Mikrokosmographa. A description of the little-world, or, body of man, exactly delineating all the parts according to the best anatomists. With the severall diseases thereof. Also their particular and most approved cures. / by R.T. doctor of physick.

CHAP. IV. Of the Neck.

THe neck followeth next to be spoken of, which is contained between the head and the shoulders, and between the chin and the breast; in the neck be seven spondels, the first joyned un∣to the lower part of the head, and every spondell in like manner, the last of the seven is joyned unto the ridge of the back, and the ligaments that keep these spondels together are not so hard and tough as the ligaments of the back, but more feeble and subtle, because of the often moving of the neck; out of these seven spondels there spring seven pair of sinews, which be divided into the head, the shoulders and the armes: The muskles of the neck (as Gallen saith) are twenty, moving the head and the neck; the third part of the neck is called gut∣ter, which is the standing out of the throat bell, the fourth part gula, and the hinder part cernix so called, because of the marrow that commeth to the ridge bones, and it is (as it were) a servant to the brain, and receiveth of the brain the virtue of moving, and sendeth it by sinews to all the mem∣bers of the body: Here also observe, that the way through which the meat passeth, or Isofagus stretcheth from the mouth to the stomack, and is

fastned to the spondels of the neck untill he come to the first spondell, and extendeth forward to the breast, and endeth at the mouth of the stomack; this we sand is compound, consisting of two tuni∣cles or coats, the inner and the outer; the outer tu∣nicle is simple, the inner is compound of musculous longitudinall will, whereby he draweth the meat into the stomack; also it is to be understood that the great veins which passe by the sides of the neck, to the upper part of the head, are called vena organices, of which the incision is dangerous; thus you see the neck is composed of skinny flesh, ligaments, and bones, and is under the dominion of the sign Taurus.