¶ The Anatomie of the inwarde Partes of man, lyuely sette foorth and: diligently declaryng the principal vaynes with the vse of letting bludde, very necessarie for Phisytians and Surgians and all other that desyre to knowe them selues.

• A SIGNIFYETH the gulle of the throte, called also the throte bolle, and in Latē Gurgulio & Canna pulmonis. that is to saic, the Lungepvpe & weson, pertayning to thē lightes & to the hart: conueyng ayre to then both, & it diuideth it selfe into many holow pypes within the Lunges, as ye se.
• B Signifieth the Lunges or lthtes, called in Latē Pulono, and it is called the bellowes of the bodye, for it draweth & sendeth fourth again the ayre, with the which the harte & other membres are tempered: wherfore the Lunges be full of holenesse, euen like a sponge and emptie, openinge it selfe to the receauinge of ayre, and gathering it selfe to gether, to expel it again, as dothe-apayre of bellowes: fa­sheoned muche after the shape of an Oxe house.
• C Signifieth the hafte called in Laten Cor, the seate of lyfe, the ruler and director of spirite & bludde. It apereth within against the lefte brest: it is figured rounde tending to sharpenesse at one of his endes, the whiche is to wards the brest: it is of all other membres the principall, and is called the sonne of the lesse worlds: for man amonge Phi­losophers is called the lesse worlde, and the harte beyng in it, is to all the body as the sunne is to all this greate vni­uersall worlde: which approchinge neare vnto vs, al thin­ges reioyce, herbes bringe fourth flowres, trees spredde their branches, all fowle, fyshe, and beastes, receaue great comforte: euen so the harte in man beyng heuy & pensyue, al the body is sad and yll disposed: The harte agayne being glad & mery, al the body is light & lusty: For it illumineth and lighteneth all other membres with his spirite. It is the fyrste membre in man that receaueth lyfe, and the last that dyeth. Only this parte in man is neuer greaued no­tably with any discease, but if it be, forthwith it dyeth, and all the man with hym.
• D Signifieth the Middrefe, called Diaphragma, Septum transuersum, & Praecordia, and it is a thyn skin, whicke deui­deth the uppar part of the body frō the nether part, that is to say, the hart & lu [...]es, from the splene & lyuer. &c.
• E Signifieth the throte pype, called in Laten Gula, & in­terior Collifistula, that is to witte, the ynner pip [...] or cōducte of the necke, the whiche commeth from the [...] to t [...] stomacke & through it is conueyed the meate and dri [...] [...] which by the mouthe is sente in to the stomacke. And where this pype doth appere aboue the shoulders where also the throte bolle is sene, there it is called the throte, & the outwarde pipe of the necke: And this part of the same pype showinge it self in the boske of the bodye, is called the inwarde parte of the neckepype or throte pype.
• F Signifieth the vpper parte of the mouthe of the sto­macke, called in Laten Os stomachi.
• G Signifieth the stomacke, called in Laten Stomachus, the receptacle of meate and drinke, a place diuised of nature to concocte and digest foode as a furnesse, wherein meate is sodē: and it is offended with manye and sundry deseases.
• H Signifieth the botome of the stomacke, the whiche (meate being in the stomake vndigested,) is very close & the same beinge ons decocte & digested, it openeth it selfe agayne.
• I Signifieth the nether mouth of the stomacke, or the yssue of the same, called in Greke Pylorus, and commonely in Laten Protonarius, the waie by the which the meate ons digested, passeth downe to the guttes.
• K Signifieth the lyuer called in Laten Hepar, and Iecur, this is the place where the iuyce commyng of meate di­gested in the stomacke, is transmuted and altered in to bludde: but that part of this iuyce, whiche is not apt to be cōuerted to bludde, is altered, part to flewine, part to col­lor, and parte to melancholy.
• L Signifieth the Gaulle called in Laten Fel: this part receaueth the refuce & dregges of the bludde, & it cleaueth cheafely to the lappes of the lyuer.
• M Signifieth a certayn vayne, called in Latē Vena portae, and Manus iccoris, that is, the hande of the lyuer: this vayne receaueth the digested iuyce by diuers vaynes out of the stomacke & other bowelles, and sendeth the melancholie parte in to the splene.
• N Signifieth the splene, called in Laten Splen & Lien, whiche is the receptacle and synke of melancholy.
• O Signifieth a vayne which in Laten is called Vena caua & Venaiecoraria, the holowe veyne, the vayne of the lyuer, for by this vayn the bludde engendred in the lyuer, is my­nistred to all partes of the bodye, to norysshe the body therwyth.
• P Signifieth the kydneys called in Laten Renes, fastened to both sydes of the body neare to the loines, but the right kidney stādeth somwhat higher then the left by those the watery part of the blude actracte and drawen, descendeth through certayne other vaynes, as ye se in to the bladder.
• Q Signifieth the bladder, in Laten Vesica, receptacle and receauer of vryne.
• R Signifieth the stones, called in Laten Testiculi and this is the place where seade is engendred.
• S Signifieth the coddes, called in Laten Scrotum.
• T Signifieth the priuie parte of man, caled in Latē Penis, in whome be two notable waies or yssues, wherof the one is the vryne, yssue, the other is called the sede yssue.
• V Signifieth the smal guttes, called in Laten Ilia, in those is engendred the cruell payn, called the knawing, or payn of the belly.
• X Signifieth the grosser and greater part of the gut­tes, in Laten called Colon, in whom the excrementes or or­doure long witholden, receaueth a certayne forme & fas­shyon after the place. This part manny tymes is sore ve­xed with the Colike.
• Y Signifieth the latter ende of all the guttes, thorowe the which immedyatly the ordure is expelled, named also the fundamēt. This place manye tymes is offended with a desease, called the piles or emorrodes, and this place in Laten is named Longanon.

¶ The Anatomie of the inward Partes of wooman, very necessarie to be knowen to Phisitians and Surgians and all other that desyre to knowe them selues.

FOR so muche as the declaration of most of the principall partes is suffi­ciently set foorth in the Anathomie of man, therfore wyll I remyt you the­ther: Ther to beholde the operation of them, and here we wyll declare the si­tuation and maner of such partes as are in wooman differente from the partes in man. Howe be it, first ye shall vnderstande the signification of the letters, whiche are grauen within this figure.

• A The gully of the threte.
• B The Lunges.
• C The harte.
• D The middrese.
• E The inner parte of the throtte pype, passynge through the boolke and the lunges into the stomacke,
• F The mouth of the stomacke.
• G The stomacke.
• H The botome of the stomacke.
• I The nether mouth of the stomacke.
• K The lyuer. Next vnto this letter. K. you se this
• L letter. V. the which wold be. L. & it signifieth the gaule
• M Vena portae, the lyuer vayne.
• N The splene.
• O Signifieth the place and vessel to the whiche the sloures be deriuied from the lyuer, nam menses in primis sensim erūpunt ab ipso iccinore, uelut per quaedā interualla, do­nec peruentum fit ad illa (super primum ceruicis pudendae exor, tum) acetabula: quos hec, quasi hianti & aperto ore effundunt.
• P Signifieth the kydneys, in Laten Renes.
• Q Te bladder, in Laten Vesica, this bladder, recea­ueth the waterye partes and vrine, which descendeth from the raynes, and it lyeth in the lower parte of the bellye before the woombe or matrice of the woman, whose necke entreth in at, and is fastened to the necke of the woombe through the whiche naturally it sen­deth foorthe the vrine.
• R Signifieth the great vayne, whiche is diriued out of the lyuer, called in Laten Parigibba & Chilis: cencaua, uenarum mater, the moother of all vaynes, and from whom, and through his branches, other smaller vay­nes, bludde is cōueyed into all partes of mānes bodye.
• S T. V. X. Signifieth the woombe, wherein mankynd is conceaued, noorished, and fostred, vnto the time it be of a certayn might and force, and then naturallye is sente and brought foorth in to the worlde: and it is called in Laten Matrix: before it, is the bladder: but it is somwhat hygher then the bladder: the botom of it extendeth it selfe vnto the Nauell.
• S. Signifieth the botome of the woombe, where is a certayne thycke carnosyte, whiche boweth downe-warde and causeth a distinction to be in the woombe,
• T wherfore. T. sygnifieth the righte syde of the matrice
• V The lefte syde. Some there be that wryte, that there sholde be many selles or distinctions in the ma­trice, the whiche is not true: for other distinction then the fleshye parte, which is signified by S. doth cause, is there none. In the right syde, as Philosophers wryte, lyeth alwaye the man chylde, in the left the wooman childe. And to knowe whether the cōception be male or female, thei bydde to marke whether it moue more on the righte fyde then the lefte, for then it is a man, If on the lefte more, then on the right syde, then it is a wooman: and for that cause also is to be noted the two brestes, the righte and the lefte: yf the right be greater or harder then the left, it is a token of a man, yf the lefte, of a wooman: and yf she haue more payne and doloure in the right syde, lykewyse it signifieth the man child, if in the left, a wooman. Whether it be man or woman, accordyng to the doctors of physycke and phylosophers, when the seade is firste conceaued in to the matrix, it encloseth it selfe after suche a sorte, that the poynte of a nedle canne not enter in at it, but by violence. And the firste .vi. dayes that it is concea­ued, it remayneth crude and whyte lyke mylke. Then in the space of other .ix. dayes, it waxeth redde, and is become thycke bludde. Then in other .xii. daies it beginneth to come to some fashion: then in the .xviii. dayes folowynge the face and other principall mem­bres begynne to growe in to a full shape and forme, in longitude, latitude, and profundite. In the rest of the tyme vnto the byrth it is conforted and prepared to come foorthe: the whiche manye times chaūseth in the vii. moneth, and the chyld proueth and doth verye wel: but in the .vui. moneth few or none proue. About the latter ende of the ix. againe, if it be borne, it pro­ueth verye well, that is the moste commone coursse. xl. weakes after the conception. The maner how the chylde lyeth in the moothers woombe, is this: the face lyeth on bothe the knees, both the handes beynge be­twene the face and the knees: after suche maner that the nose dependeth betwene the knees, and ether of the eyes on ether of the knees: so lyeth it rounde in maner, and the face towarde the inwarde parte of the woombe: and this partly haue I shewed you of the operation of the matrice.

• 1 The woombe is called in Laten Matrix as it weare Mater (that is) a moother: for as muche as all beastes proccade oute of that as borne of a moother. It han­geth betwene the splen and the bladder: but somwhat higher then the bladder. The botome and holownesse therof, is extended vnto the nauel: and it is the place of the first masse of conception called Embrion.
• 2 The right syde or goulfe of the matrics, wherin male children are begotten.
• 3 The lefte goulfe of the matrice, wherin female children are begotten.
• 4 The mouthe or enterance of the matrice, which is vnclosed in the woorke of natural generation and re­ceaueth the seede of man. And after conception, so streyghtly closeth it selfe, that the poynte of a needle, can not enter into it. Yet at times conuenient (that is to saye, at the auoyding of floures) it openeth it selfe.
• 5 From hense proceadeth the seede of woomā in con­ception: and likewyse the seede of man.
• 6 This is the diuision of the great vaynes, proceding from the liuer to the harte: and agen from the harte, passing through the ridge bone of the backe, wherūto also the kydneys do cleaue. Frō hense coome the vay­nes wherby the menstrual bludde (for lacke of natu­rall heate engendred of crude and vndigest bludde) is conueyed into the matrice.
• 7 The necke of the matrice, is vi. fingers in lenketh hauing beneath a narowe mouthe, wherby the yssue of the bladder sendeth foorth vrine.
• 8 The priuie membre of wooman.
• 9 Two great arterie vaynes, wherunto the matrice is fastened. And are therfore called the wynges of the matrice.