[] Tria proposita ipsi Naturæ in Nervorum distributione fuerunt. 1. Ut sensoriis instrumentis Sensum impertiret. 2. Ut motoriis Motum. 3. Ut omnibus aliis [partibus] daret, ut quæ si dolorem adferrent, dignoscerent. And afterwards, Si quis in dissectionibus spectavit, consideravitque justéne, an secus Natura Nervos non eâdem mensurâ omnibus partibus distribuerit, sed aliis quidem liberaliùs, aliis verò parciùs, eadem cum Hippocrate, velit nolit, de Naturâ omnino pronunciabit, quod ea scilicet sagax, justa, artificiosa, animaliumque provida est. Galen. de Us. Part. L. 5. c. 9.

[c] [Book 4. Chap. 5.]

[d] Dr. Willis gives the Reason, cur mutua Amasiorum oscula labiis impressa, tum præcordia, tum genitalia afficiendo, amorem ac libidinem tam facilè irritant, to be from the Consent of those Parts, by the Branches of this fifth Pair. Nerv. Deser. c. 22.

And Dr. Sachs judges it to be from the Consent of the Labia Oris cum Labiis Uteri, that in April 1669, a certain breeding Lady, being affrighted with seeing one that had scabby Lips, which they told her were occasion’d by a pestilential Fever, had such like Pustules brake out in the Labia Uteri. Ephem. Germ. T. 1. Obs. 20.

[e] Consult Willis ubi suprà.

[f] Tears serve not only to moisten the Eye, to clean and brighten the Cornea, and to express our Grief; but also to alleviate it, according to that of Ulysses to Andromache, in Seneca’s Troas, ℣. 762.

Tempus moramque dabimus, arbitrio tuo

Implere lacrymis: Fletus ærumnas levat.

[g] Plin. Nat. Hist. L. 11. c. 37.

[h] Nihil altius simul abruptiusque invenit.