“6 CULPEPER’ s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
tion is in the middle of the abdomen, fticking to the tranfverfe procefits of the ver! 
‘tebra by ligaments, whence is its original: for it arifes from the firft and third wet: 
tebrae of the loins, where membranous fibres are produced from the Deritonceu 
which | turn into ftrong membranes. The veffels of the mefentery. are veins, arteries, 
and nerves, which pafs to and from the guts, between the membranes,” -The veins 
are.called me/araice, and they are two-fold, viz. fanguinee and laéee, both which are 
‘almoft innumerable, The vene fanguinee, or meferaice, receive the blood from the 
arteries, after. nourifhing of the parts, and fo convey it back again to the liver, 
The venze lalee,. afcending from the guts, and carrying the chyle, do centre in the 
glandules, or receptacles of the chyle. Thefe g/andules of the mefentery, are to prop 
‘up and fupport fundry diftributions of the branches to the vena porta and arteria 
magna and hence it is, that. about the centre of the mefentery.are the greateft ker- 
nels, becaufe there is, the diftribution of the greater and more collected veftels; if 
“thole become fcirrbous, an atropbia, or extenuation of the whole body, viz.a wafting, 
eannefs, and pining, follows, becaufe the pafling of the chyle is hindered, where- 
byt the nourifhment.of the body is.loft. . Their. fubftance in men is glandulous and 
folid, Jike other glands of the mefentery, watered, as it were with the vena latte, 
yet capable of chyle. in their leaft corners. ‘Their connexion is in the hinds wit : 
vertebrae lumbares: in the fore part they are joined to the mefentery by fmall milky 
branches, which carry, the chyle to thefe fountains or receptacles. The ufe of ‘thefe 
milky glandules is to receive and contain the chyle coming from the vena latter of : 
ak melentery: as alfo to digett and prepare it. by the help of the neighbouring hot 
vellels, viz. the artery and vein, and then, being prepared, to thruft it out into the 
Aboraices, and other parts, as the liver, which is eafily proved by ligature ; for, if, thefe 
‘latlee, whether i in the thorax or going to the liver, be bound, they always fwell.on 
that. fide next to the glandules or mefentery, and grow empty on the other fides: 
they.alfo fqueeze. out the ferum, being feparated from the chyle in that light epa- 
ration, ; and expel i it either into the reins adjacent to them; or into the emulgent ar- 
ter € fo.which they fend branches; or into the capfulz atribiliriz, appointed for 
lanche x or, laftly, into the doubling: of the Se in rwhich they. aon 
a tO8 ¥ 
ar by diuretics and diffolved by u urines and ped sa 
a real diabetes, eid is ie voided. becdeh ae eiAdej in a very saya, : a 2 
pis s received, without change of confiftency, colour, tatte, or {mell ; hene 
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