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Show 0f (/96 Manner of C/Jfli nation. Book I. Partll. Book I. Part I l. 0ft/Je Manner if Clay/zfimtion. 317. Ferments, making no intumefcenee in our Bodies,as is made in the artificial li‘ermentations of Fruit, and the like. Liquors in thefe Fermentations, being made hot, receive an allay by the Wine and HOT mixture of cold "rater, which diforders the Intef'tinc Motionin artificial3 but tarv Liquor, which is the primary defign of Nature 3 and the other Corrup- notin natural Fermentations, and in that of our Stomachs 5 in which though tive, (' and minif‘terial only to the former aétron of the Ventricle) which the liirei'tine Motion hath begun its Courfe, yet we pleafe our felves in large is eifefted by putrefatfiion and feparation of the reliques of ('Ioncoé‘tion, draughts of Small-Beer,which do no way difiurbbut rather promote our Concoé‘tion, in diluting the more folid Meat with fluid Liquor, which doth ren- which are difcharged by the ftrong contraction of Fibres, leffenmg the Ca- der it foft, and more apt to have its Alimentary Juice extraficd 5 and fomctinies we talie off our Cups freely in the beginning, fometimes in the middle, and other times in the clofe of our RCPRHZ, Without the violation of .7 So that the Stomach in the Concoétion of Chyle, is mafter of a double Operation: The one Perfeétive, in reference to the extraction of Alimen- Nature, in order to the digefiion of Aliments. ‘ W hereupon it is mofi evident by the Premiles, that the Intefiine Motion different from the Fermentation of other V€getable verydrin of Juicour Cs: Stomach, And whenis we k freely of Wine in the Muft, and other Liquors not defacated from their Lees by a due Fermentation, they raife an unkindly lntcl‘tine Motion in our Stomach, and Intefiines, and fpoil our Concoé‘tion, often attended with great Pains and Gripes of the Stomach and Bowels, and large Evacuations upward and downward, of bilious and acid Humours, and grofs Excrenients. Furthermore, Plants and Seeds after Fermentation, retain fomewhat ofthe fame Figure,in the Still which they had before Dif'tillation, and chiefly "3; change their more noble and volatil parts, which they impart to the extra= 6th \Vatcrs and Spirits, but Aliment when it is elaborated in the Sto- ‘ mach, doth not only part with its more Spitituous Particles, but with its outward form too, in the produfiion of Chyle. Upon this account, fome do feem to be ofan opinion, That in the Concoc'tion of Aliment, it doth not only receive alterative Impremons, and accidental Changes, by vertue of the heat and Ferment of the Stomach, but puts on a new fubftance, fpecifically and elfentially different from the former, which feemerh very difficult (if l'ttié‘tly taken) to be allowed as 3.be- Iurely true, by reafon the Meat is not wholly Changed into Chyie; and thereupon the dilpute is not whether a part be difunited from the whole, or whether the Colliquated parts of the extraéted Tinéture, do fpecifically differ from thofe parts, which before were united to the whole, butwhether the Chyle be eifentially difiinguilhed from that body, our of which it Was lately produced; and here the Controverfie is not of the previous difpofitions, but of a fubflantial mutation of the Alimentary Liquor. To which may he replied, That many things received into the Stomach, are liable toa fiibflantial Mutation, before they are difcharged the lntefiines, whofe grofler Recrements very probably do efléntially differ from the Aliment firfi entertained in the Stomach: So that thefe Recrements, WhiCh are thrown off as diiferviceable to Nutricion, are affected with a fubflantial change by the power of Concoé'tion, and much more ( fome mayr fay ) 3"? thofe things altered in their Subftance, which are prepared for the nourifhmerit and fupport of the Body. But the Confequence drawn fromthis Ari gument is lame, by reafon the alimentary parts of the Meat, are refined only . 85 receiving more excellent Difpoficions, which are different onlyaccideni tally, .aCCOIding to more perfect and. higher degrees of malitieslg' but the Exdtements fevered from the Aliment, as unprofitable for Nour'ifhr‘nent, d? lofe their whole Nature, and degenerate into Corruption, clientittlly diffiti rent, from the preexiftent Aliment, before it received any Concoétion. S o vity of the Stomach, and by confequence do turning the Excrements out of * cle into the Guts. Fermtnr {heVEV/hZi-iduecn Tip: Flaboration of the Nutricious Juice, is firl} performed by The tatinn isdoublc in Concv‘ Fermentation, when the more Spirituous and Volatil parts, are freed from (lion: The the confinement of the more grofs and crude, and afterward tranfmitted‘into hrll perfcaivc inthecxtra. the Lac'real Vefl‘els. While the Aliment is defporled of its delicate Particles, axon of the then Nature is follicited to fever the Faces from the more pure parts, which is the fecond work of Fermentation in order of Nature, and not of Time, becaufe in the fame moment, they are both accornplifhed; both the perfeflive Fermentation of the Alimentary Liquor, and the Corruptive of the Excrements, wherein a fufion is made of the fabric Elements of the Meat, which being highly exalted, the Mafs gl‘OVVEth'aCld, and the alimentary parts are firfl: Colliquated, and afterward alTinéture (diluted Allmrntaty 'I'iriélure. The fetond CorruPtivcin point of Excrcmcnts, the reliquesof Contraction. with the Potulent Matter) is extraéted : and lai't of all, in the order of Nature, the Excrements, the grofs, earthy, faline, and fulphureous parts, are fepariited from the more refined Alimentary, and tranfmitted to the Intelimes. And now that we may give a more clear account of the manner of Produé‘tion, relating to Chyle, the Stomach feemeth to refemble an Alembick, as it were for in Bulnea Marix, warmed with the heat of the Blood, flowmg into the Ventricle, from all the adjacent parts 2. And as in Chymical Opera- The manner how Cliylc is produced, as holding analogy with operationsof Art in Chytniflry. tions7 the Dcfiillarion is performed by a morfi heat, as by a proper Men- ftruum, infinuating it felfinto the Pores of the Ingredients, in order to be Deflilled. As in Maceration, Digeflion, Fermentation, by which Artificial Adminifliration , the mixture is firfr prepared, and afterward in form: manner difl'olved by a moift heat, encompafling its Compage inthe Still. And as in Deftiilation, the Oily and Spirituous Particles are eafily extrafied after Niaceration and Digefiion, which determine in the fepatation of one part from another; The Chymifl, that he might thebetter Extraét out of Plants, Spirits, Oyls, Eiltnccs, doth firlt Infufe them in a molft heat, as in a proper Nlenfiruum, that he might fever the more refined parts from the more grofs: And fo after fome fort, the. Concoéhon of the Stomach may be likened to Del‘tiilation, as it is aflif'ced by the 'm0ifl: heat of the Blood, which doth help to enlarge the Pores of the Aliment, and open its Compage, that the Ferments of the Stomach, may more eafia ly penetrate into the body of the Meat and Drink, 35th With moxil: Colliquating heat The iVleat being broken into fmall Particles, by Mafiication in the gigging, Month, is then embodied with Salival Liquor ( flowing out of the Parotides, fiéhflinizhscaliTonfils and Oral Glands) as a kind of UniVerfal Menfiruum, which mm P, 13,4",hi", ) a A W I fitting of Saline, Sulphureous, and Watry Elements (doth affouate With the agifindéihfi and watry Pattic Ailanf, compofed alfo of Salt, Only, i l es) d or h dilate 7 thcicalntoma. i i Open. and relax the body of Aliment mixed with Air (.oft‘en received into the Month by frequent infpirarion, in the time of Mafiication) impratgna- ted not only with faline and oily Steams, tranfpiring the Pores of Vegetables Animals, Minerals, but is alfoinfpired With ethereal Atomes ( ex) Nnnn alted |