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Show \ Book lll Boole Ill . Of Hair. 94-? of the Head and Beard (caufed by frequent cutting and razing) which is CHAP. XX. oi Man‘s Body, the Cerebrirm and Cert/2421111111, giving Seufe and Motion by {mallet in In fancy and Childhood,and groweth bigger in more mature years. It is very probable that Hair. is generated in the "term out of the more grofs Particles of leminal Matter , or rather, out of Linor difiilling out of the extremities ofthe .Nerves,and albuminous Matter coming out of the terminations of the Arteries, iulerted into the lubfiance of the cutaneous Glands, wherein the Roots and ~Origenlof Hair are gent rated out ofnntricious Liquor, ~dilpoled With upccuhar qualities fit for prodm éiions of the firft rudiments of Hair, formed in the Interfiices or the veilels belonging to the Skin, where the Aliment is fit" counnunrcated to the Roots, and alterward by Pores to the whole Bodyof the. Hair, alter the manner and production and increafe of Plants, which receive iiourilhment, firlt out of the bowels of the Earth by Roots, which afterward from thence is com. municated to the i'temm or trunk, and then to all parts of the Plants. As to the Figure of the Hair, it is mol't commonly fil'algllit and pentlu~ lous toward the Bale of the Head, and IS fometnnes naturazly crifpedand curled, as in Ethiopia)" proceeding from their hot and Idry Conflittition, but the Scythian: are entitled With Plane, long Hair, VVlllC)1 Ari/i0! e lait‘h‘ is derived from moiflute, and firaight Hair from fir-fright lores of the Skin, crifped and curled from crooked : And though H‘JH‘. may feem at, the firlt fubtlc irradiations; by which the Soul cclebrateth her Divine Functions, and talteth care and conduct of this leiTer World. view to be folid and round, yet upon better inlpeétion, fome Hair appear: eth Triangular, others (Luadrangular, and aThirdround, by! thelhelp or 0f the Hair. H E highel‘t Ptory relating to the elegant Rruéture of Man's BOdy, The Head may be calI:tl tl'ePalacc of Vi. and uLl Q. Th ntlol'ure of the Head TheDur/iand (commonly called the Head) may be well f‘tyled a Palace ofVirtue, and Science, in which the Soul, as a (lucen, performcth her mofi noble am, The Head being the Prefence Chamber of the Soul, is immured with rhc Skull, as with a thick 'Wall, outwardly cafed with many thinner eiiclofurtsY The Hair, Clttifllltl, Ortis, Membramz tamafa, Peritram'nm é» I'criqflinm. This choice apartiment is furnilhed Within with Two fine Hangings of the 31:33??? Dun: and (Pitt mater (clothing the Cortex of the Brain,) curioufly carved into "m" 1m"- many Aizfraé‘fm, running in fev'eral Meanders, curioufiy embmidercd with great variety of Veilels, finding the covering of the Brain, and relembling z fair landfiip, drawn by a Divine Hand. The Car:Lrum, at il Ce- iclzrli'nm a': the inward I:Jt£h(.f£lru Heal. My Province at this time being the Head, I will prefeut you at Exit with Th. ll ' is I ‘ The Cuelis L odging in this noble (Palladium, are the mofi excellent part ‘ tint. Glailes, when the Hair is cut into finall Particles, and VICVUE The Err! produflion of Hair. The Figure of qur. Wit 1 a LUN- the moi} outward covering, the Hair, which may item to deferve ournotice, as it confifieth of many oblong Bodies, made up of Filaments, rooted in the Skin, and growing out ofthe pores of the Body. . The antient Philolophers aflign this manner and method of the produéii- on at the Hair: The grofs {teams of excrementitious Matter ariling from the Third Concoe‘rioii in the habit oithe Body, are carried upward, till as trou- blelonie (Innis, they are forced outward to the pores of the Skin, Where {ticking ionic time in the narrow pallages, they are concreted, till a new ac- cels of lit-mus do croud one another forward, and generate Hair line it by appoiition) and propagateth in length, by a confiant(as they will new accre- tion 0i 1 latter ; but this i‘truple may be Hatred ( which feemeth to oppofi? this Hypotheli» ) That if Hair doth proceed from the Vapours ofexcrcinenti- tious l\"lattcr, which univeii‘ally tranltfire through the pores of the whole 30- dy, \\ hy is it not geiicratedin all parts of the Skin 9 which if true, would dilgtiiii- the beautiful colour ofthc lurface of the Bod . l'artherinore, ldo no: conceive it reafonable that Hair {hould be produ~ C(:Ll and nourished by appoiition of concreted Vapours, impelling one part a‘tter another initialize: fizflrfiiiofiiifld fli;,,,,,,:,,, "MW" 5:51,}; iii-w 23:; Dimer torward through the Pores of the Skin, which ifgrantcd, Hair when cur, mull: remain obtule in its extremity, as when it is Erii cut; 81" on the contrary, their ends change their Figure they obtain in Barbiug, 35 their Extremitits grow from obtule to acute. .V‘vlherei‘o‘rt‘ l molt humbly conceive, that Hair is not generated bp apporim)", bunny a nutricmus )uyCe proper for Hair, which {irllz produccth the boots, which being porous, receive the alimentary Liquor into their hibi auce, and dotliincreale chiefly in length, Non peruppafi/iomm, fed per iiii'm fi/vefnitmem aiimentz‘, wherebydt is augmented after the fame manner as other parts of the Body are increaledg {0 that Hair is not only enlarged in 1." dimenhou of liléllfl], but greatnefs too, as is molt coulpicuo us in the Hair oi ous'rllihecolour of the Hair, according to our great Mailer Hipotrater, proceedcth from variety of Humoys, enrring into the Skin, in which 3:251:15; is implanted, as the Author hath it in his Book Dc_Nfl.nlrfqu)i:€ri' trig}: innit/‘1. hot», {it 73 which}, {iv 7! missus, iii 72 ye'Aaxrzrr, mum'm 7w 159m» )9 n 3?" )rtE-nu- Wh at- foever Humor pafieth into the Skin, whether it be White, Yellow, or Black, a the Hair is to be afleéted with that colour, it) that according to this Hypothelis, the colour of the Hair is derived from the Humors, With which. it .15, nouriihed in the Skin -, And in pituitous cold temperaments, the Hair is White in Cholerick Yellowilh, in Melancholy, fiowrng fromadufi Hllmots, it is Black, and in mixed Confiitutions, produced by divetfeEHu"‘0", Proceed the other intermedial colours of Hair. The .I/ldtlanil‘, ap"W":Arabians,Spaniaralr7 are furnilhed with Black Hair,as llVlgg in 10):) k1. mats, and from indulging themfelves wrthWine for their or irliarys i; , and from eating Salt Meats. And the German, Low firm/f, Eng 1/11, M ler, Daner,(rc. have Red and brighter Hair, as leading their lives in coo er Climats,and more temperate Drink offmall Beer,Ale, and as having] mos: Ere: nerally, pituitous conf'titutions of Body, then thofe. that in: indot t orhis "EYE: Where the beams of the Sun are more predominant .‘ ccord 13% (t: f Hypothefis, an Inference may be made, how the great varietyhat} c ianote o the colour of Hair is produced5which may very much. alter in t" e agne Pie; on, as the Temperament and Humors are varied: Of which More m. [ff/I‘d mfg.veth a remarkable Inflance in his Hiflory .De Alto/mm mm: 11, 01-3, Senator whofe Hair turned White in his declining Age 5 and aftertlxrardk_iis Blood was mingled with copious Bile, which did not only deform "Si: "is: with a Tawney line, but tinged his Hair too With a Yellowrl 1 co our, 0 \Vhatinclinin to ram. Learned Tgrdizmcdeduceth all intermedial Colours from an equal, or a greater or lefs portion of White, mingled with Black. The dark colol‘ijr: I It The Colour of Hair. |
