Chapter 12. The arteries. De arteriis. Cap. XII

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. Acknowledgments XVII
4. Introduction: Tradition and Reform: Jean Femel's Physiologia (1567) 1
5. BOOK 1. DESCRIPTION OF THE PARTS OF THE HUMAN BODY DE PARTIUM CORPORIS HUMJNI DESCRIPTIONS. LIBER PRIMUS
6. Chapter 1. The order of teaching and demonstration in which the art of medicine should be arranged. Quo doctrinae atque demonstrationis ordine ars medica constituenda sit. Cap. I 15
7. Chapter 2. The difference between the human body and those of the other animals, and the parts that both share. Quid hominis corpus a caeteris distat animantibus, quasquepartes habet cum illis communes. Cap. II 17
8. Chapter 3. The bones. De ossibus. Cap. III 21
9. Chapter 4. The cartilages, joints, and ligaments. De cartilaginibus, articulis, et vinculis. Cap. IIII 39
10. Chapter 5. The muscles and tendons. De musculis et tendonibus. Cap. V 45
11. Chapter 6. The function of the internal parts to which we owe our life and nutrition, and the need for them. Quis ususpartium interiorum, quarum benejicio vivimus et nutrimur, quae illarum necessitas. Cap. VI 63
12. Chapter 7. The internal parts held within the lower belly. Departibus interioribus infero ventre conclusis. Cap. VII 67
13. Chapter 8. The vital parts. Departibus vitalibus. Cap. VIII 87
14. Chapter 9. The head. De capite. Cap. IX 101
15. Chapter 10. The nerves. De neruis. Cap. X 115
16. Chapter 11. The veins. De vents. Cap. XI 123
17. Chapter 12. The arteries. De arteriis. Cap. XII 139
18. Chapter 13. The membranes and the skin. De membranis et cute. Cap. XIII 145
19. Chapter 14. Flesh and soft parts. De came mollibusque partibus. Cap. XIIII 151
20. Chapter 15. Fat, marrow, hairs, and nails. De adipe, medulla, pilis, et vnguibus. Cap. XV 155
21. Chapter 16. Conduct of the dissection. Consectionis ratio. Cap. XVI and Peroration 161
22. BOOK 2. THE ELEMENTS DE ELEMENTIS. LIB. II
23. Introduction. Praefatio 181
24. Chapter 1. Resolving the human body into composite parts and simple parts. Humani corporis in partes turn compositas, turn simplices dissolutio. Cap. I 183
25. Chapter 2. What is a part of the body, and the correct numbers of simple and similar parts. Quid pars corporis, et quot simplices ac similares proprie dinumerentur. Cap. II 187
26. Chapter 3. What should be called an element, what parts in the body should be called elements for doctors, and what should be called principles. Quid elementum, quae medicis in corporepartes elementa,et quaeprincipia did debeant. Cap. III 193
27. Chapter 4. The reasoning on which earth, water, air, and fire are called the elements of everything. Quibus rationibus terra, aqua, aer et ignis rerum omnium elementa dicantur. Cap. IIII 195
28. Chapter 5. The body of man, like those of everything else, is united and held together by the coalescence of the four elements. Corpus hominis, vt caeterorum omnium, ex quatuor elementorum concretione necti et contineri. Cap. V 199
29. Chapter 6. Against recent authorities who believe that only the powers of elements, and not their substances, reside within us. Contra iuniores qui elementorum solas vires, non item substantias in nobis putant inesse. Cap. VI 201
30. Chapter 7. A more searching inquiry into the mixture of elements. De elementorum permistione diligentior inquisitio. Cap. VII 205
31. Chapter 8. Whether the whole of the substances of elements pervades everything completely, or only the whole of their qualities. Vtrum elementorum substantiae, an qualitates solae totis totae perfundantur. Cap. VIII 209
32. BOOK 3. THE TEMPERAMENTS DE TEMPERAMENTIS. LIB. III
33. Chapter 1. What a temperament is, and how Avicenna defined it wrongly. Quid temperamentum, vtque idperperam definierit Auicennas. Cap. I 215
34. Chapter 2. That contraries gather into the same thing, and how the powers of each are to be judged. Contraria in idem confluere, et vnde singulorum vires aestimentur. Cap. II 219
35. Chapter 3. The number and nature of distinctions between temperaments. Temperamentorum differentiae quot qualesque sint. Cap. III 223
36. Chapter 4. What is moderated by justice, what is moderated by mass, and that both really exist in the nature of things. Quid iustitia, quid pondere temperatum, vtrumque in rerum natura vere subsistere. Cap. IIII 225
37. Chapter 5. Human touch is the decisive assessor for distinguishing temperament. Hominis tactum, discernendi temperamenti legem esse et iudicem. Cap.V 229
38. Chapter 6. The tempering of individual parts of the human body. De singulorum partium corporis humani temperatura. Cap. VI 233
39. Chapter 7. The temperament of a man as a whole, and that not everything living is hot. De vniuersi hominis temperamento, neque viuens omne calidum esse. Cap. VII 237
40. Chapter 8. Touch does not straightforwardly discover the temperament of internal parts. Vt tactus non simpliciterpartium interiorum temperamenta discernât. Cap. VIII 241
41. Chapter 9. The inborn temperament is altered by many causes, and the basis on which this occurs. Multis ex causis ingenitum temperamentum mutari, quâque id ratione accidat. Cap. IX 243
42. Chapter 10. Age, the distinctions between ages, and how with increasing age everyone's temperament changes. Quid aetas, quot aetatum differentiae, vtque illarum progressa cuiusque temperamentum vertatur. Cap. X 245
43. Chapter 11. No temperament should be called bilious, sanguineous, phlegmatic, or melancholic. Temperamentum nullum biliosum, sanguineum, pituitosum, aut melancholicum did oportere. Cap. XI 253
44. BOOK 4. THE SPIRITS AND THE INNATE HEAT DE SPIRITIBUS ET INNATO CALIDO. LIB. IIII
45. Chapter 1. A heat resides in us and all living things, and is divine. Calorem quendam in nobis cunct'isque viuentibus inesse, eumque diuinum. Cap. I 257
46. Chapter 2. A spirit given to all living things is associated with the vital heat. Spiritum quendam cunctis datum viuentibus, qui vitae calorem continet. Cap. II 261
47. Chapter 3. The material of both heat and spirit is recognized in us, on the model of bodies that take fire. Corporum quae incenduntur exemplo, materiam turn caloris, turn spiritus in nobis cognosci. Cap. III 265
48. Chapter 4. Proof of the original moisture, which is the material underlying both heat and spirit. Humidiprimigenij quod turn caloris, turn spiritus subiecta est materia, demonstratio. Cap. IIII 269
49. Chapter 5. The triple substance of a similar part, and the other distinctions between humors. De triplici similarispartis substantia, et de caeteris humorum differentiis. Cap. V 273
50. Chapter 6. What the innate heat is and what its substance is. Quid innatum calidum, quae eius substantia. Cap. VI 277
51. Chapter 7. What nature is to physicians, and what its substance is. Quid natura medicis, et quae eius substantia. Cap. VII 281
52. Chapter 8. Innate heat undergoes a change of state as age [literally, "ages"] wears on. Vt innatum calidum aetatum inclinatione, status mutationem subeat. Cap. VIII 283
53. Chapter 9. The innate heat alters with the seasons of the year and the region, and has numerous names. Vt innatum calidum per anni tempora etper regiones mutetur, et multiplex illius appellatio. Cap. IX 291
54. Chapter 7 [9A]. Distinctions between native heat and spirit; spirits are implanted in individual parts, and controlled by spirits flowing in from elsewhere. Natiui turn caloris, turn spiritus differentiae: hosque partibus singulis insitos, aliunde influentibus gubernari. Cap. VII 295
55. Chapter 12. Natural spirit becomes the material of vital and animal spirit. How the spirits and other substances inherent in the parts are nourished. Naturalem spiritumfieri materiem vitalis atque animalis: vtque spiritus et aliae substantiaepartibus ingenitae alantur. Cap. XII 299
56. BOOK 5 THE FACULTIES OF THE SOUL DE ANIMA FAC ULTATIB US. LIB. V
57. Chapter 1. The soul. Quid anima. Cap. I 303
58. Chapter 2. The number and nature of the kinds, parts, and faculties of the soul. Animae genera, partes etfacultates quot et quae sint. Cap. II 305
59. Chapter 3. How many faculties there are of the first part of the soul, the so-called natural faculties. Quotprimae partis animae sint facultates, quae naturales appellantur. Cap. III 311
60. Chapter 4. The nourishing [faculty] requires the help of four faculties. Quatuorfacultatum subsidio altricem indigere. Cap. IIII 321
61. Chapter 5. Over and above these four, there is no other natural faculty of appetite, neither of distinguishing, nor of separating. Praeter eas quatuor; non aliam quandam esse naturalem appetendi facultatem, aliam internoscendi, aliam secernendi. Cap. V 323
62. Chapter 6. Different natural faculties are more effective for different parts, and have assigned to them particular instruments for functioning. Aliis partibus alias facultates naturales ess valentiores, Usque propria quaedam functionum instrumenta destinata esse et attributa. Cap. VI 327
63. Chapter 7. The faculties of external sensation. Externae sentiendi facultates. Cap. VII 331
64. Chapter 8. Internal faculties of the sentient soul. Interiores sentientis animaefacultates. Cap. VIII 335
65. Chapter 9. Appetite and the faculty of movement. De appetitu et mouendi facultate. Cap. IX 343
66. Chapter 10. The base and the instrument of action that each single faculty of the sentient soul possesses: they are not all present in every animal. Quam unaquaeque sentientis animae facultas sedem habeat, quod agendi instrumentum: neque omnes omni inesse animanti. Cap. X 351
67. Chapter 11. The faculties of intelligence. De intelligentiaefacultatibus. Cap. XI 357
68. Chapter 12. The vital faculty, which Aristotle considered the same as the natural one. De vitalifacultate, quam Aristoteles eandem atque naturalem existimauit. Cap. XII 363
69. Chapter 13. The physicians who follow Plato divide the vital faculty from the rest. Medicos Platonem sequutos, vitalem facultatem a reliquis diiungere. Cap. XIII 367
70. Chapter 14. The three faculties of the soul are separate in their seats and locations. Tres animae facultates sedibus atque locis discludi. Cap. XIIII 371
71. Chapter 15. Refutation of the reasoning put forward by antagonists. Rationum quas aduersarijproponunt confutatio. Cap. XV 377
72. Chapter 16. What the vital faculty provides and imparts to the rest, in what it resides, what status it reaches, and what life is. Quid vitalis facultas caeteris praestet et impertiat, in quibus insit, quo accedat ordine, quid vita. Cap. XVI 385
73. Chapter 17. The harmony of the faculties and their precedence. De facultatum concentu etprincipatus ordine. Cap. XVII 389
74. Chapter 18. The soul in these parts is simple, and hence the arguments of the Aristotelians break down. Simplicem esse animam quae his partibus continetur; hincque Aristotelicorum rationes dissolui. Cap. XVIII 391
75. Chapter 19. The moral faculties. De moralibus facultatibus. Cap. XIX 397
76. BOOK 6. THE FUNCTIONS AND HUMORS DE FUNCTIONIBUS ETHUMORIBUS. LIB. VI
77. Chapter 1. Preparation of food in the stomach. Alimenti in ventriculo confectio. Cap. I 403
78. Chapter 2. The distribution of nutriment takes place from the stomach by way of the intestines and mesenteric veins into the liver. Vt è ventriculo per intestina et venas mesaraicas in iecur fiat alimenti distributio. Cap. II 411
79. Chapter 3. Production of blood and humors in the liver. Sanguinis et humorum in iecore procreatio. Cap. III 419
80. Chapter 4. All humors are generated at the same time, and from one and the same heat. Omnes humores simulgigni, et ab vno eod'emque calore. Cap. IIII 425
81. Chapter 5. How the blood slips out of the liver and is distributed through the vena cava to all parts of the body. Vt sanguis à iecore delapsus per venam cauam in omnes corporis partes dijfundatur. Cap. V 431
82. Chapter 6. How many kinds of concoction there are, what the particular humor of each is, and what waste matter there is. Quot concoctionum genera, quis cuiusque proprius sit humor, quod excrementum. Cap. VI 439
83. Chapter 7. Blood, and how it is present in veins. De sanguine, vtque is consistât in venis. Cap. VII 445
84. Chapter 8. Blood in the veins consists of a mixture not of three but of four humors, and what the different sorts of it are. Sanguinem in venis, non trium, sed quatuor humorum permistione contineri, quotque eius sint differentiae. Cap. VIII 451
85. Chapter 9. The different sorts of phlegm and of the two kinds of bile. Pituitae et vtriusque bilis differentiae. Cap. IX 457
86. Chapter 10. Animal functions. De animalibus functionibus. Cap. X 467
87. Chapter 11. Functions of the internal sense. Sensus interiorisfunctiones. Cap. XI 477
88. Chapter 12. How appetite and moral actions come about. Vtfiant appetitio atque morales actiones. Cap. XII 483
89. Chapter 13. Forward motion, and touching. De progressions et tactione. Cap. XIII 489
90. Chapter 14. The functions of the mind. De mentis functionibus. Cap. XIIII 495
91. Chapter 15. The main faculties of the soul are not separate in their seats. Principes animae facultates non esse sedibus distinctas. Cap. XV 505
92. Chapter 16. Our heat needs cooling, fuel, and purification all the time, or it is quenched and declines. Calorem nostrum perpetuo refrigeratione, pabulo, et expurgatione indigere, alioqui extingui ipsum et extabescere. Cap. XVI 509
93. Chapter 17. The value of pulse and respiration, and the difference between them. Pulsus et respirationis vsus: vtque inter se distent. Cap. XVII 513
94. Chapter 18. The basis on which respiration and pulsation happen. Qua ratione fiant respiratio atque pulsus. Cap. XVIII 515
95. BOOK 7. ON HUMAN PROCREATION AND ON THE SEMEN DE HOMINIS PROCREATIONE ATQUE DE SEMINE. LIB. VII
96. Preface. Praefatio 523
97. Chapter 1. The origin of the difference between the sexes, and what Aristotle handed down about the semen. Sexuum distinctio vnde sit, et quid de semine sit ab Aristoteleproditum. Cap. I 525
98. Chapter 2. The material of semen is generated in the solid parts, and how it is separated from them by the power of the testicles. Seminis materiam in solidis partibus progigni, vtque ab illis testium vi secernatur. Cap. II 529
99. Chapter 3. The testicles and their preeminence. De testiculis et eorum praestantia. Cap. III 535
100. Chapter 4. The composition of semen, and what the testicles contribute to its making. Quaenam est seminis compositio, quid testes ad eius confectionem conferant. Cap. IIII 541
101. Chapter 5. The nature, excellence, and powers of semen, and that it is the cause both of all spirits and of all faculties. De seminis natura, praestantia, et viribus, idque omnium turn spirituum, turn facultatum causa esse. Cap. V 545
102. Chapter 6. The female's semen. De foeminarum semine. Cap. VI 553
103. Chapter 7. The menstrual blood. De menstruo sanguine. Cap. VII 559
104. Chapter 8. The conception of the semen, and the original establishing of the human being. De seminis conceptione, et prima hominis constitutione. Cap. VIII 565
105. Chapter 9. The initial shaping of the animal. Prima animalis conformatio. Cap. IX 571
106. Chapter 10. Great argument both about the main one among the bodily parts and about the order of their shaping. Vt departium corporis principatu, ita et de conformationis ordine magna quidem contentione certatur. Cap. X 575
107. Chapter 11. The completing and filling out of the fetus. De foetus perfectione et complemento. Cap. XI 583
108. Chapter 12. The reasons children are like or unlike their parents. Quibus ex causisfit, vt nati parentibus similes dissimilesve sint. Cap. XII 589
109. Chapter 13. The source from which the soul's faculties accrue to the conceptus, as if begotten, and the sequence in which this occurs; in addition, it is beyond doubt that the semen is a part of the conceptus. Vnde et quonam ordine animae facultates conceptui tanquam genitae accedant: nec essepraeterea dubitandum an semen parsfiat conceptus. Cap. XIII 595
110. Notes to the Latin 603
111. Notes to the Translation 609
112. Bibliography 627
113. Index 631