A sure guide, or, The best and nearest way to physick and chyrurgery that is to say, the arts of healing by medicine and manual operation : being an anatomical description of the whol body of man and its parts : with their respective diseases demonstrated from the fabrick and vse of the said parts : in six books ... at the end of the six books, are added twenty four tables, cut in brass, containing one hundred eighty four figures, with an explanation of them : which are referred to in above a thousand places in the books for the help of young artists / written in Latine by Johannes Riolanus ...; Englished by Nich. Culpeper ... and W.R. ...

AN EXPLICATION OF THE TABLE OF THE SEVENTH BRASSE PLATE IN THIS BOOK.

This Table shews the Genitals of Women: First of all in their Natural Scituation; then their several Parts out of their Scituation; Lastly, the Hymen and Zone.

• FIG. I.

  a

  The right preparing Vessels.

  b

  The left preparing Vessels.

  c

  A portion of the right Gut.

  d

  The bottom of the Womb sticking up above the Bladder.

  t

  The Bladder.

• FIG. II.

  A

  The right Glandulae renalis.

  B

  The left Glandulae renalis.

  CC

  The Kindneys on both sides.

  DD

  The right emulgent veins.

  EEE

  The right emulgent arteries.

  FF

  The trunk of the Vena Cava, divided in∣to the right and left Iliack branches.

  G

  The left emulgent vein.

  H

  The left emulgent arteries.

  II

  The right Spermatical vein.

  K

  The right Spermatical artery.

  L

  The left Spermatical artery.

  M

  The left Spermatical vein.

  NN

  The trunk of the great artery divided into the right and left Iliack.

  OO

  Womens Testicles.

  PP

  A portion of the broad Ligament.

  QQQQ

  The Tubae of the Womb, depressed on both sides with the Ligament, that so the Testi∣cles may appear.

  R

  The bottom of the Womb.

  SS

  The round Ligaments of the Womb cut off below.

  T

  The neck of the womb.

  Ʋ

  In the right side, the Hypogastrick vein

  In the left side, the Hypogastrick artery distributed in the Womb.

  Ʋ

  In the right side, the Hypogastrick vein

  In the left side, the Hypogastrick artery distributed in the Womb.

  X

  In the right side, the Hypogastrick artery distributed in the Womb.

  In the left side, the Hypogastrick vein distributed in the Womb.

  X

  In the right side, the Hypogastrick artery distributed in the Womb.

  In the left side, the Hypogastrick vein distributed in the Womb.

  Y

  The passage of the Womb.

  Z

  The Bladder depressed above the Privities.

  aa

  A portion of the Ureters cut off about the Bladder.

  bb

  A portion of the Ʋreters descending cut off about the reins.

  cc

  The preparing Vessels dilated about the te∣sticles.

  dd

  The Vasa deferentia.

• FIG. III.

  AA

  The bottom of the Womb dissected closs.

  BB

  The cavity of the bottom.

  C

  The neck of the Womb.

  D

  The hole in the neck of the Womb of a Woman which hath brought forth.

  EE

  The wrinkled face of the passage of the womb.

  FF

  The round Ligaments of the womb cut off underneath.

• FIG. IV.

  A

  The right testicle.

  BB

  The right Tubae depressed.

  C

  The left testicle.

  bb

  The passages of the testicles of the womb.

  DD

  The left Tubae of the womb.

  E

  The bottom of the womb.

  FF

  The round Ligaments of the womb cut off below.

  G

  The Bladder inserted to the passage of the womb and stretched upwards.

  HH

  Portions of the Ureters.

  II

  The two musculous parts of the Clytoris.

  K

  The body it self of the Clytoris.

• FIG. V.

  A

  The head of the Clytoris slicking out under the skin.

  BB

  The external Lips of the Privities drawn aside.

  CC

  The Alae or Nymphae drawn aside.

  D

  The Caruncle of the passage of Ʋriue besides (a)

  EE

  The two fleshy productions like Myrile Leaves.

  FF

  The Membranous containing of the chink.

• FIG. VI.

  A

  The Membrane drawn cross the Privities vulgarly taken for the Hymen.

• FIG. VII.

  A

  The Privities of a yong Girl, in which the signification is the same as in the fift figure.

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