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Show N "24.6 Part II. ii Mu ii Digiflmfiuand ‘ SO that tllC A{it[L7111' Dig dfl rici 3 and uadraii) Q, often deP r Cmng the lower ,iiimnmu Mandible, do part the Teeth, and the Mufculi Temporal", as frequently Of the ‘Ufl'r of Chewing. brisk Motion, eafily infinuare into the loofe contextute of Mafficared Aliment. ' "Wk" doling them, do by their contrary Succeflivo Motions, {lamp the Meat as it "1" Hi - ‘ tire upon the Meat broken into minute parts, and f0 lefs able to refilt, puts And the 'Ptcrigaeia'cz' Izztemi, and Externi, with the Mayhem-f) break it it into motion, by exalting its Spirituous parts, which work upon the more grofs, by refining them, that they may affociate with the purer parts, caufing a alfo into fmall pieces after another manner, grinding it as it were in a MilL - The Tterigocidci Interim, drawing the lower Mandible outward, and the f @lcriqocidci Extmzi pulling it inward, and the Mafl‘erercr, by reafon of vari- "1‘" t"ti-mid, Andll‘ei'lr‘ '15' ){x- my" I Lm do iiio\c v And the Aer confiiliiig of mof'c active Huid Particles, imprintcth its ver« )‘VCY ‘Ejgiggg wei'ein a Mortar. 24.7 H (ms Fibres dccufiatiiig each other in feveral Angles, perform both the motions of the @Icrigaeide‘i Intrmi, and Exterlzi, affifiing them in their different i i Contractions, by which they force the lower Mandible inward and our. "C '3;if‘},_ ward, for the better Comminution of the Aliment in Mafiication, and for the more eafie Celebration of :" the Burez'rmtorrr and the TOnge, give a . . "WWW" Very ufeful' Concurrence in keeping. the Meat in its due place: When it is mg by then Connections too much inward, the Tongue b;‘. its Oblique Motion, caufed by one of the , tat -- mo Muflulz Stqugloffi (for borh movmg together, carry the Tongue upward) fining, tlll'OVVfi‘tl} it outward upon the Teeth; and if the Aliment be carried too 3315:), ,2ng much outward, the Butczimtorei Contraé'ting themfelvcs inward, reduce the cfihc S‘Jl‘EI‘J' Meat from the Check to the Teetl . fittimxvctlithc Aliment cut- vsartl. lecretion of the Recreinents utterly unfit for Ailimilation. So that, as l conceive, the task which Air performeth in taifing a. Fer. TheAirrai~ mentation into the Chewed Aliment, is much effected by its Elaitick force, glihliiiiniiicm producing Motion by prefling its thinner parts into the Ioofe Compage offlggflh? the Alementary Liquor, which as part after part, is dilated by the Spring Fwd" of Air, the enlarged fpaces are more and more filled with the Expanfive parts of it, and do thereby beget a more quick Motion in the Alimentary Juice, by which it is brought more and more toa Concoétion; and at lafl lb nearl elbonfed to Air, which by reafon of its more Volatil Particles, have fuch affinity, and are fo embodied with the more refined Spirituous Alimentary, that they feem in fine, as it were conliituent parts of each other. The fourth Ufe of Mafiicarion, is not only to render the Aliment into TlchIimcnt Minute parts, the eafier to impraegnate them not only with Salival and Airy, iiiniiiiiiiiic. but alfo with tethereal Ferments, emaning from Cxleflial Bodies, which be- :3:},i;"'n‘f‘, ing of a Divine Extraét, 'arc the common parents of Life and MotiOn. [he Mmh Thefe ethereal influences darted into Air with Light and Heat, are carried herbage: with it into the Mouth in Refpirarion, and being fubtle Spirituous Bodies, do eafily infinuate into the Laxe Mcatur of Aliment, opened by the feveral C H A P. X l l. motions of the Tongue and lower Mandible, and more expanfive Spring of Aery Atomes, which do thereby excite the more defazcated and Spiri- Of the ‘U/cr of Chewing. tuous Particles of the Mai'ticated Liquor,by reducing them to greater activity and intelline Motion. Aving Treated of the Infiruments and Manner, how Mafiication is Celebrated, I conceive it not improper to lay before you the moi of Utes of it. iiib'r‘cciiltiicm The firft may be to give a Commiiiutiori of Aliment, not only for the In fliort, the Aliment is reduced by various poflures of the lower Mana TthaIival dible into finall parts, and being mingled with Salival Liquor, 21 univerfal £223,212 Menfiruum which is freely affociated with the different oily, faline, Watry $3355" and earthy parts of the broken Meat, whence tliefe Heterogeneous parts wirhoilvfi. , , . . . , . line.warry. oi dificrent Figures and Magnitudes being affected With irregular fides andean'hy frha‘llPllTi eafier Deglutrtion, but alfo to blend it With Salival Juice, and Aery and oceans}; dither-cal Particles, as f0 many different Fermenrs, to give the Aliment a ghflf‘ilfim kind of Concoétion, or at leafl the firfi Rudiments of it in the Mouth. and various angles , cannot readily clofe one with another 7 as having great in- Pam"? "r ‘he malhtatcé iiiiiliiiiiiiiii Spaces, interceding the unequal {ides and angles of Heterogeneous MaPti- 23:}; 3,33;catcd Aliment, highly expanding them by their Elafiick power, do give them 2313:313in Intcfiine Motion; which is much promoted, if not primarily caufed by the in): with :- . The lower Mandible, by the afiii'tanee of Antagonii't Mufcles being V , quIIpConco- varioufly moved up and down, outward and inward, doth fqueefc the , ‘ ~ Parotide Glands, feared near the binder Procefs of the lower Mandible, as Effigy" allo the inward Maxillary Glands, lodged in the infide of the Maxilla In:liiiiliiiicphr: jelrzor', and the Tongue moreover in the time of Mallication , being 0ften terniedial Spaces, which being fraught with thin :etheteal Atomes, derived Agiivzgnr, from Caleftial Bodies, and numerous aery minute Particles, do fill up the Taiihchicih. Volatil and Nitrous Particles of Air, received by frequent acts of Breathing :E‘ffs‘aig‘c‘k, into the Mouth, and being mixed with the crude Sulphureous and fixed :flifai‘jfiéé‘ flurts,fqutc- ecvated and depreflEd, and moved laterally, comprefltth the Glands, be- Saline parts of the Meat , do alfo meet with the Volatil, Saline, and 332323;;0, ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ Sand, Liquor fetting its lubflance, as alfo the ad}acent Glands of the Tonfils and Palate: . ft) Pa- I\(lIVherlqupon th‘q Salival :iiiic,zi4cax-l ‘ ' Liquor ' ' freely defiilling as well out of the Parotide, ‘ Acid parts of the Salival Liquor: So that the Mafiicated Aliment is imptaag- duct a ternated with Airy, aethereal, and Salival Particles, confii'ting of many Hetero~ 322?,‘3‘3332. geneous Principles, which cutting the Lifts, have many great Debates, and "7mm Intefiinc Motions with each other; the Volatil afpiring parts endeavouring to quit their Ration, are Ptopt and confined by the more fixed and groifer: and the cruder Sulphureous are digefied, and the more fixed Saline are vola-4 ti2ed, by the more Spirituous and Volatil, Aery, [Ethereal and Salival {trh < iii the . dOta xcfdddiflinto ~11 [heMoutlL a x1 ary, an Tonflllary Glands, as. thofe of the Tongue and Palate, m' corporates With the Aliment, broken into fmall pieces, which is the fecond ufe of Maflication. The Air mix- 1:dvuiththlt: -, ~ . . . . The thud 15, That the Aliment diVided into very {Minute Portions, is not it REP," A'- only impregnated ‘ ' Salival ' ~ "first; With Liquor, but alfo with Aery Particles, imparts muonmndbt- to the Meat, in frequent Refpiration, during the repeated a&s of Mafii~ ing of aé‘tivc ~. c t' . :2?,f§§fe";_ tfi 1°" ,1", ‘ ' , . Tl‘edPPPelr Pail-10165 0f incumbent Aer fiill deprefling the lowcn. e one crow ing tie at er forward, do by their fubtle parts, afied with brisk parts 5 which by opening the compage of the chewed Nourifhment, do to difpofe, that the exalted Homogeneous parts, being akin, do endeavour to aflociate and prefetve each other, while the Heterogeneous Reerements have an |
