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pears the reafon of an atraphia of the parts, efpecially thofe of the thorax, which 
draw the chyle out of the milky receptacles; for that they are fometimes preffed to- 
ether, whereby the diftribution of the chyle is obftruéted: fometimes alfo they are 
inflamed, tumified, and affli@ted with a feirrbus. Hence it is that lithontriptic or ne- 
Phritic medicaments do prefently eafe fuch as have a pain in their reins: as likewile 
cantharides, and fuch as incite to luit, do immediately, without ftopping the paflage, - 
come to the arteries emulgent and fpermatic ; becaufe thar, in the accuftomed jour- 
ney, (much the longer way,) the virtue of the medicaments would eafily be ener. 
vated. And here the reafon is obvious why diuretic and nephritic medicaments 
make fuch an impreffion of fmell and colour in urine, as is manifelt in caffia, turpea- 
tine, juniper, afparagus, and other like things. Many of the leéfee of the mefen- 
tery, coming through the greater glandules, and the fides of the porte, are grafted 
into the liver. Their entrance is about the third lobe, to which many of the /aéee 
from the mefentery and appendices of the ftomach do come. From the upper part of 
the milky glandules, immediately under the diapbragma, there arife as many milky 
branches as there are glandules, which, through the middle of the /pina, pierce the 
diaphragma, and, by mutual infertion, two of them are joined about the firft verte- 
bra of the loins ; another branch, coming out of the fecond glandule, about the 
twelfth vertebra of the back, enters a little above the other infertion; but the third, 
tifing from the third elandule, is to be feen near the eleventh vertebra, from whence 
it arifes as a folitary branch, through the middle of the back, by the fide of the aorta, 
and the vein azyges, between both, under the a/ophagus, to which it is firmly 
knit by its membranes. Thefe milky thoracics departing from the fpinal, (about the 
third or fifth vertebra of the back,) through the midit of which they creptall this way, 
turn a little to the left, and creeping up under the e/ephagus and aorta, and under i 
fubclavial artery and the glandules of the shymus » they go forward ~ ES as eit 
and left axillary vein; they enter the vein juft where the outward car hente ' 
felf forth into the axillary aforementioned. From hence theta tes , ~« 
des carry the chyle out of the milky glandules or receptacles » ag ge atte 0 ri ! 
fubclavials; but the laflee meferaice carry the chyle from the ues Si “. or 
Uiw wires Sent oa | le not to the head nor to the joints, 
receptacle or to the liver: alfo that the chy eee rere e Ririon wheiaae 
- “Bur is ‘carried to the heart with the blood that meas down in eae Sais ny ee a 
changed into the fanguineous humour: and hence the leftee of the ¢ a ne 
‘their reftorative force from nutriment, cordials, and acne os its a 
mach or afephagus, by the glandule laéfe, and carry them ftraitwa Peo: Te 
whence it is, that drinking vinegar, wine, ie at treats ak eee 
ately caufe the ftrength to be reftored 5 so prefently ae dea 
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