The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latin and compared with the French. by Tho: Johnson. Whereunto are added three tractates our of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, & nerves, with large figures. Also a table of the bookes and chapters.
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The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latin and compared with the French. by Tho: Johnson. Whereunto are added three tractates our of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, & nerves, with large figures. Also a table of the bookes and chapters.
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Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590.
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London :: printed by E: C: and are to be sold by John Clarke at Mercers Chappell in Cheapeside neare ye great Conduit,
1665.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Surgery -- Early works to 1800.
Anatomy -- Early works to 1800.
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"The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latin and compared with the French. by Tho: Johnson. Whereunto are added three tractates our of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, & nerves, with large figures. Also a table of the bookes and chapters." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A55895.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.
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CHAP. XXII. Of the distribution of the Nerves to the natural parts.
IT remains, that before the bowels be taken away, we shew the nerves sent to the entrails and natural parts, that as wise and provident men we may seem to have omitted nothing. First we must know that these nerves are of the sixth Conjugation, which descend as well to the stomach all alongst the Gullet, and the sides thereof, as those at the roots of the ribs on both sides within. But when they are passed through the Midriff, those which are distributed amongst the natural parts follow the turnings of the veins and arteries, but specially of the arteries. Wherefore if you have a mind to follow this distribution of the nerves, you must chiefly look for it in those places, in which the artery is distributed amongst the Guts above the loins.
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These nerves are but small, because the parts, serving for nutrition, needed none but little nerves, for the performance of the third duty of nerves, which is in the discerning and knowing of what is troublesom to them. For, unless they had this sense, there is nothing would hinder, but these bowels, necessary for life, being possessed with some hurtful thing, the creature should presently fall down dead; but we have this benefit by this sense, that as soon as any thing troubles and vellicates the bowels, we being admonished thereof, may look for help in time.
And besides, if they were destitute of this sense, they might be gnawn, ulcerated, and putrified by the raging acrimony of the excrements falling into, and staying in them; but now (by means hereof) as soon as they find themselves pricked, or pluckt, presently by the expulsive faculty they endeavour to expel that which is troublesom, and so free themselves of present and future dangers.
Notes
The origina•• of the nerves which are car∣ried to the natural parts.