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Show Of the 'Memhmner encircling the Foetus. Book I. Part IV. Book I. Part IV. Membranes immnring the Seminal Liquor, in which the Fawn: did fwim without any fibres relating to the Ambient lVlembrancs confining it 3 Where- upon I humbly conceive, That thele Membranes encloling the Seminal Marter, to be immediately formed out of the vilciu‘e ambient parts of it, as prepared and concreted by the heat of the \Vomb, without any reference either to the Membranes belonging to the belly of the Forms, or to the Umbilical Veflels, by realbn their: Membranes of the Chorion and zlmnior are produced, before any Delineations of the \‘efl'els of the Navil, or other parts of the Foetur could be difcovered. The ufc ofthc Amnior, The Life of the Ammo; (as I conceive) is to enclofe the Nutricious Liquor, firi'c fevered in the Glands of the Tlaeenta, and tranfinitted through the Chariot: and Amnio: into the Cavity, in which the FOEHN‘ is lodged, for its ' nourilhment and increafe. C H A P. X XIX. Of the Uterus of Bea/Zr. Oman being the moll: excellent Female in this lower Orb, hath the proper part relating to her {ex in greatel't perfection, and is endowed with a "term as the rule and {tandard of it in all other Animals‘, whereupon the l/tterzu of a Mare may challenge a dignity above The owner many other Bruits, as holding a great Analogy with that of Woman, "mm as having the body of the llternr large, in which the Farm; is generated, which belongeth alfo to an Als as well as a Marc, and to few other AniOmnipotent Lord (in whom we ll-D't', move, and have our being) our . Soul tritempheth in thee the Carl of our falvation, who by breathing into M the [hint of life, hath created :44 after thine 012721 Image. mals, in which the Cormta are the allodgments of the Helm; And a Mare and Als have not only the Cavity of the uterus large, but‘the Horns very linall, and fomewhat relembling the Dcferent Veflels of a Woman. Thefirfl rudiments of our ll/[emherr were written in thy book of @rrfiiener, an in a mo]? faithful Regifler. fixation to the inward Coat of it in the firll: Months of Geitation, as then 333.333, Anal the naked Idaeas of our (Part; being lodged in thy miolerflanoling, M in a fafe fIon/itory, were fay/hioneol clay hy n'ay when a yet there mo none of them. Chorion is in conjunction with the mm", after the Chorion groweth thick, 0 mofl glorious Creator, how wonderfltl are thy workt, that we were mofl fine/y wrought like Needle-work in the narrow confine; of the lVomh, arr in the hide/m and the Placenta is lbrmed in the lull Months, which hath its flrlt rudiment in many finall Caruncles, and afterward grow greater, uniting tlieinfelvesin homely of the Earth. And theglimmering ray: of our life, dawning out of the thick wailr ofdart'wej}, would haw immediately warn/heal, had not they been hrightned hy the light ofthy Countenanee. 0 mofl holy Jefus, Than, who art the Way, and the Life, the Truth, Gracionfly A Marc and Afs have the Helm floating in the Uterus, as not having any Thcrmsts having no footlleps of any @laeenta (or Glands) by whofe mediation the "‘RMWW one continued fiibf'tance called the Placenta, which fal'cneth the outward membrane of the Foetm' to the infide of the "term, This part in a Mare and Als as well as Woman, is invefied with many 11" tumor Coats, the firft is a common Integument, (taking its firfl rife from the rim film‘cljfl of the Belly) made up of many membranous Filaments interwoven with l'h‘flrflcm wonehfafl, that in the glaf: of thy Workr, and light of thy Truth, we may fee Nervous, and running in feveral right, oblique, tranfverfe pofillres, are lo the light of Life, that out of the more ohfenre twi-light of thy grace, we may fee thegreat hrightnef: of thy Glory. clolely conjoyned, that they feem to be one entire liibltance. The {econd Coat of the uterus" of a Mare and Als, may be called Car- Th: Fccond nous, as chiefly integrated of divers Helhy firaight, oblique, and circular CM" Fibres, which being put into motion do narrow the Cavity of the "term, and by degrees exclude it by forcing it toward the Vagina and outward Orifice. The third lntegumenr relating to there Animals is Nervous, as compofed The third of many Nervous Filaments palling up and down in leveral politions, which CW' do make up this fine contexture of the inward Coat, endued with a very accute Senfatiori, which draweth the Carnous Fibres into Confent, as con- fining on the Nervous Tunicle which is firfi importuned by the trotiblefonte follicitation of the grown Factor, and afterward communicated to the Carnous Fibres putting them into action. Between the Coats of the "term in thefe Animals, are lodged many {mall TthIands Glands, into which the terminations of Arteries, and extremities of Veins are implanted, and are {0 many Colatories of the Blood. The Coats of the "Uterus in thefe Animals, is adorned with great variety of Vellels, as the Hypogaltrick Arteries and Veins overfpreading the Inte~ guments of the 'Uternr, which is alfo endued with‘ many Nervous Fibrils, coming from the Vertebres of the Spine. And I humbly conceive, the uterm‘ in there Animals hath Lyrnphxduéts too, as well as that of Woman, In 131%?th: cm" Tthcllcls Sigh?" "m" |