178 Hamajiatics. 
Tube, gives z88o cubic Inches of Water or 
104 Pounds Weight of Water, which prefs- 
ed againfl: all Sides of the Stomach : And al- 
lowing the Area of the greateft tranfverfe Sec- 
tion of the Stomach to be equal to thirty 
fquare Inches, then the Preflure of the Wa- 
ter againfl the Fibres of the Stomach in that 
Se6lion> when ir btirft, will be thirty nine 
Pounds. Which (hews how greatly Borelli 
and Pitcairn were miftaken, when they efli- 
mated the Force of the Fibres of the Sto- 
mach to be equal to 125)5:1 Pounds; fince we 
may with good Reafon conclude that the 
Force of thofe Fibres cannot in a live Animal 
be greater than the Force which will tear them 
afunder as foon as dead. Neither can th^ 
PreflTure of the Diaploragm and of the Muf- 
cles of the Abdomen on the Stomach, be in 
our urmofl Saainings greater than a Weight of 
Mercury two Inches deep, and of the-Breadtti 
of all their Areas, as I have (hewn under Ex- 
periment CXVI, Vbl, I. p. 270. And that the 
Sum of the ComprefTure of the Mufcles of the 
Abdomen and Diaphragm^ and alfo of the Sro- 
rfiach on its Contents, is not nearly equal to 
the Weight of two Inches Depth of Mercu- 
ry, is evident from Appendix, Experiment 
VII. 
