i8 CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
The vafa preparentia, the preparing veffels, and va/a deferentia, carrying veflels, are 
_ of the fame nature and office as they are in men; they differ only in this, that they 
are fomewhat fhorter, having a fhorter way to go, the tefticles being within the belly 
in women: but, left the fhortnefs of the paffage fhould hinder their operation, God 
and nature have fo provided, that they are more twifted and interwoven than they 
are inmen, that they may the better mingle the blood and vital {pirit. 
Thus have I given you.a fhort defcription of man, the mafter-piece of God’s 
~ workmanfhip; and in whom is comprifed a fmall draught of all things in the uni- 
verfe. Inman, asin a perfpective glafs, may our mother-earth with her innumera- 
ble offspring be difcovered ; in him may the unruly and reftlefs waves of the ocean 
‘be delineated: nor doth he only epitomize the elemental world, but alfo the celef- 
_ tials in him are difcovered the prudent, majeftical, fumptuous, magnificent, honour- 
| able, affable, and humane, folar quality : the un{teadfatt, timorous, foon-daunted, oft- 
_ changing, and fhifting, temper, among men, an{wers to the various motions of the 
ne low and oft-changing Luna. Others in profundity of imagination, refervednefs of 
words, aufterity of actions, &c. are a fit portrait of the melancholy planet Saturn. _ 
There are yet a few in the world who are faithful lovers of fair dealing, beneficent 
to all men, doing glorious, honourable, and religious, actions 5 juft, wife, prudent, 
virtuous, &c. of the temper of benevolent Jupiter. There are (in our apprehen- 
fions) too many of the Martial temper, who are valiant lovers of wars, frays, and 
commotions, fubject to no reafon, bold, confident, willingly obeying nobody, &c. 
Nor is Venus excluded thofe -people’s affections who love mirth in words and 
actions, mufical, delighting in venery, drinking, and merry-meetings, who trouble 
not themfelves with ftate-affairs, nor are inquifitive after armies or navies. Nor is 
Mercury without his party among us, who are fubtile and politic, excellent difpu- 
tants and logicians, fharp-witted, and able to learn any thing, men of unwearied 
_ fancies, and fit for any employment, yet unconftant. The planetary influence in'the 
_ good or ill difpofition of the air is lively reprefented in man. A ‘healthy: fanguine 
| _ cenftitution, or a delicate compofure of heat and moifture, anfwers toa ferene and 
4 air, with feafonable moiftening dews and fhowers, which are the {weet 
infence of the Sun, Jupiter, and Venus. The feverith, hot, and parching, diftem- 
pers of the body, anfwer to the hot and fcorching weather occafioned by the fiery 
beams of Mars, _ Nor is the cold, chilly, melancholy, weeping, and lamenting, dif- i 
amn.of pat people, lefs reprefented by the melancholy, dark, cold, and wet, 3 
proceeding from Saturn’s influx. The intellectual world hath alfo in map 
a : es: bs witnefs the foaring contemplations of the foul of man, which cannot 3 ; 
= ‘ke the body) be confined to any place, but in a moment furrounds this ast 
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