A sure guide; or, the best and nearest way to physick and chyrurgery .... Being an anatomical description of the whol [sic] body of man, and its parts, with their respective diseases .... In six books .... / Englished by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. and W.R. doctor of the liberal arts, and of physick [i.e. William Rand].

Jean Riolan the Younger

Date:: 1671

Credit: A sure guide; or, the best and nearest way to physick and chyrurgery .... Being an anatomical description of the whol [sic] body of man, and its parts, with their respective diseases .... In six books .... / Englished by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. and W.R. doctor of the liberal arts, and of physick [i.e. William Rand]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$I'he Oi Hyoi-s IS ihc tOLindation ot L.irinx^nd Toiigue,and by the Judgii e.u £>>'>»■ of Anau^ u^'ali Anatoniilis receives the Tongue us its Cavity, but it a man may believe his own Byes, they will ihsw him that the Pptoiuiriu only is received in its Cavity,and that the TongiiG relieth on the upper haeorits Bifis. 12. 12. BB. Chap. 13, of the Teeth, ' THe Teeth, are the inftruments of Chewing the Meat, and forrhlng the vovLe, They are bones although they differ in Nature from other bones* ^ They tonfKt of two parts, one of which Hicks out without the Gum, and is cal- ' led the Bafis. The other is hid within the Gum^ and called the Root, the Root is p not follid but hollow, and fo hollow, that it receives a fmall Vein, a fmall artery, and ani kout. email Nerve. ; , The Roots of the Teeth are various in number and diverfe in figure. The R jot rhe numbe. cf of the Cuttersisalwaiesfimple and right, diHinguiflied only with a fmall cleft for the roou of tbe their firmer likking. Alto the Roots of the Dog-teeth areiimple, ‘ The fupenor Poeth, grinders have a threefold Root and Crooked, becaufethey hang downwards, in the inferior grinders they are double and fometimes tteble. The number of-the Tceth is various in regard of Age, In Children from the fcvenih Month even till they ate two years Old and upwards, twenty of them ufu- flu vumkr of ally come out by degrees One after another, and before they are well towards four the Imh. years of Age, they have no more, afterwards eight, or twelve others come out: So that they have twenty eight, or thirty two in both Jawes. , This number is diflinguifhed into three orders bpe.afonofth^r Situation and o,-dfrk bi'Uncfs, the firff four Teeth arc called « Ctuters, Thofe two which ate next ihefe, one on each fide, are called ^ Dog-teeth. The reft being eight or ten, are called « GrirAnsyi'tit'j are placed in the Cavities of each JaWi which Cavities are not cou- nnual but divided into Cells, and their conjunction, or Articulation is called Com- . , , I Chap. 14. of the Trunk^ being the Second Part of the - i Sceleton. : : k ■ . * \ t ' 1 THe Trunk comprehends the Bick-bone ana mch bones as are raftened there- un(0. , It is compounded of the Ba£k-fcwne and the Chift, > • ' The Bick-bone is a bony Channel wlmch gives paffage to the Marrow of the back, Enibho J and is Iffetched even .from the Head, to the O/ Ccccyw, It confifts of very riiany jv/wr. ^ bones for its fecurity and thatili may not eafily be hurt, as alfo that a man may bow himfelf, tor necefiity of action. Thefe bones the Greeks call Sfondils, and the La¬ tins r! , , ^ , In QVixyFertehr4 you rhay obferve two pafts of which the one is interna), thick’ and round, andiscalled the b^y; -.the, other externa] with various Apophyfes and ytyJbri. ‘ bath no Namc> the differences of the Apophyfes are three, right, Ob]iqae,and franf- verfe, the hindmpft is fharp and is Properly called » SpiuK; that which is ^ Lateral, jf^'eyenct sf and tranfverfe is double, the Oblique fourfold by which they are joyned together the Apop’yftt. bfGingiytnH in which three bones are required. In$

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