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Show 0f the Skull. Book Ill. the Skull 5 which take their rife, either in their firfl: formation in the "term, or in a, difficult Birth, proceeding from a large Head, .vrolently croudcd through the great firaights ofthe Ofld 'Pulmi and Coxmdzcu 3 Whereupon the folt Skull oflnfants is eafily comprelled by the refil'tance of the hard ambient parts; or When the dilbrdred Figure of the tender Brain-pan, is made by the roughhand ofthe Midwife, {trongly hahng the Fazmr by the Head, teries, into the fubl'tance of this grifly part. Firlt-fruits and Earnel't of an approaching Offification, the Nurle, in the over-Ptrarght binding the Head With and the Skull is miiiilierial to it as aCabinet to prelisrve the Brain, as a more excellent Jewel 5 or as a. Chappel built, and Conlt3crated to the celebration Above the orbites of the Eyes may be dilcovered a bony Arch ( which contrary to the order which Nature obferveth in the production of other Bones in the Skull) beginning firlt in the circumference, and is afterexpanded toward the center of the Forehead, bur in the other bones of the Sina'put, Occipnt, and the tell, their Ollification firfi ariIEth in the middle, and afterward determineth in the Perimeter. In the Fourth Month the 0: Frontzls groweth much more lolid, as recei- The Proctrs of the Divine Offices of the Brain a and the Brain being fii‘fl: formed, mo- ving a greater proportion of faline and earthy Particles; whereupon the :§;§TJ;3§§ delleth the molt loft frame of the Skull, which is very pliable, as being greatel'c part of the Forehead is rendred bony, except about the 0; Cu. F°""‘h "Wm heifurme, and Temporal", by reafon the Ollification of the Forehead, is en. lar‘ged toward the 0x Sincipitzls, and the Fontanell. In the Fifth and Sixth Months, the cartilaginous center of the Fore. The Pfizccfs head is concreted into Bone, and the Fontanell lellened, and the fpecks lliihsisiiim comply with it in lhape; but it is more confonant to realbn, thatthe Brain when it was membranous in its infancy. The Head is a Globe let upon the top ofthis pile of elegant Building,in the highell part of the Microcoline. partly in favour of the Eyes, feared in Two orbicular Caverns in an eminent part of the Body, to give them the greater advantage, as being Sentinels to guard their fine Fabrick from outward damage, and violence, and ordained by Nature to be guides, to conduct us fafein progrellive motion. And the Skull, the more folid part of the Head, is eonligned by the -Grand Architeé‘t, to be a repolitory for the Brain, fevered from othtr parts of the Body in the highefi Apartiment, to celebrate the moll: excellent operations of the Soul, Senfation, and Reafon; lo that the Skull being inllituted by Nature, for the prefervation of the nobleltpart ofthe Whole Body, is not integrated of one entire finiple part, Wthll would be thereby more obnoxious to Fractures, but compounded of many llrong firmly conjoyned parts, by various fit articulations; and is divided into Six Bones, viz. the ()fllz Framir, Sym'ipit‘n, Ocripitia, Temporarily Spbxnaidtr, and Etbmoz'dcs. The Dr fl-oirlir 'l- is a large Bone, almoll; of a circular Figure, and i5 fig-Flgmor double in Infants, being divided in the middle by the Sagittal Suture: tthorchsad- running down to the top of the Nofe, which is {0 exactly obliterated 1n mature age, by the firm union of the Bones, that the leafl Fiflure cm:fl‘fhffii‘f" not be difccrned. head. It is feated in the Anterior part of the Head, united in its inferior Region to the Or Sphawoider, Ethmaia'et, and the upper Mandible, and above to the Coronal Suture, and hath TWO femicircular Procefles C hang- ing over the Eyes) which terminating at their Angles, do make the "I" Efflgrklifi per Orbites. hand- membranous Integument is turned Cartilaginous, derived from {aline and earthy Particles, feveted from the Blood, impelled by the capillary Ar« is deformed by firft a membranous lhbl'tance, whole Concave-Surface is ealily configured by the orbicular Convex Compage of the Draw Mater, plainly‘evidenced by the Cavities, engraven in the infide of the inner Table of the Skull, as lo many little Cells to entertain the protuberant Vell‘els of the 'Dm-a Merry/1r, which have made their impreflions upon the tender Surface of the Skull, T: t n'e of the Skull. [he feminal Liquor, fwimming upon the ambient parts of the Brain, which the third Month changeth its habit, putting on a more folid covering, and as a About the orbites of the Eyes may be {pied as through a Veil, lbme lit. de {pots in the center of the Suture, belonging to the Forehead, as the being the more noble part, doth challenge the priviledge of Primogenitm, The [oration of the livad. 0f the Skull. forceth‘an unkindly Birth 3 or elfe when the lhape of. the Child after BirthY Cloths. ,Q‘flgjgggf Some are of an opinion, that the Brain borroweth its Figure from the Skull, ml '3th which being of a hard Compage, forceth the tender frame of the Brain to Skull. Book III. The Forehead being the Anterior Region of the Skull, is clothed [he firlt two Months, in reference to its Origen, with a membranous El". panfion, as with a folter Coat, borrowed from the vilEide Particles gal tc mm" {sated about the Orbites of the Eye grow wholly bony. In the Eighth and Ninth Months,the Anterior Integument of the Brain is conlolidated into one uniform, more firm and hard Bone, to guard the ten- der frame of the Brain from ill accidents, Near the Forehead, about the confines of the Eye-brows, and the top of The Cavern! the Note, are placed between the two Lamine now and then one, but 33%;; for the molt part two Caverns, endued fometimes with equal, and other times with a different Magnitude, and do often vary their manner offi\ tuation‘, forne Skulls have one large Cavity, inclining toward one {ide of the OrFrontir, and a. much fmaller is found in other Foreheads, whole Bones are patted by the Sagittal Suture, which is rare in perfons of mature age. Learned Dr. Highmore relateth, that he obl'erved two Cavities, one of each lide ( alike in gteatnels) from which two holes Were perforated into the Noltrils: But in others, whofe Foreheads are naturally deprelled, oftentimes there cannot be found the leaft footl'teps of any Caverns, as the Author reporteth of a Woman he Dillcfied, who was endued with a flat Forehead. Thele Caverns, whether one or more, are furnilhed with two pafla- ges, one derived from the Brain to the Or Etbmoz'du, and from thence another is imparted to the Cavities of the Nofirils- Thefe Caverns of the 0s" Frontis are {mall in Man, and much larger in 315,522chBtuits, as in Sheep and HoriEs, which have confiderable long Caverns, in head are Which are generated a kind of Worms, rendring Bullocks vertiginous, 2331:]31,34". which skilful Cow-leeches cure, by opening thefe CaViflCS: and taking iicrfrisi" out the Worms. Divers Learned Authors fpeak their various' Judgments concerning gheufcoltlm of the ufe of thefe Caverns; fome are of an Opinion, that they are recep- theaverns 01 5193'. . t' tacles of Humors, bedewing the Eyes, to render them more pliable 1n "' Order to motion, which is hard to be underflood, by reafon a thick Mat ter |