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ing Vapours and Fumes from the Stomach 3 whereas, as 
I imagine, that part of the Stomach which receives the 
Vi&uals is always (hut, except when it difcharges it felf 
of Wind, which comes out by the Throat 5 and how 
can the fumes come out of the Head and delcend upon 
the Tongue, as they alfo maintain, juft as if our Heads 
were of the fhape and make of the Helm or Head of a 
Still. 
Might we not better refolve it thus $ That our Tongues 
are fo conftituted, as to receive a few of thofe Juices in- 
to the Orifices of its Veffels, and that this caufes the 
Senfation which we call Tafte, and that thefe Juices are 
carried or prefs’d by the little Coats or Tunica’s of the 
fmall Veins that are in the Tongue, and fo continued by 
the great Vein to the Heart $ but when we re indifpofed 
with a Fever, the Whitenefs which at that time appears 
upon the Tongue is occafion’d by the Blood being fo thick, 
that it can’t be carry ’d (as it ought to be) thro 5 the final! 
Veffels, and by the Expulfion or driving back of that 
Moifture in the Blood, which we call Serum. 
Now the Tongue being thus cover’d with that White 
Matter that is protruded out of its Veffels, is uncapable 
of admitting any of its juices into it, and this is the 
reafon that at fuch times we have little or no Tafte. 
Moreover there lay about that Matter which has been 
delcribed by Fig . 1, 2, 3, 4, a vaft Number of little Scales, 
with which our Mouth is all cover’d over within ^ and 
the Painter having obferved two fuch Scales that lay 
partly upon one another, he drew them, as you may fee 
in Fig. 5, between A and B, and below them there lay 
another fingle Scale, which ts deferibed by Fig. , 6 . 
CD. 
Now fince we obferve fo many of thefe little Scales to 
fall off of their own accord from the Mouth, may we not 
well conclude, that in a ftrong Fever, fuch Scales re- 
ceive Nourilhment. 
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