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Show a.- I 206 0f the Lips, Pan 1 I; Part I l. And a farther ule may be attributed to thcle Nlulitlcs, when a large Pm.- portion of expired Air is cricloretl Within the Confines of the Mouth, (where; upon the Checks are blown up, and alterward Contracted by the ftronger 207 nil‘ts placed in the other fidc, wanting a due ballance in Toniek Motion, do Contract thcmlelves to the turnoff, and Dlfiort the Mouth and gentler motion of the Mulch ) that the confined Breath may be expelled with greater or leis force into leveral forts ol Wind Infiruments of Mn; fick, as in Corners, Sackbuts, Flagellets, Trumprfs, Horns, and the like; an Excrtrprr and through the middle of the MulElcs of the Checks and Bht‘cillatoi'cf, \ V] l and Excrétory Velll'l palleth derived from the Parotide Glands, by which :llSll/lcu n? the Salival Liquor is tranfinitted into the Mouth. . . , m. ,, C H A P. Of the 900mm mm' Terr/yr Bruits have the inlide of the Cheeks all befit with Glands 1-, and in fomc l'rmlshm III, Animals, they item to make one more continued Body (running all in length, and leaning all along upon the lower Mandible ) but in truth they in ' are many Conglomerated Glands, iinited to each other by Memlranes, feeming to be one large continued Body, full of many Fxcretory Vellcls, which {peak tlitm many Glands, of which (Very one claimethapeculiar Duct,bvi \‘lllCll Salival juice is conveyed into the Mouth : And Bullocks have the interior part or" the Cheek, fraught with an innumerable company of liuall Protuberants Which [conceive to be lo many Minute Glands': , pl..inly di‘lingu' liable hum each other, fomewhat 1't~£eiiibliiig Barley Corns in figure, bu: not in bulk, being much greater, and terminate in Cones. As to the Pathology of the h'ItilEles of the Lips, they are obnoxious to Convullions and Pallie: And Convullions, Iconct-iz'e, Proceed chiefly from the {harp or acid Recrements of the Nervous Liquor, veliicning the Filaments of the Nerves, the tender infiruments o? Cenfe and Motion _~ And if one ride only of the upper Lip be affected, it is rend-rt d rent? and rigid, and at laf't being contracted in one part of the Lip, drawetn it upn ard, making "WSW/"w a Difiortion of the Mouth, different from the Spa/um Cynimr, which IconEliliiiiaiigl eeive is more Univerl‘al, and by forcing the Lips upward and downward, i He lovely Fabrick of Mans Body ( being a Sylieme of various parts, made and dilpofed in excellent .Order by a nioll'VVil‘c Agent) is principally maintained by Food, and Raiment, as great Necefliiries to lup- port our Life. We have already Difcoutfed that of Flaunt-tit, in the four: common Integuments, as the natural and large Veils of the whole Body, as the more narrow and of the Abdominal Mufcles, T'Jritomcnm, and Card, Coverings of the lower Apartiment. My province at this time, is to Treat of the Month, the firPc Receptacle of Aliment, and the parts entertained . in it, the Gooms, Teeth, Palate, and Tongtie,‘as the Organs of leflication, whereby the Meat is prepared, as broken into lmall Particles, and 1mprregnated with a Liquor flowing out of the Salival Glands, into the VCavrty of the Mouth, wherein the Aliment receiveth the firlt rudiment of Conco{lion in order to Chylilication in the Stomach. The World in all Ages, hath had high elicem for Teeth, as parts of great Eight)???" Dignity, and molt ufeful infiruiiients in Eating, wherein a grateful pleafure 2i gigxumcnts is imparted to the Tongue, as an Organ of Tafting: VVhereupon the Su- Grimmg or, i‘cleiiibletli the Grinning of a Dog, derived from {harp Nerve-":2 Ret cments, pream Legillator in the Mofaick Law, gave'his Commands to a lever-e Ma- D°g' fier, who brake his fervants Teeth, to do him Jul‘tice in givmg him his Fre~ V; dom, as a due recompence for that great Violation. , irritating the Filaments of Nerves feared in the Elevators and Deprellors of the l. ips, which do violently draw them upward and downward, form:what i‘eprefenting the pollute of the Lips caufed by ii-nmoderate Latighttr. A‘Pa‘lficinthc A Palfic alfo is incident to the Mufcles of the Lips, .iiid' proceedeth from Egfi‘lflgi‘l a Relaxation of the Nerves, by which they are divel'ted of their natural fill???" Terifcriefs, and Vigour, ifl'uing commonly either from the obitruc'iion oi the Interl'ticcs of the Nervous Filaments, catifed by the grofs Recremtnt‘s of Nervous Liquor, whence the influence of the Animal Liquor is intr :epted, or from the Comprefiion of the pallages of the Nerves produced by Extra- vaflited Liquors, or by neighbouring Tumours, fqueeling together the empty Spaces, interceding the Filaments of the Nerves, or from the Animal Liquor, impoveriflied by the defects of Spirituous Particles, upon which a Relaxation is made of the Labial Mufcles: So that the Dil'tortion of the Mm‘lh proceeding from the Pallie is different, as I conceive, in the parts al'fcfitd) beeaufe the Orbicular Mulcle being relaxed above, in this or that part, the Tonick Motion relating to the Mufcles of the Lips is more or lcfs taken away, and the Elevators of the Lips left at liberty in one fide to Contraél themfelves, and to draw the upper Lip upward ; whence followcth a Dl‘ flortion of the Month in the Pallie, which differeth from a Convulfion of the upper Lip, proceeding from the irritated Fibres of the fame fide. wherein the Difiortion is made ‘, but in a Palfie the Difeafe is feared in the opPO' lite fide,whofe Mufcles (called the Elevators) being Relaxed, their AntS-E'E; 0 m 3:333:55: :l'jltl‘llllrit‘ih memoran""3"" 5‘ The Ancient Inhabitants of this lower Orb, have had luch a veneration $32932???" for their Teeth, as the more excellent parts of the Body, that they hung ingrown _ " ' them up in their Temples, as holy Reliques dedicated to their‘Gods. And the Ameritamr, out of the great honour they have for Teeth, as lo. . veraign parts, do Sacrifice them" with great Devotion [Ogtlieil' Idols. The Teeth are encompaffed in forne part with a folid firm Hell], like a diiiiiiciiuirc Wall, whereby they are fafined to their Cavrtics, for their greater repole . ,. v . and fecurity. The feveral kinds of Teeth have a divers Structure, exprell'ed in different Figures, and Magnitudes (defigned to various Oflices) fome broad and thin, and (harp, called by the Latines Intzfiirer 1-, as molt _fit for the cutting :hcrfiogndié; [g'cs of m; "5""ka;;4f1.1'i. .-; of Meat; and others are more large, "and round, furnrllied With divers In- Df‘"?',l"§". for grinding finicagzp equalities and Afperities, feared intheir tops, as more diprlCd the Aliment, whereupon they receive the appellative of Maigret +, or (:rm- and WM. tiers, and others Cam'm' '1‘, from their hkenefs With Dogs Teeth. ‘ $122551, The Teeth , in reference to their frequent and l'trong motions to ‘J'flichéatéit-ifjs break Aliment ( Which is now and then tough and hard) into fmall Parti- angina; C165, haV'e a firm infertion into the Cavities of the Mandibles, as {0 many $33,," 0W»: Cells and Repofitories, to which they are fallned by firong Ligaments, and liaVe a peculiar way of Articulation, called by the Greek: ra'uwu, wherein the Teeth being finallcr in the Roots, and bigger toward the Bafis, are as it 7 Were |
