8 CULPEPER R’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
and his hunger flayed: this virrue is conveyed by’ the milky branch which isn 
near the e/fophagus, and the fhort paflage of the reft of the lee to the heart's) 
alfo ‘vulnerary’ potions and pectoral drinks come a fhorter and furer > way: tor, 
the heare and lungs, to which, by the long way about through the bowels, 
and veins, they could’ not come fo fafe and fecures and by the fame reafon poi- 
fons as fwiftly overcome the heart, infe€& the vital {pirits, and deftroy their,’ 
harmony. © | : . cea 
The liver is an organic part, and an inftrument of the blood, (both for generating. 
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and perfecting it,) feated in the abdomen, juft under the diaphragma ot midriff, in 
the right bypochondrium, about a finger’s breadth diftance therefrom; is covered by.. 
the ribs for fafety, but covers, or lightly refts upon, a Great part of the ftomach. It- 
is divided as'it’ were into two parts by che umbilical vein, which, after the birth, . 
fetves it for’a ligament. It is faid to’ be the original or beginning of the veins, be-. 
caufé therein the roots of the two greateft veins appear difperfed, viz. of the cava... 
and porte, as roots implanted in the earth; alfo here are to be {een inferted, tranks.. 
and brariches of the vena lafize, arifing ffom the pancreas mefenterit. It is a teat, 
thick, and ‘hard, body; of a red colour, confifting of a fubftance proper to itfelf, | 
fitted and ordained for that end. — It differs from the livers of beafts, in that it has 
feldom any lobes, yet the hollow part of it has a fifure or.chink, where the umbili- - 
cal vein is implanted. Its magnitude is exceeding great, beyond all the other wiftera; 
and bigger in man than in any other living creature, the proportion of body being , 
confidered; and this feems to be neceffary, confidering the noble ufes and funétions 
to which it is ordained. ‘The a¢tion of the liver is fanguification; for the chyle, be- 
ing conveyed to the liver by the vena laftea, is there fanguified, or made chymus; for.’ 
the fubftance of the liver doth not only fuftain the veins, but is alfo the efficient of» 
fanguification, and of perfecting the blood by its circular motion; and, together: 
with the'blood, it generates natural fpirits. : 7 son anid Mt 
_ The gall-bladder and choler-channel are fituated on the right-fide of the liver, in. 
the“under or hollow part thereof. The branches of both. thefe, together with the 
branches of the vena porte, are comprehended in a common bladder, called capfiula. 
Thefe branches of the vefica,fellis, and duétus choledochus, or Liliarius, being detained. 
in the liver, are difperfed through its whole parenchyma, every where included in the: 
aforenamed capfula, which is red, about the thicknefs of anartery, and takes its ori-) 
Sinal from the peritoneum, The gall-bladder is a veflel long and round, much like | 
4 Peat, hollow, furnifhed with a double membrane. . Its magnitude is fmall, com- 
pared to the fpleen or kidneys, being about two inches in length, and in fome. perfons, ; 
ngarly three inches. The ule of the gall is, 1, to caufe a new and more perfect fer- 
3 ‘ mentation 
