The compleat midwifes practice, in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man. Containing perfect rules for midwifes and nurses, as also for women in their conception, bearing, and nursing of children: from the experience not onely of our English, but also the most accomplisht and absolute practicers among the French, Spanish, Italian, and other nations. A work so plain, that the weakest capacity may easily attain the knowledge of the whole art. With instructions of the midwife to the Queen of France (given to her daughter a little before her death) touching the practice of the said art.
Chamberlayne, Thomas., Boursier, Louise Bourgeois, ca. 1563-1636.
CHAP. II. Of the Parastatae, or vessels where the bloud is first changed.
THese four vessels after many ingraftings and knittings together, seem at length to become onely two bodies, full of little crumplings like the tendril of a vine, white and in the form of a Piramid, resting the right upon the right stone, & the left up∣on the left stone. These are called Parastatae, which as they stand pierce the tunicles of each stone with cer∣tain fibers or extraordinary small veines, which af∣terwards dispearse themselves through the body of those stones. The substance of these Parastatae is be∣tween that of the stones and that of the preparing vessels; for they neither altogether consist of Mem∣branes, neither are they altogether Glandulous or kernelly.
