The workes of ... Ambrose Parey ... / Translated out of Latine and compared with the French. By Th. Johnson [and in part by George Baker].

Ambroise Paré

Date:: 1634

Credit: The workes of ... Ambrose Parey ... / Translated out of Latine and compared with the French. By Th. Johnson [and in part by George Baker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$of all forts of fibers jpalTcs forth from the bafis of the bone Hyoi^a, and ends at the lower part of the tongue, which with ii? companion plucks it backc into the mouth. The fift&laft mofi ufually arifes from the upper part of the homes df the bone Hysides . and goes to the roots of the tongue betweene the two fiift, that it may move it to the (ides oftheraouth.The temper thereof, as of all othcrflerh,is hot and moift.Thc firft adion & commodity therof is,to be the organ of the fenfe of rafting,wherforc it was made fungous & (pongyjthat hy reafon of the rarity of it, it might mote eafily admit the tafis con/oyned with the fpettle, as a vehicle. Another to be an ioftrumenc to di- ftinguifh the voice by articulate fpccch,for which it was made movable into each part ofthcmouth.Thethifdistobeahelpetochaw&fwallowthemeat.Forwhichcaufe • • it is like a fcoope or difti with which wee throw backe the cornc into the mill, which hath fcaped grinding. And bccaufe,when the tdogueis dry,it is Icffe nimble & quicke to performe its motions, as appeares by thofe which can fearfe fpcake by reafon of » ihirftjOr aburning fcaver.- therefore nature hath placed very fpongy glandules at the roots therof, on each fide one, which like fpon^es fucke and receive,both from the feSSrSt- braine & other places a waterifh and fpettlely humor, with which they humejft and of the tongue,'' make more gUb,not onely the tongue, but alfo the other parts of the mouth, as the throateand jawesjthefe glandules are called theAlmonds ofthethroate. ' C H A P. X 111. of the ^ouih. He mouth is that capacity which bounded with the checkes &lipscontaincs whathii. within its precinff s the teethjtonguCjand the beginnings of the throttle and «r@, gullet.Therfore the ufeof the mouth is to contcine the tongue, & ferve it ii the fitter performance of its adions^Sc although many parts hereof have bin formerly i]andled,as the lips, teeth,lawes,tongue,almonds,& paftages of the palate coraming from the nofe,yet ic rettiaines,that we declare^what the palate,thetj^rf^wwjor Vvula the [^hirinx^iL fauces or Chops are.The paIate(or as it is commonly called,the Roofe wbatAK^ii ofthe mouth) is nothing elfe but the upper part of the mouth bounded with the teeth i«is3 ^ gums Scupper law. In which place the coate commonto the whole mouth^is made rough with divers wrincles,thaC the meats put up & down between the tongue & the Palate might be brokenSc chawed more eafily by that inequality and roughnes Jf any The news would fiode the acrveSjWhichdefcendinto the palat from the fourth conjugation, let tiieKof. * him feparate that coat & caft ic from the fore to the hind part of the mouth; for fo he fiaal find them at the fides Sc hinde parts of the bones of the Palate, which incompafte the palate,Sc at the beginning of the inner holes of the mouth,which defeend from the nofe,5c region of the produdioos of the wedgbone called the Saddle. Thefe holes or why thehoijs paflages are open,that we may breathchc better when wc fleep,& that when the nofe paUte is not well,the excrements which feeke their paftage by iCjmay be eafilicr drawn away by the mouth.This fame coatc is woven with nervous fibers, chatjlike the congue,it might judge of taftsjthefc fibers copofea coat that hath a middle confiftence betwixt whattindeof fofc Sc hard.For if it fhould have beene any harder,like a bone or griftlcjit would have £ been without fenfe,but if fofter hard, acride and fharpe meats would h ave hurt it. - Chap. XIIII. Ofthe G3.xg^tZQn^ or Vvula, , - ' , Y the Gargmon we under ftand a flefliy Sc Spongy body,in lhape like a pine apple,banging dircdly down at the further end of the palate & bafis of the hQnQEthmoidesv^\\c.tQ the two holes of the palate come from the nofe,above the enttace of thethrottle.This little body is feituate intbis place,to breake the violence of the aire drawne in by breathing, 5c that by delay ic might in forae fort teper Sc mitigate it by the warraenefle of the mouth ■Befides,that it might be as ic were theP/(f^y»,or quil of:thevoice,fo to diftbfe the fuliginous vapour fent fbfthio breathing that it may be difperfed over al the mouth, that refounding from tfieatce ic may be ar- ticulate,6cby the motion of the tongue diftinguilhed Sc for med,inco a cercaine voice. Which ufe is not fmall^when wc fee by experience that fuch as have this particle cut away ,or eaten or corrupted by any accidentjhave not ondy thdr voyce vitiated and enfaetheJoirs gitretfif or Vvluau. Theilce manifold thereoi^$