The remaining medical works of that famous and renowned physician Dr. Thomas Willis ...: Viz I. Of fermentation, II. Of feavours, III. Of urines, IV. Of the ascension of the bloud, V. Of musculary motion, VI. Of the anatomy of the brain, VII. Of the description and uses of the nerves, VIII. Of convulsive diseases : the first part, though last published, with large alphabetical tables for the whole, and an index ... : with eighteen copper plates / Englished by S.P. esq.

The Eleventh Table

Shews the lower Branchings out of the wandring and the Intercostal Pair distributed to the Ventricle and the Viscera of the Abdomen; also the beginnings of the Ver∣tebral Nerves, which are placed over against the former, and are ingraffed into some of them. The Figure of these in Man and in four-footed Beasts is almost alike, so that this Table may be common for both.

• A. The lower Stomachical Branch which is made up out of the internal branches of each wandring pair, being united together, and covering the bottom of the Ventricle, dis∣perses shoots on every side in the whole tract.
• B. The upper Stomachical Branch which is made out of the external branches of the wan∣dring pair, on either side united together, and creeps through the top of the Ventricle.
• C. The Coalition or joyning together of the Branches.
• D. The nervous Infolding out of the Fibres of both the Stomachical nerves, being united together nigh the Orifice, and as it were woven into a Net.
• a.a. The ends of both the Stomachical nerves which there meet with the nerves of the Li∣ver, and communicate with them.
• E.E. The Intercostal nerve descending on either side nigh the roots of the Ribs, and in its whole descent receiving a branch from the several Vertebral nerves ε.ε.
• F. A branch going out of the Nerve of the left intercostal side, and sent down towards the Mesenterick infoldings.
• G. The same Mesenterick nerve becoming forked, sends out the greater branch into the infolding, which is the Stomachical and Splenetick, and the lesser into that belonging to the Reins.
• H. The like Mesenterick branch going out of the intercostal nerve on the right side, and inclining towards the Mesenterick infolding.
• I. The greater Branch of this nerve becoming in like manner twofold, the greater branch going into the Hepatick, and the lesser into the Renal infolding, or that belonging to the Kidneys.
• ♄. The chief Mesenterick Infolding of the left side, which is also the Stomachical and Lienary, or belonging to the Spleen; out of which many little bundles of Nerves or nu∣merous Conjugations are sent out many ways.
• ♃. The Renal Mesenterick Infolding of the left side, into which, besides the Mesenterick shoot,
• β.β. two other Nerves are carried immediately out of the Intercostal nerve.
• γ.γ.γ. From this Infolding, planted near the Bilary Chest, many Nerves and Fibres are sent into the Kidney.
• δ.δ. Nerves and Fibres by which this infolding communicates with the greatest infolding of the Mesentery.
• ζ. The chief bundle of Nerves tending out of the former infolding ♄. into the Spleen, which it having reached, reflects from thence certain Fibres into the bottom of the Ven∣tricle.
• n. The second Conjugation of the Nerves from the aforesaid infolding into the bottom of the Belly, whose Fibres communicate with the shoots and fibres of the lower Stoma∣chical nerve.
• τ. The third Conjugation of Nerves between this infolding and the neighbouring He∣patick ♂.
• ι. The fourth Conjugation of the Nerves between this and the greatest infolding of the Mesentery ☉.
• ♀. The Renal Mesenterick Infolding of the right side, into which (as in its fellow) besides the Mesenterick branch,
• K.K. two nerves are produced from the intercostal nerve.
• λ. The Nerves and Fibres between this infolding and the greatest of the Mesentery.
• μ. A noted Branch between this infolding and the neighbouring Hepatick.
• v. A noted Company of Nerves and Fibres from this infolding into the Kidney, which climb over the emulgent Vessels, and variously bind them about.
• ♂. The superior Mesenterick Infolding of the right side.
• ο. A great Conjugation of Nerves out of this Infolding into the Liver and Gall-Chest,

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• out of which also many shoots are distributed into the Pylorus and Pancreas. The Nerves and Fibres of this, in its ascent towards the Liver, cover the Hepatick Ar∣tery, by making as it were a little Net, and almost hide its trunk. The shoots of these meet with the tops of the Stomachical nerve α.α.
• π.π. Shoots distributed about the Pylorus.
• p p. Other shoots dispersed into the Pancreas.
• ς.ς. Nerves reaching out between this Infolding and the greatest of the Mesentery. This infolding communicates with the neighbouring Renal by μ. and with the Stomachical by τ.
• ☉. The greatest Mesenterick infolding out of which a mighty bundle of Nerves ...... arising under the great Glandula of the Mesentery, from thence is dispersed on every side about into many shoots and branches, and they are distributed into all the Inte∣stines, except the straight Intestine. The Nerves and Fibres reaching out on every side, are knit to the Mesenterick Arteries and Veins in its whole compass, and va∣riously strain and bind them about.
• τ.τ. Nervous shoots from this Infolding into the Womens testicles, or the uterine Glandu∣la's, which meet with the branches of the Vertebral nerves of the twentieth and one and twentieth pair sent into the same parts, and are inoculated with them.
• v.v. The Vertebral branches into the Womens testicles.
• ☽. The lowest Infolding of the Mesentery placed much below the former, and having for its beginning three nerves on either side arising lower from the Intercostals.
• φ.φ.φ. Three Nerves on either side sent down from the intercostal nerve into the lowest in∣folding of the Mesentery.
• χ.χ. A Nerve stretching out of that Infolding directly into the greatest infolding of the Mesentery, which in its passage receives on both sides some shoots from the intercostal nerve, viz. 4. 4. 5. 5. 5. and it self sends two shoots into the Womens testicles.
• ψ.ψ. Two branches from the aforesaid Nerve into the Womens testicles.
• ☿. Another small Infolding standing a little above this lowest.
• ω. A nervous Process reaching out of the aforesaid lowest Infolding into the neighbouring very little infolding.
• a. From the least Infolding ☿. a noted nerve being carried into the greatest infolding of the Mesentery, which in its whole ascent stretches under the straight Intestine and part of the Colon, and inserts frequent shoots into them.
• b. Another Branch sent from the same Infolding downward, which stretches under the lower part of the same straight Intestine, and imparts to it frequent shoots.
• C.C. Two Nerves sent downward from the lowest infolding of the Mesentery ☽, which being sent down into the Bason about the lowest cavity of the Belly, enter the two in∣foldings there K.K. viz. one placed in either side.
• K K. A double Infolding placed within the Bason, whose nerves provide for the several ex∣cretions there made, viz. of the Ʋrine, Dung, and Seed; these send out nerves d.d. towards the lowest Mesenterick infolding.
• d.d. A nerve ascending from the aforesaid Infolding on either side, nigh the sides of the straight Intestine, inserts shoots into it; which double infolding, another nerve de∣scending (b) from the least infolding, meets with.
• ε.ε. Two Nerves from the same Infolding into the Womb.
• f. A nerve from the same Infolding into the Bladder.
• g. A nerve into the Glandules Prostatae.
• h. A nerve out of the Root of the eighth and twentieth Vertebral pair into the muscles of the Anus.
• i. The nine and twentieth Vertebral pair, from which
• k. goes a Nerve into the Sphincter, and the other muscles of the Anus.
• l. A noted nerve on both sides from that pair into the Yard.
• m. Another shorter Branch into the muscles of the Yard.
• L.L. The intercostal nerve below the Reins.
• m. A little nerve from the Vertebral branch into the Cremasteral muscle of a Mans Testicles.
• n. The one and twentieth Vertebral pair; the beginning of which being placed behind the Kidneys, lyes hid. From this Nerve very many shoots are sent out on both sides into the testicles of the female Sex, which meet with other Mesenterick shoots, distributed to the same part.

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• o. A Nerve from the two and twentieth Vertebral pair, out of which also are some shoots sent into the Womans testicles.
• p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p.p. Nerves destinated for the thigh, of which those that arise higher, re∣ceive in their descent branches from the nerves arising lower.
• q. The intercostal Nerves inclining mutually one to the other, near the beginning of the Os Sacrum, communicate by the cross Process 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• r. Another cross Process within the crookedness of the Os Sacrum knitting together the two intercostal nerves.
• s. Both the intercostal Nerves ending in most small fibres, which fibres are distributed into the very Sphincter of the Anus.
• t. A Nerve from the twenty fourth Vertebral pair, which is carried into the inguinal Glandula's or of the Groyn.
• v.v.v. &c. Shoots sent down from the intercostal Nerve on both sides into the body of the Ʋreters.
• x. A Nerve which is destinated to the Testicles and the Cremasteral Muscle, cut off where it goes out of the Abdomen.