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Show -nwwxy, Book ll ll~ Book ill. ‘1 1")", am 0/ rim/1i, rw-Mx CHAP, diverfc Marauders to break its force and over-hafty motion, againf't the winding {ides of robuft Cliord3,which hinder thelubfiance of the Brain, from being over-charged with luxuriant Blood. LXI. And thefe nervous Chords, feared in the Falciform Procefs, having, a power (as I apprehend ) to contract and dilate themfelves (produced by vari- : ‘ The Brain of Bea/fr. HAving in fome fort given a defcriptionof the various Coats and Procefies of Man's Brain ', Iintend at this time to difcoutfe foinewharof Anatomia Comparam, that we may admire and adore the great attributes of the inofl; Glorious and Omnipotent Agent, fet forth in the wonderful produ. é'rion of the various frame of Brains in diverfe Animals, of Beafis, Birds and Fifli, that we may fee what agreement and difagreement they have wit}: the more excellent Fabrick of Humane Brain, and thereby may render it more ousfenfitive paflions) do draw the Sim: into different poflnres, and fonietimes by lcflening, and other times by enlarging the cavity of the Simu, do in this haf'ten the gentle, and then again check in the other, the precipitate inotion of the Blood. The Corp»: callofiimin more perfect Animals, doth feel and fnpport the lower Region of both Provinces of the Brain, and tiilTCi‘eth not in Figure in the choice Coats and Proceffcs of the Brain, in which he may be mofltru- 125$??? ly fiyled, an Exquifite Standard, giving Rules and Meafures to other Aniii‘ciiiéii ifs mals, which are Mafiers of greater or lefs perfection, as the parts of their 31:, 22323,. Edy, and procefles of their Brain hold more or lefs proportion with thofc of an, wherein the Brain of Brute-Animals, as Lionss Wolves, Bears, Leo- pards, Horfes, Red and Fallow Deer, Bullocks, Sheep, Goats, Hogs and the like, do niof't excell, as running in fome fort more parallel in fimilitude wrth Humane Brain, and do much comply with it in their Coats and ProIf???" Riflesghyfor the. Upper ~1-‘ipartitn-ent of more perfect Animals, as well as Com",. an, is embellifhed Within, With the fine hangings ofthe Dim: and 'Pm 3,3323; Mergwx, every way encntcling that more bright Orb, and are rare contextures, neatly enibrmdered with Arteries and Veins, and made up of numerous Fibers, befet in many places with minute Glands accompanvinfllhe the fruitful Vefle1s and Fibrils running long-ways, crols-virays, and obliqhely, ‘ igliiiinfig' that do"Chfeem 0f MC imoneviii to be("in iaments, ougt (ii-lie" y heaci 1c bod iiiiiiliiiéfiiliéiliiivi The Famix alfo in Brutcs complieth in Form, but tliffereth in fize from thatof Men. And the Natiform l'i'ocelles exceed only tliofe of Men in Magnitude; and whenthey are very large in Brute-Animals, as in Calves, Sheep7 gtr Hi [hurt-5 11 an Mdil,~ll‘l Llic l‘clhloiiti art \Lly fll‘L'll. languid in more perfeé't Animals, are akin in [hape to aHumane Brain, and are only fomewhat lefs in greatnefs. The Ccrcbc/[um of Brutes fomewhat refemblcth that of Man in the Vermiform-l'rocefs, and is different from it in the Lame/Le, which are a kind "' of Semicircles, or Segments of them, and are largeft in the termination of the Cerebellum, and grow narrower, as they approach the Origen‘, and the Humane Cerebellum is diPtinguifhed alfo from that of Brutes in fituation 5 that 9 0f Men being feared under the hinder part ofthe Brain, to which it is united above by a Proccfs, and by another below to the Medalla 0111011311!" whereas the Grebe/[um of Brutes is lodged beyond the hinder part of the Brain, to which it is conjoyned only by its Origen. much lefler in circumference and M '01:?, h€pr€ Cd round Ofmahm( tax of Brute-Animals is beautified wihliiitiln 6:1 6f} iii"? Olllff- (Add filed: nit-5mm I "m" ofPr tical and Mednllar _ y fubf'tance., t h ough lefs and y {hallower "f" M, compoc then thofe 0ofMafl, rants. yer run uneven {n many Maeanders, not unlike them in CiI‘CumVOlUIlOHSi 35 . of Humane Brain. The fitiiatioii (if; llu‘nane Ctrcy'mum. Brain of Man being greater and more firm and folid7 then thofe of Brutcs, which being opened in a very lhort fpace, grow very flabby, the A/Ifm3M lofe much of their Figure, and the Whole furface abateth ofits roundm'fS and plumpnefs, whereas a Humane Brain long retaineth its orbiculzir Form, and more folid Confiftence. "b Th: Natilorin: l'rorxffts are big- of the Superior oval Prominencies. It may be alfo obferved, that when the Natiforin-Procelfes are great, as in Brutes, then the annular l'i'ocefs (encircling the Bafe of the Medul/a oblongmztzi) is fmall, and when the Natiform-l'roccfles are fmall, as in Men, the annular Procefs is large, above the Clan; pincalis, which feemeth to be double ', in a Ribbet are feated Four oval Proceffes, faftcncd to oblong narrow Proceffes, and the Corporaflriam, and Mcrlitllizob- So that upon a Survey being made of the Membranes and Proceffes ofperfeéi: Animals,and compared with a Humane Brain,they feem much to refemble it in L‘Ling"§i§f§$fl‘fifl‘£i"if,ii‘fii‘iifilm ‘rm""9"" 3‘3: That-sign Hogs, (96. The Teftiibtm-Procellbs are very fmall, being narrow appendices y, encompalling the Two Piovmces, and Bafe of the Bram, "‘l‘lCl] P B- flirts. but in Magnitude, being narrower and thinner then that of Humane Brain. illufirious. Man, the Mafier-piece of the Creation, in reference to his more noble compofition, and rare union of integral parts, is mof't eminently illul'trious J liauei in , tontrar‘tm d dilate inim- Figure and Colour, and to differ a little in Dimenfions and Corifilieiiee; the Th" iii. of a llu Brain. is mi‘": |ir:ut1vru [lJZ And yet for all thefe differences, the Coats and Proeeffes of the Brain-of a‘ir- r e izes, and are fomewhat like the AIIthrl‘" thgzhtigggf 11:23:;neglelofatltiedliiraitfil in Brutes, being much depreflh‘l (an? 3;? 51f1 gn a {alleO‘im emiddle r ed all along in a Fiifure lerdeelepHi1nt Brutes the Faint)" in which Proce Aden, thenWith Proccfs is plain‘ but . €115] ff; ‘ 3 nervous Lioamhntg rum}. 0c is rough, being furnilhcd \Vll‘l] diverlc Wang J whence th: Sinm )rEflniliig a"l wiirfiiom one fide Ofih? Proccis to [licroyttij ceilL‘S, is, as it wei‘e divideld ill/itieclirig‘liiiiand down, With' various Mix? )zlc in the nature of minute Damn: . a ,, Ll‘ulfL tau ingma" C6115, (\VlllCh the current of BloodI to conceive. curl: ""5? t .vei' L‘ i perfeét Animals do very much correfpond in likenefs with that ofMan,which , may fee") to be very wonderful ; that Brains fo highly refembling each other °‘ fllPUld partake of fnch different principles and operations, theone being afied With a rational, and the other with a fenfitive Soul; in the one the Underl'tanding dictates to the Will, and the Will (when regular) comfnautleth by its imperatc aCts, the Irafcible and Conctipifcible appetite 2 And 1" Elle other, the appetite is f‘a‘aied wholly by the dictates of the phancy. in a Humane Bi‘ain, the Underftaniling in reflex acts, pcrccivetli, confi(ereth, jndgetli, apprrwetli or mulenincth its own ads, as conionant to, r"difmnan‘ from i'iui‘it Emil-in, :7 v _‘ i531, thenixily lenfrtivc Soul i‘tliding in ' ' ~ |