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Show . Q 4. V s 0f Nervous Liquor, &c. Book I. Part I I_ Tunicle of the Stomach, are to convey Animal liquor into the Cavity of t'e Stomach, to impart a Fermentarive Power to the‘ Aliment, in order to the produétion of Chyle 3 {0 that the Nervous Liquor is a fluid Body, endued with many Minute Particles, big With aétive and fubtle Principles, which upon that account, haverhe advantage of a more ready entrance into the ports of the Aliment. . ‘ . . TheNcrvous And again, The Animal Juice, as mfpi‘i'ed with fine Spirits, and imprxg. , , ape natal with Volatil (aline Particles, is more readily received by fecret parfige, 3:113 raw-fl into the inward pcnettals of the Meat and Drink (lodged in the bofome of r £11m tho Veiiti‘icle) and doth impart Intcliine Motion to it, by [fitting up the ihiiiplalgli‘uoi‘hl difiircnt Elements oi" the Nourilhment. iiiiiika," Th, Animal Thirdly, The Nervous Liquor is pcompofed of many parts, adorned with various Figures aud Magnitudes, different fromMinute the fluid and Jviiic asmjn‘ {olid atomes of the Aliment, which being contrary agents, do enter into a illi'gsii‘li Confliét with each other, and by oppofite Manners, and proccfies of Ope. "m? l " ration, do bring their dila reeing Tcmpers, by a middle allay, to an amiJ cable Reconciliation, con iflent with each others fiibdued Nature. Ingenious Doaor Willis, is pleated to fay, That the Nervous Liquor, is a Maltuline kind of Seminal Juice: And this opinion (as Iconceive) is grounded upon its Spirituous and Volatil Particles, in which it hath fume liltcnels with Genital Liquor, in Quality, as well as Colour. _ And this Animal Juice, being incorporated with the Scrous Liquor ( exuding the Extreamities of the Caeliack Artery, into the capacity of the Sto- Book 1. Part I i. 305 it roduccth fuch Wenderful Efi‘eéis in Mulcular Motion, made upward and doEivnward by the nimble Motion of Tenfors and Flexors, in pinching fevc~ ml firings of the Lute, whence are formed great variety of melodious SoundS, which are divetfly modelled by Shakes ( relembling the quavering Nirvous Liquor is of: l'ubtle and atllv: Nature. in being the eaufc or Mufcular Motion. of the Voice) made by quick contraéiions of Antagonill: Mufcles moving the Fingers up and down in feveral poiiures. . And great variety of other motions, upward and downward, inward and outward: in the Arm made by the Elevators, Deprelfors, Addué‘tors, Ab. duétors [0 that the various Mufcles are {0 many rare Machines, _a&ing their pairs with great dexterity in the different Scenes of Motion, which are celebrated by Nerves, (as well as flelhy Fibres) enobled With Liquor, ' ragnated with animal Spirits, feared in fubtil Particles of the Susan winch", which is communicated by the Branches of the Far wagnm, i-ni‘erted into the inward Tunicle of thebtomach, givmg a power to the Aliment repofed in it, in order to Concoéhon. C H A P. XX I V. 0f the Scrour Ferment of the Stomach. mach) with which it is advanced, as with fome aéiive Ferment. The Ncri'cus t;3:;;,l‘;;}‘w griffin?" ihcnlood. iiigiriisiiiléi. The Fermentative difpofirion of the Nervous Liquor may be farther con- Aving ptefented you in the former Chapter, with the nervous,l make firmed out of the firi't principle of its Produétion (wherein its Nature doth \ci'y much confiit) which is of Vital Juice, the Chryi'talline and finer part : The Nervous Liquor is extraé'ted after this manner (as I apprehend) The Blood being impelled by the Carotide Arteries into the Cortical Glands H bold to oFfer you in this the ferous Liquor, derived from the arteri- igitraa‘rmi‘f of the Brain, is there feparated, as in lo many Colatories, wherei n themore mm {oft and fine Juice of the Blood is [Ecerned from the hot, and grols red Craffanicnt, which is returned by the Jugular Veins, while the more delicate liquor is elaborated, and inipratgnared with Volatil Saline parts in the body of the Cortical Glands, and afterward tranfmitted into the Extreamities of the Nerves; whereupon we may be eafily induced to believe, that the Animal Liquor, being generated out of the Blood, :1 fubjeéi: of many Fermentative Principles, as ceinpofed of different Element s, and as chiefly embOdlCd with Air, {iiiculi'earsvilrlri 1,5,3," Wm, gllafi‘gif" iiifiihiilfh; andisaflivein lcrmentiiuou. in the fubftance of the Lungs, Full of Elafiick Particles, WillCll contribute much to the Fermentation of the Animal Liquor, extraéied out , of Blood. Furthermore, The Animal Liquor is afiociated with Air (When it is firft produced in the Cortical Glands) which albendi ng the Nol'crils in time of lnfpirarion, fome part of through the Cavities 0f it ( as complying with its nature to move upward) pafleth through the 0s Etlamoider, into the Ventricles of the Brain, whence it is elevated through the numero Pores 0f . . . the various Medullary ProceiTes, into the Cortical Glands, whereius . n it. enters into alliance and confederacy with the embrionate Nervou s Liquor, alld exalteth it with fubtle faline Particles, and with an aétive Expanlive Oilfility, one main Ingredient, conflitutiiig the Fermentative Difpofition of the Another argument may be brought, to place the Nervous Juice in tlfli Mafs of Fermenrs, is from Animal Liquor. its great aaivity, and molt fubtle nature, by whlcltl ous Blood, as a ferment concerned in the pitiful operation of Chylification. Some Ananomifis exclude all Fermentsin the produéhon othyle,‘ aiTert- ScrousLiquor lei-cred from the Blood, is a Ferment, in order to Com cofiiou. ing, that the Aliment is furnilhed within its own Confines, . With principles fuificient to Concoét the Aliment, Without any accefs of bitter, acide, fa- line, or any other extraordinary Ferment, and do found Chylification in the contrary Elements of Meat and Drinlt, makingr conteits between Volatil and Fixed, Sulphurous, and Saline Particles, 'which are not l‘uch aétive Coms batants, as to enter the Lifi oi: themlelves in order to a Fight, except they Were backed, and (er on by the heat of the Stomach, and‘ other adiacent parts; as alfo the Ferments of Salival Liquor, Embodied With Air in the Mouth, and various Liquors ( flowmg out the extremities of the Nerves and Arteries, implanted into the Stomach) one of which is our prefent Concer'zl'ehe Antients have been great admirers of an acide Juyce, tranfmitted (as they conceived ) from the Spleen to the Stomach, by the Var breve, which being a Vein, cannot Impart to, .but Eitport. Liquor from the Ventricle. Awicen, a Learned Author, doth favour this Opinion : ‘Urzlzbw 2 era, art, atcidit, quiz; in O: Stomachi ( burnout aadur) qudfl mnlgf'fldo Ifflflmh 2'?" 'MC quidcm ntilitas eff dual)»; modu, uno, yum OI Stomach: firmgrt 6v conform ('9- z‘rrfpiflht: alio, at in Ore Stomatbt, Commotzonem, prapter acredmem, @. cxtitatiam'm ad famem. . _ ‘ . Curiellur,a Roman Phyiitian is of the fame fenfe in an Epiftle to Swarm: a Chyrurgeon of Naples, Scribe": portzanem dCldd balk, elzene flanfnrzflhm, panic fermemi rim, omnia mijcere, turret/ere, (5' ebullzre facere, prim: zta r4... refafiiane Zia, ('9‘- mrefaéiione (7‘ fiangrofifateubarwruzn, qua afpryzrzbiss comr- ratis fit, a acidorfpiritur mat/enter, é- mquxeror, adju‘wmte (glare abornm amcaffianwu, (3" digqflionem primam (Janie: 1 K Vanbelmtmfs The Aurients conceivtdan acid: Iiiyce to be (ranfmlt- ted by the I'm: 17m): ind to the Stu: mach. |
