2 6 
The Stomachs and Guts. 
in Rumination, is a Voluntary Eructation. 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 affiflance of the Glandulous and the Ner¬ 
vous Membranes, the buhnefs of Chylifocation feems to be 
perform’d. The Mucous Excrement of the Blood being 
fupply’d by the former, as an Animal Corrofive , preparing - 
and the Excrement of the Nerves by the latter,as an Animal 
Ferment, perfecting the Work. And the Coccus Ventricu¬ 
lar of a -Hog, feems to be a Repo/itory provided for fuch a 
mixed Leven or Menftruum : whereby he not only becomes 
more voraceous,having thence continual irritations to eat: 
but all he eats, is thereby likewife well digeded. 
The Folds of the Stomach, which in its Corrugation mud 
needs be much deeper than when it is dilated, or of ufe. To 
divide the Aliment into feveral Portions, and thereby ad- 
mimfter 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 Beads, are alfo of great ufe, viz. For 
the Tatfing of the Meat. Dr. Willis defcribing the Inner 
Membrane of the Stomach (not of a Bead, but exprefly 
of a Man) fpeaketh thus; Hac Cruft a Ventriculum (Huma- 
num puta) iiitrn obtegens, /mills videtur Illi, qua Linguam 
obtegit. Wherein he was midaken: this Inner Membrane 
being Glandulous; the Skin of the Tongue not fo, but only 
Fibrous. But of divers Beads which Ruminate, thus much 
is true, That in their Three drd Venters, the Inner Mem¬ 
brane is Fibrous, and not Glandulous 5 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 
00 chap. 4. before deferibed (a) both in fubltance and fhape,altogether 
like to thofe upon the Tongue. Whence I doubt not, but 
that the laid Three Ventricles, as they have a power of Volun¬ 
tary Motion: fo likewife, that they are the Seat of Taft, 
and as truly the Organs of that fenfe, as is the Tongue it 
fed. 
Ladly, 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 Panel) 
well 
