"They conclude therefore that the Brain and the Liver are truly called principal parts; but this principality is but delegatory from the heart, no otherways then the Lieutenants of Princes, by them chosen for such and such employments, doe receive from them an order and power of dispensation and disposition, whereby they are authorized, and so taken, as if they were immediate commanders themselves."
— Crooke, Helkiah (1576-1648)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by William Iaggard
Date
1615
Metaphor
"They conclude therefore that the Brain and the Liver are truly called principal parts; but this principality is but delegatory from the heart, no otherways then the Lieutenants of Princes, by them chosen for such and such employments, doe receive from them an order and power of dispensation and disposition, whereby they are authorized, and so taken, as if they were immediate commanders themselves."
Metaphor in Context
Some againe intercede for the Peripateticks; and say, that the principal faculties motiue and sensatiue are in the heart, as in their originall and fountaine. That the rootes of the nerues are in the heart, but because it is too narrow to yeelde out of it selfe all their propagations, they think the braine was framed as a second principle, wherin the animall functions might, not obscurely as in the heart, but euidently manifest and exhibite themselues. And this power or faculty when the braine hath once receiued it from the heart, standeth in no neede of continuall and immediate assistance therefrom, but onely of a supply after some time: Euen as the Commander of an Army, who hauing receiued his authority and his company from the Prince, standeth in no farther neede of the Princes protection, vnlesse it be now and then vpon especiall seruices. They conclude therefore that the Braine and the Liuer are truely called principall parts; but this principality is but delegatory from the heart, no otherwayes then the Lieutenants of Princes, by them chosen for such and such imployments, doe receiue from them an order and power of dispensation and disposition, whereby they are authorized, and so taken, as if they were immediate commaunders themselues. Some others vse another distinction, and say that materially the nerues proceede from the Braine and the veines from the Liuer; but the first and the formall principle they say is in the heart.
(I,Qii p. 42)
(I,Qii p. 42)
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Citation
Helkiah Crooke, ΜΙΚΡΟΚΟΣΜΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ: A Description of the Body of Man (London: Printed by William Iaggard, 1615). <Link to EEBO>
Date of Entry
09/28/2011
