f „ 5^09 ) 
be large enough for that piirpofe. 
(F.) The Obfervations, that have been 
made in the beginning of ^this year in his 
Majefltes Library^ by fearching carefully 
the psiflage of the DpiUhs Thoracicus in the 
Body of a Woman , did lliew, that thefe 
difficulties were well grounded. For, it 
hath been found by divers Experiments, 
made about this matter , that there af- 
at leaft To much Chyle through the 
Trunck which is beneath the Heart , as 
there defcends t\ir:o\}gh that which is above 
it. 
Thefe Experiments have appeared con- 
fiderable , in regard that they confirm 
thofe, which were alfo made by the fame 
Royal Academy of the Sciences about five 
years fincc, and which were inferted in 
the Jth foHrnd des Scavms 1667 But 
this lafl Experiment 
^Sce Numh, 2^. of thefe hath been clearer and 
TrMs p. 461. where ampler then the firft, 
in that the Communis 
cation, which the firft 
time appeared to be only with the left 
EmfilgentYdn, hath been fx)und this fe- 
cond time not only with thi^ vein, but 
alfo with the two Lumhary veins, which 
are inferted in the Trunck of the inferier 
vena cava. 
As to the manner of proceeding, in the 
J prefence of the whole Company, for 
Ending this Coramunication, it V7as this : 
After there had been lliewed the Com- 
merce of the DuBm thorackm with the 
Eight Ventricle of the Heart by an inje- 
dion of Milk, which having been fyrin- 
ged into the beginning of this Channel , 
iiTued in great quantity through this 'ven 
tricle 5> we tyed the Trunck of i\\tvma 
cava, above tile Iflwi , fo that nothing 
Height pafs that way. ^ and the Trunck or 
the Emulgent and that of the Vena Cava ha» 
ving been opened above long wife, ferae 
miik, ready to boyl^ was ((?.) injeded 
iPPifs agren feparattm made 
in the brain • vphich rohe- 
therit he of the fureft and 
hejt fpirits of the blood, fa 
04 to leave i$ depauperated • 
or only of a mtritims fe- 
rum, fi4ch as is made in all 
the folid parts- , is hard to 
fay a Only this ipay be cer- 
tainly faid^ that the Lym» 
pha does wholly exonerate it 
felf into the fub-clavid and 
]KguUr veins near the place 
of the infertion of the C hy 1 
7^- hereby the whole Chyle is 
diluted, and the mixture of 
it ayid the blood facilitated^ 
which very pha^nomenon, 
is a greater argument to 
prove, that the Chyle does 
wholly enttr by that paj- 
fage, than any can be pro- 
duced on the other fide. For 
we fee^ all the L^m^hd^, not: 
only of the Liver and In- 
teftines, but alfo of the low- 
cr Hrnbs^to powre it felf in- 
to the receptaculum chyli, 
and not into any cfthe lower 
veins : Whereas the Lym- 
phatieks of the Head , Neck^ 
and ArmSy ihlrd^it fuff ci-' 
ent to meet the Chyle at the 
place of its entrance'-) which 
fame thirg might ' have been 
done hyths lower Lxmpha- 
tickj 5 had they any Chyle to 
meet : The principal ufe of 
?/?^ Lymph a feeming to be, 
to ferve the ufes of the Chyle 
and its mixture with the 
Blcod. 
( D. ) what imprejfions are 
made on the Blood hy the Lt^ 
ver 3 Sp 'ccn , Kidneys , & c . is.- 
hitoi , 
