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.

QVEST. V. Of the consent betweene the Chest and the Testicles.

THE Consent betweene the Chest and the Testicles is expressed by Hippo∣crates in three seuerall places. In the first Section of the second Booke Epid. he sayeth, When the Testicle swelleth after a Cough, it calleth to our remembran∣ces the consent or sympathy betweene the Chest, the Breasts, the Seede & the Voice. Againe, in the first Section of the first Booke thus; Many were ouertaken with

dry Coughes, & many of those men long after were troubled with painful inflamations, sometimes in one stone, sometimes in both. Thirdly in the first againe of the second Booke thus: Long and inueterate Coughes doe cease when the Testicles begin to swell. Howe this commeth to passe we will now declare: but first it must be resolued what that diuine old man meant by dry Coughes; not that Cough which is without matter; caused either by a bare distemper as when the winde is at the North, or by the inequality of the rough Artery, or by the sim∣pathy of the sinnewy parts, for how could that breede tumors and Apostemations? But a Cough with a matter, whose cause is either the thinnesse of the matter, which the breath cannot intercept as we cough, but it slideth downe by the sides of the weazon; or else the thicknes of the same which will not follow the constraint of the chest. This matter whither thin or thicke Hippocrates vnderstandeth to be euacuated by Apostemations belowe, and especially in the coddes or testicles: but all the difficulty is, which way this crude matter should passe out of the chest vnto the parts of generation.

There are three sorts of vessels which goe to the Testicles; A Nerue, an Artery, and a veine, all which haue through-passages from the chest to the testicles. First of al, a notable and euident branch of the rib sinnew called Costalis, runneth by the sides of the ribs into the Testicles. A vaine from the non-parill or vn-mated veine of the brest runneth thorough the Midriffe, and determineth into the veine of the Kidney, and the spermaticall veines. As for the Artery, albeit none do come to the great trunke from the Lunges (in whose lappes the matter of the cough doth lye) yet it is not vnreasonable to thinke that the offending hu∣mour may passe by t••e venall ar••ery into the left ventricle of the he••rt, and from thence in∣to the great Artery, and so into his branches; by which way ••lso the matter or pus of pleu∣riticall and Peripneumontcall, or Empyicall patients descendeth, and so is diuersly auoyded by vrine, seidge, or Apostemations in the lower parts; and by this passage also it is more then probable, that the matter should fall out of the chest to the testicles.

Notes

• The consent betweene the Chest and the testicles.

  Three places of Hippocrates expounded.
• What Hipoc.meaneth by a dry cough.
• The wayes by which the hu∣mor must pas out of the chest into the testicles.
• The way of the Nerue.
• The way of the Veine.
• The way of the Arteire.
• The passage of matter tho¦rough the left Ventricle of the heart.