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42 CULPEPERVYENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
gf fuY HEART 
“Tr. : Fe. HEART. hath. two wenencles or concavities, and the left is pin ‘than se 
right the, caule ¢ of i its hollownefs. is to. keep the blood for his nourifhing, and the 
ais0 abate and temper the: great, heat which is included and fhut up, in the, por 
WAC ole onivew uth 
4 Asie. is s Jol corporis: and.c center of the reft of the members and toler. of, the ‘aly 
he communicates to them life and motion, yet. by his heat he attracts what i is need: 
- fal-forhiméelf.from thejother. members,. asa fubfidy or tax impofed, upon, his fub- 
jects. And. therefore, tosthe right,.ventricle.of the heart cometh a vein fromthe 
| Greatiyeiny which réceiveth all the fubttance of the blood from the liver; this veia 
pafleth-to the right ventricle of the heart, and bringeth a great portiomof the thick- 
eft and pureft blood to-nourith the heart.. The refidue. that is left of this isymade 
more fubtle through the virtue and heat of the heart, and then fent into. asconcavity 
onpit;imthemid{tiof the heart,:. between the two ventricles, thereimit is'madehot 
and pure, and from thence it paffeth tothe left. ventricle, andithere\is engendergdan 
a fpirit that is clearer, brighter, and. fubtiler;thantany:corporeal or bodilyating 
which is engendered’of the four elements, for it isa :mean:between the body, andthe 
foul ; iat * sai mehilpplarias: it is ieee more to: ssa than: earthly 
things! © , L oda to. 
baton - lef veneveldlof the heart fiecad twoarteries, -eliercme sua'ving fina coe 
Ghd thereforeis called arteria venalis, which carrieth: blood: frony the’ hearttorthe 
Teg which! blood ‘is vaporous and fic for its acetate and: carierhrbableale 
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from the lungs: to’ refrefh the heart. ¥ 5ii3 12 -Loold oda te 2208. 
“©The other artery hath’ two coats; it is called, tena’ aésaniah or rhe reat arteryy'of 
which: ‘fpringeth | ‘all the other arteries, that- fpread’ to every n sber of the BOaY, 
ich. Carty the fpirits, which are the treafures of the foul’s virtue’; “i at 
wv cottie’to the brain, and be made an animal fpirit ; at the liver it is 1 K 
1, and at the tefticles generative. Thus by the heart is made a fpirit of evety 
d, and (like the fun in - heavens) by his royal prefence he doth confer fife and 
berty to his fuppliants. a9 a Agger da bat199 
somata of | the heart is $ wonderful it continues to the au ioc oti 
‘Hike -whiat th mie anit want, ‘under the name ofa Aowieeiie motion 5 a i 
‘Pendous wiltom ofthe Creators in nothing exptefied more wlotioully= °° 
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