Mikrokosmographia a description of the body of man. Together vvith the controuersies thereto belonging. Collected and translated out of all the best authors of anatomy, especially out of Gasper Bauhinus and Andreas Laurentius. By Helkiah Crooke Doctor of Physicke, physitian to His Maiestie, and his Highnesse professor in anatomy and chyrurgerie. Published by the Kings Maiesties especiall direction and warrant according to the first integrity, as it was originally written by the author.

CHAP. I. A distribution of the naturall parts contained in the lower Belly.

HAuing already intreated of the Inuesting or Cōtayning parts of the lower region or nether Belly, it followeth now that we continue our discourse to the parts contayned also. These are of double vse, for either they serue for nourishment, or for generation; those that be∣long to generation and propagation of the kinde, we refer vnto the * 1.1 next Booke. The nourishing parts doe either perfect the Chylus which we call Chilification, or the bloud which wee call Sanguifica∣tion. For the first, some make and concoct the Chylus, as the stomacke; some helpe and further this concoction, as the Kell and the Sweet-bread; others put to the last hand of perfection, and then distribute it, as the small guts; others receiue and auoyde the grosse and thicke excrements, as the great Guts, and these together with the smal, are fastned vn∣to the Mesenterie.

For Sanguification, some parts sucke the Chylus out of the Guts, alter it and giue it a certaine rudiment or tincture of bloud, as the Meseraicke veines, which also carry it by the Port veine, vnto the gate of the Liuer, and thence into the substance thereof, where it re∣ceiueth the perfection of bloud. Others when it is thus perfected, doe distribute it into the whole body, as the hollow veine by his faire forked branches. Others receiue the ex∣crements, either yelow choller, as the Bladder of Gall, and that which wee call Porus Bi∣liarius, and conueyeth it into the Guttes; or blacke and feculent choler, as the spleene or Milt, in which it receiueth a farther concoction, and the more laudable part it reserueth for his owne nourishment, but the very Lees it sendeth away either vpward vnto the sto∣macke by a short vessell called Vas breue, where it becommeth the Appetites remembran∣cer; or downward to the Haemorrhoidall veines. Finally, the serous or wheyie part of the bloud is still destilled away by the Kidneyes, wherein there is a segregation or separation made of that whey or vrine from the bloud; the bloud remayning behind for the nourish∣ment of the Kidneyes, but the whey is deriued by the vreters into the bladder, from

whence it is deliuered out by the Conduite.

Of all which parts we will entreat as I said before, according to the order of Dissection, beginning with the Kell or Omentum.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The parts be∣longing to nutrition.

  To chilificati∣on.

  Stomack.

  Kell.

  Sweet bread.

  Guts.

  Mensentery.

  To sanguifi∣cation.

  Meseraicke Veines.

  Gate veine.

  Liuer.

  Hollow vein.

  Parts auoy∣ding the ex∣crements.

  The bladder of gall.

  The spleene.

  Vas breue.

  Haemorroid veines.

  Kidneyes.

  Vreters.

  Bladder and yarde.