great deale more worke might be made for men-mid-wives then yet is although there bee too too much already and some perhaps for private profit have too farre already incroached upon womens weakenesses and want of knowledge in these their peculiar businesses To conclude I say onely this my intentions herein are honest and iust and my labours I bequeath to all grave modest and discreet women as also to such as by profession practise either Physicke or Chirurgery And whose helpe upon occasion of extreame necessity may be usefull and good both for mother child and mid-wife But young and raw heads Idle serving-men prophane fidlers scoffers jesters rogues avant pack hence I neither meant it to you neither is it fit for you Thus craving the favourable construction of the grave and honest but not respecting the rash censures of the peevish I rest at your devotion unto whom in the beginning I have inscribed these my labours the particular contents whereof follow in the next leafe Fare you well The Methode of the Worke through the Arguments of the Bookes and Chapters THe first Booke intreateth of the Generation of man and women Of the generative or begetting seed what it is how and in what manner it hath its beginning Chap. 1 Of the mixture of the seed of both sex also of the substance and forme of the same Chap. 2 Of the three coats with which the Feature is invironed defended covered in the womb Chap. 3 Of the three faculties disposing and governing the body and of the spirit it selfe Chap. 4 Of the true Generation of the parts and the increase of the Feature according to the daies and moneths Chap. 5 Of the food of the Feature in the wombe with what nourishments it is nourished and when it groweth to be an Infant Chap. 6 The second Booke of the Matrix and parts thereof also of the condition and state of the Infant in the wombe and of the care and duty to be observed by women with childe How necessary a thing it is to insert the Anatomy of the Matrix to this Worke. Chap. 1 Of the substance forme qualities of the Matrix and the parts annexed Chap. 2 Of
of the body doth againe expel and void out that How seede is it gendred which is superfluous in it selfe by the secret pores passages At length here the Spirit changeth and turneth the blood conveyed thorow the spermaticall or seede-vessells being branches of Vena cava there also further concocted into the Nature of Sperme or Seed by the twined revolutions and backe-turnings of the smallest vessells for this purpose and by the Glandulous or kernelled substance of the testicles and the seed passages which they call Parastatae availeable in that behalfe So the blood exquisitly wrought and laboured and for the most part converted into vitall spirit is streight-way conveyed by the Arterie named Oborta and branches thereof to all the other members of the whole body But Concoction 4 afterward in the fourth place that we may adde this besides our purpose there is made an alteraon of the food into the like substance of the thing nourished this juyce quickening and strengthening life which being the purest of all remained lastly with the vitall spirit that thing in like sort being expelled in sweat thorow the pores if any impure thing shall be remaining or ingendred But that the reason of this generation The like reason of seeds in Plants and beginning may be made more plaine and evident unto us we will declare by a briefe demonstration hereunto added that there is the same beginning of Plants and herbes and of other things which fall under the same consideration that Plants and Herbs do Therefore as in the seeds of every kinde the graine it selfe cast into the ground is the food and as it were the first subject of all the alteration following whereby it budds springs is augmented and growes up into a Nature like unto it so meat being taken affordeth in mans body the first matter to variable concoction And as there in Plants we observe a most certaine separation of the pure from the impure and of the remnant from the superfluous matter so here we perceive a naturall separation and sequestration of that which is unprofitable from that which is profitable by their certaine degrees For first the seed being commited to the earth by and by swelling with moisture of the same strippeth it selfe from that little skin in which it was inclosed and springing upward casteth forth the same being empty as a dry excrement the graine in the meane time budding and sprouting forth that it may proceed forward to the increase Afterward the increase and growing stretching even to the fruit disrobed and bereaved of the flower the second purging casteth downe the flower sprung up in the top of the bough but preserveth the hope of the fruit being stripped of his flower as that thing which remaineth pure and profitable by the second purging Afterward the fruit being growne to his just quantity the third alteration casteth downe the leaves as the superfluity of this degree but ordaineth the fruit being now so often cleansed and purged for the utility of the naurishm nt of men maturity and ripenesse being granted unto it But now either the seede breaketh the fruit lying hid in it or else it sendeth it out by putrefaction and being cast into the ground it hastenth againe into the property of its owne nature not tending towards it selfe which is remaing but to the likenesse of his first originall from whence it had his beginning that in the same it is altogether true Nature ingenders things like unto it selfe That Nature doth ingender things like unto it selfe For every thing doth naturally covet and desire the forme and likenesse of that from whence it is bred whereby thou canst not see apples to grow from a peare nor peares from an apple unlesse it be otherwise procured by the meanes of grafting and planting Wherefore the same thing remaineth to be acknowledged in the Generation of man and woman which is to be confessed in the growing of Plants and Herbes that because wee see bodies well distinguished by members to be ingendred of seede wee may also beleeve that the same seed doth proceed from the distinct Whether the ingendring-seed be from the braine and severall parts of the body wherefore let them looke what and how well they speake which doe affirme the seed of Generation to be ingendred of the braine onely when as it is not so agreeable to the consideration of the concoctions A good part of the seed derived from the braine but the greatest part is from the chiefest parts of the whole body nor to the constitution of the bodies Truely it is certaine that some neither also a small part is derived from the braine but the chiefest part is collected and gathered together from the chiefest parts of the whole body For if wee say that this should be ingendred of one or two parts onely every man shall perceive that this consequence would follow by an infallible reason What the cōsequence would be if the seede should be ingendred of one or two parts alone to wit that those same parts only should be ingendred againe Therefore wee say rightly that besides that beginning which it draweth from the braine it is ingendred from the whole body and the most especiall parts of the same the effect it selfe manifesting the cause most especially when wee see distinct members and perfectly finished according to the due forme of the body in things procreated and brought forth We have on our side Hippocrates affirmeth the seed to be collected from the whole body against the opinion of others Hippocrates himselfe being the Prince of all Physicians who also himselfe doth affirme that the seed is collected from the whole body and so truely that the thing begotten doth answer and agree to the constitution of the thing begetting of feeble seed I say a weake man being borne The infirmities and ill-favoured markes in children proceeds from the corruption of the seed in parents but of strong seed a strong and lusty man being borne By which things it hapneth that also many times we see the infirmities and ill-favoured markes of the body in the children which are remaining in the parents which we doe constantly believe to have passed into them by the corruption of the seed Therfore these things being certainly determined concerning the beginning and matter of ingendring seed let it suffice to have spoken these things in the first place CHAP. II. Of the mixture of the Seede of both sex also of the substance and forme of them BVt after the wombe which is a generative member of the Female sex hath conceived the seede of man it doth admix and mingle her seed also to it so that of both the seeds of both sex there may be made one mixture The first matter of the Feature Aristotles opinion But about the first matter of the Feature all are not of the same judgement For Aristotle saith that the Termes of the woman are a prepared matter
of the whole Feature although it be crude and indigested which is form'd fashion'd by the seed of man received into it the same seed being turned into vitall spirit which like a workman doth proportion and fashion this matter like a Smith plating and smoothing his rude piece of Iron upon the Anvill But Galen declareth Galens opinion that both the seedes confused and mingled together in the Matrix are the first matter of the Feature and so truly that with out the due mixture of these nothing can be conceived nor ingendred Yet although the mixture of these may be made equall notwithstanding it is out of all doubt that the quality of them is not alike The seede of man more hot and thick than womans for the seed of man doth exceed womans seed in heate and thicknesse which incomparison of mans seed is more moist and cold and therefore also it is manifest that it is more waterish yea in respect of the temperature The womans seed affordeth the like helpe as mans doth in framing the Feature But neverthelesse although they differ so much in quality the womans seed doth yeeld and afford the like help and furtherance in framing the Feature that the seede of man doth so that the seeds doe mutually grow and increase at once together by the vertue of both of them Further when as menstruous blood is the matter of womans seed that as well the beginning of this as of mans seede may be evident unto us we must understand What the Termes are that the Termes named in Latin Menstruum are no other thing a naturall consideration being had of them than the excrement of the third concoction or digestion gathered together and voyded every moneth named the monethly Purgation of the Latine words Every woman of a sound constitution ought to have her naturall and monethly purgation mensis Lunaris for every woman being of that age which may indure this Purgation so that her body be of a sound and healthfull constitution ought naturally to be Purged and cleansed from this superfluous matter every moneth And for the same cause the Germans do name this Purgation Flowers because even as the trees which doe not blossome and send forth flowerrs either through age or corruption of Nature doe not fructifie nor bring forth fruit Without naturall purgation in due seâ—ion women cannot conceive nor ingender so also every woman deprived of these Flowers I say of this purging in her due season by the course of Nature can neither conceive nor ingender being like unto an unfruitfull and a barren man destitute and deprived of the same vertue and faculty of ingendring either by some defect or corruption or because naturall heat is exhausted and wasted by his over-moist and cold complexion CHAP. III. Of the three Coates wherewith the Feature is invironed defended and covered THe little roome or coffin being ingendred after the conception the vitall Spirit inclosed in the same rouseth and putteth forth it selfe and then the defences or caules are ingendred to the Feature conceived And first truely of the uttermost face and superficies of the seede because of the waterish moisture and humidity of womens seede is ingendred a thin and slender membrane or caule which by reason of his moist quality is extended and stretched abroad at the first being so transparent and cleare that we may see thorow it The first coat or caule of the Feature is named Chorion but after the birth it is contracted and drawne together into a little heape named Chorion or Secundae Besides of the superfluous humidity and moisture of this there are ingendred also two other little coats or caules which doe protect and defend the Feature from superfluous and noisome things as from the Termes retained and stopped after conception Two little coats or caules ingendred which defend the Feature from hurt and also from other superfluities which neither serve nor are profitable to the nourishment nor increase of the Feature but doe rather hurt and offend yet neverthelesse they are retained in the Matrix betweene the caules named Secundae even untill the time of the birth then they issue forth a breach being made by themselves or they are set at liberty by the helpe of the Midwife Therefore the second coat or caule The second coat or caule is named Biles named of the Arabians Biles of the Grecians Allantoides adjacent and lying neere to the connexed and united parts of the Feature incloseth and infoldeth all inferiour things from the Navell which caule is wrinckled and somewhat pleated not unlike to a pleated garment into which the urine and sweats doe distill and also other sharpe and eager humors if any doe flow and issue from the nature and ripe Feature and are detained there even untill the time of birth For now the Infants growne to greater maturity and ripenesse doe not void and expell urine by the urine-pipes and conduits to the privie parts out of this vault but by certaine passages thorow the Navell Therefore the Feature is fortified and defended from the urine and other noysome humours by that coat or infolder lest he should be molested and grieved with the acrimony and sharpnesse of them or else gather some impurity or uncleanesse unto him CHAP. IIII. Of the three faculties disposing and governing the body and of the spirit it selfe NOw the Seedes both of man and woman being mingled blended and inclosed together eft-soones the force or faculty the power and might I say of the soule essentially attributed to it to performe and accomplish her actions in the body doth appeare and shew forth it selfe and beginneth to worke conveniently almost in a three-fold manner The first faculty is naturall The first faculty and vertue is naturall being the mover and foundation of the other faculties common both to living Creatures and to Plants This by and by from the time of Generation doth worke even untill the perfection of that which is ingendred namely by augmenting and nourishing And it hath his place and seat in the Liver and from thence is dispersed and sent abroad by veines into the whole body But the operation of it at first appearance is found to be three-fold Thy altering or changing faculty the which some doe call the immutative faculty which first generally immuteth and altereth the substance of the Seede and also converteth and digesteth it 1. The altering or changing faculty from that which it was before into the substance of the severall parts that every one of them may be distinctly composed and made and particularly inclining againe into that substance by those mixed qualities and elementary faculties by heat and moisture effecteth and frameth the softer substance such as flesh is in living Creatures but in Plants or Herbes the flowers and the pith by heate and drinesse it frameth the heart is living Creatures in Plants or Herbes is maketh the roots by cold and moisture in
living Creatures it maketh and workes the haires in Plants or Herbs the leaves also by cold and drinesse in living Creatures it worketh and maketh sinewes and bones and in Plants or Herbs the rinds barkes and wood Afterward the forming or fashioning faculty 2. The forming or fashioning faculty or vertue which others call the Informative faculty is that which formeth and fashioneth the matter which is changed to the similitude and likenesse of that from whence it drew his originall and beginning the parts like unto their first originall being severally disposed and ordered By this vertue and faculty the parts which ought and should be hollow as the guts veines arteries and such like are made hollow and those parts which ought to be massie and solid are in like manner formed so And in few words it formeth all things yea the smallest of them particularly and perfecteth the superfice or uttermost face of every little particle or diminitive portion so that nothing remaineth idle nothing also superfluous The helping or minstring faculties But to these principall faculties belonging to naturall force in perfecting the living Creature other helping or rather ministring faculties are added beside The begetting I say or generative faculty dilating and extending the thing ingendred into length breadth and profundity The augmenting vertue also which doth augment and increase the same by nutrition and nourishment and doth compleate and accomplish it even to his just augmentation and increase So also there commeth to them the nutritive and nursing faculty which ministreth to the Feature and cherrisheth the Feature in the wombe from the time that the seede is conceived that it may suffice for the composing and ordaining of so many To the nutritive faculty foure other aiding and helping faculties and so great parts of the living Creature And to this last faculty and vertue foure other aiding and helping faculties are said to approach The attractive which some call the appetitive faculty which attracteth convenient nutriment and food to the severall parts by his force as with an instrument as for the nourishment of flesh it attracteth the substance of blood and for the aliment and nourishing of the braine the substance of Phlegme and so likewise in the other parts working by his hot and dry faculty The concocting or altering vertue working by a hot and dry faculty and power changeth and transmuteth the substance of the nutriment and reduceth the nourishments of a diverse nature as it were into one masse or lumpe The reteining or retentive faculty which reteineth and helpeth the pure nutriment whereby that being digested is assimilated made like and is united to the particular members using the helpe of coldnesse and drinesse The expelling or expulsive facultie which by the helpe of moisture and coldnesse doth necessarily expell and void superfluous things neither agreeable or convenient to the quantity nor quality of the parts and therefore by no meanes to be assimilated and united to the parts The second principall faculty is named Vital The second faculty and vertue which worketh principally in humane seed is called Vitall and possesseth his seat and mansion in the heart And that quickneth and giveth life to the heart from whom the vitall Spirit by the Arteries annexed to it doth proceed to the members to be quickned and revived by the disposition of a naturall faculty and vertue by dilating and contracting the Heart and Arteries By dilating and enlarging I say because the moving force and power which remaineth in the heart doth dilate and spread abroad the motion of the heart it selfe from the middle and Center of it into all the extreme and outward parts But by contracting and knitting together because the same force and faculty collecteth and contracteth againe the motion of the heart from the extreme and outward parts to the middle and Center of it Wee see both of them to be done and performed by the benefit of the lungs which like a paire of bellowes attracteth and draweth aire to the heart by an Artery The lungs like a paire of Bellowes attracts aire to the heart that is conveied and diffused againe from the same by the Arteries to other parts of the body The same moneth the brest with a continuall motion the nerves and sinewes being moved first of all Aire most necessary for the mitigation of naturall heat about the Heart Therefore this aire is most necessary both for the mitigation and asswagement of naturall heat about the heart which is attracted from the cold aire to temperate and moderate immoderate and overmuch heat especially seeing it is manifest The heart of so hot a constitution that unlesse it be mitigated by aire from the lungs it would be suffocated and perish that the heart is of so strong a constitution that it would quickely be suffocated and strangled by it selfe and so perish unlesse it should attract to it a cold temperament and mitigation every foot from the aire by the lungs of whose temperature the Animal Spirit is ingendred and is seated in the braine as we will streight-way declare from whence all the nerves sinewes drawing their beginning do descend down by the ridge-bone of the backe named in latine Spina dorsi and from thence afterward are distributed and divided into the body and are also cherrished and preserved of their primary Animal Spirit by the helpe of the vitall spirit Notwithstanding the same aire attracted by breathing The aire attracted by the lungs is by many meanes often corrupted by the labour and imployment of the lungs and passing into his vitall spirit by many meanes is also corrupted as hath beene often observed I say by the evill disposition of the braine by the infection of the Liver by the passion of the heart by the corruption and rottennesse of the Lungs and such like infirmities also by excessive corruption of the aire outwardly approching unto it of which to speake much for the present time would both be besides the purpose and also to no profit The third faculty is named Animal and is three-fold The third faculty is Animal which as the Queene doth possesse the highest place and obtaineth a seat in the braine And the same is certainly found to be three-fold For the first vertue of the same 1. The disposing and ordering faculty is the disposing and ordering faculty which disposeth and ordereth the whole braine and alone doth imploy and busie it in his order In what parts of the braine Imagination Reason and Memory are seated For in the former part of it it placeth and seateth Imagination in the middle part it scituateth Reason and in the hinder part it setteth Memory For whatsoever Fantasie hath conceived in the former little cell cave or ventricle that it streight-way transferreth and sendeth to the Senate and Councel-chamber of Reason there as it were to be examined by judgement and determined and whatsoever is here collected and approved by
from this great veine Aorta are derived all the pulsive moving and beating-veines on every side dispersing pouring forth vital spirit thorowout the whole body The heart the fountaine of lively heat For the heart is the source and fountaine of vitall and lively heat without which no living creature no member can be cherrished Vnder the great veine Aorta even now spoken of The Veyned Arterie in the left cavity and vault of the heart another veine as yet springeth forth called in Latine Arteria venosa the veined Artery Although that truely be a pulsive and moving veine and convey vitall spirit yet it hath only one coat as those veines have which convey blood and that is framed and ordained that it may drive and transport cold aire from the Lungs to the Heart to refrigerate coole and refresh it and to temper and allay the immoderate heat But because veines doe breake forth from both the concavities and hollow cells of the Heart The generation of the lungs and are implanted and inserted to the Lungs the Lungs also formed and framed by them For a veine proceeding from the right cavity and hollow of the heart proceedeth and bringeth forth most subtile and pure blood which the Fibraes threds or haires being from thence afterward dispersed is altered changed and transmuted into the flesh of the Lungs And from the great veines of the Heart and Liver that is to say Vena cava and Aorta The brest legs and armes ingendred the whole brest is ingendred and also the legges with the armes successively and in their due order And the braine is so formed that it may be able to conceive retaine and alter the natures and qualities of all the vitall and lively spirits From the braine also the beginnings both of Reason The Originall of Reason and the Senses and all the senses doe proceed and have their originall For as the veines derive their progeny from the Liver and the Arteries from the Heart The Originall of the Nerves and Sinewes So also the Nerves and Sinewes being of a softer and milder nature doe spring and grow from the braine not being hollow after the manner of veines but solid and massie For indeede they are the first and principall instruments of all the senses by which all the motions of the senses are duely caused and procured through vitall and lively spirit After the Nerves and Sinewes the Marrow of the backe-bone The Marrow of the backe-bone in Latine Spina dorsi is ingendred from the braine not unlike to the nature of the braine so that it may scant be called and termed Marrow Not unlike to the nature of the braine both because it hath no similitude nor likenesse unto Marrow and also because it doth not resemble the same in substance What Marrow is For Marrow is a certaine superfluity of the nutriment of the members proceeding from blood ordained and destinated to moisten and cherrish the bones of the body but the braine and Marrow of the backe-bone or Spina dorsi The Marrow of the backe-bone derived from the seed doe draw and derive their originall and primacie from the seede not deputed or allotted to nourish other members and to make them prosper in good plight but that they should by themselves ordaine and constitute private and particular parts of the body for the motion emolument and use of the senses that from thence all other nerves and sinewes may take their roots and beginnings Many nerves do spring from the Marrow of the back bone For many nerves doe spring from the Marrow of the back-bone or Spina dorsi from which the bodie may have sense and motion as it is evident by the Vital and Animal faculty and vertue by good defence as hath beene declared in the former Chapters Further wee must here note and consider that of the seede are ingendred Cartilages or gristles Of the seede a e Cartilages or gristles bones c ingendred bones the coats of the veines of the Liver and of the Arteries of the heart the braine with the nerves and sinewes againe the coats and also both the other pannicles or caules and wrappers and coverings of the Feature But of the proper and convenient blood of the Feature Of the blood of the Feature the flesh is ingendred also the Heart Liver and lungs the flesh is ingendred and those things which are fleshie as the Heart Liver and Lungs And afterwards all these things doe flourish prosper and are nourished with menstruall blood a tracted and drawne by the little veines of the Navell which veines are observed to attaine to the Matrix from the orifices or mouths of the veines All which things are distinctly and orderly caused and brought to passe from the conception even unto the eighteenth day of the first Moneth at which time it is called seed but afterward it beginneth both to be called and to be a Feature Feature which thing also some ancient Writers have comprehended in these Latine verses Sex in lacte dies ter sunt in sang vine trini Bis seni carnem ter seni membra figurant Et aliter Injectum semen sex primis certe diebus Est quasi lac reliquisque no vem fit sanguis at inde Consolidat duodena dies bis nona deinceps Effigiat tempusque sequens producit ad ortum Talis enim praedicto tempore figura confit Which verses for the benefit of the unskilfull in the Latine tongue may thus be Englished Sixe daies to milke by proofe thrice three to blood convert the seed Twice sixe soft flesh doe forme thrice sixe doe massive members breed Or otherwise The first sixe daies like milke the fruitfull seed Injected in the wombe remaineth still Then other nine of milke red blood do breed Twelve daies turne blood to flesh by Natures skill Twice nine firme parts the rest ripe birth doe make And so foregoing time doth forme such shape CHAP. VI. Of the food of the Feature in the wombe with what nourishments it is nourished and when it groweth to be an Infant SO long as the Feature remaineth in the wombe it is nourished and cherrished with blood attracted and drawne to it by the Navell The Feature in the wombe nourished 〈◊〉 with blood attracted to it by the Navell whereby it commeth to passe that the Termes of women are stayed and cease to issue forth after the conception For then the Feature beginneth to covet and to attract unto it much blood Three differences of menstruous blood after conception But the blood is discerned to have a three-fold difference after the time of conception The first and most pure part of it the Feature attracteth for his nourishment The second and not so pure and thin the Matrix forceth and driveth upward to the brests by certaine veines The breeding of milke where it is converted and changed into milke and for that cause it is that certaine