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CHA P. XIV.
XIV. SECT. I.

The common and accidental Agents or Caufes, which contribute to make the Juices fecrete out of the Blood-Veffels into the Glands on the Sides of the Stomach and Guts, with their Effects and outward Appearances.

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Ifcharging the Meat and Drink, and efpecially the Steam, abating the Fermentation, condenfing the Steam by cold Meat or Drink, or by cool heavy Corpufcles in them, &c. which abates or takes away the Refiftance within, and fuffers the Preffure of the Air, and the Steam in the Blood-veffels to fill the Blood-veffels in the Sides of that Part of the Stomach or Guts, contract them, and force the Juices out of the Blood-veffels into the Glands in their Infides, and stock them there for Fermentation, Discharge, &c. There may be other Causes that contribute, fuch as the Thinnefs of the Blood, Cleannefs and Openness of the Ducts into the Glands, cool Air to prevent the Steam from iffuing too faft at the Pores, moderate Action, &c. If the Juices

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be fecreted in due Proportion, the Blood will be sweet and cool; if too few, the Blood will be too hot and fharp; if too many, the Excrements will be too hot and fharp, &c. as aforefaid.

SECT. II.

Which binders the Juices from Jecreting into the Glands, &c.

STEAM, which keeps the Sides of

the Stomach and Guts too much extended, flattens the Blood-veffels, hinders the Blood from circulating thro' them in due Quantity, and preffes the Glands, that the Air cannot drive the Juices them; either by rifing in too great Quantity, or by being too grofs, or by the Straighthefs or Foulnefs of the lacteal Veffels, Thicknefs of the Blood, or frequently for want of Action.

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SECT. III.

Which opens the Mouths or Valves of the Glands, in the feveral Parts, to dif charge the Fuices for the feveral Ufes,

&c.

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Nereafe of the Preffure of the Atmo fphere, or Diminution of the Expanfion of the Steam within, or the Corpufcles of Fire, Salt, or pointed Bodies applied in proper Fluids or Steam, with the Motion of the Fluids or Steam, or other proper Agents to impell or wreft them, to fret off the Coats or Phlegm, &c. which cover their Mouths with a fort of Skin, or to cleanse the ftagnant Matter out of their Mouths, or to open their Mouths, by being pufhed in like Wedges, or in extraordinary Cafes, by taking off or thinning this outward Skin, cutting their Valves, or Sides, &c. It may seem strange to affert, that the fmall Corpuscles of Fire, or volatile Salts, can open the Valves of the Glands in the Stomach, &c. But if we confider that the Valves of thofe Glands, which we fee or difcover with Glaffes, are compofed of Glands ftill fmaller and fmaller, and Valves

Valves to them proportionable to the Magnitudes of the Corpufcles of Fire, Salts, &c. even fuppofing as fmaller as we can imagine, and the Corpufcles which conftitute the Juices in them still smaller, and that opening the Mouths of the fmallest Glands difcharges the Juices out of them, and weakens and opens the Valves of the Glands fucceffively larger; and that if the Corpufcles do but open the Mouths of the smallest Glands, till the Steam which before circulated into the Blood, get Vent at the Mouths of them, it will foon open the Valves wider, and that if fmall Bodies by rebounding, can expand and ftretch the Veffels that contain them to any Extent, which any other Force can, the Operation will appear more practicable. The Confequences of their being opened too much, or continuing open too, long, have been mentioned above.

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SECT. IV.

Which but the Mouths of the
Glands, &c.

Xpanfion, of the Steam within, Diminution of the Preffure of the Air without; the Thickness or Closeness of

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the Glands within, and the Weakness or Openness of the outward Pores, Phlegm, or tough close Matter, which cover the Mouths, or ftagnant Matter in the Mouths of the Glands, Corpufcles of fome forts of Matter, which they call Aftringents or Stipticks, which dry or thicken the Juices in the fmall Valves, and scorch the Valves, and fome blunt or flat ones, which are fo figured, as to fit and ftop their Mouths, or to be preffed against, and cover them, or, &c. That Corpufcles infinitely small can stop the Mouths of the Glands, will not appear fo ftrange if it be likewife confidered, that stopping the Mouths of the smallest Glands, which compose the Valves of the greater Glands, ftops the Mouths of the greater, by hindering the Juices from being discharged out of the Glands, which compofe the Valves of the greater Glands, and hindering them from opening. If when the Glands are full, the Steam can rife and extend the Stomach without emptying the Glands, it must cause a Senfe of Fulnefs or Stitches and Pain, acccording to the Strength and Quality of the Steam.

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