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Show The EpisrLE,(fi"c. g inclinations to ' ggftli:eafon, as havin the molte Eggfifdlste Underfianding ; whereby you being firfl: obey he Mailer of Prudence and Conduct as Govern to fit ed bcéome tract of your Self, and [0 are rendr a 1 overas being Conf'tituted by His Sacred Majel‘cy, a Great 0f l‘er‘i": of State in Civil and Military Afiaxrs, wherein MuiIGerace hath wifbly deported your Self With Julhce and BOOK II- and Admiration of others. the Love lgomit ble and daioiirlitoAmica generous Difpofinon, your gag: g; Courage and Gallantry of Mind, your profound ]u ment and quick Apprehenfion, your life of Temperance, Charity and Humilit , have made you an Ornamfent‘o Mankind, and me peeré'tly your Juli Admirer and otary, C H A P. l. 0f the common Receptacle and Clay/femur Thoracic/i D1181. as all the Intellectual and Moral Perfefiions of your many} Noble Ancefiors are met in your Grace (as a Center 0 Vertue and Learning) to whom this Book is humbly Des dicated as an Oblation from My LORD, N the former Book I have endeavoured to entert ain plealimt light of Utenfils relating to the lowelt Apart you with the iment outward~ ly immured in its Exterior Region and Sides, with the four common Integumenrs and the Abdominal Mufcles 3 and behind, with the NIH/cult [atiflimi é» longiflimi 0101]}, Sacrolnmbare r, guadrati c/yv facri, and fupported with Vertebres of the Loins as with a Column finely Carved with variety of Proceflbs. And this lowel'c Story is more inwardly enclo- fed with the rim of the Belly and Can], as curious Hangi many minute Filaments, rarely interwoven, and embro ngs (made up of idered With variet of \fetlels) encircling the ‘Rmcrem, Spleen, Liver, Kidneys, attended with the bladder of Gall and Urine, as Cifterns of biliou s and ferous Recrements of the Blood. Your grater mofi Olatdient and Obliged Servant I have allo Treated of the various parts, manner and princi ples of Generation in lVIan and Woman (as well as in other Anima ls) efpoufing each ether to impart a kind of Immortality to Humane Nature, and other Entities too, by innumerable repeated acts of Prepagation. And in order to preferve every particular Animal by a proper Nouri flhmen t, as well asthe Species by Generation 5 I have given an account how Concoéti~ on is begun in fome manner in the Mouth, by the Comminution of Aliment impregnated with Salival liquor (oufing out of the Excretory Ducts of the Glands belonging to the Pallat, Tongue, and adjacent parts) mixed with the Elaf'tick particles of Air, opening the Comp age of Meat aftera SAMUEL COLLIN; ward tranfinitted through the entry of the Gulet into the Kitchin of the Stomach, Where the Concoa'ion of the Aliment is farthe r Elaborated, as mixed with various Ferments of the mild parts of the Blood and Nervous Liquor (defiilling out of the extremities of Arteries and Nerves) confederatecl in the glandulous Coat of the Stomach, and conveyedin to its Cavity by fecret Pores, whereby the body of the Aliment is opene d, and a white Tiné‘ture extracted. My delign in this Book is to {hew you the Noble Furniture of the middle Apartiment of the Body, and its firuétu re, aflions, and ufes; and in this Chapter, how the Milky humor is tranlinitted throu gh the Guts and Lafi'ece of the Mefentry into the common receptacle 5 and afterward how it is conveyed through the Thoracick Duéts into the Subclavian Veins, Heart, and Lungs, wherein it is exalted by Local and Intefiine motion, and then impell ed with the Blood by the contraé‘tjon of the Heart, and circular Fibres of |