i^9n 
the Chyle of a Dog and the Saliva : it is pellucid and with* 
out any fmell : the Sah that it flioots into is cubical. Upon 
veal it afforded thefe Thcenomeiia, Into a dramof this li- 
quor I put a piece of ^^/^/jj^/abbuc the bignefs oi^Nut, Sc fet 
it upon a digefting furnace. In two hours time there came 
from the meat a liquor that had the colour and tafte of 
Cfyle, and the meat afterwards was lighter, dry, audinfi- 
pid. And it afforded the fame Phfenomena Mo in beef, 
I mutton, or any other meat that I could meet with. And 
: here it is to be noted, thattho it has been affirm d by fome 
that the fame thing may be done by acid liquors only, yet 
fince by all the tryalsl have made upon em, I have not 
yet obferv'd the like Phcenomena, I hope my Scepticism ia 
this cafe may be pardonable. If therefore we now confi- 
der that by the help of this menjirujim there came from the 
before mentioned meats, a liquor which had the colour 
and tafte Chyle, and if we further confider that the tafte 
o£thismenJlrmm is not diftinguiihable from the tafte which 
is perceivable in meats vomited out of a full ftomach I 
hope I may without being thought fond of an Hypothecs ^ 
conjecture that by iomefuch menfiruum the meat is<^(§^- 
Jied 'm the fiomach. But here I would not be thought to af- 
firm that by a liquid ;w^;z//r//2^;;z alone the meats are di- 
gefted, but that there are likewife required thefe fur- 
ther requifits, in fome, or in moft creatures. Firft, that 
tlie fiomach receive a gentle heat from the liver, T\s there- 
fore for this reafon faid by the Learned GHjfon, Calor 
hepatis in hepate eji aBio, & ve7itriciilo ejl ufui. 
Secondly, that th^ ftomach have a naturall Citu^tion* 
For, fays l{ioIanus, Literdum ventrtciilus propendet ujque ad 
umbilicum^ ut obfervatum in cadaver ihiis , qnod vitce coilioni 
multumimommodat^ And Vefalius in his Anatomy Lib. 4. 
gives us this example. Ohfervavi omentum in fcrotum 
devolutum & auUum ventriculum ex fede fua dijlraxtjfe , adeo 
^tmunus ejus defictret. Thirdly, it is affifted by the omoi- 
t^m. This may be argued from thofe creatures which 
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