2  CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN. 
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THE F LESH is a fimilar, foft, thick, fubftance, well. onesie sini a 
blood alone, if it be red; but, of blood and feed, if it be white. . It is four-fold, , 
viz. mufculous, vifcerous, membranous, and glandulous; of which the two firft 
are very red, but the two Jatter white. Mufculous flefh is foft and red, and that 
which is properly termed flefh. Vifcerous flefh is that of the bowels, which is the 
proper fubftance of the lungs, heart, liver, {pleen, and kidneys; it is red, hard, 
fitted to prop up the veflels, and to affift them in their particular and various opera- 
tions. Membranous flefh is the flefhy fubftance of every membranous part, as in 
the gullet, ftomach, guts, womb, bladder. Glandulous flefh is the flefh of kernels; 
itis white, thick, and fpongy, formed of feed (and therefore cannot properly be 
called flefh), of which fome anatomifts make many diverfities,; but the true fearcher 
may find that the glandules differ not fo much in fubftance as in their ufe and humours 
which are, firft, to fupport the divifions of the veffels; fecondly, to drink up fuper- 
fluous humours, becaufe they are of a hollow fpongy fubftance, and are therefore 
vulgarly termed emun@ories, or cleanfers of the noble parts, thofe in the neck being 
accounted cleanfers of the head, thofe in the arm-pits of the heart, and thofe in the 
groin of the liver ;. thirdly, to moiften the parts for their more eafy motion, or to 
prohibit drinefs, fuch are thofe which are fituated by the tongue, mag a 
corners, &c.. . 
OF THE MEMBRANES. 
A MEMBRANE isa fimilar, fpermatic, part; broad, foft, dilatable, white, con- 
taining and invefting the parts, and carrying fenfe tothem. If, bemg @ hollow 
as body, i it receives fomething, as the ftomach, bladder, gall, eye, it is called /umica, 
&A Cats but, if it embraces and covers a folid body; it is called membrana, a covering: 
: ofe which cover the brain are called menings. ‘tis indued with fenfe from it- ¥ 
Membranes are the only true organs of feeling, feryingthe animal fpirts to : 
purpofe. Its ufe is, to inveft the parts of the body, to defend it from i ri 
on of its hardnefs and compactnefs, to give them the fenfe of fe 
; then them, to join parts to parts, and to keep them united to fe 
‘the parts, and to cloie the mouths of the veffels. Some membr : 
thick : the thin membranes alfo differ; for the perigffion’ of the ribs is 
the pleura the periaftion of the head is thinner than the peri 
mater is thinner than the dura mater. The proper membrane 
