divine Majelty of heaven! 
ANATOMICAL ANALYSIS or Tur HUMAN FRAM) 
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THE SKIN is a membranous covering of the body, fimilar, fpermatic, havi 
‘blood mixed with it, reddifh, white, loofe, and the inftrument of feeling. Tt hat 
cutaneous veins and arteries, as alfo nerves 5 from the laft of which, it receives its 
guicknefs of fenfe. From the capillary veins and arteries it receives blood for 
nourifhment and vital fpirit for quickening. Its temperature is cold and dry, oc 
rather exquifitely temperate, yet fo that it may be the judge of feeling. The fkin 
on the top of the head is thickeft, that on the fides thin, that on the face and palms 
of the hands thinner, that on the lips thinneft of all, that on the tops of the fingers 
is mean, fo that the fenfe of touching may be the more perfedl: its texture is flight 
and very full of fmall holes or pores, for the infenfible tran{piration of fumes, va- 
pours, and fweat. It takes its colour from the predominant humour, unlefs it be 
fuch from the birth, as in Zethiopia. It has a double fubftance ; the one is exter- 
nal, called cusicula, or the {carf-fkin, becaufe it is placed upon the fkin, as a cover 
or defence, every where perforated with pores, without blood and without feeling : 
its connexion is to the true fkin, from whence it has i its figure and colour; but, in 
Black Moors, the cuficula being pulled off, theskin itfelfis white. It hasno action, 
only ufe, which is to fhut the pores of the skin, that the ichoous fubftance may not 
iffue from the veins and arteries; to defend the skin from immoderate heat or cold; woe 
and to make it fmooth, beautiful, polifhed, and even. It is generated of a vifcous ee 
and. oleaginous vapour of the blood. The other is the true skin, of which we have — 
: firft {poken, which,is fix times thicker than the fcarf-skin; its pores will appear i 
| vinter-time, if it be made bare, and expofed to the cold : for where they are, tt 
icy 2 will appear like. a goofe. skin. The skin receives two cutaneous 
L zh the head ; and neck, from. the jugulars: two ana the arms, b 
