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Show ' l ,_ . 7 ‘ W ‘ 270 \ 0f the Stomac/yr of Eta/fr; Book I. Part I I; wifely framed, as fo many Receptacles of Water, which are drawn out, when this Beafi travelleth through dry Countries, for the fupport of Na. t ~ in time of Necellit . m The {truéture of theyStomach in 21 Beaver, is admirable ( as Bl-flfilfl‘ hath well obferved ) and is very rare and large, fomewhat refembling, in Figure, . The Stomach bf a Btavrri :1 Hog, except where it is divided by a kind of Furtow, ‘01‘ Cavrty running downward, and making it as it were a double Stomach 5 in the left fide near the Orifice, is feared aflefhy fubflance, about the length of four Inches, adorned with an Oval Figure. '< . And in the Stomach being cut in length, were dilcovered many pieces of Barks and Roots of irees, and nothing of Fifli found in the CaVity of it, whofe infide appeared all lined with a Mucous Matter :vAnd over againfl the Furrow ( which was difcerned outwardly ) iii the infide of. the StoV mach, was placed a Nervous Prominence, which did not extend it {elf {0 far to the bottom, as to part the Ventricle into two parts. , 0f t/ae Stamac/Jr bf flea/Zr; reference to its inward furface into many Cells, fomewhat refembling the tiilbfillrion to a better (Ioncoé‘tion in the fourth Venter, which fomewhat rricmbleth the Ftoniach of Man in Figure, called by the Greeks, "Elutzcr' and by the Lain/er, A/Iollldflu‘, in Eng/i J, the Reed ;. and is endued with more and greater l'licatures, then that of Man, which take their progrefs in a flraight tourfe: This Venter receivetli the Aliment prepared: in the former Venters, and gircth it a more perfeét Elaboration. This Venter almoft wholly einploit-d, and the former of no other ufe in' young Animals that Suck, but to tranfinit the Milk into the fourth Venter, which alone giveth its Conco- ction, and f0 tranfinitteth it into the lntefiines, to receive a; greater refinement caufed by proper Fetments in the Guts. l-‘igoure, receptive of a Tare; and fome of thefeOrifices feemed to be of a Semilunary lhape, which are placed near the upperregion of the Stomach : And fome of the outward parts of the Orihces being {heed away, underneath were difcovered other more Minute Orifices, which were part of the Excretory Ducts being cut off; and out of the remanent Holes, the red fer my Sentiment about the chewing of the Cud in Horn Beafts, which is ordered firft by a reconveying the Aliment out of the Panch into the Month, to receive a further Comminution by the Teeth: Of which Dodor Glyfin fembling Cafioreum in fent; and Breath being immitted into the Qtifices by a Blow-pipe, the red iiibftance was immediately Tumified, which be- ing {tripped off from its Exterior Membrane, a flefhy fubftance offered it felf, full of right Fibres, running parallel to thofe of the Gulet : This-Mufcular giveth this Account, Cap. mde Hi or. Ventriculi. Marius, qua iota 4611}; perfitimr, fir febabet : Colic-8r: bond riIIi portione, (yv aliquandiu in Marin; main; Fe. m COiZFC'r‘Z/dffl, Lemmr @bll"!d/id,€")‘ dc fruitione bomrumpariarum cogimre incipit. Hint pan/o fortiur folita timfir Mtfr'ulir,AIIdomiI1ir,c~ um; Diaphragma. magno 7/271tri dat anflzmfi quoq conformiter tomprimendi : Adeoq; mom: periflalticu: ab infra [infirm extitutiir, qui afiendem in reticulum, (7v inde ingulam, cibum in 01‘ re- fmzdit. ‘i'mdsi 3" tory Vth-ls, perforating the inward Coat of the Stomach tr Id "t1 , . , . . Thele fmall Glands of one bignefs, were fet in many Rows, paffing in lapc'lritdii‘ ligifhdmg' right Lines, according to the progrefs of the Fibres: Thefe Glands being "‘m‘" fqueefed, a clammy Matter oufed out, and the Glands grew lank, and atterward Breath being immitted into them by a proper Inflrument, they grew big again, and aiTumed their former Figure. ‘ ' Th-fiGP-"Ids. Whereupon, [molt humbly conceive, that thefe imall Glands being ac‘ lili-rlfl'li commodated with numerous Arteries, and Veins; the firlt import Blood vms' into the body of the Glands, where the more foft parts are fevered from the Purple Liquor, and carried by Excretory Ducts into the Cavity 0f the Stomach,and ferve as a Menl'cruum and Ferment to moiflen,and to impmgnate its dry Aliment of Barks and Kinds of Trees, in order to extract an Al!- the crude Aliment is not thrown out of the Panch, as being only grateful _ mentary Liquor. . fi {1 Four Venters are afligned bp Nature to Beafis chewmg the Cud: The r four Vugrcrs. is called by Greciam, Mam rum , the Panch , which hath the molt large ii: fiieiiiclii bofome for to Macerate and Concoét Aliment, before it is reconveyed to thC ElffieETfQ'Lt. Mouth, in order to the more eaiie Chewing , and is compofed as well as Rigging; the Gulet, of four Coats, the Membranous, Carnous, Nervous, and Glan‘hsmkdulous COVering It hath feveral inequalities, which are the Duplicatures of Mufcular Membranes; as I earned Doctor Grew hath obferved The fecond Venter, called by the Letinet, Reticulum, in Enin/z, the Hony Comb ; hath three Orifices, the firfi is conjoyned to the Quiet, from which it receiveth Aliment : The {econd conve cth it into the Panch; and the third into the Feck. The fecond Venter is gollowed in divers places, 1" referen" The fourth Venter iscalled the Reed. Before 1 part with the Stomachs of Bruits, I will take the freedom to of- $273331," fubi'tance was befet with numerous Minute Glands, attended With Excre- fgjfisufl‘mjg I cavities of a Hony Comb (whence it borroweth its denomination in Engli/b) and are ini‘ttiired by Nature to itay the Aliment, for the better ConcoEtion of it before it, is imparted to the third Venter, called by the Greek]; m , and by the Latin", Own/m, and by the Englifb, Feck; which is of a rare Frame, as compofed of many broad tranfverfe Membranes, as fo mam, licpofltorle of Aliment, till itis Farther Digeflted, and [ntenerated, asa Where the red Protuberance appeared, in the outfide, and in the infide, mioht be feen many little Holes, or extreamities of \ eifels chiefly of a round fubftance being compreifed outwardly , a Mucous Matter diflilled, re- Iii: iiiniilc Book I. Part I 1'. With the permiflion of this great Author, I humbly conceive that to it, whernpon the Mufcles of the Abdomen and Diaphragme do not Contract themfelves, to give the Hony Comb and Panch , more clofe em; braces of the crude Aliment, upon the account of greater Pleafure and De- light; but as rather lying fomewhat heavy upon the Panch, by reafon of irsgreatand indigefted quantity, f0 that the Hony Comb and Panch, do leileii the Cavities by the contraction of the Carnous Fibres, aflified with the Mufcles of the Abdomen, to gulp up the Inconcoéted Gtafs or Hay, to be farther inoifined in the Mouth, by Salival Liquor, flowing out of the Oral Glands, and then to be broken into fmall Particles, by the grinding 0f the Teeth, put into various pofiures and motions by the Mufcles of the lower Jaw, and afterward it is fwallowed down the fecond time into the Panch, to receive a greater Concoélion. The manner of chewing the Cud. |
