Moreover whether the Ancients had any such intention, the grounds which they conceived in Vein, Nerve or Artery, are not to be justified, nor will inspection confirm a peculiar vessel in this Finger. For as _Anatomy_ informeth, the Basilica vein dividing into two branches below the cubit, the outward sendeth two surcles unto the thumb, two unto the fore-finger, and one unto the middle finger in the inward side; the other branch of the Basilica sendeth one surcle unto the outside of the middle finger, two unto the Ring, and as many unto the little fingers; so that they all proceed from the Basilica, and are in equal numbers derived unto every one. In the same manner are the branches of the axillary artery distributed into the Hand; for below the cubit it divideth into two parts, the one running along the _Radius_, and passing by the wrest or place of the pulse, is at the _Fingers_ subdivided into three Branches; whereof the first conveyeth two surcles unto the _Thumb_, the second as many to the fore-_Finger_, and the third one unto the middle _Finger_; the other or lower division of the artery descendeth by the ulna, and furnisheth the other _Fingers_; that is the middle with one surcle, and the _Ring_ and little _Fingers_ with two. [SN: _Whence the Nerves proceed._] As for the Nerves, they are disposed much after the same manner, and have their original from the Brain, and not the Heart, as many of the Ancients conceived; which is so far from affording Nerves unto other parts, that it receiveth very few it self from the sixth conjugation, or pair of Nerves in the Brain. Lastly, These propagations being communicated unto both Hands, we have no greater reason to wear our _Rings_ on the left, then on the right; nor are there cordial considerations in the one, more then the other. And therefore when _Forestus_ for the stanching of blood makes use of Medical applications unto the fourth _Finger_, he confines not that practice unto the left, but varieth the side according to the nostril bleeding. So in Feavers, where the Heart primarily suffereth, we apply Medicines unto the wrests of either arm; so we touch the pulse of both, and judge of the affections of the Heart by the one as well as the other. And although in indispositions of Liver or Spleen, considerations are made in _Phlebotomy_ respectively to their situation; yet when the Heart is affected, Men have thought it as effectual to bleed on the right as the left; and although also it may be thought, a nearer respect is to be had of the left, because the great artery proceeds from the left ventricle, and so is nearer that arm; it admits not that consideration. For under the channel bones the artery divideth into two great branches, from which trunk or point of division, the distance unto either Hand is equal, and the consideration also answerable.