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- DOCTRINE OF THE FLUIDS. 
2 body are divided into crude, gee et san- 
ineous, as the blood ; lymphatic, as the lymph o ~ lymphatic 
Siete, secreted, ‘or those dopa rited from the blood; and ezere- - 
mentitious, as urine, feces, &c. oe 
_ ~The secreted fluids are subdivided into milky, as the juice of the 
brostate gland ; watery, as the humor of the eye ; mucus, as the 
mance of the nostrils ; albuminous, as the serum of the blood ; oily, 
as the oil of the fat membrane ; and bilious, as the bile. ae 
~ Fluids are also divided, notion, into cireulatory, which 
continually circulate in the vessels ; the tardy, which circulate with 
slow motion, as the semen, oil of the fat membrane, &c. ; stagnant, 
which remain for a certain time im any receptacle, as bile in the galt 
bladder, &c. 
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2 FLUIDS COMMON TO THE WHOLE BODY. 
: "THE BLOOD. = 
A red fluid, which circulates in the cavities of the heart, arte-- 
br: in the arteries, of a a éd hue; in the | 
veins, darker, © the lung veins, im)which it is of a lighter 
cast. Blood, exposed to the atmosphere, sp. cously. ss 
y degre ‘tWo parts, viz. the serzm, a yellow and” 
greenish fluid; and a cake, called crassamentum, which resembles 
a red mass swimming like an island im the serum. Use, to stimulate © 
the cavities of the heart and vessels to contraction; to generate the 
heat of the body, and propagate it to every part; to nourish every _ 
9g si o_ to supply all the secretions, they being all separated from 
the blood. i. oR a 
THE LYMPH OF THE LYMPHATIC VESSELS. © 
A tasteless, crystalline liquid, contained in. the lymph 
It is absorbed from the surface ; cellular membrane ; 1 
Cavities of the viscera of the whole body ; and it is com 
vapors of cay 
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2 superfluous nutritious fluid, the 
ities, and substances applied to the skin, and'to the chest 
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THE VAPOR oF THE SHEATHS OF THE NERVES. __ —— 
The watery vapor contained in the sheath, and between the fibres 
of the nerves. Use, to moiste n the nervous fibres. AE 
© FLUIDS PROPER TO EACH PART. = 
bus Soci: 9NPUR CAVITY OF THE SKULL, 
