THE Carotides or sleepy Arteries [Tab. 16. X Y] being on both sides one, doe accompany the Iugular veines by the sides of the neck, and cleaning to the * 1.1 Rough artery ascend vnto the head, and when they come vnto the Chops they are deuided [Tab. 16. ss] into an vtter branch [g] and an inner, [h] the di∣stribution of the inner we had in the former Chapter.
The vtter which is smaller then the inner and consisteth without the Choppes, len∣deth surcles to the Cheeks [l] and to the muscles of the Face, afterward when it commeth vnto the roote of the Eare [m] it is deuided into twaine, one of which runneth to the back∣side of the Eare, [o] from which two arteries vnder the Eare doe passe into the neather Iaw, & throughout the length thereof are dispersed vnto the roots of all the lower teeth, another part of it breaking out through a hole at the Chinne runneth along the Lip; ano∣ther yet [n] creepeth vp the Temples and the forehead, and is consumed into the muscles of the Face. Of the Arteries of the Eyes we haue spoken before in the former Chapter, as also of the Nose; of the Teeth a little before, whence it is that wee often finde pulsing or beating paines in them, such as wee feele in inflamations of fleshy partes, and this was * 1.2 Galens obseruation in the 8. chapter of his fift Book de compositione medicamentorum secun∣dam loca, who found in himselfe not onely the paine of his Teeth, but also their beating or pulsation, wherefore he affirmeth confidently that there is one kinde of paine in the gums and another in the substance of the Tooth, and without the inflamation of the Gummes * 1.3 sometime in the proper body of the Tooth, sometimes in the Nerue paines doe perplex vs. And truely if there were no Artery at the roote of the Teeth, how could it bee that when a Tooth is perforated, so much cleare and perfect bloud should yssue out from it? * 1.4 Which as Eustachius sayth he obserued in a man who had so great a fluxe of bloud from his tooth that almost powred out his life therewith.
Finally, which wee also partly remembred before, from the greater and inner bough of the sleepy artery which runneth vnder the Choppes, some surcles are communicated to the Throttle and Tongue to conuay vnto them life and heat: and thus much of the di∣uarication of the Soporary or sleepy arteries both without the Scull and within: it remay∣neth that we should entreat of the Axillary and Crurall arteries, as they are distributed in∣to the ioynts, but we will begin with the Axillarie.