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Show BOOli ll, 75I fizes, do meet with Pores in the different Liquor, anlivering them in pro- whole repeated Motions, the heat of the Blood growrtn more and more ex;tlted,as the Heart becometh more peril-Ci and ablcr to maltemore {ironrz Ivrbrations, the chief lllllrllll‘lClltS of Vital heat ', to which I conceive,themtefttne lVlotion ofthe Blood may fomewhat contribute, as the lulphureous Parti~ tles have an inbred heat, and conliant volatil inclinations to their flight, Were they not incloli‘d within the confines oiChannels, and detained by groier parts (if other Elements, which are enobled by the‘warmth and lubtilty of portion, and the Magnitudes and Figures of the Elementary Atomes, and Pores ofthe Blood, are (0 exactly modelled in a fit likenefs, f0 that the confin gured Particles are embodied with each other, in a moli firié'c and near union of mix'tion. the Sulphureous fpirits, ever acting upon‘thc {inflicts Elements, inbdutng and latil lulphurcous Particles, which would foon grow faint and cxtinguilhed, Were they not liipported and advanced by the repeated Motions oi the Heart. Blood as well as other Liquors is conliituted of lirlphureous and failine Particles, asits integral parts, whence it may be realbnably inferred, that the Blood compounded of them, mul't conlil‘t ofleveral unequal parts, fome lubric, others grols, tome volatil, others fixed; V'Vhereupon the vital Liquor is more or leis dilpofed to Fufion,and Attenuation,as the more Intenle or Be- mifs heat, afieth upon the various Elements ofthe Mafs of Blood, and col- liquates, and attenuates the more liibtle and leis fixed parts, rc‘ndring them more and more lpirituous by divers periods and progrellions, lo that there, highly attenuated and exalted Particles, are Entituled Fpirits, by reaf'on of their great fiibtilty and agility not as they were Bodies exilting of themli-lvcs, leparate from the purer, and volatil, faline, and fitlphureous Particles, with which the vital Fpirits have great affinity, and concur a‘s integrals of the Blood, as being its more noble, fubtle, and aciive parts, fufiained and exalted by Motion and Heat, which being deficient, thefe fpirituous parts of the Blood, lofe their vigor and activity, as being, condenfed, and coagulated with the other more grols and fixed parts, which is moi} confpicuous in extravaliited Blood, as beingY foon deftitnte ofHeat as well as Motion. Having in fome fort defcribed the Motion of the Blood, and Heat, as an effec‘t and conl‘quent of it; I conceive it proper now to render you tome account ol‘ the compolition of it, as it may be diverfly confidered according to the feveral Liquors; fome beingr confiituent, or Elementary, others Vehicles, or Recrements of the Blood 3 as to the firli, the Red Craflament is fraught with hot oily Particles, and the albuminous Liquor, is impregnated with more mild volatil Salt. t, = The dilitgreeing Airy, Earthy, Oily, and Saline Principles, are founded in the different Chrilialline, and Purple liquors, which are allociated' with Lymphatick and Potulent Matter, the divers Vehicles of the Blood, and as they concur in Potion, making up the maths of vital Liquor, cannot in-‘ corporate with each other, without Solution and Liquation; and more partiA Contour nti in is Ina lc of tilt various llcments of Blood by a brisk Motion avairul t he 0f 7 me $31004. railing its gentle flame by {oft Motion, toward the lit/{Milli {PHI/:HIJ‘, by railing them to fame greater degree of afltmilation by mtclimeMotion, which in home manner isproduétive ofinnate heatm the Blood, which ishightened, or deprellE-d according to the greater or lelier inteliiueagitations of the vo- The various pilllfll/ltfi r[' the BlOttl. Book II. cularly, no Oily Matter can embody with a Saline, except they receive a molf exat‘} comminution, breaking them into finall Particles in foine liquidfiibl'tance, as a Mcnfl'rmtm, or Vehicle, which is very well accomplilhed in the Ventricles ofthe Heart,by abrisk Motion ofdafhing the Blood againlt its walls,caul1 ed by many impetuous vibrations, made by the repeated \Contraé'tions ofthe lirong Fibres oi the Heart'7 (0 that all the different Elements of the Blood, when they are reduced to minute Particles, confil'ting'of diVers Figures, and i ' ' ~ fires And Lafily, The Chyle meeting with the Lympha, in the common receptacle, is rranlinitted by the Chyliferous Duets, to the Subclavian Vellels, when itcommenceth an aflociation with the Blood 5 and this White Liquor being in its own nature very crude, hath its fpirituous Particles, highly en~ gagcd or immerfed in grofs Oily, Earthy, and Saline, which confine the more refined Operations of the Chyle, from exerting themfelves till it is farther exalted by the heat of the Blood, colliquating the grofler Elements of the Chyme, more and more hightened by an intimate converle and mixture with the Blood, made by frequent Contractions of the Heart, breaking the Chyme into molt minute Particles, which efpoufe a mol‘t near conjunéiion, as blended with, and at laf't aflimilatcd into Blood, which I conceive is nor matured, when the Chyle is firfi entertained into an allociation with Blood, but is moreand more colliquated and attenuated in the warm Chambers of the Heart, and afterward hath its crude parts rendred more fpirituous, by all fociating with nitro-aereal Particles in the fiibflance of the Lungs, and often addrefles to the Heart in repeated circulation, productive of greater and greater exaltation of the Chyme. And the feveral Elements mixed with the Purple parts of the Blood, being ambulatory to its temperament, do fairly lead us to it, which according to the Antients, is a refult and harmony, immediately flowing from, and made up of the four firf'c qualities, which being endued with contrary difpolitions, do aét and re-aét inmixta , till fitly fubduing each other, they obtain fuch a Mediocrity of temper, the proper infirument minilterial to all the functions of the Soul; (0 that according to this Hypothefis, the temperament of the Blood, is a union of the four qualities, reduced to Mediocrity, which may be confidered in a double Notion; Firl't, when one quality fomewhat over-powereth another, yet {0 far as it is confiflenr with the bond of Mixtion, and is commonly fiyled Iemperameutum ad jufliciam, in reference The ttmpcrai to difiributive Juflice, as obferving a Geometrical proportion, according to the dignity of the perfon : But the other temperament being that ad pondm, ment ofjuliicc, atcord' ing to Geo. metrical pro- is when the four firf't qualities equally ballance each other, to a great exaétnels in Arithmetical prOportion : This temperament, (as I humbly conceive) is meerly imaginary, as being only in conceit, and never in ad}, by reafon it is very difficult to reduce the contrary difpofition of Elements, to a portion. The Turn):- ramcnts according to Arithmttical proportion. perfect aequilibrium; which being fuppofed, it could not continue in that temperament a moment, when the various temper of the Air, and the difl‘e- rent qualities of Aliment, would foon' pervert this exact Cralis of the Blood, End produce a different temper, which would foon debafe this ablolure ucraly. And Ihumbly conceive, that the temperament of the Blood, is not only feared in the Mediocrity of the firl't qualities, relating to the Element of vital Liquor, but may have a reference to the Second too , whole due proportion does produce, or at leafl aflil} the intefiine and local Motion of the Blood, the great Infiruments and Confervators of Life. _ The Blood confilieth of Airy, Oily, and Saline Elements, as Active PrinClples, and Serous, and Earthy, as Paflive, which being broken into {mall Particles, do incorporate with the mars of Blood 5 And thefe diflisrent, if not C 9 contrary Th: Afiivc and Pallive Elements of the Blood. |
