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Glands, canfing them to {piie out of their l‘ubfta‘rice' great quantities of Salival Juice, into their Excretory \leflbls terminating into the Mouth.‘ Furthermore, This may be urged, in favour of this Aflettion, becaulc in large Salivations railed by Mercurial Medicmes, the Nerves pare rendred dry, and their Exuberant lVIOif'ture much Exhauft‘ed,lpeaking that the _ TlieViial _Li- Nerves do plainly contribute to the production of a l-tyali me. . not doth Liquor Salival the that conceive, humbly And moreover, I molt $555233; Sam-ii. the to dillblve the Saline parts, thereby to extra& afavory Tinélure to affgfi Membrane of the Tongue in Tafting. fourth The lafl may be given to quench the Thirl'c by bedewing and cooling The urt- oF this the meOthing Liquor, thin Limpid pleafiint a with Tongue, and Mouth the of infide the Liquoristo organs of Speech, which doth very much contribute to the fwefler and more diltinét Articulation of Letters and Words. gratifie out Th'tll Wholly proceed from the Net'vcs,by realon the Arteries alfo claim a great {hale in the generation of it, which is more conlpicuous in .high Salival Evacuati. ons, having often {0 great and extravagant Current Into the Mouth, that it cannot probably be liipplied by the linaller, and more flow Rivnletsof the Animal Liquor, deltilling between the l‘ilaments of the Nerves. Thu having Curloiily run over the Origen of the Veflels, through which falival licvcr 35"l""~""‘"‘-3 IX, 0f the MMfi‘iBJ and glam/r of the Claw/pr. the Suli‘val l iquor is conveyed, it remainetli that we take a lliort View of the (malities of it, and UllES, to which it is dellincd by Nature. As to the Qualities of Salival Liquor, it isathin, watry, Diaphanous Body, {omewllat groll‘er and viltid, and therefore leis fluid then Water, in- milling" CHAP. fipid in I-lealthv Perfons; but fometiines Falt, Sour, Bitter, as in dilafleéted and dilbi‘dcred Habits of Body, from Saline, Acid, or Bilious Particles, . ' . derived from the lbtous part of the Blood, The Compolition of Saliva is lo rare and wonderful, that it Will be difWits-"11! 3f- firult to delbribe it 5 and it is eafily embodied with all forts of Dry, MOIll, us iii:h Saline, Oily, Wati‘y Aliinents, of which none can be ingelled into the Body, With which it will not Mix and Allocinte, and out of the Body it Will Incorporate with Quick-Silver: And when other lieterogeneous Liquors, as \Vattr, Spirits, Oyl, and Saline Bodies, being )umbled together, feemto Y Defign at this time, is to Treat fomewhat of the Mufcles, relating to the Checks, and lower Mandibles, in order to Mallication, defcribed in a fubfequent Difcourfe. The Biminatorer, [0 called, becaufe they fill the greatel‘t part of the Cheeks, are in their margines of aCircular Figure, and borrow their otigen from the top of the Gooms, belonging to the upper Mandible, and are relation to the Lips; and therefore in their unnatural Motion, cannot (as that thefe various Bodies, of a dilhgreeing and inconlifient Nature, do calily lever themlllves one from another, to which this Salival Liquor being 21m added, its mediation reconcileth all differences, making tliele various lub- I conceive) be guilty of the Spafimu Cynimr, a diftottion of the Mouth, but rather move the Cheeks inward, toward the upper and lorver Mandibles. Bruits have the infide of their Cheeks all replenilhed and belet with "W jrc'ls unite and enter into conlacderacies with each other 3 lo that this Salival Juice, isa kind of univerlitl Menliruuin, containing in it a large proportia {xiii on of watry, and a little Volatil Spirits, fo exactly mixed and contempCI‘Ed ‘1) "r \\ith leis oily and acid Particles, by whole interpolition the S‘alival Latex minim," entretli into afpeedy allociation with all kinds of diflbrent Aliinents, taken Glands, and in fome Animals, they feem to make one entire continued body, running all along in length, and leaning all along upon the lower Mandible: But in truth, they are many Conglomerated Glands, limited to each other by Membranes, and feem to be one large continued Glandulous :hht'lillolldtlloii. into the Mouth, infinuating it fell into the inward Rceefles of all Alimentary Bodies, difpofing their Compage to a dillolution when entertained into the Stomach, wherein by its alliltauce, a leparation is made of the finer fubl'tance, full of many Excretory Veflels, which fpeak them many Glands, every one claiming a peculiar Excretory Veffcl, through which Salival Juice is difcharged into the Mouth. Bullocks have the interior part of. the Nutricious Juice from the groiler and unprofitable erccs, which is the full ismmmlmw lOllrLUl'llO' . Another may be probably this, that its moiflcr fubltance embodied Wltll m mlil‘?‘ the Aliment broken into finall Particles by Mal‘tication, might facilitate D5,»I'Ml‘ glutition, eipecially in Bruits, who feed upon Hay and Oats; whereupon,a ' greater proportion of Salival Liquor is requilite as a Vehicle, to fiibduc this .7 _ dry and folid Aliment, rendring its Maltication and Deglntition morcfflcllei [i V'Vliereupon Nature hath given Bruits, greater and more numerous Salival Glands, every way beletting the Palate and inlide of the Cheeks, OlltOf which Rivulets of Lympha run over the Aliment, torn into finall Particles, ‘c by the corifltant firong motions of the Tongue, and upper and lower Mandi' 4 bleinRumination. _ mm) W The third ufe of the Salival Glands, may be thus rendred, that its Limpld lifi i‘ilop‘m body, being mixed With hard and folid Aliinents, might bea fit Mcnlhuum its haid Com page. yo the Genius of the upper Jaw and do end into the Goonis of the lower Mandible. terminated into the Gooms of the lower. 80 that I cannot reafonably imaging, upon what account they are named by divers Anatomifts, the Mulcles of the Lips, when they have their rife and termination in the upper and lower Gooms, and fill up the infide of the Checks, and have little or no unite a little while, being no trlie Mixture, but only a, Coniulion: So Aiigriici u'_c_ ufe to which the Salival liquor is afligned. The Euttiiu: mm borrow their rifefrorn Cheeks fraught with an innumerable company of {mall Protuberancies, which [conceive to be f0 many Minute Glands, plainly dil‘tinguilhed one from another, fomewhat refembling Barley Corns, though greater in bulk, and terminating in Cones. limits have their Cheeks drelled with many Glands, attended with Extrctoty Vell'els, tranfniirring Ii- quor into the Mouth. |