THE ANATOMIE OF THE INWARD parts of Woman, very necessary to be knowne to Phisitians, Surgians, and all other that desire to know themselues.
FOr so much as the declaration of most of the principall parts is sufficiently set forth in the Anatomie of man, therefore will I remit you thether: There to behold the operation of them, and here we will declare the situation and manner of such partes as are in a woman, different from the parts in a man. Howbeit, first ye shall vnderstand the signification of the letters, which are grauen within this figure.
A. The gully of the throte.
B. The Longes.
C. The hart.
D. The Middriffe.
E. The inner part of the throte pipe passing through the boolke & the lunges into the stomacke.
F. The mouth of the stomacke.
G. The stomacke.
H. The bottome of the stomacke.
I. The nether mouth of the stomacke.
K. The liuer. Next vnto this letter K. you see this
L. letter V. the which would be L. and signifieth the gaule.
M. Vena porte, the liuer vaine.
N. The Splene.
O. Signifieth the place and vessell to the which the flowers be deriued from the liuer: Nam menses in primis sensum erumpunt ab ipso iecinore, velut per quedam interualla, donec peruentū sit ad illa (super primum ceruicis pudende exortum) acetavula: quos hec, quasi hianti & aperto ore effundunt.
P. Signifieth the Kidneyes, in Laten Renes.
Q. The bladder, in Latine Vescica: this bladder receiueth the waterie parts & vrine which descendeth from the reynes, and it lyeth in the lower partes of the bellie before the wombe or matrix of the woman, whose necke entreth in at, and is fastned to the necke of the wombe through the which naturally it sendeth forth the vrine.
R. Signifieth the great vaine, which is deriued out of the liuer, called in Latine Parigibba, & Chilis: Concaua venarum mater, the mother of all vaines, and from whom and through his branches (other smaller vaines) bloud is conueyed into all parts of mans body.
S. T. V. X. Signifieth the wombe wherein mankind is conceaued, nourished and fostred, vnto the time it be of a certain might & force, and then naturally is sent and brought forth into the world, but it is somewhat higher then the bladder: the bottome of it extendeth it selfe vnto the Nauell.
S. Signifieth the bottome of the wombe, where is a certain thicke carnosite, which boweth downward, and causeth a distinction to be in the wombe.
T. Wherefore T. signifieth the right side of the Matrix.
V. The left side. Some there be that vvrite, that there should bee many selles or distinctions in the Matrice, the which is not true, for other distinction then the fleshie part (vvhich is signified by S.) doth cause, is there none. In the right side as Philosophers vvrite, lyeth alvvay the man child, in the left the vvoman childe. And to knovv vvhether the conception be male or female, they bid to marke vvhether it moue more on the right side then the left, for thē it is a man. If on the left more then on the right side, then it is a woman: and for that cause also is to be noted the two breasts, the right and the left: if the right be greater and harder then the left, it is a token of a man: if the left, of a woman, and if she haue more paine and dolour in the right side, likewise it signifieth the man child, if in the left, a vvoman. Whether it be man or wonan, according to the Doctor of Phisicke and Philosophers, when the seed is first conceiued in the Matrix, it encloseth it selfe after such a sort, that the point of a needle cannot enter in at it but by violence. And the first vi. daies that it is conceiued, it remaineth crude and vvhite like milke.
Then in the space of other nine daies it waxeth redde, and is become thicke bloud: then in other xii, dries, it beginneth to come to some fashion: then in the xviii. daies following, the face and other pricipall members, beginne to grow into a full shape and forme in longitude, latitude and profunditie. In the rest of the time vnto the birth it is comforted, and prepared to come forth, the which many times chanceth in the vii. moneth, & the child proueth and doth very well: but in the xiii, moneth, few or none proue. About the later end of the ix. againe, if it be borne, it proueth very well, that is the most common course xl. weekes after the conception. The manner how the child lieth in the mothers wombe, is this: the face lyeth on both the knees: so lyeth it round in manner, and the face toward the inward part of the vvombe: and this partly haue I shewed you of the operation of the Matrice.
A perfect and particular description of the secret parts of the body of woman, with the signification of the letters contained in the same.
1. The wombe is called in Latine Matrix▪ as it were, Mater (that is) a mother: for as much as all beastes proceed out of that as borne of a mother: It hangeth betweene the splene and the bladder: but somewhat higher then the bladder. The bottome and hollownesse thereof is extended vnto the nauell, & it is the place of the first masse of conception called Embrion.
2 The right side or goulfe of the Matrice wherein male children are begotten.
3 The left gulfe of the Matrice, wherein femall children are begotten.
4 The mouth or entrance of the Matrice, which is vnclosed in worke of naturall generation, & receiueth the seede of man, & after conception so straitly closeth it selfe, that the point of a needle can not enter into it: yet at times conuenient, (that is to say, at the auoiding of fluores) it openeth if selfe.
5 From hence proceedeth the seed of woman in conception: & likewise the seed of man.
6 This is the diuision of the great vaines proceeding from the liuer to the hart, & againe from the hart, passing through the ridge bone of the backe, wherevnto also the kidneyes doe cleaue. From hence come the veines whereby the menstruall bloud (for lacke of naturall heat engendred of crude and vndigest bloud) is conueyed into the matrice.
7 The necke of the matrice is vi. fingers in length, hauing beneath a narrow mouth, whereby the issue of the bladder sendeth forth vrine.
8 The priuie member of woman.
9 Two great artery vaines, vvhereunto the matrice is fastened, and are therefore called the Matrice.