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. III. Of the Parastatae.

THE Parastatae, so called because they stand by the sides of the Testicles, are also called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, because they are placed aboue the Testicles. They * 1.1 are bodies scituate without the Abdomen in the scrotum or Cod, set vpon the Testicles [Tab. 1 ^•. Table ii, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] (to which they are alike both in nature and vse,) as yet wrapped in their inmost [Table 1 fig. 1. ^X. Table ii, ζ] coate for their bet∣ter safegard and defence, and are firmely tied to their head and bottome, but disioyned in * 1.2 the middle. These parastatae do arise from the spirie bodden body [Table 1, ^c. Table ii, ♌] by continuation, and creepe obliquely backward and downward to the basis or bottom of the testicle, and from thence are reflected or turned backe againe vpward [Tab. 1. figu. ii, γ α β] but without connexion or copulation, and being rowled as it were into a round orbe, carry the forme of the tendrill of a vine crumpled vp together: wherefore Galen out of Herophy∣lus, * 1.3 calleth them 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, in his 14. Booke de vsu partium, and the 11. & 13: chap∣ters. For they are white, long, thicke, and rounde, distinguished with certaine surfles or * 1.4 conuolutions like a wood-worm, and by degrees become narrower, determining on both sides into the Vas deferens or Leading vessell which is like a round sinnew. Some there be as Vesalius and Platerus, who would rather haue them to be the beginning of these Vasa de∣ferentia

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Table 2. sheweth the lower Belly with the Share-bones par∣ted, that the vesselles which serue for generation might the more plainly appeare.

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TABVLA II.

• a a A part of the midriffe and of the Perito∣naeum with the ribs broken.
• bb cc The Conuex or gibbous part of the Liuer marked with bb. the hollowe or concauous part with cc.
• d e The right and left ligaments of the Li∣uer.
• f The trunk of the gate veine cut off.
• g The trunke of the hollow veine.
• h l The fatty veines both left and right.
• i The ascent of the great artery aboue the hollow veine, & the diuision thereof.
• k The Caeliacall artery.
• m n The emulgent vessels.
• oo pp The fat tunicles or coates torne from both the kidneyes.
• qq The vreters that goe vnto the bladder.
• t u The right spermatical veine which ari∣seth neare to u.
• x y The double original of the left sperma∣ticall veine x from the emulgent, y from the hollow veine.
• α The originall of the spermaticall arteries.
• β Certaine branches from the spermaticke arteries which run vnto the Peritonaeum.
• γ The passage of the spermaticall vesselles through the productions of the Peritonae¦um, which must bee obserued by such as vse to cut for the Rupture.
• ♌ The spirie bodden bodies entrance into the testicle, it is called Corpus varicosum piramidale.
• 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 The Parastatae.
• 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 The stone or testicle couered with his in∣most coate.
• 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 The descent of the leading vessel called Vas deferens.
• y V The Bladder.
• * The right gut.
• 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 The glandules called Prostatae into which the leading vessels are inserted. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 The muscle of the bladder. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Two bodies of the yard 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 his vessels. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 The coate of the Testicle. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 The muscle of the Testicle 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 his vessels 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

or Leading vessels. And because their substance is a little more folid then that of * 1.5 the Testicles, they are esteemed to be of a middle nature betweene the vessels and the testi∣cles, that is harder then the latter, and softer then the former.

These Parastatae are also on their outside membranous and neruous, and where they are without conuolutions smooth they are and euen, but within glandulous, and if they be cut they appeare fongous or spongy as if they consisted of many small glandules. But when they are separated and remoued from the coate of the testicle, as they may easily bee with a sharpe knife, then are they vnequall. They haue no pores or passages to bee seen in them; yet there bee that thinke (Vesalius among the rest) that they haue small pipes continuated * 1.6 with the Testicles, through which the spermaticke power ariueth vnto them out of the Te∣sticles.

Their vse is either to hinder the seede not yet sufficiently laboured from falling downe out of the preparing into the leading vessels, or to labour the prepared seede to a further * 1.7 degree of perfection by the helpe of an irradiation they haue from the testicles. For they are often found full of seede, so that they may bee called not amisse, little stones. Againe, they serue to temper and moderate the ouer frequent motion of inordinate concupisence, as Aristotle conceiueth in his first Booke de generatione Animal. Cap. 4.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Their scitua∣tion.
• * 1.2

  Their origi∣nall.
• * 1.3

  Galen.
• * 1.4

  Their forme.
• * 1.5

  Their sub∣stance.
• * 1.6

  Vesalius.
• * 1.7

  The vse of the Parastatae.