The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latine and compared with the French. by Th: Johnson

CHAP. XIIII. Of the Gargareon, or Vvula.

BY the Gargareon we understand a fleshy & Spongy body, in shape like a pine * 1.1 apple, hanging directly down at the further end of the palate & basis of the bone Ethmoides where the two holes of the palate come from the nose, above the entrāce of the throttle. This little body is scituate in this place, to breake the violence of the aire drawne in by breathing, & that by delay it might in some sort * 1.2 tēper & mitigate it by the warmenesse of the mouth. Besides, that it might be as it were the Plectrū, or quil of the voice, so to diffuse the fuliginous vapour sent forthin breathing that it may be dispersed over al the mouth, that resounding from thence it may be ar∣ticulate, & by the motion of the tongue distinguished & formed, into a certaine voice. Which use is not small, when we see by experience that such as have this particle cut * 1.3 away, or eaten or corrupted by any accident, have not onely their voyce vitiated and

depraved, but speake ill favouredly, and as they say, through the nose; and besides, in processe of time they fall into a consumption by reason of the cold aire passing downe before it be qualified. This same particle, is also a meanes to hinder the dust from fly∣ing downe through the weazon into the Lungs. By the Pharinx and fauces is ment the * 1.4 inner & backe part of the mouth, set or placed before the entrance of the Throttle & Gullet; being so called, because that place is narrow & straite, that as it were by these straits, the aire drawn in by the mouth might be forced downe by the Throtle, and the meat into the Gullet.

Notes

• * 1.1

  What the Gar∣gareon, or Vvlua is.
• * 1.2

  The site and manifold use, thereof.
• * 1.3

  The discom∣modities that ensue the losse of the Vvula.
• * 1.4

  What the Pharinx and fauces are.