Adenographia: sive glandularum totius corporis descriptio ... / [Thomas Wharton].

  • Thomas Wharton
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1656
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Credit: Adenographia: sive glandularum totius corporis descriptio ... / [Thomas Wharton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    VERENA CT NU LE e * enm |] Cap. IIL.— Ma cerebrum fit medulla ? i. | vifcera olim. Graecis ex^4yx»« dicebantur, ^| nimirum,eas tantüm partes inclufiffe viden- j|tur, que in czfis vi&imis arspices infpi- ,4,| ciebant, quae exta vocari folebant, Sum- jj,| ptum eft enim ab arufpicinis id vocabu- ,;j, | Ium & inde ad nobiliores animalium partes ,., | internas tranflatum eft. .|. Patet ergó, quoad originalem fignificati- ,,,] onem vocis, cerebrum nomine vifceris venire ,,]non poffe ; arufpices quippe ventrem in- ;,|feriorem & medium, non cerebrum infpi- .|ciebant. Quanquam pofteà ob eximiam , | partis dignitatem in viícerum admittebatur |cenfum, quia digniorem non excogita- | bant. | Statuendum itáque eft, cerebrum reipfa ^| diverfi ffe generis, tam à glandulis quàm à |vifceribus, & effe fubftantiam fui generis ^ aumedullarem, commodis veró, tum ob pat- itis hujus, pra caeteris, wobilitatem, tum ob 1 Medicerum eonfen[um, ad vifcerum, non au- f Fa glandularum familiam accenfendum | efle. » RE
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