Jtfifcellanea Curio fa. 155 



that wijl be foftned and diffolv'd with any. 

 common Liquid, that Agitation of the Stomach 

 which moves them in Refpiration, might feem 

 fufficient to break and diffolve them, when they 

 are fufficiently moiften'd with a Fluid. Yet this 

 cannot be thought enough to break and digeft 

 FJefh-meat, Fruits, or any other thing that wiil 

 not be foftned and diffolv'd in Water, or fome 

 fuch Liquid. But although this Motion of the 

 Aliment, caufed by Refpiration, does not actu- 

 ally digeft it, yet it has a great and neceffary 

 life in Concoction, and makes all the groffer 

 Parts, as they are attenuated, mix equally with 

 the Fluid. 



Some think that the Bilious Juice; others, that 

 the Spirits are chiefly concern'd in this Affair. 

 Galen, in his Book de Neutralibus Facultatibus 9 

 makes it to be the Effect, not of one, but of fe- 

 veral Caufes ; as a pituitous Juice in the Stomach, 

 the Bile, £?c. which appears from what he has 

 faid, and the Tranfiator thus rendered : * Verum 



* quanto ii (cibi) qui manji funt 9 iis 9 qui inh&fe- 

 \ runt, magis Junt alter at i ' 7 tanto etiam his rnagis 



* /V, qui dcvorati Junt. Siquidem incomparabilis 

 s erit horum alter at ionis exceffus, fi & qu£ in vcn- 

 4 tre efl Pituita (3 Bilis, & Spiritus, & Calor, & 



* tota Vcntris fubjlantia, <eftimcntur* 



Some there are that will have the Food to 

 be diffolv'd by a Menftruum, which is fupply'd 

 from the Glands of the Stomach, or fome other 

 way : But thofe that do fb far agree in the Ge- 

 neral, as to think Concoction is perform'd by a 

 Diffolvent, do differ in their Notions of the 

 Mature of the Menftruum : For there are fome 

 that (uppofe it to be an Acid, which does erode 

 the grpuer parts of the Food, and diffolves them 

 in the lame manner as Vinegar, Spirit of Vi- 



