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. VIII. Of the Buttocks, Haunches, and Secret-Members.

THese are the lower parts of the Womb or Bel∣ly, and are adjoyning to the Thighs and Se∣cret Members. Herein is to be noted the parts containing, the parts contained, and the parts pro∣ceeding outwards; the pacts containing are My∣rac, Syfac, Zarbus, and Bones; the parts contain∣ed are the Vesick or Bladder, the spermatick vessels, the Matrix, and Vulva in Women; the Longoan, the Yard, Testicles, or Stones and Cods in men, Nerves, Veines, and Arteries, descending down∣wards, the Buttocks and Muscles descending to the Thighes: of which in order.

First of the parts containing, as Myrac, Syfac, and Zirbus, of which it is spoken already; but as for the bones of the Haunches, there be of the parts

of the back three spondels of ossasacri, or the Haun∣ches; and three Cartaliginis spondels of ossa cau∣dt, or the Tayle bone: Thus there is in every man thirty spondels, viz. in the neck seven, in the ridge twelve, in the reins five, in the Haunches six; and every spondell is hollow in the midst, through which spondell passeth Nuca from the braine, or the marrow of the back, and each of these spon∣dels are bound fast one with another, so that one of them may not well be named without another: And all these spondels together contained one by another, is called the ridge bone, which is the foundation of the shape of the body. They bee joyned to the bones of the haunches, and be the upholders of all the spondels; and these bones bee small towards the Tayle bone, and broad towards the Haunches, and before they are joyned and make os pectenis, each of these two bones towards the Liver, hath a great round hole, into which is received the bone called vertebra, or the whirle bone: also besides that place, there is a great hole or way, through which passeth from above musculus veins and Arteries, and goe into the thighs. And thus of this bone Pecten, and of vertebra, is formed the Juncture of the thigh.

Now concerning the parts contained, the first is the bladder a member officiall compound of two nervous pannicles, in complexion cold and dry;

the neck of the bladder is carnons, and hath mus∣cles to with-hold, and to let goe, and in man it is long, contained with the yard, passing through peritonium, but in women it is shorter, and is con∣tained within the vulva. It is placed in men be∣tween the bone of the share and longoan, and in women between the said bone and the matrix; and in it are implanted two long vessels comming from the kidneys, called porri, urickides, bringing with them the urine or water from the kidneys to the bladder, which privily entreth into the holes of the pannicles of the bladder, by a naturall mo∣eing between Tunicle and Tunicle, and there the urine findeth the hole of the nether Tunicle, and there it entreth privily into the holes of the conca∣vity of the bladder, and the more the bladder is filled with the urine, the straighter the holes there∣of be comprised together: and the holes of the Tunicles be not one even against another, therefore if the bladder be never so full, there can none goe back againe: The forme of it is round, in some bigger, and in some lesse.

There is also two other vessels called Vasa semi∣uaria, or the spermatick vessels, and they come from Venakelis, bringing bloud to the Testicles, aswell in man as in women, which by the further digestion of the Stones or Testicles is made Sperm or Nature: In men they be put outward, for their Testicles hang without, and in women they be in∣ward,

for their Testicles stand within. Next fol∣loweth the matrix in women, which is an officiall member, compound and nervous, cold and dry in complexion, it is the field of mans generation, it is an instrument susceptive, that is receiving or taking, for as the Adamant draweth or attracteth the Iron, so the matrix draweth in the seed of man, and Aristotle maketh mention of a Maid that stan∣ding in a Bath where some seed of man had been spilt, drew it unto her and conceived thereby; her proper place is between the Bladder and Longoan, the similitude or likeness of it, as it were a yard reversed or turned inward, having Testicles like∣wise within as aforesaid, and is outwardly adorned with haires, in them that be of ripe age; it hath two concavities or Cells, it also hath a long neck like a Urinall, and in every neck it hath a mouth, one within, and another without; the inner in the time of conception is shut, and the outer open as it was before; it hath in the midst a Lazartus pan∣nicle called Tengito, wherein is two utilities, the first is, by it goeth forth the urine which else would be shed throughout all the vulva. 2. By it the Ayre that commeth to the matrix is altered and the heat tempered.

Furthermore, in the Concavity of this neck is many involutions and pleats, joyned together in the manner of Rose leaves, before they be fully spread or blowne, and they be shut together like a

purse mouth, so that nothing may passe forth but urine untill the time of Childing. Also about the middle of this purse be certaine veins in maidens which in time of deflowring be corrupted and bro∣ken, and these are called the Tokens of Virginity. Furthermore in the sides of the outer mouth, are two Testicles or stones, and two vessels of sperme, shorter then mans vessels, and in time of Coyt or copulation, the womans sperme is shed down in∣to the bottome of the matrix, also from the Liver there commeth to the matrix many veins, bring∣ing nutriment to the child, when a woman is with child, and those veines, when the matrix is voyd, bring thereto superfluities from certain members of the body, whereof are ingendred wo∣mens flowers, &c.

Now in the matrix, which is the field of gene∣ration, is sowne by the tillage of man, a convena∣ble matter of kindly heat, which seed of genera∣tion commeth from all parts of the body, both of man and woman, with the consent of all the mem∣bers, and is shed in the place of conceiving, and by the vertue of nature, is gathered together in the Cels of the matrix, in whom by the working of the mans seed, and by the suffering of the wo∣mans seed mixt together, is ingendred Embryon. And further it is to be noted, that this sperme that commeth both to man and woman, is made of the most pure drops of bloud in all the body, and by 〈2 pages missing〉〈2 pages missing〉

The Cods is a compound member, and officiall, and as a purse ordained for the custody and com∣fort of the stones, and other spermatick vessells, it is made of two parts, the inner and the outer, the outer is compound made of skin and Lazartus, lon∣gitudinall and transversall, as the Myrach, the inner part of the Cods is of the substance as the Syfac, and in similitude as two pockets drawn together, they differ not from the Syfac; and there be two, if there fall any hurt to the one, the other should serve; the stones be two, made of glandulus or carnelly flesh, and through the Didimus commeth from the braine to the stones sinnewes, and from the heart Arteries, and from the Liver veins, which bringeth unto them both feeling and stirring life and spirit, and nutrimentall bloud, and the purest bloud of all other members of the body, whereof is made the sperme, by the labour of the Testicles or stones ut supra.

The groyns be the emy Junctures, or purging places unto the Liver, and they have carnelly flesh in the plying or bowing of the thighs.

The hips have great brawny flesh on them, and from thence descend downwards Brawns, Cords, and Ligaments, moving and binding together the thighes with the Buttocks or hanches themselves.