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membranes from whence it has its white colour: but this coldnefs is not imple; > 
but refpective to other parts. Melted lead.or wax will congeal in hot places, if the 
heat be lefs than that heat which will melt them: hence Galen -determines. fatto 
proceed from coldnefs, fo that the fat, thin, and light, part of the ‘blood, in colder 
conftitutions is referved .whil{t in hotter bodies it turns to nutriment, fo that hot 
and dry bodies are hardly ever fat. Its fituation is immediately under the fkin, 
univerfally over the whole-body; the forehead, eye-lids, and privities, excepted: 
whence it is, that the fatty membrane is as large as the fkin, and fticks firmly to it, 
neither can it be divided from it without fcraping; and fo alfo ‘it fticks to. the 
fiefhy membrane. It cannot communicate with the principal parts, becaufe it is not 
_ truly nourifhed ; nor yet lives, unlefs by oppofition, as {tones do, nor is it indeed 
fenfible; therefore it wants both veins, arteries, and nerves, yet all three of them pafs 
_ through it tothe fkin. The fat of the belly has three veins, the external mammil- 
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Jary, defcending from above:: the vena epigaftrica, arifing from beneath, or-outof 
the crural vein, through the groin; ‘and that coming out of the loins havingmany 
“veins accompanied with arteries: through thefe, and the veffels of the fkin, cup- 
ping-glaffes, and {carifications, draw humours out of the inward parts.. It hasa 
great number of kernels, which receive excrements out of the body into themfelves; 
and they are more numerous in fickly perfons, and fuch as abound with excre- 
mentitious moifture. Its ufes are to cherifh the natural heat; to help the concoc 
tion of the ftomach; to moiften hot and dry parts, fuch as the heart; to facilitate 
‘motion ‘in the principal parts, as in the griftles and jointings of the greater bones, 
and about certain ligaments, as alfo-in the focket of ‘the eye, left by its continual 
‘motion it fhould become dry and withered ; to ferve as a pillow or bulwark againtt 
blows, bruifes, and contufions, and therefore the palms of the hands, buttocks, and 
foles of the feet, have plenty of fat; to nourifh the body in time of Jong fafting + 
to fill up the empty places in the mufcles, and to underprop the veffels, that they 
may pafs fafely ; and laftly to. fill up all the vacuities of the other parts, 
: i. that the body may be rendered {mooth, white, foft, fair, and beautiful. 
therto we have treated of parts abfolutely fimilar; thofe which are ig only i in 
earanc or to fenfe are in number five, viz. veins, arteries, nerves, atic and 
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OF VEINS. 
AVEIN alia, erin membrarious, round, long, hollow, part very ¥ 
joined by anaftomofes to the arteries; allotted ‘to receive and contain the’ ond 
from them, to be farther concoéted, and to be carried to the heart and aes nr | 
