THE ANATOMY OF THE INWARD parts of Woman, very necessary to be known to Physicians, Surgians, and all other that desire to know themselves.  
FOr so much as the declaration of most of the principal parts is sufficiently set forth in the Anatomy of man, therefore will I remit you thither: There to behold the operation of them, and here we will declare the situation and manner of such parts as are in a woman, different from the parts in a man. Howbeit, first ye shall understand the signification of the letters, which are graven within this figure.  
A. The gully of the throat.  
B. The longs.  
C. The heart.  
D. The Midriff.  
E. The inner part of the throat pipe passing through the boolke & the lungs into the stomach.  
F. The mouth of the stomach.  
G. The stomach.  
H. The bottom of the stomach.  
I. The neither mouth of the stomach.  
K. The liver. Next unto this letter K. you see this  
L. letter V the which would be L. and signifieth the gall.  
M. Vena port, the liver vain.  
N. The Spleen.  
O. Signifieth the place and vessel to the which the flowers be derived from the liver: Nam menses in primis sensum erumpunt ab ipso iecinore, velut per quedam interualla, donec perventum sit ad illa (super primum ceruicis pudende exortum) acetavula: quos hec, quasi hianti & aperto ore effundunt.  
P. Signifieth the Kidneys, in Latin Renes.  
Q. The bladder, in Latin Vescica: this bladder receiveth the watery parts & urine which descendeth from the reins, and it lieth in the lower parts of the belly before the womb or matrix of the woman, whose neck entereth in at, and is fastened to the neck of the womb through the which naturally it sendeth forth the urine.  
R. Signifieth the great vain, which is derived out of the liver, called in Latin Parigibba, & Chilis: Concava venarum matter, the mother of all veins, and from whom and through his branches (other smaller veins) blood is conveyed into all parts of man's body.  
S. T. V X. Signifieth the womb wherein mankind is conceived, nourished and fostered, unto the time it be of a certain might & force, and then naturally is sent and brought forth into the world, but it is somewhat higher than the bladder: the bottom of it extendeth itself unto the Navel.  
S. Signifieth the bottom of the womb, where is a certain thick carnosite, which boweth downward, and causeth a distinction to be in the womb.  
T. Wherefore T. signifieth the right side of the Matrix.  
V The left side. Some there be that write, that there should be many sells or distinctions in the Matrice, the which is not true, for other distinction than the fleshy part (which is signified by S.) doth cause, is there none. In the right side as Philosophers write, lieth always the man child, in the left the woman child. And to know whether the conception be male or female, they bid to mark whether it move more on the right side then the left, for them it is a man. If on the left more than on the right side, than it is a woman: and for that cause also is to be noted the two breasts, the right and the left: if the right be greater and harder than the left, it is a token of a man: if the left, of a woman, and if she have more pain and dolour in the right side, likewise it signifieth the man child, if in the left, a woman. Whether it be man or wonan, according to the Doctor of Physic and Philosophers, when the seed is first conceived in the Matrix, it encloseth itself after such a sort, that the point of a needle cannot enter in at it but by violence. And the first vi. days that it is conceived, it remaineth crude and white like milk.  
Then in the space of other nine days it waxeth red, and is become thick blood: then in other xii, dries, it beginneth to come to some fashion: then in the xviii. days following, the face and other principal members, begin to grow into a full shape and form in longitude, latitude and profundity. In the rest of the time unto the birth it is comforted, and prepared to come forth, the which many times chanceth in the seven. month, & the child proveth and doth very well: but in the xiii, month, few or none prove. About the later end of the ix. again, if it be borne, it proveth very well, that is the most common course xl. weeks after the conception. The manner how the child lieth in the mother's womb, is this: the face lieth on both the knees: so lieth it round in manner, and the face toward the inward part of the womb: and this partly have I showed you of the operation of the Matrice.  

A perfect and particular description of the secret parts of the body of woman, with the signification of the letters contained in the same.  
1. The womb is called in Latin Matrix▪ as it were, Mater (that is) a mother: for as much as all beasts proceed out of that as borne of a mother: It hangeth between the spleen and the bladder: but somewhat higher than the bladder. The bottom and hollowness thereof is extended unto the navel, & it is the place of the first mass of conception called embryon.  
2 The right side or gulf of the Matrice wherein male children are begotten.  
3 The left gulf of the Matrice, wherein female children are begotten.  
4 The mouth or entrance of the Matrice, which is unclosed in work of natural generation, & receiveth the seed of man, & after conception so straightly closeth itself, that the point of a needle can not enter into it: yet at times convenient, (that is to say, at the avoiding of fluores) it openeth if self.  
5 From hence proceedeth the seed of woman in conception: & likewise the seed of man.  
6 This is the division of the great veins proceeding from the liver to the heart, & again from the heart, passing through the ridge bone of the back, whereunto also the kidneys do cleave. From hence come the veins whereby the menstrual blood (for lack of natural heat engendered of crude and undigest blood) is conveyed into the matrice.  
7 The neck of the matrice is vi. fingers in length, having beneath a narrow mouth, whereby the issue of the bladder sendeth forth urine.  
8 The privy member of woman.  
9 Two great artery veins, whereunto the matrice is fastened, and are therefore called the Matrice.    

Imprinted at London in the Black Friars. 1599