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.

CHAP. III. Of the Brests or Dugs.

THe Brests, as we said, when we spoke of the nature of Glandules,* 1.1 are of a glandulous sub∣stance, white, rare, or spongious; in Maids and Women that do not give suck, they are more solid, and not so large.

Wherefore the bigness of the Dugs is different, although of a sufficient magnitude in all.* 1.2 Their figure is round, somewhat long, and in some sort Pyramidal, Their composure is of the skin, the fleshy Pannicle, Glandules, Fat, Nerves, Veins, and Arteries, descending to them from the Axil∣laris under the Sternon, betwixt the fourth and fifth, and sometimes the sixth of the true ribs.

And there they are divided into infinite rivulets by the interposition of the glandules and fat, by which fit matter may be brought, to be changed into the Milk by the faculty of the Dugs.

We will speak no more of the nature of the Glandules or Kernels, as having treated of them

before;* 1.3 only we will add this, that some of the Glandules have Nerves, as those of the Brests, which they receive from the parts lying under them, that is, from the intercostal, by which it comes to pass, that they have most exquisite sense. Others want a nerve, as those which serve only for division of the vessels, and which have no action, but only use.

They be two in number, on each side one, seated at the sides of the Sternon upon the fourth, fifth, and sixth true ribs.

* 1.4Wherefore they have connexion with the mentioned parts with their body, but by their vessels with all other parts, but especially with the womb by the reliques of the mamillary veins and ar∣teries, which descend down at the sides of the Brest-blade; in which place these veins insinuating themselves through the substance of the Muscles,* 1.5 are a little above the Navel conjoyned with the Epigastricks, whose original is in some sort opposite to the Hypogastricks, which send forth bran∣ches to the womb. By the meeting of these it is more likely that this commerce should arise, than from other, and those almost capillary branches, which are sometimes seen to descend to the Womb from the Epigastrick.

* 1.6They are of a cold and moist temper; wherefore they say, that the blood by being converted into milk,* 1.7 becomes raw, flegmatick and white by the force of the proper flesh of the Dugs. Their action is to prepare nourishment for the new-born Babe, to warm the heart from whence they have received heat,* 1.8 and to adorn the Brest.

By this you may know, that some Glandules have action, others use, and some both. At the top of the Dugs there are certain hillocks,* 1.9 or eminencies called Teats or Nipples, by sucking of which the Child is nourished through certain small and crooked passages, which though they ap∣pear manifest to the sight, whilst you press out the milk by pressing the Dug, yet when the Milk is pressed out, they do not appear, nor so much as admit the point of a Needle, by reason of the crooked ways made by nature in those passages, for this use, that the Milk being perfectly made, should not flow out of its own accord against the Nurse's will. For so the seed is retained and kept for a certain time in the Prostats.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Their sub∣stance.
• * 1.2

  Magnitude. Figure. Composure.
• * 1.3

  Which Glan∣dules have nerves, and which have none.
• * 1.4

  Their con∣nexion.
• * 1.5

  How the brests and womb communicate each with other.
• * 1.6

  Their temper.
• * 1.7

  Recrudescere.
• * 1.8

  Their action and use.
• * 1.9

  The Nipples.