and digested are convey'd into ‖ In re iquum Corpus The Meat being thus exquisi ely cook◠is by the Pilorus Janitor or Inferiour Orifice of the Stomach discharg'd into the Intestines or Guts which are Double or rather of Two sorts the Thin three in number and the Thick three also and by their Immutative Action atteins one degree more of elaboration and fermentation other parts of the Body And then for the * The Lungs have a peculiar power to dilate and contract themselves are mov'd at one and the same Instant with the Thorax and in magnitude proportionably exceed any other of the Viscera that a plentifull proportion of air might be suckt by and conteined in them Lungs they are Rare and of a Softness like a Spunge and so most convenient for the drawing in of Air And they also contract themselves in taking in breath and dilate in returning it back to the end That Animating Nourishment whereby living Creatures do more immediately subsist may be frequently drawn Now That * i. e. The Chyle or rather the Bloud which the first concoction being finish'd is by the vermicular exuction of the Mi kie slender Veins that are in infinite numbers with open Orifices inserted into the Intestines attracted pre-dispos'd to sanguification and by distribution convey'd to the Liver To which that the Milky Liquour may arrive more pure and defecated in its journey thither the feculent part together with the Laxiviated serosity is extracted and by the Spleeny Branch deriv'd into the Spleen which converts as much of it as its Haematopoietic power can conquer into Bloud for the maintenance of it self and the remainder is excluded partly into the Haemorrhoid-veins partly into the Trunk of the Port-vein and partly by the Splenetick Arteries Juice by which we are sustein'd being by the Guts and Ventricle sever'd from the †i. e. The Grosser part thereof rest of the Meat flows to the ‖ The Liver in Galen's opinion is the first of all the parts of the Body that is finisht in Conformation It is the Shop and Authour of the Bloud and the Original of the Veins Gibbous of figure Rising up and Smooth toward the Midriff toward the Stomach is the sinous or hollow side of it somewhat unequal and rough by reason of the Distance of the Lobes the Original of the Hollow-vein and the Site of the Bladder of the Gall And its chief Connexion is with the Stomach and Guts by the Veins and Membranes of the Peritonaeum by the Hollow-vein and Artery with the Heart by the Nerve with the Brain and by the same Ligatures with all the parts of the whole Body Being hot and moist of Temper and converting the Chyle into Bloud the work of the second Concoction Liver through certain open and direct passages that from the * Media Intestina which is between the Paunch and the Lower parts Middle Entrail run along to it even as far as the very †i. e. The Vena Porta or Gate-vein which is situate in the sinous or hollow part of the Liver and divided into six branches four Simple and two Compound Its Action being to suck the Chyle out of the Ventricle and Guts and so to take and carry it unto the Liver unill it may convey back the same turn'd into Bloud for the Nutriment of the Stomach Spleen and Guts Ports thereof as they name them and cleave * i. e. to the Liver thereunto And from Thence are Other Veins propagated through which the Nourishment has its Course when slipt out of the Liver Now when the †As in every Concoction so in This of Sanguification there redound two invincible superfluities Choler or the Firy Excrement and a salt Whey or lixiviated Serosity Choler and those Humours that are pour'd forth of the ‖ The Reins or Kidney◠are of a substance fleshy dense and solid lest they should be hurt by the sharpness of the Vrine in number Two lie upon the Loins at the sides of the great Vessels on which they depend by their proper Veins and Arteries hot and moist of Temper and their Action is to cleanse the Mass of the Bloud from the greater part of the serous and cholerick Humour Reins are separated from this consistence the Residue turns to Bloud and flows to the above-nam'd Ports of the Liver whereunto all its other * i. e. Veins Passages do extend And through Them the Food being from this same place brought into the Vessel term'd the †Vena Cava which rises out of the Gibbous part of the Liver and going forth like the body of a tree is divided into two great Branches the Lesser of which goes to the Vital and Animal parts the Greater descends from the back-part of the Liver above the Vertebra's of the Lions to the parts beneath This same Vena Cava is an ample and patent Orifice that looks into the Right sinus of the Heart and drops bloud into it for the generation of Arterial Bloud the Vital Spirits and provision for the Lungs Some Opinion that the Bloud re-distill'd and elaborated in this Preparatory is immediately distributed through the whole Body Hollow Vein it is mingled together and being now clarifi'd and elaborated is through it carry'd to the Heart and from Thence distributed into every part by a great many Veins spread all over the ‖ There are four conspicuous Vessels as Sluices ordein'd in the basis of the Heart viz. Vena Cava and Vena Arteriosa which is the derivative of bloud from the Right Ventricle of the Heart to the Lungs for their Nutrition and the principal Material of the Vital Spirits and Bloud in the Right and Arteria Venosa which conducts the Air extrinsecally advenient and prepar'd in the Lungs and the bloud effused by the Vena arteriosa from the Right into the Left Ventricle and expels the fuliginous Exhalations and at the same Instant conveys a parcel of the Vital Spirits into the Lungs and Arteria Magna which dispenses the Vital Spirits and Arterial Bloud after their exaltation in the Left Ventricle into the whole Body in the Left But more to the point When the Chyle is clarify'd by the official selection of the Spleen it is deliver'd up to the Liver and by the Transubstantiating Haematopoiesie thereof perfectly Metamorphoz'd into Bloud which from Thence by the ascendent and descendent Trunk of the Hollow Vein and its capillary Disseminations is by universal Distribution communicated to all the parts of the Body Body It were no hard matter to say after what manner the Excrementitious parts of the Food are detruded by girding and relaxing the Guts but That must be pass'd over for * Nè quid habeat Injucunditatis Oratio I shall venture to say for all This piece of Modesty that the Choler being collected into the Bilous Receptacle or Gall is after a convenient Interval of time from Thence through the Cholerick
Chanel excern'd into the Duodenum-gut and becomes the Bodies Natural Clyster by its acrimony extimulating the Bowels to the Exclusion of Ordure And then the Salt Whey is through the Emulgent Veins suckt in by the Kidneys in Them percolated and from Them discharg'd through the Vreters into the Vrinary Receptacle or Bladder and Then call'd Vrine For Vrine is nothing else but the Aquosity or serous Humidity of the Chyle impregnated or satisfy'd with the superabundant and indigestible Salt of our Diet. Good manners sake And I shall rather proceed to Treat of this Wonderfull Fabrique of Nature For the Air drawn into the Lungs in Breathing is made †In regard the Inspir'd Air must part with its Intense frigidity before it penetrate to the Heart the Prudent Conformator has provided Respiratours Lungs as the precipuous Organs thereof For thô the Thorax and other neighbouring parts may be allow'd Causes sine quâ non and contribute their Inserviency to Respiration modo secundario yet primarily as from its Causator this Motion flows from the Lungs to which as well as to the Heart and Brain by the Inviolable Charter of Nature is granted a peculiar Innate quality to dilate and contract themselves warm First by the Breath it self and Then by the Coagitation of the same Lungs and of it part is sent forth again by Respiration and part also taken into a certain place of the Heart call'd the * i. e. The Left which is for taking in Air into the Heart Ventricle of the †The Situation of the Heart is in the Centre of the Body if in our measure we except the Thighs and Legs and its Basis or Centre fixt in the middle of the Thorax or Chest or middle Region of the Body that from It as from a plentifull Fountain the Vital Heat and Spirits may be promptly diffus'd into the whole Body Now all the Appetitions or Irascible and Concupiscible Motions cannot be executed but by the Agitation of the Heart Arteries and fervent Spirituous Bloud Which may satisfie why the facultas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of necessity has its residence assign'd it in a Part of the hottest Temperature and indu'd with the power of Perpetual Agitation Heart which has ‖ i. e. The Right another of the same belonging to it whereinto through the aforesaid Hollow Vein the Bloud flows from the Liver And Thus from These Parts is it convey'd all over the Body by * A Vein is the Vessel Pipe or Chanel of the Bloud or bloudy Matter it has a Spermatick Substance and consists of one Coat compos'd of three sorts of Fibres Veins and Breath by †An Artery is also the Receptacle of Bloud but That spirituous and yellowish and it likewise consists of a Spermatick Substance But it has two Coats with three sorts of Fibres It contains a serous Humour too which we may believe because there are two Emulgent Arteries as well as Veins And then the Anastomasis of the Veins and Arteries that is the Application of the Mouths of of the one to the other by benefit of which they mutually communicate and draw the matters contein'd in them is very Remarkable Arteries The great numbers of both which so disseminated every where do manifest a certain Inconceivable Virtue of an Artificial and Divine Work What now shall I say of the Bones which supporting the Body are strangely tackt together and apt as well for stability accommodate for bending the Limbs as for Motion and every Action Add to This the * A Nerve is a Simple part of the Body bred and nourisht by a gross and phlegmatick humour such as the Brain the Original of all Nerves and also the Spinal Marrow indu'd with a faculty of Feeling and often times of Moving too It is cover'd with a Double Cover from the two Membranes of the Brain and besides also with a Third proceeding from the Ligaments which fasten the hinder part of the head to the Vertebra's or else from the Pericranium Nerves whereby the Joynts are contein'd and the winding Extension thereof for They like the Veins and Arteries that derive and proceed from the Heart are run along into all the Body To This so exact and curious Providence of Nature might a great deal be adjoyn'd The Particular Favours of the Divinity to Human Nature and the Convenient Situation of the Senses to insinuate how many how valuable things have by God been conferr'd upon Men. For First of all he constituted them Rais'd Upright and Erect from the Ground that by beholding the Heavens they might conceive an Apprehension of the Deity Man being upon the Earth not as a Dweller and Inhabitant but as a Contemplatour I may say of matters Celestial and Above the prospect whereof is not vouchsaf'd to any other kind of Animal And then the Senses the Interpreters and Distinguishers of things are in a wonderfull manner for necessary uses both fram'd and seated in the Head as in a Tower For the Eyes The Eyes being as Centinels do hold the highest place by which means seeing further they perform their Function It being the business of the Ears The Ears to take in Sounds which naturally Ascend they are rightly fixt in the Vppermost parts of the Body So too the Nostrils The Nostrils in that all Scents are carri'd upward are properly plac'd Above And since they have much judgment of Meats and Liquours it is with good Reason that they are near the Mouth The Taste The Taste being to discern the quality of what we feed upon abides in That * i. e. The Inward part of the Mouth near the Throat The Touch. Part wherein Nature has open'd a Passage for the Receipt of things fit to be eaten or drunk But the Touch is proportionably diffus'd thorough the whole Body that so we might be sensible of Blows and the more violent Approaches of †The precipuous Organ of the Touch is the Skin chiefly that part wherewith the Hands are lin'd as destin'd to the Common Apprehension of all things Tangible But the Adaequate are the Membranes by the benefit whereof all other parts the Skin excepted obtein the Sense of Feeling Heat and Cold. And as in Buildings the Architect averts from the Eye and Nose of the Master things that in their Course were of necessity to be Offensive so likewise has Nature plac'd at a distance from the Senses All that is of that kind The Exquisit Frame of the respective Organs of the Senses And first the Eyes and their appertenences dâ—scours'd of But what Artificer save only Nature than whom none is more Skilfull could ever have attein'd unto and discover'd so much Art as is in the Senses First she has overcast and bounded the Eyes with very Thin Membranes making them both Transparent that the Sight might work thorough them and Firm to keep them in She likewise fram'd the Eye-balls slippery and rolling that so they might
appeal unto the whole world to determine which is the Right And if either All can agree upon or any One be found to have discover'd the Truâ—h I shall then admit the Academy to have been * 〈…〉 Saâ—ing 〈◊〉 â—o the Mâ—n Arrâ—â—ant Wherefore I may with Statius the Comedian in his Twins ‖ An 〈…〉 Crave beâ— beseech pray supplicate and implâ—re the Aid and Atteâ—tion of young and old gentle and simple not upon so Trifling an â—â—casion as was His Capital Villany of a Common Strumpâ—t's refuâ—ing her Punk'◠〈◊〉 for the g â— Turn she had done him but that they come mark and know how thâ—y are to conceive of * And 〈…〉 the usefulness of â—â—e Argument Religion Piety Sinâ—rity Ceremonies Faith Oaths Of Temples Altars Solemn Sacrifices nay and of the very * Divinations by Inspection of Birds The dissensions of the Learned upon This Topique again mâ—re particularly press'd in bâ—half of his â—aâ—ty Auspicia too of which I am President for all These refer to the Question in hand Now in very deed the Dissensions amongst the Learned concerning This Point doe not a little stagger even those that pretend to something of Certainty †The Occasion of the Dâ—spute And as I have observed This often so did I more especially note it in my friend Cotta's late accurate and elaborate Dispute upon this same subject of the Nature of the Gods For coming to him once upon his Message and Invitation on ‖ The last of March. Jupiter of Latium's Day I found him sitting in the * Exhedra a kind of Porch where Professors of Sciences us'd to exercise Hall discoursing with C. Velleius the Senator whom the Epicureans cry up for the ablest man of all the Latins C. Lucilius Balbus a Stoique hardly to be equall'd even among the Greeks being likewise present Cotta as I enter'd the Room told me I came in good time for that he was Then in Controversie with Velleius upon a weighty matter which considering the quality of my Studies was not improper for me to interest my self in It is indeed Lucky said I in meeting with Three Princes of * The Ferr considerâ—ble Sects were the Academiques Stoiques Perâ—patetiques and Epicureans Three Sects and were but †The Perâ—tatique M. Piso here too no Order of any repute would want a Patron Colta Reply'd If our Antiochus's Book which he lately presented to Balbus be in the Right there will not be any great need of That Gentleman for Antiochus is There of Opinion that the Differences betwixt the Stoiques and Peripatetiques are rather Nominal then Real And Balbus favour us with your Judgment of it Mine said he Why truly I 'm amaz'd that so quick-sâ—ghted a man as is Antiochus should not discern the Clashings between them to be much more considerable then he speaks of since the * The differences betwixt â—he Stoiques and â—â—tipatetiques First separate the Honest from the Profitable both in Name and Kind whereas the Other consound them in such sort as only to distinguish them in Degree and Value not in Substance So that it is not barely a slight disagreement of Words but a very great difference of Things But more of This at another time Now if you please to what we were upon With all my heart Return'd Cotta but First let me acquaint our New-comer looking upon Me that our subject was the Nature of the Gods A point Sir that now as ever appearing to me to be exceeding difficult and obscure I had prevail'd upon Velleins to report Epicurus's Thoughts concerning it and Sir added he howing to Velleius if it be not too much Trouble oblige us with a Recapitulation of what you have have already deliver'd I 'm Content Reply'd he thô this Person Smiling upon Me will not be my Second but yours you having both Learnt from the same †An Acadeâ—ique Philo not to be Positive in any thing My Return was that Cotta would answer for our Tâ—nets and that I came not to assist but impartially to hear bringing with me a mind wholly disengag'd from all obligations of a necessary to defend either this or â—other Opinion Veilâ—ius introduc'◠〈…〉 up the Opinions of Others concerning the divine Nature or Essence § 2. HEREUPON Velleius with as much assurance I must confess according to the wont of That Party as if he dreaded nothing more then to seem to Doubt of any thing and as if he had been just dropt thorough Epicurus's * Spices he phansied between Worlds Intermundia from the Council of the Gods Give ear said he then not to vain and devised Tales not to the Mechanical World-making God of Plato's †His Dialo gu so entitleâ— which treats of the Origen of the World and its Creator Timaeus not to that Conjuring old Gypsie of the Stoiques 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Providence nor yet to that Thinking and Feeling Round Fiery and Voluble Deity the World These being the Mormoes and Goblins of Dreaming rather then of Reasoning Philosophers ‖ He seeks by Radiculing of Plato to overthrew his assertion that the World was made by God For how should your Plato see God in the great * So Plato called the all surrounding Circle of the Air or Heavens Work-house he talks of giving fashion and shape to the Universe What Engins Tools Machins Beams Assistants were made use of in the Erection of so stupendious a Fabrick How came the Air Fire Water Earth all on a sudden to be subservient to the Will of the Architect Whence proceeded those Five Forms that he phansy'd to give being to all the Other and that jumpt so luckily for the fashioning of the Mind and production of the Senses It would be endless to run through All which indeed are generally of such a consideration as that they look more like things to be wish'd then to be found But his Master-piece is his suggesting the World to have been Created made I may say with Mortal hands and in the same breaâ—h pronouncing it to be Everlasting Can He pass but for so much as a Smatterer in Philosophy who shall conceipt any thing that had a Birth to be Eternal * His Argument agâ—iâ—g Plaâ—â—'s Eterâ—iâ—y of â—e Woâ—ld For what composition is there that is Indissoluble Or what that having once had a Beginning will not also have an Ending A Refutation of the Stâ—iques Providence As to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Providence if taking it Lucilius as you would have it I demand as e'en now I did of the Other the Tools Instruments the Model and Designation of the whole Work But if Otherwise why yet did she make the World Mortal and not as Plato's Divinity had done Everlasting And I do further require of you both how came it that these Globe-makers appear'd all on a sudden and that we should hear nothing of them for so long before †〈…〉 Times and 〈◊〉 For
Epicurus So that there must be neither Sun Moon nor Stars then because in your Opinion nothing can have a Being which we have not either seen or felt Did you ever see the Gods themselves Why then do you conceive that there are any If This Principle hold good we must also disclaim whatever History or New Art shall furnish Neither are the In-Landers to believe that there is a Sea Which are such narrownesses of Thought that had you been born in Seriphus and never stir'd out of an Island where you had only seen Foxes and Leverets you were not to be perswaded that there could be any Lions and Panthers when told what kind of Beasts they are nor so much as hear mention made of the Elephant without taking your self to be play'd upon Now as for You Velleius Vâ—lleius's sylâ—o gistical gradation examin'd and prov'd to be irregular you have wound up the Bottom of your Disputation in a course of Argument not so much like That of your own Party as of the Dialectiques whose * Epicurus sâ—ighteâ— Logique as unprâ—fitable Doctrine few of you are at all acquainted with First you assum'd that the Gods are Happy And I gainsay not Next that nothing can so be without Vertue I willingly admit That too Then that Vertue cannot be where Reason is not And that must also be allow'd Lastly you add Nor Reason abide in any other then Human shape But who think you will grant That And were it True you needed not to have come to it so gradually But what has This last part of the Gradation to rest upon other then your own Phansie From Happiness to Vertue and from That to Reason the descent was natural enough but how can you proceed from Reason to Human shape That 's not a â—tep but a Precipice * Rather our Figure is Divine then that of the Gods Human Nor yet can I see wherefore Epicurus rather chose to phansie Gods to be like men then men to be like Gods Do you find out what Difference there is betwixt them for if This Resemble That That I think must needs Resemble This too †He feigns a Difference and applies it This indeed there is that the Gods borrow'd not their Figure from Men for they ever were and never had a beginning Otherwise they were not likely to be Eternal Whereas We had a Birth and therefore the Form could not but bear date before Vs the Gods themselves were of it Their shape then is not to be call'd Human but Ours Divine His fortuitous concourse of Atoms inquir'd into BUT be This as you will Now to an enquiry into that great good Fortune of yours For you deny a Divine Wisdom to have assisted in the forming of any thing whatsoever But whence came That so lucky Chance then Whence so happy a Conflux of Atoms as in a Trice to produce Men in the Likeness of Gods Must we suppose that the Divine Seed fell from Heaven and was scatter'd upon the Earth and so Men came to Resemble their Begetters I should be glad you would say as much and very readily acknowledge my Similitude and Alliance to the Deities But we hear no * It was meerly by Chance the Epicureans say that Men came to be like the Gods such matter from you You are Peremptory that This Resemblance was purely Casual And must Arguments now be sought whereby to refell This Assertion Truly would I could as easily find out what 's Right as I can confute what 's Otherwise †The Opinion confuted I must confess you have been so Ready and Large in Reporting the Opinions of Philosophers down even from Thales Milesius touching the Nature of the Gods that it was some surprize to me to find so much Learning in a Roman But Then do you suppose them all to have doted and been mistaken for conceiving that The Divinity might subsist without Feet or Hands Nay or can you your self either in your Reflections upon the Vse and Intent of Human Members avoid a perswasion that the Gods can have no need of them ‖ No need of Feet where there is no Walking For what necessity can there be of Feet without walking Of Hands where there 's no Grasping And so for the whole order of the Other Parts of the Body which has nothing * Nothing superfluous in Human Bodies much less in the Divinities Vain in it Useless or Superfluous In so much that no Art is able by Imitation to equal the Handy-work of Nature Must God therefore have a Tongue and speak not Teeth a Palate Jaws to no manner of purpose and the Instruments of Generation too uncapacitated to employ them Nay as great a Superfluity of Inwards also as of the Other The Heart Lungs Liver and the Rest which abstracting their use what Comeliness can they pretend to Since you make Him to have all These upon the account of Beautifulness The Epicureans twitted for much Wrangling And yet relying upon these Dotages not only Epicurus Metrodorus and Hermachus have presum'd to grapple with Pythagoras Plato Empedocles but even that little Strumpet Leontium the Slut indeed had a neat Attique stile has dar'd to Write against Wise Theophrastus And thô Epicurus's * The School where he taught which was a little Garden Garden has been so Luxuriant in This respect †Being guilty of it themselves they ought not to blame it in Others you are still complaining and crying out against it Not Zeno himself for such as Albucius are not worth taking notice of was free from Wranglings Phaedro I must needs say was Human and Elegant the Old man would be offended at any Tart Word of mine ‖ Epicurus Rude Contentious While Epicurus himself despitefully treated Aristotle smuttily bespatter'd Socrates's man Phaedo pelted Timocrates the Brother of his Crony Metrodorus with whole Volumes only for dissenting from him in I know not what Philosophical Punctilloes was * And Vngrateful Ungrateful to Democritus himself whom he copy'd after and gave not his very Master Nausiphanes under whom he profited Little one jote better quarter As for †An Epicurean Zeno he not only heapt scandals upon such as were Then Living as Apollodorus Sylla and Others but call'd Socrates himself who was the Father of Philosophy the Attique Buffon and Chrysippus never other then Chesippus Nay your very self erewhile in reckoning up a whole Assembly as it were of Philosophers stuck not to say that the greatest men doted talkt Idly and were beside themselves thô if none of them all has hit upon the True Nature of the Gods it may be justly doubted whether there be any Gods or no. * The Epicurean Tenets Idle For as to what you deliver upon the Point 't is all meer Whimsie scarce worthy the Thumbing of old Wives †The Consequence of admitting the Gods to be of Human shape You are not aware what a great deal more you
It is hot and moist of Temper like all other flesh And its Actions are three to be an Organ of the Sense of Tasting an Instrument to distinguish the Voice and to help to Chew and Swallow the Meat Tongue seeming to contribute somewhat toward this Confection To the Roots * i. e. of the Tongue Hereof cleaves the †〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 properly the Ventricle but Here it may seem to be us'd for a part that reaches to it the Meat pipe or Gullet which is of a substance betwixt flesh and sinew as consisting of one nervous Membrane and another fleshy and which is plac'd between the Back-bone and the Weazon from the Roots of the Tongue even to the Ventricle or Stomach In Swallowing the Gullet is drawn downward and the Weazon upward which is the cause that we cannot sup and blow swallow and breath together at the same time Stomach and is next below it Into which what is taken into the Mouth descends first And reaching to the Two ‖ These are two Glandules call'd the Almonds because like Almonds in figure and magnitude which Nature has plac'd opposite to each other at the Jaws near the Roots of the Tongue and close to the Gullet in the end of the Throat Their Office being to receive the spittle falling down from the Brain both that the too violent falling down of the humour might not hinder the Tongue in speaking and also that the Tongue might always have moisture as it were laid up in store lest by continual speaking it should grow dry and fail Tonsils on either side it determins at the lowest and innermost * i. e. The lowest part of the Mouth the Throat Now the Palate or as it is commonly call'd the Roof of the Mouth is nothing else but the upper part of the Mouth bounded with the Teeth Gums and upper Jaw In which place the Coat Common to the whole Mouth is made rough with divers Wrinkles that the Meat put up and down between the Tongue and the Palate might be the better chew'd and broken This same Coat is woven with nervous Fibers that like the Tongue it may judge of Tasts And these Fibers again compose a Coat that has a middle consistence betwixt Soft and Hard for if it should have been any harder like a Bone or Gristle it would have been without sense and if softer hard acid and sharp Meats would have hurt it Palate And having receiv'd the Food put or as I may say thrust into it by the rolling and agitation of the Tongue it sends it down In which Action the parts of it †i. e. Of the Gullet that are below what is swallow'd are dilated but those above contracted As for the ‖ Aspera Arteria the Weazon or Windpipe whose superiour part from the Larynx to the Bronchi is one single Trunk contriv'd of many round or rather sigmoïdal Cartilages connext by intermediate Ligaments that by this Structure it might be kept open and we secur'd from Strangulation which immediately succeeds its Concision but the Inferiour is divaricated into Innumerable smaller Branches or Disseminations by Hippocrates surnam'd Syringae and distributed into all the quarters of the Lungs for their total Impletion with Air which the Vessels extended from the Heart receive and convey into the Ventricles of the Heart Rough Artery as Physicians call it in regard the * i. e. the Larynx or Head or Extremity of the Throttle Orifice of it is joyn'd to the Roots of the Tongue somewhat higher than where the †i. e. the Gullet Stomach is annext and that it reaches as far as the Lungs taking in the Air that is drawn by Breathing and by Respiration returning the same back again from the Lungs it is cover'd with a kind of ‖ i. e. the Epiglottis Throat-flap or After-tongue closing the Larynx It is a soft cartilaginous flap in figure representing a Tongue or if we applaud the phansy of Hippocrates an Ivy-leaf and when we swallow down our Throat shuts the chink of the Aspera Arteria or Weazon for every Morsel that descends this forbidden way has a dangerous hautgust of Anacreon's grape with a stone whereof getting in here that Topeing Poet is said to have been choakt and denounces the same Harsh Fate And yet this Body does not so wholly shut up the Throttle but that some small quantity of moisture still runs down by the Inner sides as the Walls thereof to moisten the Lungs for were not This so Eclegma's were of no use in the diseases of the Chest Lid as it were which was contriv'd to the end lest any Morsel should chance to slip into it that might stop the Breath Now whereas the Capacity of the * Natura Alvi the Stomach or Ventricle the more proper Connexion whereof is with the Gullet and Guts by its two Orifices with the Brain by its Nerves with the Liver and Spleen by its Veins with the Heart by its Arteries and with all the Natural Parts by its Common Membrane Paunch that is below the †i. e. the Gullet Stomach is the Receptacle of Meat and Drink and that the Lungs and the * The Heart is of a figure Pyramidal compos'd of the most dense flesh of all the body by the affusion of bloud at the divisions and foldings of the Vessels and there concrete as it happens also to the rest of the Vessels and is the Chief Mansion of the soul the Organ of the Vital faculty the beginning of Life the fountain of the Vital Spirits and so consâ—quently the continual nourisher of the vital heat the first Living and the last Dying being made of a more dense solid and compact substance than any other part of the Body because it must have a natural Motion of it self Heart draw in breath from without the Composure of †i. e. the Paunch This which almost wholly consists of ‖ The Ventricle is of a Substance rather spermatick than sanguine in that for one fleshy Membrane it has two nervous and is the seat of Appetite by reason of the Nerves dispers'd into its upper Orifice and so into its whole Substance Nerves is very admirable It is full of Folds and * i. e. on the Inner side of it Wrinkles and so presses and reteins what it admits whether Dry or Liquid as that it becomes easily chang'd and concocted By being sometimes bound in and relaxt at others overcoming and confounding whatever is †The Stomach by the ministerial contraction of oblique fibres welcoms the Meat sent down from the Mouth with with close Embracement and Coarctation and firmly retains it untill by its concoctive faculty and proper heat it be transform'd into a Mass or Consistence not much unlike the Cream of a decoction of blaâ—ch'd Barly within it So that both by Heat much whereof it is indu'd with for the attenuating of Meat and likewise by Breath all things being refin'd