Bartholinus anatomy made from the precepts of his father, and from the observations of all modern anatomists, together with his own ... / published by Nich. Culpeper and Abdiah Cole.

Chap. XXV. Of the Parts serving for Generation in Wo∣men, and first of the Sperma∣tick Praeparatory Vessels.

THe Parts serving for Generation in* 1.1 Women, do some of them agree af∣ter a sort with those in Men, as the sper∣matick Vessels, the Stones, and the Vasa deferentia, or Vessels that carry away the Seed. Others are wholly different, as the Womb with its Bottom, Orifice, and Neck, the Hymen, the M••••tle-shap'd Caruncles, the Vulva with its Wings, t•…•…itoris, and the little Hillocks.

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The XXV. TABLE.

The Parts which in Women serve for Generation are represented in this TABLE, in their Natu∣ral Order and Situation; also the internal Structure of a Wo∣mans Dug, is represented in the same TABLE.

The Explication of the FIGURE.

• AA. The Liver in its proper Place.
• B. The Gall-bladder with the Porus bilarius or Gall-passage.
• C. A Part of the Gut Duodenum.
• DD. The Pancreas or Sweet-bread in its proper Situation, through which Vessels go into the Spleen.
• E. The Body of the Spleen.
• FF. The descendent Trunk of Vena cava with its Branchings.
• GG. The descendent Trunk of the great Artery, which is variously branched beneath.
• HH. The Emulgent Vessels.
• II. The true Kidneys.
• KK. The Auxiliary or Deputy Kidneys.
• LL. The Ureters going down to the Bladder.
• MM. The Bottom of the Piss-bladder.
• N. The Insertion of the Uracbus into the bot∣tom thereof.
• O. A Portion of the Arse-gut.
• PP. Praeparatory Vessels from both sides.
• Q. The Rise of the Praeparatory Vessels from the Trunk.
• R. The Place where the Trunks of the Cava and Aorta do branch themselves, where an Artery goes over a Vein.
• SS. Portions of the Navil-arteries.
• T. The Bottom of the Womb.
• VV. The Womans Stones.
• XX. Vessels which carry the Seed from their Stones to the Womb.
• ZZ. The Trumpets of the Womb, by Fallopius so called, or the blind Passage of the Seed.
• YY. The two upper Ligaments of the Womb, resembling the Wings of Batts or Flitter-mice.
• aa. The two lower Ligaments of the Womb, round, cut off from the Share.
• bb. The Hollow of the Flank-bone or Os Ilij, which is in Women larger then in Men.

The Characters of the Dug explained.

• ccc. Vessels spred over the Surface of the Dug.
• d. The greatest and middlemost Kernel.
• e. The Nipple.

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For we must not think with Galen, Archangelus, Fal∣lopius, and others, that these Female Genital Members, differ from those of Men only in Situation. Which O∣pinion was hatched by those who accounted a Woman to be only an imperfect Man; and that her Genital Members could not be thrust out by reason of the coldness of her temper; as in Men they are thrust out by vertue of their greater Heat.

Howbeit, the generative Parts in Women differ from those in Men, not only in Situation, but in their uni∣versal Fabrick, in respect of Numbe••▪ Surface, Mag∣nitude, Cavity, Figure, Office, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 suffici∣ently manifest to a skilful 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to any 〈◊〉〈◊〉 that will compare what follows to what went before.

And the falsity of their Opinion is* 1.2 sufficiently apparent, by means of the sundry Conjectures which they bring. For some liken the Womb to the Cod of a Man, and some to the Nut of the Yard. Some will have the Neck of the Womb to answer the Mans Yard, and others will have the Clitoris. Which Conceits falling to the ground by their own weakness, I shall proceed to ex∣plain the Parts.

The Spermatick praeparatory Vessels* 1.3 in Women agree with those of Men,

in their Number, Original, and Office, &c. I must now therefore only tell you wherein they differ.

They differ first in Magnitude. These Vessels in women are shorter, because* 1.4 of the short way they are to go, but therefore they have many turnings and windings which make up the Corpus va∣ricosum: to the end the seed may stay long enough to receive due preparation. In the next place they differ in their Implantation. For in women they are not totally carried to the stones, but they are divided in the middle way: and the greater part goes to the stone, and makes the Corpus varicosum, and the lesser part ends into the womb, into whose sides it is disseminated, es∣pecially to the upper part of the bottom, for to nou∣rish the Womb and the Child therein; and that by those Vessels some part of the menstrual blood may be purged forth in such as are not with Child. For the lesser branch being tripartite, is below the stone divi∣ded into three branches, one of which, as was said, runs out into the womb, the other is distributed to the defe∣rent Vessel or Trumper of the Womb, and to the round Ligament; the third branch creeping along the side of the Womb through the common Membrane, ends near the trueneck of the womb, insinuating it self also among the Hypogastrick Veins, with which and the Arteries, they are joyned by Anastomoses. Of which see Zerbus, Fallopius, Platerus, and others, who have shewn Riolanus and my self the way. That is a rare case, which is fi∣gured out by Beslerus, viz. for the spermatick Arteries to be joyned by way of Anastomosis with the Emul∣gent Artery. For this cause in women these Vessels go not out of the Peritonaeum, nor reach to the Share∣bone: because the Stones and Womb are seated with∣in.

These seminal Veins and Arteries are intertwined with many wonderful Anastomoses, for the preparati∣on of seed. Yea and the Veins do receive into them∣selves the Hypogastrick Arteries of the Womb, accor∣ding to the Observation of Arantius and Riolanus. Yet I remember the Arteries were wanting in a woman that had bore male Children, and Franciscus Zanchez relates how they were turned into stone in a woman of To∣louse.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The Genitals in Women quite diffe∣rent from those in men.
• * 1.2

  The similitude of the Yard and of the Womb ridiculous.
• * 1.3

  The praeparatory Vessels in women.
• * 1.4

  How they dif∣fer from those in Men.