The works of Ambrose Parey, chyrurgeon to Henry II. Francis II. Charles IX. and Henry III. Kings of France. : Wherein are contained an introduction to chirurgery in general : a discourse of animals, and of the excellency of man. The anatomy of man's body. A treatise of praeternatural tumors ... Illustrated with variety of figures, and the cuts of the most useful instruments in chirurgery. Recommended by the University of Paris to all students in physick and chirurgery, particularly such as practised in camps and the sea.

Ambroise Paré

Date:: M DC XCI. [1691]

Credit: The works of Ambrose Parey, chyrurgeon to Henry II. Francis II. Charles IX. and Henry III. Kings of France. : Wherein are contained an introduction to chirurgery in general : a discourse of animals, and of the excellency of man. The anatomy of man's body. A treatise of praeternatural tumors ... Illustrated with variety of figures, and the cuts of the most useful instruments in chirurgery. Recommended by the University of Paris to all students in physick and chirurgery, particularly such as practised in camps and the sea. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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T RA CT. II. Concerninz the Arteries, (horteft and moft convenient way. Nor is there any reafon, that we (hould be afraid of that pollu¬ tion of the vital fpirits, which they will objed to us if the excrementitious humors pafs through the arteries i for this betrays their great ignorance as well in Anatomy as in folid Phyfick : and it would beverveafie, if I would digrefs, to prove in this place, that a great part of the humors in our body flow down through the arteries. For in them the ftrength of nature exceeds, and is more vigorous, that whenfoever it is provoked, it is moft apt to expel i and the blood being ftirred by ^eir conti¬ nual bcatine, as alfo by its own nature, makes all that is therein more ht to flow. _ And who will not believe that excrements are carried through the arteries, who conhders the flowing down from the fpleen, in which there being five times more arteries, than there are veins, truly it is necellary that that ballaft of the fpleen be carried out through the Arteries. r t • The four, L«mWrr or loin-arteries [7 7 >1 ^nfe out ot the backfide of the trunk of the great ar- Lumbm:. terv, all along as it pafles through the region of the loins. They run through the common holes in the rack-bones of the loins, and to their marrow, and alfo into the neighbouring And at the fide of the marrow, after they have entred the rack-bones, they climb up on both fides to the brain together with t!ie veins of theloins. But they are all equally big, if you except thofe two, which ilfue out near to the Or/icram or holy-bone, which are not only derived into the rack-bones to the inarrow,and to the mufcles thereabout,but are alfo fent overthwart threjught he ?OT/o«e«w,and mu c e of the Abdomen, The two laft are by fome called MufeuU fu^eriores the upper mufcle-art«ies, and are diftinguiftit from the Lumhares, And thefe are the arteries, which if we obprve, we (hall ealily give the realbns of many things, of which Phyficians do ftilldifpute very hotly i butefpecia y o fhat moft difficult queftion, which is controverted among Phyficians, by what manner the colick a.ds in a palfie or in the falling ficknefs. For we have the obfervation in the Co- Eirineta lib. a.c. 43. where he fays : the colick, as it were by a certain peftilent contagion, endedrjJ^j^ wfthmanv hr tht falling ficknefs, with others in a refolution of the joints or palfie, their ftiiferc- endim a Pal- remaining, and they who fell into the falling ficknefs, forthe moft part died s but they who fell fieorEpilcpfie into the ralfie, were moft of them preferved i the caufe of the difeafe being carried to another place Clc folution. For the humor that caufed the difeafe, carne back out of the colick gut through flip mefenterical arteries from whence being afterward tranfported into the trunk of the great Ar ery ft caSo or arteries of the loins, which Celling with blood preft together the Sbouring nerves, from which came the palfie in the feet. And this we have often obferved as weUin out (elves, as in others, efpecially in former years, when thefe difeafes at Podw were Epide- v-ii tVip Palfie is not always a perfect one, but often (as I am wont to call itJ imperfed^, becau'fe the power to walk isnot wholly taken away, but the difeafed ftand on their feet with a great SSculty. Many at that time being deceived in the knowledge of the difeafe, miftakmg this fot a greatweaknefeof bodycontraded by their ficknefs, endeavournig to take it =iway by eating W dStag largely, but in vain. This alfo is the caufe, why the Fallmg-licknefs, and Letharg|es « Sve Bft- imes feen, follow after the Colick, becaufe the matter being fent over from the ^feme^ck afte^sf “Lfe of the loins, may eafily go from them into the brain, to which thofe artery, when it is come to the hft rack-bone of the loins having taken its iourney all the way,which we have Ihewed, under the hollow-vein at the left fide, here gets abov the vein Vft it Ihould be worn away in that continual_ motion by tne hardnefs of the holy-bone. But it is’divided no otherwife than the hollow-vein is into two notable branches [S.S.] which are faUed by Anatomifts the Iliacal arteries, from their (ituatioii, and being earned f wnwards obli^ely tn the thieh refemble the T of the Greeks turned upfide down. But they alfojuft like the lhaca to the exadlv anfwerine, before they be implanted into the thigh, (hoot out a veins, to w ic ^ , But from the lower fide of the artery before the Iliacal branches be divi- pretty number 0 ^ • fn which are notable ones, and carried downward, leaning ded, f“f-?“hP~‘heho yartcr^s, L J to the marrow andbackiidc of the bone. “vaziri SeSu bi'S, Skxi-j the mufcles of the buttocks, becaufe they are t eautyos j being carried dircdly Thedivilioii The mer is called Hy^^ajlnca M which is ve^y notable, and 1 ge = <1 oeing^^^^ tToah^Wder “s :lfot theferS^ killed theHien»rrhoidal arteries s -rieVrd butin womens <o whom this branch is ouwr branch. rica.

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