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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28880	A letter to Dr. Charles Goodall, physician to the Charter-House occasioned by his late printed letter entituled A letter from the learned and reverend Dr. Charles Goodall to his honoured friend Dr. Leigh &c. : to which is annexed an answer to a sheet of paper entituled, A reply to Mr. Richard Boulton &c. writ by the aforesaid honoured Charles Leigh by name, M.D. resident in Manchester, not far from the well near Haigh and the well prope Boulton in Lancashire / by R. Boulton ...	Boulton, Richard, b. 1676 or 7.	1699 (1699)	Wing B3831; ESTC R34373	16,329	32

Metaphorical Glands which are made up of the Extremities of the Vessels cannot be discerned by Microscopes This is all that the Doctor alledges against my Books the remaining part of his Sheet being either Enlargements upon the wonderful Stock of Philosophy but just now mentioned or a Vindication of his own Book As to the First he tells me I no where prove Animal Spirits to be an Oyly Mucilage and he asks me Whether I ever saw it or tasted it To this I answer that I have both seen and tasted it and have already proved the Animal Spirits to be an Oyly Mucilage in my Book of the Heat of the Blood and therefore I shall refer the Reader thither it not being requisite that I should trouble my self to repeat what is there said as often as Dr. Leigh shall ask the Question afresh And since he here says Their Agility in Voluntary Motion demonstrates that they do not move slower than Blood I answer That it is no Demonstration for though the Spirits move slowly in the Nerves yet when they come to be mixed with the Blood and meet with Particles which are of a different Temper and Texture they may then become Active and many degrees more active than before So the Particles of Alkalies and Acids when kept separate in distinct Vessels have not half the Agility and Activity in their Parts as when mixed together the Result of their Mixture if Volatile being a strong Fermentation which was in neither of the separate Liquors And altho ' Gun-powder be slowly squeezed through a long pipe and out of that falls upon the Fire yet it 's Explosion when worked upon by so powerful an Agent is no argument that the Corpuscles of the Gun-powder were in as violent a Motion before the Explosion since it 's evident that they are not so that the Spirits may move slowly in the Nerves when kept separate from the Blood yet be put into a more violent Agitation when mixed with it that Agitation being no Argument of their equal Agility before but a consequence of their Mixture But to proceed to his other Objection viz. That the Metapborical Glands cannot be seen with a Microscope To this I answer that by Metaphorical Glands I mean nothing but a Commixture of the Extremities of Vessels Metaphorical Glands implying no more which appears from what I have said in my Book of Muscular Motion to which I shall refer the Reader it not being necessary to repeat what is there tho' Dr. Leigh should for Information sake ask the Question again and again But that what I have said there is sufficient to prove that there are such Glands I presume undeniable till what I have offered with submission to Reason be confuted by it and then if I cannot maintain it let it fall It is Knowledge and Truth I shall ever value above my own Opinion if it be not so but if it be I shall value it as Truth and only content my self with the satisfaction of contributing my Endeavours to the General stock of Knowledge But to satisfy the World that we are not to dis-believe what I have said of those Glands because we cannot see them I shall add a Quotation from the Honourable Esquire Boyle's Works which will shew him that there are several Truths in Nature which we believe because we have Reason for it tho' as to Sight they are imperceivable for that most ingenious and experimental Promoter of useful Knowledge who was a profound and one of the greatest of Philosophers in his History of Fludity Page 189. Sect. XX. admits of Reason to be proof where the minuteness of Bodies renders them imperceivable For he says If it be objected that the Various and Insensible Parts of Water and resembling Bodies wherein we make the Nature of Fluidity chiefly to consist is but an Imaginary thing and but precariously asserted since by our own Confession they are so small that the Particles themselves and more the diversity of their Motions are imperceptable by Sense c. We shall not deny the Objection to be plausible but must not acknowledge it to be unanswerable And the like may be said for those Glands for if we have Reason to believe there are such we are not to deny what our Reason tells us because it is not an Object of Sight and that it is the Smallness of those Glands that makes them to be imperceiptible by Sight is evident since the best Microscopes will not make the Terminations of those Vessels visible which compose them Yet I hope no Body will say that the Vessels have no ends because they cannot see them If then we allow what is beyond Contradiction viz. That the Terminations of the Vessels cannot be perceived we must allow that these Glands must be Invisible because made up of those Vessels which are too fine to be perceived and that those Vessels do communicate with one another and consequently make up such Glands I have given such Reasons in my Book and also laid down such Experiments that I need not to bring any more till those are deficient Having answered all the Doctors Objections against my Book I shall consider what he says for himself And First to pass by all that heap of loud sounding Words which is vulgarly called Bombast or Sound without Signification I shall briefly take notice that tho' I quoted Doctor Willis and shewed him that his Notion of Heat was the same with it as also that Doctor Willis had the same Notion of the Cause of Intermitting Fevers and tho' I shewed him that in Dropsies he mistakes the Effect for the Cause and that in his Dissertation of Mineral Waters he only proves what no Body denies he thinks it an Answer sufficient to deny what is evidently true and matter of Fact For he says he did not borrow his Notions from Dr. Willis neither do I say so but he acted the Plagiary to use his own Words or he stole them from him for those Words he makes use on himself But he says Dr. Willis assigns Fermentation to be the Cause of Heat and that he assigns Collision but any Body that knows the least of the Corpuscularian Philosophy would not think to come off with such mean Evasion since Fermentation implies Collision and Collision which is the Effect of Motion where it is violent enough is but calling Fermentation by another Name since Fermentation and Collision of the Parts of hot Bodies are significatively the same tho' different Sounds Again he says He does not endeavour to prove an Acid in Vitriolated Waters but that there is a perfect concocted Vitriol which is as much as to say he does not argue for an Acid but for a perfect Acid since Vitriol is an Acid so that to prove Vitriolate Waters have Vitriol in them is to prove Acid Waters have Acid in them which I suppose none denies But let the Doctor dispute the Case it 's a fine easie Subject for him he may tell his