A sure guide; or, the best and nearest way to physick and chyrurgery .... Being an anatomical description of the whol [sic] body of man, and its parts, with their respective diseases .... In six books .... / Englished by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. and W.R. doctor of the liberal arts, and of physick [i.e. William Rand].

  • Riolan, Jean, 1580-1657
Date:
1657
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Credit: A sure guide; or, the best and nearest way to physick and chyrurgery .... Being an anatomical description of the whol [sic] body of man, and its parts, with their respective diseases .... In six books .... / Englished by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. and W.R. doctor of the liberal arts, and of physick [i.e. William Rand]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I2i|. I he ‘^Phyftcal Confideration, and <iAnatomy Book IV* Pelvis Glandulx t uitaria. ] It you flial gently draw upwards the formoft Parc of the brain, as far as ics bafis, I'pi- you mal obfervc the k Opticl^ ISlerveSy and the Nerves, lerviiig’for a ^lotion, and then the ^ Choana or tunnel dropping Wheyiih moillureupon rhe ^Qlandula ^tiuitana or Vlegm-%grneli which fils up and poflelfes the Sella ^qinna or Tftbuli. *Horfe-Saddle, In cbe Choana os: funnel you (hal iee ^ipes dilWWma Seven pair of 'V^heyifli moifture into the Palate and throat. Then you ftial confider the order of Nerves. ^ ^ thole leven pair of Nerves recorded in the following Vertes. The Firft Pair Jee/, the e Second moWf the T£yes; fXhird/inctFourth^ ¥\khearsandmabesmWije, Tfhe i Sixth is large and tvanders allabom: Seventh Larynx moves a prating Tougue fo flout, % Then you Ihal fearch under the Dura ^eninx in the bafi s of rhe brain about the Pete MkabiUi Corapafs of the SeBa Sphenoider^fot the ‘j^ete ^Mirabile or wonderful J Net of Arte- * ries interwoven one among another, being formed of the two Carotides or lleep Arteries. You fhal obferve in the Bafis of the brain, that Wheyifli Humors or blood is powred forth, in excream pains oftheHeiid coming with liiflammation, which while they feek CO go forth by the Cavit .es of the Ears, they caufe extream fharp pains, which bring the Patient into MadneJs and S ^cki .es. ^'litther or no in mcii a defperate Cafe, may we boar either fide or the Hindermofi- Part of the Head, to let out the fuperfluous putrid Humor, which corrupts the lubitance of the Brain? The ^Auditory T^rve is worthy of ConCderation, which is inferted into the Cavity of the Bare, and by a little Channel Aides dov/n into the Palate, and is diftributed into the inner Part of the Larynx: from whence comes rhac lame Cpn- cenc that is between the Tongue and Teeth, the Larynx and the LUngs. Obferve Whether dr no they be interfeffed Crofe-wife, fo as the right Ihould from its original be carryed unco the left Parc, and the left unto the right, which I have never fee'n, . Whether the NerVes in their Pvift have Arteries Joyned in company with them I Whether the Nervesare made up of many Imal threds ? Whether the other Nerves difFer'from the Cfpcidk Nerve. Iwilnoc wholly pals over thofe four notable Queftions: Whether the bram be moved? Whether or rlo the hr din ddel cool the Hedrt ? Whether the Ventricles the brain are ordained only to conteiri Excrements ? Whether or no the blood be there Circulated arid hds»? ‘ ' tvhtthef the As to the firft Queftion, 1 fay that the fubftance of the Erajn is not moved of it Brdn have any felf, by Diaflole and Siflole, after the manner of the Arteries, but only the Crafl'a CMotim? ^leninxy which is fprinkled al over with Arteries, arifing from the wo.nd^rful Contexture of Arteries,’ unco the' upper Channels of the laid Crajja ^eninx; alio the Channels do pane, and the brain is moVed by elevation and deprefiiou of the lubflance cliereof, according ask is driven by the Animal fpirics. irheiher it The brain does cool the Heart,' in almiichasby Circu^aciofiy it lends back f ha blood unco'the Heart being cooled in the Brain. ' “ ^ rr, Theforemoft and uppevmoft Ventricles are Heceptacles for fpirics: the whey may foreFmXlts deicend into the upper Ventrkles, from the whole Mafs of the brain, • but it ’ ’ prefently