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Show 0f the Hflory of the [Wt/tier. 86 ‘1'in furiacr of u oe I Chap. ETI‘L Surface, ‘Wl‘ill a thick, tough, skinny Matter, difgtiiibd with unkindly colony-5 of \Vhite, Yellow, Blew, Brown, Creenrlh , an the like, and is Chap. X iv.) nzal Frill-its, renndring the MllFCulSI Fibres the immediate engins of Motion, Tent}, and fit for Coritraélion. . V _ commonly cite med to be the fibrous part of the Blood: But in truth (as The laft 21"4il nieanefi Liquor, relating to the Miilcles, is the Lympha, and Ififlfl'g; d lhumbly conceive) it is the grols part of the SitCCltJ‘ N‘ztrit‘iltf, which he. is a thin tranl‘parent Recrement fevercd from the Animal Liquor, in the Fub- (@3551;it", fiance of the (Glands (feared in the Mulcles, as well as in other parts) hiniéoaads. where this ulefiil thin Juice, if ill'uing above the Diaphragme, is difcharged into tliC Subclavian Veins, but if below, into the common Receptacle. And if the Lympha be fevered from the Nervous Liquor in the Glands, lodged in the Mufcular parts,its progrels is much promoted by the contraction of ihe Organs of l‘vdotion, alter the fame manner as the Saliva! Liquor inq not liil‘ficitutlv Concoé‘tcd in the Stomach, and Intefiines, is CONVEyt-d rhi‘ough the [.aélex and Thoracic Duels, into the Subclavian Vef. lcls, ahd Cava, where it aflociateth with the Vital Liqiior, and by realon ofits overmuth Crudity, is not capable to be perleelly allimilated inro' Blood, {till retaining the grofsiiels, and fometimes the Colour, and fame. times i‘ecciv ,li variety of Colours, which may be afligned to the ferous parts oiitht- Blood, as more or leis torrified by the unnatural heat of i; The {trons part of the Vital liquor ( being an intimate allociate of the red Crallfiunent in its Circuit through the Vellcls, and fiibllance of the ls/liilcles) is of a tranlbarent Cryfl'allinc Colour, and tlilfi'rent from it both in Conlifience and Colour, as the Red Craflhment is an Opace, and more l: which for the melt part confilleth of Lympha) Howeth muchmore then ordinary, as allilted by the Mufcles of the lower Mandible, which impart a quicknels of Motion to it, by various contractions acted in the time of iiiallication oi Aliment. And I humbly conceive, that the Lympha is not only a Recrement 0F 13:: sight? the Nervous Liquor, but of the Vital too, by real‘on the great quantity of Lymphaisa liilid Fuiill'ance, and the Serous Liquor of the Blood, of a more lluid bright thin Salival Liquor cannot proceed wholly from the Nerves, but chiefly from £16,231? Colour; the Vehicle of the other, making it more thin and pliable in order the Blood, which is percolated in the numerous "alival Glands, and tranfinit- $123,?" red by Excrctory Ducts into the Cavity of the Mouth, into which luch to Blorion, and is ofa more gentle diiiiolitioti, confilling of more mild Saline Parriles, tempering the heat and acid Particles of the Red Cralla. mtiit, which would lole its motion, andCo-agulate in the Vellels, and their great proportions of thin tranlimrent Liquor is lpucd in a Salivation, cauled by Mercurial hdedicines in Venereal tempers; lo that that large Evacuat- Spaces, if it was not Diluted with the more fluid Particles of the Cryfial. line Liquor, which being thin and ferous, while in confacderacy with the tion remaining for many Days, if» it were derived folely from the Nerves, would exhaufi the whole liquor of them. Purple Liquor, but being fevcred from it, and afied with the heat of the Fire, is contacted into a fubllance not unlike the White of an Egg, but in its native Conliitution, is of a clear \vliitilh and traiifpareiit Colour, and degenerates by an ill temper of the Blood, into more Yellow, Green, and lbmetimcs of a Blewilli hue; which I have {con in Poringers after Bloodletting, when it hath quitted its fellowlhip with the Red Crafiament. The Nervous Liquor is govrc:avc;l<ltl'c more m‘I/l parts oftlic Blood in the (‘oitital (iiaiiils of the Brain. 87 C H A P. The Nervous Liquor is much akin in Colour and Subliauce to the Cry- XIV, 0f the efl/fzfl/cr of [/16 30b, and their fevem/ Moriom', ftalline Humour ( an inmate of the Blood) and rcceiveth its firl't rudiments in the Ambient parts of the Brain, and hath for its Materia Subfirzzhz, the more delicate and refined parts of the Blood, and 81mm Nltlrit‘iw , which being fecerned, and impratgnated with volaril Salt in the Cortical Glands, is thence conveyed into the origens of the Nerves, the extreamities of their Fibrils, lodged near the furface of the Brain, and is thence tranfinirted by the fibrous parts of the more inward Recefles, into the trunk of the Nerves (compofed of many Fibrils) beginning in the Mi'a'ulla ("la/imam, and mat- gent of the Mcclullzz Spinalir, from whence this Animal Liquor is propaga- ted by feveral Branches, and Ramulets, of Nerves divaricated in the Mulcles relating to the Limbs, and feveral apartiments of the Body. So that Nerves being Collective Bodies ( made up of numerous Filaments) are neatly tied to each other,by the interpofition of many fine Membranes, and the gentle fireams of Animal Liquor, are conveyed into the InrerPtices of thefe fruitful Filaments, as into many finall Channels, which are filled with this noble juice, plumping up the body of the Mufcles, which ell} would grow lank and flaccid. Thelc numerous Filaments ( befetting the Mufcu ‘ "'itl) a delicate Juice, inlpired with Volatil, Saline lar fubflance) are big , and lucid Particles, which being dlfi‘llll'd like {0. many Rays into the numerous Fibrils, do give them force and Vigour, which is much aflilted with airy elal'tic Particles of the Animal ' Aving handled the MllFClCS, according to the various progrefs of their Fibres, and their Figure, and Fabrick (confiliing of Solid and Fluid parts) in a general Notion, which I have made as ambulatory to the Muicles of the Belly, difcovering themfelves (when the Abdomen is defpoiled of its common Integumeuts) and are lodged under the common Coat of the Mufclcs, being {0 many Helhy Expanfions of a Triangular Fi- gure, facing the Caul, and Intellines, fafely immured, within thefe fofi: Walls. Some of thefe Mufcular Coverings are lateral, as feared on each tide ThrMufdcc three, adjoyning to the right MLilcles,lodged between thefe Lateral, which Sigma/igloo are the Oblique Defcendenr, Alccndent, and Tranfverfe, receiving a Dif- $222523: criminari on from each other, by the proper lineaments of their various Fi- 33733541" bres, fportiiig themfelves in difificrent Pollurcs. apartmentThe Oblique deficendent Mufcles challenge a preeminence over the refi, The digit?" borh in referenceto their largenefs, and fuperiority of Situation7 and have a which: treble Origen from the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth, and fometimes from fifigf°"muf7 the Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Ribs, with indented Productions, are Conjoyned, and infinuated into carnous dentiform ProceflEs which of the Mufculw anticm‘ [warm major. The middle Origen proceedcth {rim 2: e |
