The Anatomy of a TYG M I E. 2^ 



T\\\s Cafialk AUmentdlk therefore, ox Jndn&ory Vejjkl (as I call it, 

 for the Reafons I have often mentioned in my Anatomical Lectins at 

 ChiritrgeoniHaW) is commonly diftingiftied into three Parts ; The Gula^ 

 the Ventricle^ and Inteftines : The two latter do lie in the Cavity of the 

 Abdomen, the former, in the Thorax and Neck. ; but being but one con- 

 tinued Canalfs^ I Ihall treat of the whole here. 



The G«/^ ox Gullet, by (45) Tk/^ (in that excellent Jw^/^^^/V^?/ Le- 

 fl:ure he gives us, where he is proving a Providence') is call'd Stomachus. 

 As 'tis alfo by Celfm, (46) fo likewife in A. Gcllim, (47) and frequently 

 by Hippocrates. (48) And Arijiotle (49) and Galen (50) exprefly tell us^, 

 that that Part between the Fauces and the Ventricle, which the Antients 

 called Oefophagus, after Arijiotle's time, was wont to be call'd Stomachus^ 

 tho" now this word is more appropriated to the Ventricle it felf, which 

 ThUji in the fame place calls Alvus. So true is that of Horace, 



(51) Ut Sylv£ foliis pronos mutantur in annos- 



Prima cadunt : ita verborum vetus interit £tas. 



However I (hall follow Horace's Rule, fince Cuftom now hath appro- 

 priated the'word Stomach, to the Ventricle, efpecially our EngliJIj Tongue^ 

 I fhall do fo too. 



Multa renafcentur, qt{£ jam cecidere : cadentqiie 



^<£ nunc funt in honor e vocahda : fi volet ujus : 



Unem penes arbitrinm ei?, & vis (^ norma loquendi. (52) 



This Gula or Gullet is a Hollow Mufcle, and fitly enough compared tt) 

 a Funnel -J where the Mouth, which may be thought a Part belonging to 

 it, being more capacious, firft receives the Food, and prepares it, by 

 chewing, and then forces it down into this Stem or Pipe, to convey it 

 to the Ventricle. I did not obferve, upon the Difleftion, any difference 

 of this Part in our Pygmie, from that of a Man. For as in a Matf-^ 

 (and fo conformable too in other Circumftances) it pafied under the 

 lower Mufcle of the Diaphragm, which by that llant running of it's flefhy 

 Fibres over k, may perform to it the Office of a Valve, and prevent the 

 Regurgitation of the Food that way. Which may be the more neceflary 

 in our Subjeft, becaufe being ufed to climb Trees, and in coming down, 

 to be prono Capite, it might be the more liable to this Accident. But for 

 the better preventing this, I find here, that the Paflage of the Gula, a 

 little above where it empties it felf into the Ventricle, was ftraiter, and 



(45):M. T. Cicero de Nat. Deorum, lib. 2. §. 54. p. m. 427. (46) Cornel. Cclfus, de re Med. lib. 4. 

 cap. I. -.(47) A.Gellij. NoU. Attic, lib. 17. cap. n. (48) Vid. Anut. Fsefii Oeconom. Hipp, in verbo. 

 (49) Arift. N:J1: Anim. lib. i. cap. 10. §. 108. p. m. 89. & paffim alibi. (50) Galen de locis ajfeliis, 

 Iib..5. cap. 5. p. m. 490. (51) Horace de Arte Poetic. v<:rf. 60. (52) Horace. Ibid. v. 70. 



