XLI.

The Chanels and Bones. Canales & Ossa.

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The Chanels of the Body are the _Veins_, carrying the Blood from the Liver; Canales Corporis sunt _Venæ_ deferentes Sanguinem ex Hepate;

The _Arteries_ (carrying) _Heart_ and _Life_ from the _Heat_; _Arteriæ_, _Calorem_ & _Vitam_ è _Corde_;

The _Nerves_ (carrying) Sense and Motion throughout the Body from the _Brain_. _Nervi_, Sensum et Motum, per Corpus a _Cerebro_.

You shall find these three, 1. everywhere joined together. Invenies hæc tria, 1. ubique sociata.

Besides, from the Mouth into the Stomach is the _Gullet_, 2. the way of the meat and drink; Porrò, ab Ore in Ventriculum _Gula_, 2. via cibi ac potus; and by it to the Lights, the _Wezand_, 5. for breathing; & juxta hanc, ad Pulmonem _Guttur_, 5. pro respiratione; from the Stomach to the Anus is a great _Intestine_, 3. to purge out the _Ordure_; à ventriculo ad Anum _Colon_, 3. ad excernendum _Stercus_; from the Liver to the Bladder, the _Ureter_, 4. for making water. ab Hepate ad Vesicam, _Ureter_, 4. reddendæ urinæ.

The _Bones_ are in the Head, the _Skull_, 6. the two _Cheek-bones_, 7. with thirty-two _Teeth_, 8. _Ossa_ sunt in Capite, _Calvaria_, 6. duæ _Maxillæ_, 7. cum XXXII. _Dentibus_, 8.

Then the _Back-bone_, 9. the Pillar of the Body, consisting of thirty-four turning _Joints_, that the Body may bend it self. Tum, _Spina dorsi_, 9. columna Corporis, constans ex XXXIV. _Vertebris_, ut Corpus queat flectere se

The _Ribs_, 10. whereof there are twenty-four. _Costæ_, 10. quarum viginti quatuor.

The _Breast-bone_, 11. the two _Shoulder-blades_, 12. the _Buttock-bone_, 13. the _bigger Bone_ in the Arm, 15. and the _lesser Bone_ in the Arm. _Os Pectoris_, 11. duæ _Scapulæ_, 12. _Os sessibuli_, 13. _Lacerti_, 15. & _Ulna_.

The _Thigh-bone_, 14. the foremost, 16. and the hindmost Bone, in the Leg, 17. _Tibia_, 14. _Fibula_, 16. anterior, & posterior, 17.

The Bones of the Hand, 18. are thirty-four, and of the Foot, 19. thirty. Ossa Manûs, 18. sunt triginta quatuor, Pedis, 19. triginta.

The _Marrow_ is in the Bones. _Medulla_ est in Ossibus,