The lymphatics carry their dewy particles through 

 the glandules, which lie between the two coats. In 

 the lowermost end of those glandules, the ferment 

 vessels take their rise. Most of the juice of the lym- 

 phatic vessels is discharged between the coats of the 

 veins, arteries, and vessels, in the mesentery, to be 

 conveyed into all parts of the body, both internal anl 

 external. Even in bearing females, the fruit is not 

 nourished by blood, but by this nutricious juice ; the 

 remaining part of which is transmitted into the blood 

 through the thoracic duct and jugular veins. 



10. A nerve is a whitish, round, slender body, 

 arising from the brain, which is supposed to convey 

 the animal spirits to all parts of the body. What these 

 spirits are none can shew ; nay, we are not sure they 

 have any being. For none can certainly tell whether 

 the nerves are hollow canals or only solid threads en- 

 closed in proper integuments. 



11. The fibrous, soft, reddish part of the body is 

 termed flesh. All fleshy fibres are hollow, and divid- 

 ed through their whole length into little caverns^ 

 wherein the blood is detained, as occasion requires. 



12. A gland is a soft and spungy body, which se- 

 parates some particular liquid from the blood. The 

 larger glands contain arteries, veins, and lymphatic 

 vessels ; but the glands of the intestines are only the 

 tops of the arteries. 



There is a kind of down in the cavity of every gland, 

 which probably does the otnce of a filter, and is that 

 AY hereby a particular humour is separated from the 

 blood. 



The structure of the down. vessel is different accord- 

 ing to the different purposes of nature. Sometimes the 

 liquor filtrated through it, falls drop by drop on a 

 membrane, to which one end of the vessel is fastened, 

 as where it is designed only to moisten the part. Some- 

 times many of these down. vessels spread over the inner 



