Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and amended: with such additions as are requisite, vnto euery seuerall booke: taken foorth of the most approued authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all estates, as well for the benefite of the mind as the bodie. 1582.

Of the knees. chap. 52.

* 1.1THE knées be the ioynts of the thighs and legges, and bée called in Latine Genua. For they be shapen in the mo∣ther with the cheeks, and they long ther∣to: and they be of kinne to the eyes, the iudges of teares and of wéeping. For the knées haue that name Genua of Ge∣n••s the chéekes. For when a child is gen∣dered, hee is so shapen; that the knées be vpwarde. And by iust ioyning of the knees the eien be shapen and made hol∣lowe, either round. Secundum verbum philosophi. Genua cōprimit arta gena. Which is to vnderstand, Men wéepe the sooner if they knéele. For kinde will that the eyen and knées haue minde, where they were togethers in y^e mothers wōbe in darknesse or they came to the lyght. Huc••••isque Isidorus. Constantine saith, lib. 2.chap. 8. That the knées be a man∣ner round bones, gristly, & hollow. They be hollow & round, for that the legges and whirlebones should be the easilyer ioyned in the hollownesse of them: They be sinewie, that the legges be not light∣ly departed from the ouer partes: And also they be sinewie that the workings of the spirite of feeling may bée sent to the neather partes to cause moouing in them. Also for continual mouing y^e knees be slender and poore of flesh and fatnesse. For if they wer much fleshie, they shuld be lightly stopped. And so y^e working of y^e vertue of feeling shuld be let by great∣nesse of flesh. And therfore the knees be∣cause they be sinewie, they haue greate feeling and be lightly hurt, when the si∣newes of feeling be grieued outward or inward, as sayth Constantine.

Notes

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  Genibus.