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Show at; '- 0/ the, Alerter of Chjlifimtion. Book I. Part I I, Bur Learned Scmimm being didatistiedwitlr the Opinion ofIch/eler, tried the Experiment of Gold in a. Hen, in which he was not {0 happy as to have his expectation Crowned With a fuccclsful Cyent, So that this pleafam Golden Story of Wench/cry, relating to the difTolving Gold inthe Stomachof a Hen, and turning it into Aliment, and making the Infcnption of thei‘e Golden Lint-s in the Breal't, ended at lafi in a mere Chymztre, much refcmhling that of the Golden Mountains, .or pieces of Gold which aFool Gold pachrh mouwiralh ' Stories rem. gidi‘lr‘idfi "(ii-iii: ‘lcmmm' flincied in his l'urle, but in truth were only. in his Head. The molt perfeft Metals of Gold, and Silver , do pals only through the animal Fire of» the Stomach unconcerned, and are. tranlmitted through the Ventricle and Guts, without any fenfible alteration; but more imperfect Nlinerals, as divers kinds of Stories, being reduced to Powder do receive divers changes, and by various Ferments acting upon them, do communi. ‘ care Saline Particles to the mais of Blood. Faulkoners do give out (who are very much verfed in Manning and Dieting Hawkes, that Stones taken into their Stomachs do cleanl'e them and render them Healthy , and more fit for Flight; and it 13 generally fet forth by thofe who Feed and Fat Fowle, that they Will loole thtir Appetites and Health, unlefs they {wallow little Stones, Which do not turn into nouriihment, but difgorge their Stomachs from fome grofs Phlcgme, or filth that opprefieth them1 asfome phancy, and in truth, do help the breaking the Aliment into finall Particles. C H A P. XXXI. Off/ye Manner of ChJ/ficzztiwz. Learned Dr. Higbmore iceiiieth to concur with Hypncrater, in his fenie relating to the manner ofDigefiion, in his Third Chapter De Ventricula. Verumem'mrmro "om/mu nobir con/fat, cur non calare rant/4m bumido, bat eff men/True Prop-i0, [mil/m: tanquam irlflrumenta, opus In: pcrficiamr; cum wfi'ia nibil aliml fit qua»; putrcfaflio @M partinmfipumtio. But notwithfianding it doth not ap-. pear to us, ( faith the Learned Author ) why this Work is not accomplifl-i. ed by iiioili Heat only ( as a proper Menflruum) the initrument of the Soul, when Concoftion is nothing elfe butaputrefaétion and feparation of parts. And this his Aliertion concerning the work of Nature, he endeavoureth to Iilufirare by the operations of Art. Adbazc inadminiflmtionillw ijmicis, boo filnmmoda efiiciczzte, calorefcilitet in corpare humido in particular corparir in mu. ante, prodummr, at in maceratione, digeflione, putrefaéiione, @ fermentatione, quibm‘ operationibm , a calm: Immido , miflum aliquo modo difl'olwitur, we! rampage naturali folzim, ad artificialem aptim redditur, qua: operation" in amni fipamtione, we! jingulx, ml alterzz earum permittuntur. Furthermore, This Learned Author affirmeth in Chymical Operations, this may be produced by Heat, working only in a moif't Body, infinuating it felf into inward recedes of it , as in Mace-ration, Digeftion, Putrcfaétion, and Fermentation, by which operations the mixed Body is after a manner diflolv'd in a moifl: Heat, as its natural Compage is loofened, which is mofl: fitly refembled to Art, whofe Adminii'trations, either all (or one of them) Ingenious Vanbelmont ( as I humbly conceive, being a perfon of greater Fancy than Judgment) granteth the fame putrefaélion in order to Chylifi» Aving Dif‘courl‘ed fomewhat in the [precedent Chapter of the Matter, Meat and Drink, as the .Materiiz [uh/ham, out of which the milky Humour is generated in the Stomach, it may now feem agreeable to method, to {peak alittle how Chylification is modelled, of the manner how Chyle is produced in the Stomach. The Antients have given their Sentiments, as meggorm, Empm'utler, which Hypporram feeineth to back With his Suffrage in his Book, nm‘ weir Scé‘r'iom Qig'nra, {peaking of a l ientery, AHév-rrdn u: mi... auxin, Jamie dag-a i-M» J 2. 'év. 'm zmdwfiu Jé mu 76 mm. The Lientery doth throw of? the Meat not putrified, and moil‘t,not painful,whereupon the Body decayeth,and a few lines after, this great Author doth feem farther to aflert this Hypothefis, ~07... Jt‘ it" «2 macaw: 4%: mi maxim i; 5 watt awn was, My, And therefore when it is produced; ( meaning a Lientery,) the Meat is cooled and moiltened, and a quick (hfrniHion made of the not puttified Aliment: whence this inference may lefm to be made, that if an ill, or rather no Concoéiion of the Stomach (wind! the Antients called improperly a Lientery, or fmoothnefs of the Guts, the Meat is over-hafiily expelled the confines of the Stomach unputrified, whereUpon it may be conceived, that if the Meat had been longer entertained 1n the Ventricle, it would have acquired a putrefaétion.. BUtheg patdonfor ‘ . . this apprehenfion, becaufe I conceive we are bound in Duty, to receive the fenfc of the Antients with Candor, and then the words, 7‘3 "7"" gm". being not taken [triétly (which I humbly conceive) was till: true fenfe Of our 8"" Mafier I-bppocrates, do fignifie Meat unconcoéted, in which, little‘ OI 313 or no fepamtion of parts was made by natural Heat, exciting the Ferments of the Stomach to a Concoétion of the Aliment. are premifed in every operation. 0f the manner if C/y/zfication. Mettiann. wam‘m" StomzuhA "ithoquOrruptionand I'uttcfac‘lim. Book 1. Part I l. cation, though upon more improbable terms; laying in his Book, De Spiritu Vim, page 576. In mid: ante»: etfi dim/5 cum pom quaddntenw putrefcant ( nimirum ifliz pntrcdo cfl madm, atque medium tranfmutandce rei in rem, attamen in digefliOIIibfly noflrir, per eju/modi pntrefaéiianem, aflionemque fermenti limmri, mm Cdltcifltr ex olerillm, legumim'bur, fmmemalibwi , ant politic, [10irilz'lmr aqua: taint.- Siquidem "alum noflm intentia, non efl fibi pracreare aqua/n wine, racmm longc aliud in "obit Lji Fermentum, qua re; reflzlwuntur in belum, at= qite aliurl, qua re: putrefcam, atque feparzmmr in aqua»: Witt. But though Meat and Drink do after a manner putrify in us (to wit, that putrefac‘tion is a kind of tranfmutation of one thing into another ) yet. in our Digeflions, the Spirit of the Water of Life is not extracted out of Porn Herbs, Pulfe, Corn, Apples, by the lame putrefaélion, and aftion of aFerment derived from the Spleen, becaul‘e the defigne of our Nature is not to procreate for it {elf a Water of Life, but a far different Ferment in us, by which things are refolved into Chyle; and another, by which things do puttify, and are feparated for the Water of Life. Here the witty Author doth plainly hold, that Meat and Drink are {olved by putrefaétion, in reference to Concoétion, and that the Vital re: Spitit is not immediately produced out of divers forts of Aliments in the Stomach by putrefaétion, and afiion of the Ferment , relating to the Spleen, by which the nourilhment is refolved into Chyle 5 and another Fermennby which the alimentary Liquor doth putrifie, and is feparated from the Liquor of Life: and here he plainly affirmeth, that Meat and Drink are turned in; ‘0 Chyle, and Chyle into Blood (which he flileth, as I conceive, the Water of Life) by putrefaétion, tellingalittle after: Tot mmpe efle, Fermi!" . Mmmm ' 912%" Dr. Highmore‘mpini. on, that Con-t coction isa putrefafiion, and reparation of Parts: |
