6 ‘CULPEPER’s "ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
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(;Qhrei hake: INTERIOR PART Siosirwe HEAD. . 
~The fenfitive faculty hi its refidence in the pia mater; it is that which | gives : 
virtue to all the particular fenfes, and keeps a harmony amongft them: they are five 
in number, viz. fecing, hearing, fmelling, tafting, and feeling; although thefe 
. are all united in. one in the brain, yet operatively they are. diftinguifhed in their 
Aeveral feats and. places of refidence. 
The sicut refides in the, eyes, and particularly in the chryftalline humour; they 
are two in number, and collateral, planted in the higheft ftage, or centinels ; they 
are the luminaries of the microcofm ; Galen fays, the brain and head were made for 
the eye, thatthey might be in the higheft, as a beholder in a tower; they are next 
in Nature unto the foul; for in the eye is feen and known the difturbances and 
griefs, gladnefs and j joys, of the foul, as love, wrath, and other paffions ; they are 
compounded and made of feven tunicles, or coats, and three humours ; they pro- 
ceed out of the fubftance, they take a panicle to defend it from annoyance. They 
meet and are united into one finew, about half an inch in length before they enter 
the fkull, and after divided into two, each goeth into one eye; they are called wervi 
opiiti, the optic nerves, and through thefe are brought the vifble fpirits to the eye. © 
__ Thefe are the moft noble outward parts of the body, in beauty, utility, mobility, ; 
and activity, They are to the vifage that which the. vifage is to the body, they are 
: ‘the face of the face, and, becaufe they are tender, delicate, and precious, they are 
fenced. onall fides with fkins, lids, brows, and hair. The objeét of the eye or fight 
ds colour (according to the common opinion), which is an adherent quality in bodies, 
whereof there are fix fimples, as white, yellow, red, purple, green, and blue; the 
compounds are infinite; to {peak more fully, the true object is light, which i is 
“never without colour, and without which the colours are invifible. ne Le 
=o “The fenfe of feeing excelleth all the reft in many things; it apprehendeth father 
off, and €2 extendeth i itfelf even to the ftars. It is certainly reported, ‘that Strabo 
sh acute eyes, that from Lilideum he. could difcern fhips going forth of 
Mesh rth ginian haven, | and could number them ; the diftance was one “hundred 
and, thirt ty-five miles. . It hath more variety of objects, for to all things, and gene- 
tally in all, there is a light and colour, the objects of the eyes, as I hinted before. 
Ie ismofte <s ifite,, for i it is moft exadt, in the leaft and fineft thing that rele 
itfelf. Atismore ‘prompt ; and fudden, for it apprehendeth even in a moment, | and 
without motion, when the other fenfés require motion and time. Tt enjoyeth 2 
tiberty incomparable t to others; the eye feeth, or feeth not, and ernipeee ee 
