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

CHAP. XVII. Of the Glandules in generall, and of the Pancreas, or sweet bread.

AGlandule is a simple part of the body, sometimes of a spongye and soft substance, sometimes of a dense and hard. Of the soft Glandules are the Tonsillae, or Almonds, like in substance to blanched Almonds; the Thymus, * 1.1 Pancreas, Testicles, Prostata. But the dense and hard are the Parotides and other like. The Glandules differ amongst themselues in quantity and figure, for some * 1.2 are greater than other some, and some are round and others plaine, as the Thymus and Pancreas.

Others are compounded of veines, nerves, arteries, and their proper flesh, as the * 1.3 Almonds of the eares, the milkie glandules in the brests and the testicles. Others want nerves, at least which may be seene, as the Parotides, the axillarie, or those under the armeholes and others. The number of glandules is uncertaine, by reason of the infi∣nite multitude and variety of sporting nature. You shall finde them alwayes in these * 1.4 places, where the great divisions of vessels are made; as in the middle ventricule of the braine, in the upper part of the Chest, in the Mesentery and other lik places.

Although othersome be seated in such places, as nature thinkes needfull to gene∣rate and cast forth of them a profitable humor to the creature; as the almonds at the roots of the tongue, the kernells in the dugs, the spermatick vessels in the scrotum and at the sides of the wombe; or where nature hath decreed to make emunctoryes for the principall parts, as behind the eares, under the armeholes, and in the groines. The connexion of glandules is not only with the vessels of the parts concurring to their * 1.5 composition, but also with those, whose division they keep and preserve. They are of a cold temper, wherefore Phisitions say the blood recrudescere, (i) to become raw a∣gaine * 1.6 in the dugs, when it takes upon it the forme of milke. But of these some have * 1.7 action, as the almonds, which poure our spattle usefull for the whole mouth, the dugs milke, the Testicles seed; others, use onely as those which are made to preserve, vnderprop and fill vp the divisions of the vessels. Besides this we have spoken of glan∣dules in generall, we must know that the Pancreas is a glanduleus, and flesh-like body, * 1.8 as that which hath every where the shape and resemblance of flesh. It is situate at the flat end of the liver, under the Duodenum with which it hath great connexion, and un∣der the gate-veine, to serve as a bulwarke, both to it and the divisions thereof, whilst it fills up the emptie spaces, betweene the vessels themselves, and so hinders, that they be not pluckt asunder, nor hurt by any violent motion, as a fall, or the like.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Substance of the glandules.
• * 1.2

  Quantitie and figure.
• * 1.3

  Composition.
• * 1.4

  Number,
• * 1.5

  Connexion.
• * 1.6

  Temper.
• * 1.7

  Action and use.
• * 1.8

  The substance of the Pancre∣as. The ••ite.