The Figures belonging to the Dugs and Breasts.
αα. The veins of the Dugs which come from those, which descending from the top of the shoulder, are offered to the skin. β. the veins of the Dugs derived from those which through the arm-hole are led into the hand. γ. the body of the Dug or Breast. δδ. the kernels and fat between them. εε. the vessels of the Dugs descending from the lower part of the neck called Jugulum, under the breast-bone.
It hath a middle temper, between hot, and cold, moist and dry. It hath the same use as a mans Praeputium or fore-skin, that is, that together with the Nymphae it may hinder the emeance of the air, by which the womb may be in danger to take cold. The lips of the Privities called by the Greeks 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, by the Latines Alae, contain all that region which is invested with hairs; and because we have faln into mention of these Nymphae, you must know, that they are, as it were, productions of the musculous skin, which descend on both sides, from the upper part of the share-bone downwards; even to the orifice of the neck of the bladder, oft-times growing to so great a bigness, that they will stand out like a man's yard. Wherefore in some, they must be cut off in their young years, yet with a great deal of caution, lest if they be cut too rashly, so great an ef∣fusion of blood may follow, that it may cause, either death to the woman, or barrenness of the womb, by reason of the refrigeration by the too great effusion of blood. The latter Anatomists,