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Liver. From whence we may colle*^;, that it hath its proper 

 life and end : as fordemonflratioii, blood principalh/ nourilh- 



.eth the body-, Flegm occalioneth motion of ihQJ.nns iiud f/iem- 

 bersy Choler exciteth and provoketh the body to avoid its ex- 

 crements j and iailly. Melancholy difpofeth the body to an ap- 

 petite. Whereupon all the learned Philolophers do with one 



'unanimous alTent agree in this, that in every natural body there The in- 

 are four \)\'mc\'^2.\ inftrHmentd me mbois^ixom Vvhich all the part's ifrumcr;- 

 o^^norgmicd body arefaidto be fram*£d,and thele ..re ihtlrMny tahnem- 

 the hcArti feheZ/rfr, and ihtjhnes ov gignitors -^ and e^ch one oi'lj^''^ ^''^ 

 thefe do perform its true fundion to all the particular mem- helrc'tl'^ 

 bers of the body : for the fnews do receive tlieir fuilentation liver/anJ 

 from the brain^ and t.heie are called animal fpnits \ the arteries rlieHones 



!from the k.^rf, vvhich are vital Jpirits, the reins, from the Uver-^ ^^ ^'S"-- 



Twhich z^z^ natural part s^ and the feed vejjels from the Stone's or ^^''' 



^jS igniter Sy as She place o( generation. . , 



..' Now for as much as I have (hewed you the four Elements \vkh 

 Jtheir true natures, the four Humours with their qualities, and 

 'the four inftritmema' members with their true conditions : It now 

 .remaineth that .we intreat briefly of the four natnral faculties, 

 , which is in every body, together with their true attributes : 

 IThe hrll fac/dty h to ear^ the fecond to retain, the third tO The four 

 ".conco^y and the fourth to expel. And to anf^ver to thefe four nacurjl 

 faculties, you m-ifi; undeiltand that there are reilding in the ^'^^■"•f'«. 

 , body, the aforenamed M//;;ff/iM, that is to fay, Blood, Flegm, ^°^^'^''^^ 

 !.Choleri ar.d Melancholy, whexsof nature maketh'ufeof theier- concod^*^ 

 Vice of but one of thefeonly to work upon, which is zneicfe- ami ro * 

 menty which ue do jidly call yVhey or i'i'hey/fi blood, whof^ en- expel, 

 "gendring is wrought in the Liver, and To coir/eyeth it felf into 

 the veins, at vz-hr; ttin>; the four humours do take from the body 

 that. form a.n'ifubflanc'e.it ougtft to afTtiine :",und cs'f this v"ei-y 

 liijwr doth nluiire (siVp. h &Uy. tp refolve.theM^f, and fo.tb 0- 

 perate, thattlie fame may pafs t h rough' t he 11 raight ,0x^,0/;- 

 .aW7j, Toresy, and Paff-igcs, carrying nouriHiment to all the parts 

 "of the bodie. ' Yoii rnuft therefore underlland that the'Tf/V/x, are 

 the jGceptacles for the B'ood wliich.is nliied .with 'th(f.w^')Ji;- 

 rli'sy fo as. the faid ^^Z/// have their fource or ori.^in''fr8i'ii the 

 "Liver ; whereby their crfiice is to exhaull from the Liv'er uuio 

 the^m\r the faid ivheyif) fibltance, and to injeO part thereof 



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