the Structure of the Stomach ,v which he thinks hi g.hly confldera- 
ble for the undemanding of the a&ionand ufeof this Fifcus^ and 
hitherto not taken notice of by others, that he knows. Tkenhe 
teacbeth, that the Food is notdigefted in the Stomach hy Heat 7 
nor by acid diffolving ffuyces only, but that s many caufes con- 
earring to that digeifion, the Aliment is there fermented both 
by the warmth of the Stomach it felf, and of the neighbouring 
jparts, but efpecially by the acrimonious fleams, that pafs through 
•the G a (trick and Splenick Arteries into the Stomach, which ad- 
vances alfo it’s conco&ion by it’s compreffing and relaxing mo- 
tions, and is affifted by an apt liquor, bedewing, diffolving, and 
diluting the meat, and fo converting it into a Pulfe or Creme- 
like fubftance,. Next , he teacheth, that th e Chyle paffethnot 
through the Milky Veins (fo called by Jf stilus} to the Liver % 
nor all of it through the Channel ol Pecquet to the Hearty but a 
great part of it, through the common veins of theStomach and 
the Mefentery, to th e- Liver, Nor will he admit, that the San- 
guification is performed in any Me part of the Animal, as the pe- 
culiar Shop or Elaboratory 6f.it, whether Liver, Heart, Spleen, 
&c. Nor that the parts are increafed and nourished by the red 
part of the Bloud : but that, as to the former adion, it is done 
by the means of a liquor, and by hot fleams, giving the red co- 
lour to the Chyle, as chymifts ufe to change white Juyces into red, 
by the affufion of oyl of Sulphury or the like liquors j that red- 
•nefs being much advanced by the motion and agitation of the 
bloud in the Veins and Arteries' But as to the latter ,naid. the 
Nutrition , it is perform’d by that whitifh Juyce, which is mixed 
with the Bloud, and feparated from it by the ftraining Glanduls 
of the Body, 
To thefe particulars he adds feveral not un-confiderable re- 
marks'touching the Gall , Spleen, Lymphatick veffels , &c. Obfer- 
Ing alfo , that the whole kind of Birds is defiitute of Milky 
weffels* and occasionally taking notice, that Worms are bred in 
aimoftall the parts of Animal-bodies $ of which he alledges ve- 
ry odd Obferyationsand Hiftories. 
7 . He Fit at This he affirms to confiff in the continued *Mo- 
ition of the Bloud, depending from that of the Hearu yet fo 
i.thaiithis latter proceeds notfrqm the, heat oi the Bloud (as Des- 
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