Systeme of anatomy, treating of the body of man, beasts, birds, fish, insects and plants

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Of [190' inrmm' Skim Chap. I I0 6112113. I l. my ialiy fine and expanded parts, being of aglutinous nature, ‘are eafily Unili‘d to the neighbouring Skin in great uniformity, givmg it afine 3310ny rothnelé, a greatingredient of Fairnels and Beauty, in being fiiperlatively ‘ii(' in amiable Perlbns, which courreth the Eye of the Beholder with Love and Admiratiou. So that the Cllliflthl being thin, is fixed to the Curie with {rich clofe embra , that they cannot beparted from each other, Without violation, by g, kniie, thoughgoverned by a molt skilful Hand; but a feparauon may be ellbcfltcd, by Raiding, burning, or by the application of Blifleriug Plaifiers, whole liibtil and fiery efilnvia, piercing the pores of the outward Skin, do open and " the extremities of capillary Arteries, and nervous fibrills, inferred into the Carin producing a kind of Spaimes and Pains, whence the lei'ous particles of the b'lood, andaner‘vous Liquor being affeéied with 49 0f t/ae inward Skin, /_.------- V In other Animals, as Beai'ts, it is very common to move the whole Skin of the Back from place to place, backward and forward, which is mofl reuiarka- Riff: "2' hie in Elephants, which are to nimble in the motionsof the Carr's, that they fbiamm'w can t arch Flies, lporting rheinfelves upon the fiirface of their Bodies, in the i ' wrinkles of their Skin: but in Man the Cum is immediately faltened to the Fat, and Afimbramz adipqflz, and to the Nfem/Jramz mufculomm cammimi/r, by the interpofition of many thin narrow Membranes, 'l- as is very evi: mskrm dent in the iiiPfil‘atiOn ofN the Skin from. ‘ the Fat and common . \‘embrane fi‘c‘wy‘m" merousi'rnal! jmef'ting the Nuicles; lo that the Cum in a humane Body remaineth fixed, """'""""" being unable to play up and down, as in Bealis, which is left more loofi: gigglifit: and pliable, as aéted With many Cutztnewu armour fiberr, Which cannot be Tammi, tlifi‘overed in a humane Clttif, And yet if it be well confidered, it is not merely one fimple part, Which {harp particles, derived From the Epilpal'tic applcations, do enlarge the ter. is true only to a vulgar Eye; and according to better ‘Real‘on and Phi~ initiations of the capillary Arteries and nervous Fibrils, through which are lbucd out thefe virulent infel‘ring f'teams with ichorous Liquors, which Parr the Critic-14L: from the Cirrir, livelling them into Blii'cers, which often are lb lolophy, may be dclcribed , an aggregate Body, compoled or great varim ety of different parts, a fine contexture made up of many Riveral Vefrels, irrierlined with a liibfiaiice, filling up the interfiices of the Velllds, cal- big with Liquor, that they break their Banks, and overflow the neighbor. led by Dr. (zlyflim, the "Parmcbyma. As to Vellels, they are divided into a numerous company of excretory liué‘ts, capillary Arteries, Veins, nervous Fibrils,fome firaight, forne tranf. ing (illicit/a. vrrfe, and others oblique, which I conceive confifi of many ranks, feat; ed are above another, and neatly interwoven with each other, makinga dear : compage, the reliilt of numerous diiiinét, and finely fpun fibres; C H A P. lo Wtii iiruck, and lo curioufly Wrought together, that the mofi: quick II. and drlcerning Eye, upon a molt firiét infpeétion, cannot in the leaf): dif- under the Claim/a and may Well be called the Bodies more inward and thicker Robe,with which all its parts are decently clad, aceording to their ic- cover any interfl'ices or dil'tiiiétion of Fibrils, where they begin or end, or hmvthey clofe one with another, (0 that this rare texture compounded of innumerable dil‘tinc‘t parts, feemcth to be one entire continued body, but in truth is integrated of three Coats, (0 clolEly joyned to each other, that they \villicarce admit any feparation. The firit Coat may be called 1- Reticularir, becaufe after fome manner yfhirgfigg 0ft/Jc inward Skin. THC next part in order of nature is the Cutir, as being immediately feared rrngviahc veral pi‘Oportions : It is termed commonly by the Grammy Jaw, by Hypacmm it may feem to refemble Network in its curious frame, which confifiing of a rcrimlar, in his Book fie Arte Jen in his Book fie infomm'ir NAM, wry/g Xu.91.g71., 42a 72 W: multitude of capil ary Arteries and Veins, varioufly interfeéting each other, "5"!" " rive; tween jaiiei‘m, Pchulim purgatiom'mficri confirm; particularl y in Difea- doe make a great part ofthe liirface ofthe inward Skin. damn- les proceeding from the {butting up the Pores by ambient Cold and the Tflffifw 33333;; «not. . ,,1 J, "[53,?"ij mfihi'éi like, as in putrid and malignant Feavers, carried a I'VrlJibil'd tranfpiraiz'o m, which are critically and artificially determined by a free tranfpiratio n, wherein the fiery and malignant fieams of the Blood, are dilcharged through the enlarged Pores of the Skin, by free evacuations of Sweat. By the Lair/vex it is called Cutir in Man, and Corium, and @c/[ir in Beaf‘ts: The lubl'i‘ance of it is various, and for the moit part Membranous and Nervous, being made up of capillary Veins, Arteries, Nerves, Lymphztdué‘ts and Glands; but of this more fully in our lhblEquent Dilcourics: and this thick Membrane is nourifhed With alimentary and nervous Juyce, dil‘pcnl‘ed through the Nerves, and animated with vital Liquor and Heat; communicated by Arteries, ending in the inward Skin, and Give a tinérure to it of Red, or other colours, according to the predomitiaiit Humours (mixed With the Mafs of Blood) having a recourle to the Skin, which i5 wholly fixed isimmwk Y in Man, except 1n the Head and Forehead, which have a freell ,‘XC‘ 21‘; i , derive [it himt- dom of Motion i i d either from the Mcwbmmz cmvmflz in ' the one, and antll-urehcad. Mufcles,propet to the other. In this reticular Coat, ingenious Malyvigbz'm hath oblErved many fm‘all pro- Papillszjnt‘ tuberaneies, which he calleth 'Papillae + @ymmidzzler, deriving themlelves inlegtbd. from the non ous Coat, under the feveral long wrinkles, founded in the (XIII-(111;!) and the reticular Coat, and drawn out in length, in paralel ranks of there papillary protuberancies, among Which are feated the minute Vefrels of Sweat, thtle Tupi/[x [wramida/cr do terminate into the Cuticuld, every one being branched, as it were, into finall fibres. The Second Coat, the moi} fubflantial part of the Cum 1- is nervous, made for the mod part of an innumerable company of minute fibrils of fjjglffff'si Nerves, very finely (pun, which do acoai't each other in long tranfverie rhenemu, and oblique interiec‘tions, rarely interwoven with many fine clofe {buck "mm" inur- Filaments, whole excellent texture may be {omewhat difcerned ina dried 13:5??? "'31 Skin, by the help of a microfcope. hints. ‘ Learned Mr. Hookdefcribeth the Skin (according to this Coat) when Tana netl or Dreflbd, to be of afpongy nature, and feemeth to be confiituted of an infinite company of Fibres or Hairs, which look not unlike a heap of Tow or Okum, and every one of thefe Fibres (faith he) feem to have been {ome art of a Mufcle; and probably according to his opinion, whiff: In ihrizuiiiflil: in!) tumlnatc g:,‘;'""c""= "cram 0 t