~ ne Anatomy of a T Y G M 1 E, ^ 



caufe Obftruftions. But by the Lym^ha thus paffing into them 5 the 

 Chyle is ftill forced forwards, and the Vejjhls wafhed clean of it ^ and 

 being thus often moiftened, they are preferved from becoming over dry 

 or clofed or obftrudled. So Provident therefore is Nature , that in the 

 whole Via laSiea^ not only in thz Mefenterie -^ but into the Receptacubttfi 

 C/jyli, and DiiSuf Thoraczcuf likewife^ abundance of Lymphiedi<^s are 

 emptied. Which gives us one good Reafon ; that Nature does not a£t 

 in vain,in making fuch a reparation of a Liquor from the Mafs of Blood 5 

 which is fo foon to be return'd to it again 3 fince hereby (he performs 

 fo groat an Office. 



In the MefenterJe of our Vygmje I obferved feveral fraall Glands fcat- 

 tered up and down, as in a Man 3 but not fo regularly araafled together 

 in the middle 5 as the Pancreas AfeJlij is in Brutes. And Drel'mcoiirt ob- 

 ferved much the fame in the Male Ape. Glandula ad radicem Mefenterij^ 

 d^ fajjim in ambitu, numerofe & phwie, magnitudiNem LentttU, fed va- 

 les. Anajhomofes fieqHenti\jim£, Venaritm cum Venk ^ Arteriamm cum 

 Arteriis in univerfo Mefenterjj circulo. And as that pKt of the Mefenterie 

 which fattens the Colon is call'd Mefocohn ; fo for the fame reafon, that 

 flip of it repreffented in our figure, that runs down to the Procejjus vermi- 

 for^fs, ma.jbQC^\rdtheMefo-c£cuxft. 



We {hall next proceed to the Liver^ in which part our Pygniie very 

 remarkably imitated a M^?z, more than our common Monkeys or Apes do. 

 For the Liver here was not divided into Lobes as itisinSr/z/e/^butintire 

 as it is in a Man. It had the fame (hape 5 it's fituation in the body was 

 the fame ; and it's Colour, and Ligaments, the fame. It meafured in 

 it's greateft length about five Inches and an half 3 where broadeft , 'twas 

 about three Inches; and about an Inch and three quarters in thicknefs. 

 Towards the Diaphragm 'twas convex : it's under part was Concave^ where 

 it receives and emits the Veffels, having a little Lobe here, as 'tis in a 

 Man. 



The Varifians remark in the Monkeys they differed, that the Liver was 

 very different fiom the Liver of a Man , having five Lobes as in a Dog 3 

 viz. tn>o on the right fide ; and tvpo on the left 5 and a fifth laid hpon the 

 right part of the body of the Vertebr£. This lati Wits divided^ making as it 

 rpere two kaves^ So Drelincourt in the Male Ape obkrves^Jecoris Lohi duo 

 pixta umbilica,lemvenam^ quorum fecundo incuneata eratvefcula fUis^ duo 

 alij ventriculum ample^ebantur^ cum lobulo quinio fe inferente in Jpatium 

 ventriculi intra, orificium utrumque. So likewife in the Female Jpehe tells 

 u,?, Jecur opplet regionem Epigajiricam quintuplici lobo, unofcxto minima op- 

 plens cavitatem lunarem ventriculi. But Blafius in the Ape he diflefted 

 faith , Epar cum humano minime^ optime cum Canino conveitit^ manifefif- 

 fime in lobos Vll divifuTrt, tant£ ffiagnitudinis ut etiam utrumque Hypochon- 



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