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Show The PREFACE. ‘Xxii The PREFACE. The Face. xxiii The Face being a handfome Frontifpiece ( ein'belliihing the anterior reoion oi'the highei‘t Apartiment, relating to the ele gant frame of Man's Body) doth prfiffll?t the mePPCflt of a rare Landfcip, drawn With ‘Natures curious Penfil in excellent perfpec'tive, made up of many Lights and Shades, r611, citing this graceful Frontifpiece round and foft, which is ac; complifhed with variety of parts, confiihng in diverfe lhapes and fizes, and beautified with feveral colours ( illuflrating each other) and dreffed with different furfaces, ionic being Plane, others Convexe, and the third Concave. The highei‘t pert of this Frontifpiece, molt properly f0 called, is the Forehead , clothed with a Plane, iinooth , and white furface, and adorned with a circular Figure. The parts adjoyning to the forehead, are. two tranfparent Orbs, difplaying themfelves in various motions in their Or, bites, as in proper Spliaeres, to give reception to innumerable Images of things (arayed With beams of Light) placed in different. petitions. . _ In the middle of this delightful profpeét ls fituated the -Nofl=, the prominentefi part of the Facetthe moil recep' five ofLight) {hadingone fide of the neighbouring parts : This fine ridge is fumifhed with two Cavities, as Pipes en/ tertaining Air, perfilmed with various Odors, treating the ‘ ‘Senfe of Smelling. :The tides of the Face are graced with Cheeks, {haded with Grovesof 'Hair, and befet with Rofes and Lillies, as painted with .Red and White (rarely intermixed) and are melted into each other by a fweetfoftnefls, making a delightful harmony. The lower region of this Frontifpiece is adorned with two Lips, fhutting and opening the fmall apartiment of the Mouth, as with folding doors to treat our felves with the reception of 1Dainties (endued with variety of delicious Tails) and with .pleafant Difcourfes, the amicable exprefsions of the Mind. The [Many: ' fiibflmm of Beauty, is made up offeveral parts of the Face, cftlie Bones (as aBafis ) of the Forehead, and of the upper and lower Mandible, into which are implanted 'the Muicles of the Forehead, Nofle, Cheeks, Chin , and above all, the Elevators, Depreflhrs, Adduc'tors, Abductors, 'AanIlTConftricTors, the fine Mufcles of the Lips, all which being framed in a due proportion and decent Figure and Mag, nitude, and fitly conjoyned to each other, do fpeal: the Sym' merry and Harmony of part3, commonly called Beauty. The The upper, lateral, and pollerior region of the beautiful Them", Oi‘be of the Head, is ihaded with Hair, fome of which are endued with a Cylindrical, others with a Prifinatica l, and molt with a kind of round Figure, and are all of a dark The com- tranfparent fubitance, and in it being long, appear diver-{e $233222. fplinters, or Filaments. 7 Head. The neXt coverings are the Cim'mla, (m, (which is a ver‘ The "W"- . . , . . _ ing of the thick covering in this part) Memémm mrnqflz, and ‘Perzoflz, Brain. W:. ; a fine Tunicle, immediatel'y encirclin the Skull Thecom; which pofition .g . being of c0mp0fed of two Tables, are the ivory immu rements theCartrx. of the Brain, more inwardly enwrapped with the Dam and Tia mater, as with White thin vails , covering the Cortex The on; of the Brain, a Syfteme of many {mall Glands, wherein the iiiiiiiiiihfi. album inous Liquor of the Blood ( is iévered from 1 the red 915$," . Lraifitment) bei. ng imp , - regnated Wit- h volatil- [ali the ne Particle Animalof U; s, grefs is received into the Origens of the nervous Fibril s, and af- gfiggmfie terward carried through the Corpm calla/um, Forni x, Corpom Proceires or flridm, Medal/4 oé/ongztm ( as fo many ProceflEs endued With thenmfl' numerous Fibri ls) into the body of the Nerves, throu h Egg- m: which the Animal Liquor is tranfmitted into all parts of t e gody being Body, to give them Senfe, Motion, and Nutrition. ' 311$" ex‘ Having given a profpeét of the Walls, and Houfholdi' tuff Pm" of the inward Apartiment of Man's Body, as confiPting of many folid parts, I will now give you a glimp le of the fluide parts of the various Liquors ( as the compleme nt and perfeétL The maflfi-t on of the other) how they are generated, and exalted by in! fiiSXiihenc tefline and local Motion. sdlglieiialitval The Aliment being received into the Mouth, is chaw ed and giggihand beaten by the various motions of the Teeth, into fmall Patti; with Air. cles, as by iEveral Peftles in a Mortar; and being mixed with falival Liquor ( fpued out of the oral Glands) and the nitrous, elal'tick, and aethereal Particles of Air, doth receive the firl‘t rudiment of Concoc‘tion in the Mouth, and is afterward tranfmitted through the Gulet, as through a Galer y, into the The"Kitchin ofthe Stomach, wherein the Aliment is alfociated with $33}, , ferous Particles of the Blood, and nervous . Liqu or (Iécerned Ferment"? . in the Glands of the Stomach, from the Vitali the Stoand nervous mach. Juyc e) conveyed by fecret Duets, into the bofom ofthe Von? The main]; tricle , as into a Retort, where the Compage of the _ Aliment "a" C°"‘ . , cot'tion ofl is opened by its heat, and by the falival, firouS, and other chorce 312335 "1 Particles of the Vital and nervous Juyce, as by a prope r flmum, infinuating it felfinto the body ofthe Aliment; Men, mach: where; Upon |