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2 6 The Stomachs and Gun. 
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in Rumination, is a Voluntary Emulation. Not at all labo- 
rious to them,becaufe of the great ftrength of the Mufcules 
of their Stomach and Gulet to command and govern the 
fame. 
By the Joy nt affiftance of the Glandulous and the Ner- 
vous Membranes, the bufinefs of Chylification feems to be 
performed. The Mucous Excrement of the Blood being 
fupply'd by the former, as an Animal Conofive, preparing $ 
and the Excrement of the Nerves by the latter,as an Animal 
Ferment, perfecting the Work. And the Cac us Ventricu- 
lus of 2: Hog, feems to be a Repofitory provided for fuch a 
mixed Leven or Me?ifiruum : whereby he not only becomes 
more voraceous,having thence continual irritations to eat : 
but all he eats, is thereby likewife well digefted. 
The Folds of the Stomach, which in its Corrugation muft 
needs be much deeper than when it is dilated, or of ufe. To 
divide the Aliment into feveral Portions, and thereby ad- 
minifter their Ferments not only to the Circumference, but 
intimate parts of the Mafs to be fermented. 
The pointed Knots, like little Papilla, in the Stomachs 
of divers Ruminating Beafb, are alfo of great ufe, m%. For 
the Tafting of the Meat. Dr. Willis defcribing the Inner 
Membrane of the Stomach ( not of a Beaft, but exprefly 
of a Man ) fpeaketh thus 3 Hac Crufia V mtriculum ( Huma- 
num puta ) intus obtegens, fwiilis videtur Illi, qua Linguam 
obtegit. Wherein he was miftaken : this Inner Membrane 
being Glandulous 3 the Skin of the Tongue not fo, but only 
Fibrous. But of divers Beafts which Ruminate, thus much 
is true, That in their Three flrft Venters, the Inner Mem- 
brane is Fibrous, and not Glandulous 3 the fourth only be- 
ing Glandulous, as in a man. Of the Fibers of this Mem- 
brane and the Nervous, are compofed thofe pointed Knots 
0) Chap. 4. before defer ibed (tf) both in fubitance and (hape,altogether 
like to thofe upon the Tongue. Whence I doubt not, but 
that the faid Three Ventricles, as they have a power of Volun- 
tary Motion : fo likewife, that they are the Seat of Tafi 9 
and as truly the Organs of that fenfe, as is the Tongue it 
felf. 
Laffly, and confequently, the faid Nervous Knots, are 
of ufe to Methodize the Work of Rumination, after this 
manner. The Animal having eaten enough for the Punch 
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