AND FAMILY DISPENSATORY. 13. 
OF THE LUNGS, LIVER, &c. 
THE LUNGS are made of a fubftance very foft and {pongious ; fupple to draw 
and inforcefrom, like a pair of bellows ; they areaninftrument of refpiration, whereby 
the heart is refrefhed, drawing unto it the blood, the fpirits, and the air, and difbur- 
thening itfelfof thofefumesand excrements whichopprefsit. Theyare naturally cold 
and dry, accidentally cold and moift; naturally cold and dry, waving about the 
heart, abating its heat by a refrefhing blaft ; they are accidentally moift, by reafon 
of catarrhs and rheums, which they receive from the brain. 
There are three principal parts in the lungsconfiderable. Oneisa vein coming from 
the liver, which bringeth with it the crude and undigefted part of the chyle to feed 
the lungs. Another is arteria venalis, coming from the heart, bringing the fpirit of 
life to nourifh the lungs. The third is #rachia arteria, that bringeth air to the lungs, 
and it paffeth through all the left part of them to do its office. 
_ The lungs are divided into five portions or pellicles, three on the right fide and 
two on the left fide ; that, in cafe any impediment or hurt fhould happen in any one 
part, the other fhould be ready to fupply the office. 
» But I fhall give no further defcription of the lungs, but defcribe the liver, which 
is a principal.member in the little world, reprefenting the planet Jupiter, guaf juvans 
pater, hot and moift, inclining towards the right fide, under the fhort ribs, The 
form of the liver is gibbous, or bunchy, on the back fide ; on the other fide hollow, 
like the infide of an hand, that it might be pliable to the ftomach (as a man’s hand 
is to.an apple, or any thing that is round) to further its digeftion; for his heat is to 
the ftomach as the heat of a fire is to the pot which hangeth over it. It is the ftore- 
houfe of the blood, the fountain of the veins, the feat of the natural. nourifhing fa- 
culty, or vegetative foul, engendered of the blood of that chyle which it draweth 
from the meferaique veins, and receiveth by the vena porta, which entereth into the 
concavities thereof, and afterwards is fent and diftributed through the whole body 
by the help of vena cava, which arife from the bunch or branches thereof, which 
are in great numbers as the rivers from theocean, 
The natural and nutrimental faculty hath its refidence in the (Se and is dif 
perfed through the whole body with the veins, from which are bred four particular 
humours, viz. blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy. 
Blood is made of meat perfectly concoéted, in quality hot and moift, Jee 
. darling, the moft perfect and neceffary. humour (the other three being fuperfiuities : 
‘yet neceflary too). The blood thus concoéted isdrawn out by the vena cava, whofe 
begets, ramifying, upwards. and Sauls carry and convey it to all the 
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