3 CULPEPER‘s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
ing the placenta formed, and the embryo perfected ; S. S. round ligaments of the 
womb cut off atthe thare,; T. T. neck of the womb; V. V. vena hypogaftrice; 
Y¥. Y. the paffage of the womb; Z. the clitoris and preputium; a.a. a portion of 
the ureters cut off; b. b.a portion of the ureters defcending cut off; c. c. vafa pre- 
parentia dilated; d.d. vafa deferentia; e.¢. thenymphz; f. the meatus urinarius; 
~g. @.g. the vaginalaid open, with its plice: h. h. the uterus, as ftretched in i 
third month of pregnancy, with the placenta adhering to the fundus. © 
OF THE THORAX. 
‘THE thorax, chet, or breaft, is that which is called the middle ventricle, being 
circumfcribed above by the clavicule ; beneath by the diaphragma; on the fore fide 
by the fternum; on the hinder part by the back bones; and on-each fide by the 
‘cofte or ribs. Its fituation is between the upper ventricle or head, and the abdomen, 
- _ being the feat of the vital {pirits, and confifting of the parts appointed for cherifh- 
ing-the natural heat. Its figure is almoft oval, fomewhat flat before and behind, 
whereas i in beafts it is fomewhat fharp, fo that mankind only lies on the back. Its 
- fubftance is partly boney, partly flefhy ; boney, becaufe it contains not any parts much 
to be diftended; flefhy, becaufe it contains parts which ought to be moved, as the 
heart and lungs. 
The breafts, or dugs, are common to both tee in men they are framed of the | 
cutis, the membrana. carnofa, fat, and the nipple, and are called mammille. The 
dugs in women have befides many remarkable veffels, clandules, and pipes, tomake 
and contain milk. The nipple or teat, called papilla, is fpungy, like the glans of a 
man’s yard, and perforated’through the middle with many {mall holes for the milk 
_ topafsthrough. It is rougher than the other parts, that the infant may the more 
firmly hold it, and of an exquifite fenfe, that the nurfe fhould find pleafure when fhe 
gives fuck: round about it there is a circle, called arcola; in virgins it is pale and 
knotty; in nurfes, brown; andin old women, black. The veins are two-fold, viz. 
ern: land internal: the external arife from the axillary, and are placed under the 
1 which moves the dugs, and are called thoracice fuperiores, the upper breatt- 
7 , in women with child and fuch as give fuck, are often feen very — 
blue. : The internal arife or defcend from the trunk of the axillary vein, or ramus 
fubclavius ; and are called mammaria vene, or dug-veins : thefe are met by other al- 
cendant veins from the womb, and therefore, the child being born, the blood is 
carried no longer to the womb, but to the breafts; and hence it is thar women 
which give fuck feldom have their courfes. How milk is generated and made, the 
opinions of men are various: fome think it to be made of the venal peeps 
are abfolutely deceived: fome think it to be made only of arterial blood, and 
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