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Show Book III. 0f the flnimiz/ Spirits, 1007 Learned Dinner-brace]; giveth this. account of a Student in Law, dead of a wound made in the Right, Ventriclc; Sairh he, A‘chrm prim Crania, glgdgh C H A P. 1m: ingrgflum fnzfle orbiram mzmr oculi,m otulo ncmpe iiiayoi-i ipji och/.2 tamer: illtty'ig, XXXVIII. 0Perfiipcriorem dextrum Vtransit/um penetraflc',_ inc 14mmJim/chin", Int/1i: 457:}: nibui,animalibmprwatur fuzt ( quad cerium malmum era! Spiritiir e l'um-jmlc P" 14mm rr/ulmir efflrixifll', mentefanwsjime widemgudiem, gllfl'ilflJ‘, Dllflltjry‘, Far. m [we mar/cur, ac mm fliciir conmnienter ('9: brim) crimjudicio gltdfflfll ~, ale re airfare", tyixit Per niece»! diet, trig; mmfnperrr/cnienti febre mbrmentiore, bidmfi 0f the flnima/ Spirits. Aving Treated of the Animal Liquor, I deem it methodical to give you an account of the Animal Spirits, the more refined Particlesof . _ tex, and all other Proceffes of the Brain, then in fome fort to be mailer of ,‘flimie patter aliirfcpariztat (‘7 alio dnntaxat iionrine donate). Thefe great Minifiers of State,by which the Souls Glorious Emprels ofthis Microcofme, giveth her Commands to the rational Funétion, as the more ed, (which is very improbable) That the Animal Spirits creeping through liotgcncmted the fmall channels of the G'lexm Climatic/er, lhould be leparated in the Glim- ii 3:55;" dula G'inealia; yet the acute Author would meet with a greater dllficulty, noble, and to the Senlitive, as her meaner Submits. That we may more methodically proceed in the curious lcrutiny of the intri- fiflflfifi'm care Nature of the Animal Spirits, I make bold to propound thefe Five Re;ic An'nlal markables to you -, The place of the Brain, wherein they are conceived, The . Matter of which they are generated, The manner how they are propagated, The Subject in which they refide and act, and the ufes of them. The eater As to the place in which they have their flrft Conception, there is a great iiiinfiilm" . the fubtle notion of the Animal Spirits. duceth more to the knowledge of the admirable Fabrick and ufe of the Car- pints. . near akin to this, flying in his Firfl. Book De Homine, circa finem. Sprrzth Animaler per Wrens/drum plexm Chg. midis mgr/HM e fangiiir/e arteriofi) feparari in glanduliz piiicali, 42;; ex 64 innndi in Ventricular izec alia made difll'rre, a piritibm‘ aim/Mm, qimmflnt [Ell/l- the nervous Juyce, generated in the Cortex: And indeed nothing I think con- The pm"; firm"Ingenious "WWDefcarter "'1" his. Opinionmis . . . controvetfy among the Malters of our Art, fome placing it in the Wexm Cboroeiiler, others in the Ventricles, a Third in the Claim/rile ‘Pineali: 3 A Fourth in the external Arteries 3 And a Fifth in the fiibfiance of the Brain. Trimmer ‘ Galemir finguinem e cards prolatum, in reti mirabili fieri amalem aflerit, SLCDl-mmfih e quo efihndatur in Ventricular. This minute Plexe of the Rele mimbile can- };‘,:,‘:;;i',:,§l‘° not futnilh Blood enough ( it being compofed of finall Carotides) to flip:gxywms ply the Brain with To large a proportion of Animal Spirits, as are requifite to irradiate the great Orb of the Brain, and the numerous Nerves fptinging out of it. gurgling: Other eminent Phyfitians place it in the Plexus Choraeider, conceiving the xmc‘lwvoie- Animal Spirits to be elaborated in it (whichif true) deth fuppofeafepara4" tion of the ferous parts of the Blood, (producing the Animal Spirits) from Red Craffament; but the contrary is very evident to Senfe, and Incilion tilt being madeinto the "Plexm Chorocia'er, Blood immediately gulheth 00!, Ill" ged with a perfect Red, no way inclining to an Albuminou s Colour; the true hue of the nervous Liquor, plainly dilcemible in the fubfiance of the Brain of Fifhes and Birds, whole Brains upon Incifion, are bedewed freely with Animal Juyces, diliilling outof the wounded Fibrils of the Brain. Others plate Regilu", Mercatur, Ldlt)‘£'77fill.f, Riolanur, and many Arabian Phyfltians: place géért-EEEE: t egeneration of the Animal Spirits in the Ventric les, thofi: meaner chafll‘ mum. bers of the Brain. Laurentzii: {peaking of the Animal Spirits, Fit #174"? m [ilexibiis tantumpr paratio, in wentriculi: aulem caéi'io, elaborating; alioqiii fr!" flra we at condili flmu quamm- qua: panes Mfe ccrebri nobilifliwm 0}"776‘1‘ admit' timt, qimm ex L‘Urum compreflione é» wulnere, precipirem mortem quotialie 017/" (cinema. If thefe Animal Spirits, confifiing of ed in tlicle Simir of the Brain, they would volatil parts, fliould b6 formbe f0 unconfined in there larger rooms, where embodying with Air, they would foon exhale through the 0: Spoizgiofitm, and the freer Cavities of the Nollzrils. Learned If it were grant- 21.2.??? howrhis very minute Gland, furnillied only with a finall Carotide branch, could propagate fucha large fiore of Animal Spirits, to accommodate the large territory of the Brain, and the greater outlets of the Nerves derived from it, with which the Glandula G'iizealis holdeth little or no correlpondeuce, having only two fmall Nerves, peculiar to this Gland, which do no where perforate the Skull, as fubfervient to any other part. Aridlall: of all, the Authors words do allert the Animal Spirits not to dil- Thc_Animal ferfrom the vital, being only thin Particles feparated from them, and only rigiiihriiiuim called by another name ', which Opinion ( I humbly conceive) doth labour f,"§,§:,‘fj;,o under great difficulties, becaufe the Animal Spirits are of a different ingeny Defmm. and dilpolition from the vital; thefe being of a more hot and fulphureous Na- ture, and the other confill: of a more delicate gentle heat, and mild mm. per, founded in an Albuminous Matter, compofed of temperate qualities, and {bit faline Particles, feated in the more refined parts of the Animal Liunor, which is as much diitinguilhable from Blood, as the Red Craflhment is from the ferous juyce, which is feparated from the vital Liquor, not in the Glandula (Pinealir, but in the Cortex of the Brain : And the Animal Spirits are not to be confidered in an abf'traéted notion, as denuded from a Subject, but to be taken concretely as they involve a matter, with which they coexili; becaufe the Animal Spirits are nothing but the molt fpirituous and active parts of the nervous Liquor, to which they are molt intimately united, giving it vigor and perfection: After the lame manner as the Spirit gi« veth life and brisknefs to Wine, without which it groweth faint and pawl, loling its gull, and ufefulnefs, and name, being called no more truly Viimm, but Vappa; and as Blood being long extravafated, is bereaved of its nimble lpirituous Particles, and degenerates into an earthy lubllance, at oncolofing its natureand name, and cannot be well called Sangnis, but Cruor ; in like manner the Compage of the nervous Liquor being loofened, and the bond of mixtion untied, the tone ofthe Animal Liquor is wholly loft, when its n0» ble, and generous vigorous parts, the Animal Spirits, quit their fubyeét; in that the nervous juice is turned into a Recrement at the approaches of death, at once giving a period to Senfe and Motion, the fad effefls of a Spiritlels Ani» malLiquor,when it is not improved with floreof milder, volatil (Lit, {uperav undant in the ambient parts of the Brain. Again, theft: ferene lucid Parri« "Les; Cannot formally refide in the death: opaque parts or the Blood, but in" he Shiraz???" Finisher [$335,523 "W" |