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Show W 190 Of the Card. Chap, X X X. Chap, X X X. ferved in their proper places, and kept from being entangled with each other, by which the motion of the Guts are fecured. Eréfiac'qliosfa The whole Cavity of a lamprey, where the lover terminatet‘h, is filled ,Of the Can]; 191 they would be foon breathed out, through the Minute Perforations of the iiii-‘stiurliiiiiL Recefses of it, is invefted with fruitful Divarications of Fat, fomewhat re. Coat of the Can]. Another life of this Cavity , feared between thefe Membranes, pro~ onnded by this great Author, is to lodg Recrements between the Leaves with}? fembling the Intefiines in variety of Marauders , or numerous Glands of of the Caul, which would be Very prejudicial to Nature, except [he had lnttilincs. inflituted an Excretory Duct to difcharge them, which cannot be difco‘= vered. The third ufe afligned by this Skilful Anatomiit, is to be a feat of Hypochondtiack Flatulency, which he endeavoureth to make clear by the croak- compolcrl ol with the Caul, which running all along 1n a flraight courfe in the inward different (hapcs and files: Thefe feveral Divarications, are furrounded With proper Membranes, and are feared in Files two or three deep, one under another, and in their lnterftices are lodged many Arteries and Veins, wheel. ing all up and down between the Gyres, as in the Anfraélus of the Brain and procefses of the Cerebellum: So that thefe numerous Globules of FatI encircled with peculiar Membranes, do enclofe the long {ingle Gut for fomé fpace (to whofe Concave part it is firmly affixed) covered above with the Liver, and all the other {pace is the Intel'tine lodged in the Globules of the Caul, as within fo many foft Beds to warm and faflen it, and to guard it from outward accidents that might give olfence to its tender frame. Anotherufcof Another ufe of the Caul may be afligned, as it is einbelilhed with numcs its'Origmal; which could not be well accomplilhed; unlefs they had been united to each other in the bottom, commonly feared near the which the lower Membrane of the Caul is firlt Expanded and Navil to then talieth its retrograde progrefs upward; and fo may be fiiled, the origen of the Superior Membrane, which terminateth in the bottom of the Stomach, Li" vet, and adyacent parts. So that the continuation of the Fofieriot Mfm‘ brane of the Caul, from the upper Abdominal Plex to the Navil and from 21:12:; rt:i [11116 bpttog; of the Ventricle, being taken out of the ,Bod)', and rence i," the ot flu} re em entraenc: tifntiitof ' ' Hawking‘Bag, from its ' round Circumfe‘ gilt-4:232:23 . Learned Fabritim ab Aqnapendeme, afligneth divers ufes of the Cavity 52,55,352; tfitervemqg the Anterior, and Polterior Membrane of the Can], one Of itiiiii 2mg" t 61111er t 18f! 1Tb" the Steams of the Ventricle being confined within thC min?!" by 1pc o ures o. t e Membranes, might not Evaporate, which would advance 3:32;?th tie cancer-Siren of Aliment; as this Learned Author imagineth. But this $21,213:" may feem improbable, becaufe the warm vapours may eaiily be difcharged by the Pylorus, befOYC they can have a reception betWeen the Duplic- feat of Hypo-_ condriacal v3: pours. [fabric Opinion, that it is pollihlc to former fPCCCll in the Belly, figned to the Formation of Words, which are no where to be found but in the Laryn. I confefs it is poflible to find Inarticulate founds in the Stomach, and IntePtines, which cafually proceed from the protrufion of Wind, floating up and down the Cavities of the Ventri~ tie and Outs, which are not gany ways accommodated with Organs for the Articulation of Sounds: It may be, if not more eafie to fpeak through the lowel't Intellzines by Articulate Sounds, which may feem fomeway to be regulated by the Sphincter Mufcles; but this Way of Speaking is as ridi« culous as unnatural, and void of all Senfe and Reafon, as that of the Belly, and no way Worth the Mention, or Contrivanee, of f0 Learned an Author; And now it may be expected afterward, we have not approved the Ufes of the Cavity interceding the Coats of the Caul, fome other lhould be afligned, by reafon Nature hath appointed a me of all parts (he hath formed; She having like a wife Architeét, contrived nothing in vain, and therefore this Cavity (which is rather a Conception then Truth) is nothing elfe, but a refult of the Coats parted one from another, when taken out of the Body, in which they are clofely continued one to another; Nature being follicitous to form thofe Membranes, to be Repofitories of Arteries, Veins, Nerves, by whofe mediation they are conveyed to the Ventricle, liver, Splene, Pancreas, and Colon, and by whole Connexion they are fecured in their proper fiations, left they fhould be entangled With each other, and violate the Functions of the adjacent parts, and the motion of the Stomach, and Inreflines, and intercept the pailhge of the Alimentary Liquor into the Milky Veffels, and the evacuation of the grofs Faces through the greater Cavities of the Imeltines. _ V i ""5 0f th‘? Membranes; into which, if thefe fumes [hould be admitted: they as Aquryrn- drum concci< Body opened, full of Wind, which being forced up and down by Redprocal Motions through the Cavities of the Cuts, and Stomach, Will from Ingenious Riolrm is of an opinion, That it is poflible to form aSpeech in the Belly, and from its inward Recelfes, to impart the more remote Sentiments of the Mind; which he conceiveth may be performed by an Attificial Collifion of the Flatu's lodged between the Coats of the Caul, and then to be formed into Words, confifling in the Articulation of Sounds, which cannot be modlelled but by an Arbitrary Motion of Mufcles, cour- con)oin Membranes (firft above their origen) to each other (except where fome important caufeinterpofeth) therefore its molt fuitable to Reafon that the Exterior Region of the Caul fhould be continued 'to the Pof'terior ' as t0 The [third ufc cannot c0ntain thofe fine fluid Particles of Hypochondriacal Wind. And as to thofe various murmurs of Wind, they are produced within the cavities of the Ventricle, and Inteltines, which may be Experimented in a dead thofc ill tuned, uncouth founds. Branches in their Progrefs_: Wherefore, it being a fané'tion of Nature to Recrcnicnts within its Leaves, VL‘tl'i it to be a ing foundsoccalioned by Wind, fqueefed up and down within the narrow confines of the Coats of the Caul; which being pervious in many places, ""m°'°"5 der the Intefiines (which it enclofeth) flippery and emollient, which is branches of iii}a: :10"?- ePfeéted by often rubbing againli; the oily fubftance of the Fat, relating to itinesllippcty- the Can], which is rendred foft by the heat of the Blood, and hereby im- iii: ac}xi11‘vi's(_ ,,,g_,,,g,,,i:,. 3:333:ng 825:5?" Aquaprndwle is to contain 2255:3113? rous Branches of Fat, overfpreading a great part of its Membranes, is to ren- parteth its Unétuous Liquor by frequent motion in refpiration to the neighbouring lnteflines, by making them pliable, that they readily perform their Periltaltick Motion, without grating againfl: the Can]. May be, fome Petfon may be fo inquifitive, as to defire the Information, How the Caul obtaineth the Figure of a Hawking-Bag; which! conceive may be accomplilhed after this manner. As the Caul taketh its rife from the upper‘Abdominal Plex of the Nerves, and that the hinder Leaf is the molt princrpal part, as it firl't entertaineth the Nerves, the Czliac Artery, and both the Arterious, Venous and Spleuick Veffels, difplaying many The fecond ul‘c alfigned by ‘caan The Vcfl‘els ol Arteriel, Veins, and Nerves, con- veyed by the Can! to the rifrm. |