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Show Book II. I I Of a Con/Wm. fie: And I do alfo verily believe, that fame part ofthe Catmhdropping down the fides of the Wind-pipe, doth proceed lrom the Glands adioyning to it, which CHAP. LVI. convey fome ferousLiquor ofthe Blood through finall Pores of the A[para Arte- ria, to bedew its inward COat to keep it moilt, lef't it fliould betOo much dill ‘ compofcd by hot fieams ofthe Blood, excerned in Expiration. 0f the Pthilis, or Conflmrption. And other ferous Recrements ofthe Blood, do dil'til through the termina- Ctr: 5mm" mcnts IP.‘ I tions ofthe Bronchial and Pulmonary Arteries, though minute paffages, into g'lwutihc H E Confnmption, or Atrophy of the whole Body, doth not arii‘t folely out of the Lungs, as affeé'red with an Ulcer, or any other drfeafe, but alfo from a depraved mafs of Blood, not fit for nutrition 5 which I confcfs,proccedeth very often from difalfeéted Lungs, wherein the vital Li. quor recei‘t‘tli a great imperfcé'tion, as embodied With Air-,wanting fpirituous, nitrous, and elafiick Particles , not opening the body of Blood, by break- A Co'vfr in prion or Amy/v), gelled Chyme, do render the Blood f0 grofs, that itis forced to part with 3295,3313" them, in the fubl'tance of the Bronchia, and Simu, before it can be entertain- 3E" if": with Chyme, the Materia fubflram of Blood 5 f0 that if the Air be ill, and the Lungs difeafed, the Blood groweth crude and vitiated, and lofeth much ed into the extremities ofthe pulmonary Veins ; whereUpon thefe grofs Fx~ ("Mi 54. Ptlujir dcfiniri filer, quodfit totim corporz'r imabcfuwtia, ab n/tere pnlmonir orla 3 werum mimrr reéie ; quid plurium ab bot morba r/tfrmfforum radar/em ape. rui, in (pd/1m pit/I/mzeru/tere quot/it immnm'r, tuberculin aut lapidibzrr, an: mtztcrirr jbbzzlaflz per mum Con/iii fnermrr. So that the Lungs being flopped, t-irherin the cavities of the Pipes, or Cells, or by compreflion of the neighbouring partt, the Air cannot be freely received into the inward Receifes of the Lungs, to alioeiate with Blood; whereupon it lofeth much of its finenell‘, for want of motion, which is alfo hindred by the faid obftruétion of the Lungs, where the Blood is rendred gtofs and difpirited, and unfit for n11trition, produflive ofa Confurnption. The Antients have alligned [\V'o caufes of this difealE, a Catarrh, and the breach of forne Blood-veliEI; to which may be added an Abfcefs, which above all, Vlti.‘.EC[l] the mafs of Blood, and highly contributeth to a @tbifir: and others :nlirm, (though improperly ) pituitous Matter falling from the Head, through the (films pimimria, to be the caufe of a Confumption, which can- -= tle l‘alnxcupon the Lungs. In truth. the {Hours parts Cftli'c Blood may bacon\' ye! from the PaLit: mtnthc \\ in i-prre and Lungs. V 4 decays, relating to the fubfiance of the whole Body. And other more grofs Recrem'ents of the Blood, being Particles of indi- fifsilfifi V ing it into final] Particles, which would much contribute to the mixture of it of its nutritive difpolition. A rPtbijir is commonly defined an Atrophy of the whole Body, derived from H |: an Ulcer of the I ungs, and may proceed as Well from other difeafes of the Lungs, as being obflrutfted by any Swelling, or Stones, or fabulous Matterl as Learned Dr. WiUir hath obferved. fie @tlfl'fi pulvmmri Sea. 1. Cap. 6. (P, Mr tank; of an Arm/y. the Cavities of the Bronchia, and their annexed Sinus; whereupon a Cough tilcmiiicoitdii: may often arife, whereby Nature endeavoureth to difcharge thefe noxious Humors, which if detained in the mafs of Blood, do often vitiate its Conflitution, and generate a Confumption, as making the Blood unfit to repair the m do infinuate through the Pores, into the Cavities of the Air-pipes, and their Cells, and are afterwards turned out of doors by Coughing: Thefe foul Recrements of crude Chyme, beingiembodied with the Blood, do render it fo thick, that itfcannot moi/e; fo that its more grofs parts do liagnate, either in the minute Ramulets of the Arteries, beldnging to the Air-pipes, and their membranous Sims ; or in the Interllices of their Veflels 5 wheren uponthe Blood is bereaved of its Motion and‘Tone too, and groweth corn rupt, producing an Apof'teme in the Longs, which as I humbly conceive, is a great caufe of an Ulcer and Confumption of the Lungs, and Atrophy of the whole Body, generated by putride Matter in the Lungs, depraving the mafs ofBlood in its circulation through the pulmonary Veflels 9 whereby it becorrié eth differviceable for nutrition; . . , V The Blood alfo fufl‘ers very highly, as contraéting an ill quality, by its con i]:31ml? federacy with ill Air ( in the body of the Air-velfels) affeéled with grols or Ptbifisi malignant vapors, exhaled out ofPregnant waters, and out of Minerals, lodged in the bowels of the Earth, infeéting the mafs of vital Liquor, and genera:- ting a Pthifical indifpofition, which happens to perfons living in Marilhes, and places, whofe Air is made noxious by Mineral Arl'enick, or Mercurial Steams, whereby the Blood lofeth its motion and native Crafis ',and cor-9 rupteth the fine airy Compage of the Lungs. An exuberance alfo of ferous and grofs Chymous Recrements, throvvn into GrofsChY‘ not be proved by Region, becaufe the ferous Recrements flowing from the the Brouchia, and Cells, which cannot be difcharged by expeétoration, grow girlfririgiw'n Brain, into the (11mm pimitaria, are received into the jugular Veins, and do not all drllil through the Mouth, as was antiently imagined, into the AflW ,{J'I‘IC‘i‘Id, and Bronclna ofthe Lungs, thereby producinga Cou h. Learned Dr. [VI/In conceiveth, that no Catarrh can fall from the Palm gtofs and l'ta'gnant in the find receptacle ofAir, and by degrees tend to corrup- L;§f"',‘,,°,‘;_‘°""‘ do": and fiOp Up the Pipes, and intercept the free current of Air, and fpoil my? a the purity and attenuation ofthe Blood, and hinder its mixture with Chyme, whence it is made liable to fiagriation, and corruption in the fubflancc of upon the Lungs, A'i! i112, mtllm‘ omnino bumor {mt acerebro am e palate in pul- the Lungs; whereupon the vital Li uor being rendred grofii and vifcou's, can- warm clap/ital. But with deference to this worthy Author 5 I humbly conceive, that the fcrous Particles of the Blood, mixed with nervous Recre- not infinuate it felf intd the pores of the more 'or lcfs folid parts of the Body, ments in the Glands of the Palate and Tongue, may be thence tranl‘mitted through excretory Dutfts into the Mouth, and may dif'til down the {ides ofthe Aflrcm Arteria, and caufe a Cough, which may be proved by thegreal tickling thefe Humorsmakc all'along their palfage, from the Larynx to the inward recelfes of the Bronchia, whereby they are often corroded by [he {harp Forces of the Blood, and caufe a Confumption of the Lungs. in order to aflimilation. , , ThEgreat fireams of Serous and Chymous Recrements of the Blood are often difcharged by the terminations of the Arteries, into the bofome of the Cylinders and Sims: of Air, contained in the body of the Lungs, fo that the tender Compage of the Receptacles arelacerated, by the fuperabundant guantity of Recrements, rranfmitted into them 5 whence a lake of ill humors is lodged in thermany Siam of the Lungs, broken into one, making a pirtride fourte, or pond of tabide corrupt Matter, putrifying the Pubflance, of the And H to Lungs |