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Show m Book I. Part II. Book I. Part ll. Of t/ye Retentioe Faculty of the Stomach. , 291 : The rate t' . v ' ~ i pla- "(unwill- NJtUle Faculty ofthe Stomach, hath its Whereupon the Retentive C HA P. ' lexo in the Soul determinedto the Fibrils of the Stomach, as "X? moths?c‘iiilihieflaxith a, due Nervousj Liquor, and Animal Spirits, rendring the Fi- :Co'astsgftihe fires of the Stomach moderately Tenfe, and upon the Contact of the Aliment, '°m ' do contraét themfelves moderately, and thereby do itraighten the Circumfe-_ rence of the Ventricle, every way enclofing the Aliment With the furfacc of XXIV. 0f tlae Maurice Toner if the Stomach. Aving Difcourfed of the Appetites of Hunger, and Thirll: (Natures great Sollicitrices, to oblige us to Eat and Drink, in order to our fuppott) the one feared near the Orifice of the Stomach, and the other in the Gulet, Tongue, and other parts of the Mouth ; it may feem agreeable to Method, to fpeak fomewhat next of the Retentive Power of the Stu. mach, lodged in its Cavity, all encompaffed With divers Nervous Fibrils. The King of Kings, out of a molt noble defign of doing Good, keepeth open Houle, not only at Feliivals, but all the Year round; and being al- ways pleafed to oblige them (that cannot fetve him) hath furnilhed our Table with variety of Difhes, and Drinks; and that We might be the more free and welcome at his great Treats , hath' folemnly invited us by Appetites of Hunger and Thirft ( as his Minil‘ters ) to court us to Eat and Drink feveral kinds of Aliment and Liquors, drefled with Variety of Tafies,, to Carefs us by grateful infiruments of Pleafure and Delight, to fupply our needs with Meat and Drink, which are firlt entertained in the Mouth as an Out-office, wherein they receive fome preparation, and then are ulherecl through the Gulet as through an Entry, into the larger Room of the Stoa "S iinuvfligfdfgiile make any further Progrefs in flaring the nature of the Retentive Faculty, [will give fome account of Attractive, or rather Recep- rive Power of the Ventricle, as ambulatory to the other._ The Antients have placed it in the right Fibres of the. Stomach, which ll' true, mull: par- ticipate fomewhat of a Magnetick Oyaht'y, to attraétfithe Aliment from-the Mouth, through the Gulet to the Ventriclc :.But this ,Attraé‘tive (Liality, featcd as they imagine, in the right Fibres, is altogether ufelefs; becaufe the Aliment protruded down the Gulet in Deglutition, is effected by the Vaginal Mufcle, the Mufmlur Oefllp/Jagim contraéhng the .CW‘W of the Oejophagm', and by confequence fqueefeth down the Meat-into the CaVity of the Stomach, and the attraction of it is performed not in the Stomach, mummy but Month, by vertuc of the Breath fucking in the Aliment toward the ‘ Aliment is not the top of the Afpcm Arteria, 'where it receiveth a {top by the Epygloms, 9" 5:33:25? merit to keep in the heat, and raife the Fermentation in order to Concoéti- cover of the Larynx, mol't wrfely inftituted by Nature, to hinder the admif- butMouth. , lion of Aliment into the Wind-pipe, to prevent Suffocation. And this atrraélion cannot be Similar, becaufe, as Doctor Glyflim hath "mam well obferved, it mull then be of Similar fubllances, which are akin to the Egyptian Stomach, and fuppofcth a voluntary addrefs ol fuch things as are of a like lngenv, which {peak a mutual Complacency, as being yde ightecl in each others Converfe, as good and perfeaiye: But on the contrary, the ingefls are forced down the Gulet, by the inflruments of Deglutition, into on, produced by various Liquors infinuating themfelves by degrees into the body of the Aliment, by relaxing its Compage, where the Concoétive Fa- from it, and make {harp difputes in the Stomach, by great vellications 0', mach, as into a fair Kitchin, where the Aliment is better dreilcd; to which the Retentivc Faculty is fubfervient, as on every fide furrounding the Ali; culty commenceth. But before] Treat any farther of the Retentive Power of the Stomach, it may be conducive to the better underfianding the futureDifcourfe, in which we have and (ball make mention of the term Faculty, to give my Senfe of the word : Some Learned Men receive it, as Vax 2'9» praeterm nibil, with the mean eliceem of an empty Notion, as wholly iulignificant. To whichl make bold to give this Reply, in favour of this Term, called by the Grgfkf, Aryan/i, by the Latina, q'orentia, Facultar, tarzquam principium operan/Ii: A5 a principle of Operation, which cannot be truly confidered in a fimplc N0- (ion, as it is founded in (anncto, as made up of the Soul, determined to fuch a part of the Body, where it more peculiarly celebrates its Operation, becaufe though the Soul as in its Conjuné‘t El'tate, is immaterial in its EHErice, yet is ()rganical in its Functions, as it performeth fuch and fuch Acts only in peculiar parts of the Body, endued with fuch proper difpolitions, as are receptive of its Operations, appropriated only to fuch Members, and partS‘7 whereupon the Soul is confined to fuch a Sphere in reference to its Aaivity, and is only Definitive in Cor-pore Ianquam in loco ( as all immaterial Subllances are) év ibi q]? ubi operatur ; and cannot be Circumfcrip'liw in low, which is proper only to Material Bodies, whole Concave and ConVex Bodies, have an immediate Contact with each other; and therefore the Soul beinga Spirit, is not capable of any grofs Confinement, but only or a Virtual Contafi, as being defined in fuch a qualified integral, whereini: ex erteth its Operation. Where‘ the common Receptacle of the Stomach, Which are of a difl‘erentJnatur? the Fibres, which impetuoufly contract themfelves, to throw up the trouble- fome guellts, which is cosiftiliCiliri‘us in potions ingrateful to the Stomach, as ‘" ions an teie. vogriiionfusftliniiore), the making gopd the. attraction of Nourilhment, is grounded upon this reafon, becaufe it is requifite forne Infirument flgpuld be afligned, by whofe mediation it may be accomplilhed ',. and I huttn y clinceive, there can be no other part, to which the attraétion can. .9 attti hu- ted, but to the Machines moving the Stomach, and they are eitherbRig t, m Fibre"! Circular, or Oblique, which can no way atrraét the Nounihmem u: by 2:31:23: their Motion, in which they {hrink in the Stomach, which being moderately igllfri'c‘ffiifil' effeéied, do all concur to the enclofurc of the, Aliment, and no way to the fiat-9"" r. attraction of Meat and Drink, if it V , . . atfiiiigs f: vibe fliould be produced for a, . the avoiding 3. Vacuum to preferve the order of theulnwerfe ll‘n‘lolable, liflfcn'ifla'.‘ not proceed it . is from ufelefs in Nature) to prevent fome empty V{pace (as altogether . _ . a Vacuinconfificm with the Wifdom of our Glorious Maker 5 And this attraétion um, 1mm .‘ iiig'fi'ifi‘li‘ good the confult and,_to Vacuum, a efcape to of ingefls into the Stomach and petfeétion in Nature, mul't fuppofc an, abfqlute vacuity in the Stomach, .zvfhgghfl: which can no ways be granted 3 becaufe the.Ventr_yielte when deflitute of tents. Aliment, is either filled with Air, or big with fome Flatulency, at Eferoltlis Matter, or elfe the Stomach is contraéled by its yarious. Fibres, WhereCthit |
