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Show 0f the Kiri of the "Be/l}. Chap. X XV II_ It is fallned above to the Diaphragm (as to the Cieling of the lower - Apartiment) which being inflamed, drawetli the Pcrirameum upward, which is feared below near the 0511mm, @ubir, as the Floor of this lower Cham. her, and before to the Linea Alba, coriipoleti of the various Tendons of the Abdominal Mtifi‘lts, decnllating each other, in their iinall Fibres, in which they malte a lxind oi. Lattice. Mr {thllantc ci‘ the Fur- :5‘ The liibfiance of the l'erilomezrm is not compoll-d of Ligaments, which are void of Seine, but of Nervous Fibrils, the true inllruments of Senlii- 14/". r‘cries itn, uith lckl'lc‘Jllitl \ t ‘:is \\ llll \ .E..s. tion, which is communicated to this Membrane a part of acute Smile, by vertue of them. \Vherelore this Membrane may be deferibed to be a rare Compagc fra. med of Arteries {prouting out oi the Phrenick, hhnnnary, and Epigaliriclt Branches, and Veins palling between the Coats of. the I'critom-imz, and the Vefi‘els of divers Families do not liitilciil.ite with each other, as the Ancients give out, but only they of the lame Tribe have only Anal'tomoles with one another, and the \"eliels oi. dill‘erent alliance may alloeiate, but not intimately converl‘e by an immediate tranlinillion of the lame Liquor, into each others Tubes; which plainly appeared), became the Mammary Chap. X X v I I. Of the Rim of the gel/j. i6; Thefc Nervous Fibrils are in their nature oblong, (lender, flexible bodies, cafily giving way to the Compreflion, and motion of the neighbouring parts, and when their force is taken off in refi, thele Fibrils being relaxed, do reduce theirilelV'es to their former natural tone and pollute. 1 h: dcl'cripti' on oFNervous Fibrils. Some are of opinion, that the Territorial)", corililling of Nervous Fibrils, Some conteirc the Rim ot the Be] ly hath voluntary motion, bath a power to move it fell tip and down, backward and forward, conform to the various politions, in which the Body is moved, but tlicle various Mo- tions if voluntary, cannot be performed without the allillance of Mulcles, or Carnousli‘ibres at leal‘t, which are a kind of Minute NIullles, the Machines o'f Arbitrary Motion: But thele Fibres being only Nervous, as far which is very imprubablaa: having no ilelhy Fibres. .131 can tlilcei'n, in the Fabrick of this Membrane, are not capable of Vo- luntary Motion, and have a Tenlil nature, which hath only an accidental one lollowing the Motion of the adjacent parts, as in Inlpiration, the Diaphragme enlargeth the Thorax, and by reducing it toward a plain, com- preflbth the Stomach and lnreliines. and forceth the QDCrilommm outward. And in Expiration, the Stomach and Inteliines return up again to their former llation, and the Belly groweth more latik, and the 7301110224qu being comprefled inward by the Abdominal Mulclcs, is put into its natural tone Arteries have no perforation through the Coats, into the Cavities of the Epi- and pofrure. gafiric Veins , which would necellarily follow, if the Blood were impelled immediately out of the Caviriss of the Mammary Arteries, into the Epigaliric Veins, which is contrary to Autoply. So that this highly Expanded Membrane, is integrated by a number of different Tubes, dilplaied in fruitful Ramnlets, computing its liibltance in a common Notion; ‘CCCtllli: Nervous Fibres are the more peculiar confiituent parts of this ample .io‘oe (inverting the {elect Houfholdflufl' of the lower 1, Story) made up of numerous Threads, finely drawn out1 clolely {truck together, and rartly enterwoven with each other; and {ome of tliele FilalTlLll[\ run long‘n'a} s, paliing downward, from the Cieling to the Floor, from the I)z'.1pl.ii'..":y/1c to the ()r Iliumy and Coulis; and others run tranfverfly from one lee to the other of this Story, from one Hypoconder to the other: And the third fort of Fibres making this Membrane, are oblique, taking their courle this way and that way, in Bevil Lines, filling up the fpacesof the other Filaments, which cannot every way have lo clofe 3. Texture, but there mull be {onie Interltices and Alperities left, rendring the Fabrick uneven in rites and falls; unlefs it were fupplicd with a kind of Parenchyrna, propagated originally From genital Concreted Liquor, which is afterward repaired either by a Coagulated Nervous | iquor, or rather the reliques of the Serous Juice (not received into the pores of the Vellels and Fibrils, at the time of their Nutrition) adhering to the outlide of the Coats, rela- ting to the Valle-ls and Filaments. So that the Compage of the 'Pcrifom'lmr, being for the molt part Fibrous, confifieth ol innumerable linall Nervous Filaments, and is of a pliable nature, ealie to be Diltended, sand Contraéled, caufed by thercpletion, or inanition of the Stomach and lntcfiines: And in "/0an with Child, the Uterus being turgid with the l'xtus, doth afcend upward into the Body, and highly dilteiid the Trrimmezwz, efpecially in thelafi Months. And this Membrane is above mealiire difiended in Hydropick Bodies, pro- duced by herons Recrcments, or mixed with Flatulencies, lodged in the Cavity or the Abdomen. The @crifazmum hath a Duplicature in its hinder Region, for the fecurer conveyance of the Seminal Arteries , and Veins , and before for the Umbelical Veflels; and in the I‘bpogaflrium, in another procefls of the 'Peri- tontcum, the Uterus, and Bladder, have their I'tepofitories It hath two Pi‘ocelies near the 0: Pubir, on each lide one, no leis in Men then in Women, and are two oblique Produétions perforating the oblique and traiifvei'le Muleles of the Abdomen, giving conduél' to the Spermatick Veflels, in their way to the Scrotum 5 but in Women they are carried to the Ingram, The Duplirau' ture of the Fairway», is a Conduit and. Repofitory for divers Vcfl‘cls and parts. The I'tocefl'es of the Perito71¢14M. and are terminated near the upper parts of the @uzlemlum, in which the round Ligaments of the Uterus do degenerate into linall Fibres, to which the Clitoris is Ruined, on both {ides of the 0; Twin}. The interior Coats of the ?eritomcum, is f0 firmly tied to the Spermatick Tlit-ie Nervous Fibres, the chief and proper Ingredients of this extenfive Compage, belonging to the Perilomt‘ltm, take their firlt rife not from the \‘ertebres of the Spine, but from the Nervous Plexes, feared in the upper Veilels, which if broken or relaxed, a Hit-mid, 'rmgmu, or ~O,A,,)u,;,,,, are carried, when the Intellines, or Omentum, pals through the rupture or relaxation into the Stromm, whence the parts grow immediately Difiended: But in Women, the Ligaments of the Uterus bind the procell‘es of the Peri-- and lower regions of the Abdomen, to which the @critonxum is lo firmly conjoyned, that it cannot be parted from the Abdominal Plexcs without "mum: more firmly, which being lhorter, are rarely afiiiéted with an Hirrniiz Ingram/1r, but above the Navil, where the Coats are more thin, are {ten laceration; but it is [0 loofely affixed to the \ertebres of the Lbins, that it may belEvered from them, without the violation of its entire continued quently tortured with an 'Owcwmn, produced by great throws in Childbirth. fiibliaiice. But above all, as I have hinted before, there Nervous Fibres ( oi which the q'eritonozum conlilleth ) have their firll: produétion with other Alembranes and Nerves, out of the vil‘cid parts of the Seminal LiquorThefe The Peri/01mm}! being a large Membrane, hath many Minute Miliary The Giantis of the Pmiv Glands, lodged within its Duplicature, as [0 many Colatories of the Blood and Nervous Liquor: And, Ihumbly conceive, that all Membranes have many Glands befitting them, as the Dun: and Tirt Mater, the Intcf'tines, Melentery, mum. |
