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Show 0f the Blood. Book II, other Elements are extracted out of the earthy parts, leaving them debafed :bdhndeth witgh fulphureous Ato mes -, and the affulion of a few drops of Oil of Vitriol, or Sulphur, made upon Liquor or Conferves, that have only a into a dull infipid Matter, commonly called Capnt MUI'Ilmlil, and Salt too, blufh of Red, giveth them immediately a more deep tinfiure of the fame ' ‘ colour. But fome may object how cometh it, that the Chyle 15 not arrayed in Thereafon With Salt and fulphu"hymChyk mtwell atte- Scarlet, by reafon its liquid fubflance is impregnated $335,123,", reous parts, which do not impart a Red hue to the Chyle, becaufe its Ele1"" ""Y- ments are in a flare of crudity, as not being fufficiently attenuated, till they WWW" ruudtd Vir‘ ens. 0f t/ae fB/ood. ive a Red tinéture, as in the difiillation of Nitre, which ul hureous The Blood 15 Book ll. which being frequently calcined, doth degenerate into this fluggiih Body. And now the difiErent Afiirzxe and rPafliwe Elements of the Blood,being dill courfed, do fairly ulher in a Hifiory of its Motion, which is differenced by ounded of fubtle Heterogeneous Particles, Ac'limly and (PtlflEf/L'l)' concurring, not as Elfential, but integral parts (perfeétive ofthe Blood) of which the more aé‘tive and fpirituous are always upon the wing,ready to take their flight from the Blood, were they not deprefled by the more fixed and groller, cocted and fpirituous by a conflant digef'tion of heat, and repeated circulati- which are attenuated and refined, till they receiving greater and greater ex- on with the mafs of Blood through the Heart. The Blood is very pale in Maids afliié'ted with_ the. Green Sicknefs ( as it is vulgarly called ) fpringing from acrude and indigel'ted mafs of Blood, wherein the fixed Salt, and grofs fulphureous Particles, are not well attenu-‘ ated, and alfociated with the fubftance of the Blood. And it is well known to moPt Artiits,well verfed in Chymical Operations, altation, by the expanfion of the more fubtle parts, do contribute their Mite to the completion of the Blood. that the mafs of Blood is not only compounded of the conflituent part of firm and fecure it from extraneous Matter, about thefc Membranes. The Blood beginneth its firfl: Rage of Motion, caufed by the ambient heat ofthe neighbouring parts, which colliquates the more fpirituous portion of the fe- And the Blood is not only exalted by gentle intefline Motion, but more and more highrened by local too, which is firft of all performed in the feminal Liquor,and as being a fluid Body, cannot govern it felf, fo that it is put under anothers difpofe,the covers of Membranes every way encircling it, to con- minal Liquor, which becoming vital near the confines of it, is afterward pro- mm," As to the Sulphureous, they may be clearly proved by_ our nourifhment; pagated in a gentle fir-cam by channels ( cut through the vifcide Matter) iiiUEio'Liiis becaufe we frequently Treat our felves with fweet, oily, fat Aliment, which being concoéted in the Stomack, and tranfmitted to the mafs of Blood, doth generate and fupport the fat parts of the Body. And as to the falt Nutriment, it imprinteth the fame difpofition on the uniting themfelves in the (Pane-tum Salient, as in a fmall Ciflern; f0 that the The mine gr;§,f'""° Blood, which may be extracted out of its Mafs by Art, clearly demonflra- The airy parts of Blood. ting the many Particles of Salt, which may be evinced by the power of Nature too, by reafon the l'alt Atomes of the Blood, are feparated by the Glands of the Kidney, and confaderated with its ferous parts, and afterward conveyed by the fmall Channels of the Ureters, into the larger Cil'tern of the Bladder. As to the Airy parts of the Blood, we need no better arguments to prove original of the Motion, belonging to the vital Liquor, is caufed by extraneous heat, without any impulfe made from the Circumference to the Cen- ter, from the outward part of the feminal Liquor ( adjoyning to the Amnian and Chorizm) pafling through minute Duéts, the firlt rudiments of Veins, ending in the Veficulzz @ulfcm, whereby its tremulous lVIotion, beginneth the firlt impulfe of the Blood, making Rivulets through different Channels of Arteries, growing fmaller and fmaller toward the ambient parts of the feminal Matter; whereupon this may be called the retrograde Motion of the Blood, impelled by the ‘Punéium Salient from the Center to the Circumference. But the firfi' Motion fpringeth from the ambient parts of the it, then the florid froth, mixed with Blood by infpiration, and is fometimes colliquated Seed, where the firlt rudiment of the Blood is difcernible, before coughed up in great quantity, when the veilels of the Lungs are lacerated or corroded by the {harp particles of the Blood; and it is Very agreeable to Reafon, that the volatil, faline, and fulphureous parts of Blood fhould be go- the rough draught of the veins is made 3 And when the Veins, Heart, Arte- verned, as receiving adue allay from the more fixed and cool parts of Earth and Water. In order to a further demonftration of the Elementary parts of Blood,I will add tle cleamefs of Senfe to the authority of Reafon, plainly deducible from Chymiflry in the diflillation of Blood, Whofe moifi vapours being elevated by the force of an intenfe Heat (the volatil Particles being deeply im- merfed in the more fixed and earthy ) do afcend the [ides of the Alembick, Thcfpirituous where they are condenlied into drops, makinga clear tranfparent Liquor 533,? fomewhat refembling the Spirit of Wine) impregnated with volatil, fulphureous, and faline Atomes ; the fulphureous betray themfelves ina {tink- ing Smell, and the faline in a brackilh pickant TaPte, feared in the Spirit of Blood, which being drawn 09', next afcend the groflér fulphureous parts, under the form of a blackiih Oil, which by reafon of the Empyreuma, hath a molt faztide ofenfive Scent. Laltly, The faline parts of the Blood incorporated with its Flegme, rife by the fides of the Alembick, till all the other The €qu! i‘u'ar-riium of Blood. local and intefline, of which the lal't is more intricate, as being com- have efpoufed a union with the mafs of Blood, wherein they grow more con- Cril'talline Liquor, and Red Craifament, embodied proper Veffel ; but doth alfo affociatc with other integral parts, faline, fulphureous, airy, watry, and earthy Atomes, as the different Elements which make Up its Mafs. £9 ries, Lungs of the Foetm are perfeétly formed, a greater current of Blood is tranfmitted out of the Vena Cat/a, by the Foramen (male in arteriam veizaflzm, and fo conveyed into the Left Chamber of the Heart, and thence impelled into the Trunk of the Aorta. And after the Fmtm is born, it is receptive of greater proportion of Aliment, which being concoéted in the Stomach, is afterward imparted to the mals of Blood, which being highly increafed, inlargeth its territories, and quitteth the Anaf'tomofis, with which the Vem Cam correfpondeth with the venous Artery; fo that the Foramcn 07/41:: being flint up after the 17th is born, the Blood bath a free accefs to the right Chamber of the Heart (before uninhabited) which being flraightened by the contrafition of Hefhy Fibres, throwcth the firearm of Blood into the pulmonary Artery, which is thence conveyed by the Veins into the Left Ventricle, and afterward by the mediation of the Alcendent and Defcendent Trunks oi the great Artery and their fruitful branches to all parts of the Body, giving them Life and Heat, which is primarily excited in the vital Liquor, from the heat of the ‘Uierm‘, which reviving its faint innate Heat, colliquates, and more and more expandeth one part of the Infant Blood after m‘OEhe‘Z'Fl'y , mung The morcvolatxl mm of l;loorl,are (leprclltrl by the more guns and fixed. The Blood is hightntd by interline aurl localhlw tion. |
