Mikrokosmographa. A description of the little-world, or, body of man : exactly delineating all the parts ... With the severall diseases thereof. Also their ... cures / By R.T. [i.e. Robert Turner].

Robert Turner

Date:: 1654

Credit: Mikrokosmographa. A description of the little-world, or, body of man : exactly delineating all the parts ... With the severall diseases thereof. Also their ... cures / By R.T. [i.e. Robert Turner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$drawn downe to the intrailes all che fuperfluities,. i both water, winde, and ditt; by the virrue reten-. |) x tive all things are holden and kept untill natare } in hath wrought his kinde ; and by the vertue expul- five is put forth all things when nature proveketh | | any thing to bedone. Now tocome tothe parts: | contained within : firft that which appeareth next: } under the Syfac is omentum or Zirbus , which is a! pannicle coverime the ftomack and intrails , ime=: | planted with many veins and arteries, and fatnefle: | to Keep moyftthe inward parts. This Zirbas is; an officiall member, .and is compound ofa veine: |) and an Artery, which entreth and maketha line?) jj) of the utcer runicle of the ftomack, unto which tu: |) »/ nicle hangeth the Zéréus and covereth ali the guts) is: downto che fhare; next to Zirbas appeareth the) wttailsorguts , which convey the droffe of the!) » meat and drink, and cleanfe the body of cheir fu-+| 9 perfinities: There be fix portions of one whole?) \y, gut, which beginncth at the neither mouth of the?) »», ftomack , and continueth to the end of the funda--} \, ment ¢ neverthelefle he hath divers fhapes and) formes, divers operations, and divers names. Andl\j,, as the ftomack hachtwe tunicles, fo have all: ther! , guts two tunicles; the firft portion of the gues iss) , called Daodenum , he is twelve inches of lengths,} j,, and covereth the neither pare of the ftomack, andi} receiveth all the droffe of the flomack : the fecondi] ,, is called Fejuwinws , for he is evermore empty, forr| to)|$