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Show 134, 7798 ‘Pnt/aologie of the Mtg/clear. Chap. X X I V, quating the parts of the Body, which feemeth to oppofe Experience: Becaufe Perfons labouring for the molt part With a Dropfie,have but 1 {mm natural heat, depreffed by a multitude of pituitous, and ferous Recrements, Which are the antecedent Caufes ; when moving in the Veffels, and the Continents Chap. X X I V. 0f rm Anafarca. I 3% the decaied parts of the Blood confifiing of grofs Saline, and Sulphureous Particles, being put into a Fermentation are confederated With the melt Spiri- when impelled out of the Arteries, and lodged in the Spaces, pafliug be. tween the numerous VefTels. Proorarrick As to the Primitive and Procatartick Caufes of an Ana/"arm (which difl. tuous and Volatil, whereupon they Work upon the limilar parts of the Ch'me (in order to the produétion of the more generous. Liquor of a CM Blood ) which being not well Elaborated in their firfi rudiment in the Sto- ffig‘ml',‘ mach, are not eafily afiimilared into the Blood, f0 that the more grofs Re- $3352: crements do lofe their Motion in their pafiage between the VelTels, and (iiiisa'niliiii. fer from evident Caufcs) by reafon the Procatartick flippole an internal in. ,‘,',"cfi§io°d",.°f difpofition of Humours, (which the Evident do not) proceeding often from a Luxurious Diet, from the immoderare gratifying our Appetite, in fpaces of the Veins Arteries, and Nerves, fiufied up fometimes by warty, fometimes by grofs Chymous, and other times by thick ferous Chryftal- frequent and full Glafies of Wine, and variety of Diihes, Garniflied with well fed Flefh, and the eating of Meat hard of Digei‘tion; or by receiving new Aliment before the former is Concoéted, which do produce an ill di. gefied Chyle, the Matcriizfirbfirata of a pituitous Blood, perverting its aco- nomy and Couftitution, by rendring it full of fixed Saline and Sulphureous parts, by reafon an unaflimilated Chyle doth vitiate the Fermentation of the Blood, and deprels its Spirituous Particles, and renders its firlt Elements gi‘ols, and unaétive, productive of warty Humours, the fore-runners of an AuAm'Jira Amifirm. Vthreupon the Caufes of this Difeafe are divers: Firlt, An abundance g,;=‘;;;;);‘g:m of "any Hiimours, lettled in the habit of the Body, and difiereth from an my" ""1" Afri/ir in the parts affected, by reafon the Tumour in an Afritz'r, is produced by a quantity of ferous Recrements parted from the Blood, and lodg- ed in the capacity of the Belly, and a Leucopblegmatia is a Swelling arifing from the fame Hrunours, feared in the empty Spaces of the fielhy parts. 3:11:22: Another Cauie ( as l humbly conceive) may proceed from a crude away". Chyle, extracted either our of a great quantity, or from grols Meats hard of Concoc‘tion, or from a languid natural heat, or from ill ferments of the Stomach, whereupon the Alimentary Liquor groweth grofs, as indigefied; which is tranfinitted through the Intei'tines, Lafteal , and Thoracic Ducts, into the Subclavian Veins, where it runneth confufed with the Blood, as unfit to be turned into good Blood; and being impelled by a long progrefs out of the Crural Arteries into the Thighs and Legs, and by the Axyllarics into the Arms and Hands, doth fiagnate in the lnterftices of the Mulcles, relating to the lower and upper l iinbs, whence they grow EX_ tended above their natural Dimenfions; which may in fame fort be produced by the crude Chyme, which cannot be received into the finallEX008mm treainities oi the Veins. wrfificmy Q A third Callie of an Armflzrm, may be deduced from the grofsnefs of the in AW", t erous and Chry'fialline parts of the Blood, which are rcndred unaétive, and apt to be Condcnied by the unnatural heat of the Blood; whereupon it is very probable, that this Tranfparent Humour being thickned, as torrefied by the Blood, is not readily admitted into the fmall Orifices of the Veins, whence the fubfiance or the Mufcular parts may be [we lled by a fiipera- ' bundance of ferous Particles, haying loll: their Circular Motion as not being allocated with the Purple Liquor, , Theraiil'csof Whereupon, asl conceive, all the Caufes of an Almfarra, an Aura", do flow A lac/21 iifra‘iifiiiiiiic: Sungnificatione; Either becatife the ferous .Particl es of the Blood, are not "m ‘ conveyed by the Emulgent Arteries, into the Glands of the Kidneys or not {eparated and dilcharged through the Carmrcula: @zzpillares intoithe (Pelvis and Ureters: Or elfe becaufe the indigelt ed Chyle is tranfmitted through the Laéteal and Thoracic Ducts, into the Mais of Blood, when the thereby do {well the habit of the flelhy parts, by enlarging the empty e arts. lmAiid all thefe Errors produce a depraved Mafs of Blood, and thereby vitiate the 8mm: Nutriciw, tranfinitted into it out of the Extreamities of the Nerves, whence the Vital l iquor is much dilpirited, as confii'ting of the deprelled Particles ofgrofs Salt and Sulphur, the prinaplcs of an ill qualified . . Mills of Blood And becaufe the chief antecedent Caufe of an Amt/3mg, is the ill Fer- mentation of the Purple Liquor, I will firfi delcribe the .true nature of Blood, and then give an account of a Leucop/Jlegmatia, Howmg from an ill Sanguificarion. The Mafs of Blood in its natural Capacity, is compofed of a Red Crafla- Elie/meg; ment,Chryftalline,Nervous, and Limpharick Liquors. Illicill':i1yl€ (the Adair-rid 12:30; ma", Sllllflrtlta of Purple juice) pafling confided in the Vciiels, wherein arifeth P ' a Fermentation of the Blood, as confif‘ting of Heterogeneous Elements, founded in different Liquors, made up of Acids, and Alkalies, of feveral Salts and Sulphur-s, fome Volatil, and others more fixed; which being of difagreeing difpofitions, make great contefls to perfect each other, according to the good contrivance of Nature, Wifely ordering, that the grofs parts Ihould confine the more refilei‘s and aflive, which elle would breath themfelves by the Pores of the Body into the Air, as akin to them; and the more Volatil, Saline, and Sulphureous, do exalt the more grofs, and fixed _ . in their converfe with them. Whereupon the different principles of the Blood, like difagreeing Lovers, $223,153; do tune each other by amicable Difputes, ending in a happy ReconCile- (grams; ment, whereby they efpoufe each others Intetefl: and Perfection; So that Fermentation} the Homogeneous parts of the Blood, do by a neat union Allimilate each other, and the Heterogeneous Atomes, that cannot be reconciled in Ailiinilation, are turned out of Doors, as unprofitable for Nutrition by the Excretory Veflels of the Liver, Pancreas, and Kidneys. ' . The Chyle being tranfinitted by the Thoracic Vefliels, into the SubclaVian Veins, aifociaterh with the Blood, and is conveyed With It by the defcendent Trunk of the Veua Cum, into the right Ventricle of the Heart, wherein the Chyle is mixed with the Blood, and broken into Minute Par- ticles, as dafhed againl‘t the Walls of the right Chamber, carried by a brisk ,. , contraction of the Heart; whereupon the Chyle being more embodied Efj'fifi,‘ with the Purple Liquor in the Heart, is conveyed from the right Ventricle 52:32:?" by the Pulmonary Artery, into the fubftance of the Lungs, where it meet( th the infpired Air, impregnated with Elafitick and Nitrous Particles, which 111;;flab?i" do much refine the Blood, and render it fit for the entertainment of the ,3",th Vital Flame, the prefervative of the noble operations of the Body, by'a due and kindly Fermentation 5 wherein the Blood being exalted, the Similat parts being of one nature, do intimately anciate to preferve themfelves‘; an |