A most excellent and learned vvoorke of chirurgerie, called Chirurgia parua Lanfranci Lanfranke of Mylayne his briefe: reduced from dyuers translations to our vulgar or vsuall frase, and now first published in the Englyshe prynte by Iohn Halle chirurgien. Who hath thervnto necessarily annexed. A table, as wel of the names of diseases and simples with their vertues, as also of all other termes of the arte opened. ... And in the ende a compendious worke of anatomie ... An historiall expostulation also against the beastly abusers, both of chyrurgerie and phisicke in our tyme: with a goodly doctrine, and instruction, necessary to be marked and folowed of all true chirurgie[n]s. All these faithfully gathered, and diligently set forth, by the sayde Iohn Halle.

Of the Veyne. The .viii. Chapiter.

EIghtlye, (the veine named in Latin, Vena, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, as some wyll, because bloude commeth therby to all par∣tes of the body,* 1.1 in Greeke Phlebion, and the dyssectyon of them Phlebotome, is a symple member, as is the artery, colde and drye of complexion, and Spermatyke, but as the

arterye hathe hys beginnynge from the hearte, so hathe the veyne his beginnynge from the lyuer:* 1.2 and it bryn∣geth from thence nutrityue bloude, vnto all the mem∣bers of the bodye, to nourishe them wyth. And I vnder∣stande as well by experyence, as by that whiche I reade, that there is no more difference betwene the veyne and the arterye, but that one (hauynge two coates, and com∣mynge from the hearte,) is the vessell of vitall and spiri∣tuall bloude, and the other (hauynge but one coate, com∣mynge from the lyuer,) is the vessell of nutritiue bloud. And thys is generally in all veines, except only the arteri∣all veyn•• whych (as in the seuenth Chapiter I sayd) pro∣cedeth immediatlye from the hearte.

And amonge all the veines there are two moste pryn∣cipalle, from whyche the braunches of all the reast procede: that is to saye, Vena porta,* 1.3 and Vena Coele, whiche some calle Vena Caua,* 1.4 ••r Magna, and these two haue their beginnings in the lyuer.* 1.5 I fynde ••n Regi••ine sanitatis salerni, the num∣ber of veines in mannes bodye to be three hundreth,* 1.6 thre score, and fyue wyth these woordes. (Ex tricentenis decies 〈…〉〈…〉 But I thyncke thys number to be mente of ••••tay••e notable veynes, whyche by order of Anatomye, maye be made open to the senses, and not precyselye of all: for they braunche oute into innumera∣ble braunches, tyll they come to the verye smalnesse of heares, as it maye be perceyued in the pannicles, and some thyn skynnes, as the eye lyddes, and the skyn of the yarde, and diuers other places, and are therefore called Venae Capillares.

Notes

• * 1.1

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• * 1.2

  The vse of veynes.
• * 1.3

  Vena porta.
• * 1.4

  Vena coele.
• * 1.5

  Vena caua.
• * 1.6

  Number of vaynes.