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or the Neighbouring Parts, that could gwe an
Agination to those Muscles below ^ r ’
15 in tome Quadrupeds ; wherefore the U* v . i e
thitcct of Humane Bodies has placed this dou
Pally below their Terminations, where y
perform their designed Office. Hence
whindred, when these Muscles are in Action, j
then preventing the Ascent of the Tongue a ^
7 njc ; neither can we at that time draw t ^
jaw down because the Centre of D<rH ilon ‘ 1 P
swards, wherefore we are obliged on t ^
to keep the Jaws close together.
and other Voracious Animals, w to £ es 0 {
Muscles arising from the tranlvctle ? are
'he Cult Vertebra of the Neck, these ^
? Qc dependant; whence it is they dev
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'o the’Ji” £ " e He of the Emperors, even un-tfivuj ?t) , e cf Maximinus, as we find from Spar-ge 7- 0%a swpridius in that Emperor’s Life.at >d they a • C ^ e ®*g e ft s is divided into 7 Parts,jwJ* a,n * nt0 5° Books. To this Tome Sir''bicl, jA V adds the Institutions or Institutes ;
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^■Papi n a JV a Vessel so called by its Inventorisakind of Balneum Maria: Claufum, !lO Chymica , a Chymical Digestion , isare digested by an Artificial Heat,^ben s Q * a ‘ e naturally in the Stomach, which is"sese it i n f atCcr is put over a gentle Heat, tobifTolvg ; , e P r oper Menstruum, or Liquor fitthx eAka 1 - Id it may as near as can be, be^GESTiovt a Crural heat.
, r 'be ft; J,\S the Concoction of the Aliments,Ul ' n cd i ntQ p^i 011 of them, by which they are• "lr. Qh v -'hyle.
haJ 1 then of Bra^en-Nose College
1 lc d i n p, . a Oilcourfe concerning Digestion pub-w l hat rk ^ ran Jact. N. i6z. wherein he lup-wk^ebs 0 f r f ? necessary to Digestion in thej^'cb by j ts Animals, i. A Liquid Menstruum ,
: e ^> a nd v, P ecu Lar faculty operates upon theirth l |'^ t oui a e if S t0 dissolve it. L. A gentle Heatjx C Liver . c ,' which he thinks it receives fromh r ’, G ‘‘JJ°n. n t ,4- re ' n fa Hs in with the Opinion ofso' e a blatu?) H necessary that the Stomachtk ai Eftinp ft Station. 4. That the Omcntumu at ' ,v ber c ’ t i 1p r r , u bvh been found by Anatomy,barTt 1 ! Eosiv : mentum hath been putrify’d in annkr se'festint, ^ w , a ? always accompanied with aOm rVa ble tk a r nd . °s s °1 Appetite ; and ’tis alsothei^p'' 1 . as it ''dole Creatures which have noan j ^'° t 'CQct; slr , a , rcs > at) d Conies, fife. do helpCea ar rCst ' n K their Bdh° Ublln8 their hu, der Legs,^.^atthe Srr- ! Upon them - 4- Tis ne-
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Digito-
de^'bg to 0
a rcel s ,
helps toa nd also
divide the Meat intokeeps the Tunica Carnofa
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VC6 -e> wo much distended, which would by>uleir S Weaken and injure its Tone.lat Y that the Guvs should lie in a
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a winding
Position, and be of . a good length; for otherwisethe Meat digested in the Stomach would pass a-way too fast.
The first of these, the Liquid Menstruum orNatural Ferment of the Stomach he thinks consistsof these Ingredients; 1. The Saliva or Spittle.2. The Juice contained in the Sromachical Glands,and 3. The Nitro-aerial Spirit of the Nerves,
DIGESTIVE Medtcines , are either Internal orExternal . ,
The Internal are usually prescrib'd to preparethe Body by Purgation, winch they do by ma-king the Humours fluid, attenuating and drawingviscous or tough Subliances, tempering inch asareiharp, diluting Saits, Hunting, concentrating,and imbibing Acids, (sic.
External Digestives, are such as ripen a Tumor,or generate good and laudable Matter in aWound.
DIGIT, in Astronomy, i« the twelfth part ofthe Diameter of the oun or Moon; ’tis uled toexpress the Quantity ot an Eciipie.
DIGITATUM Folium, among the Botanists, isthe Term for the Leaf ot a Plant, which either iscom poled of many simple Leaves set together up-on one Foot Stalk, as in Cinque-ioii, Vetches (3c,or else when there are many deep Gashes or jutsin the Leaf, as in thole of Straw -Berries, Hops,
DIGITORUM Tensor: See Extensorrum Communis,
DIGITS or Mor ..Its, a Term in Anrhnneack,signifying any htegcr under Ten, as 1, z, z, 4,
5, 6, 7, 8, Y
DIJAMB so, is the Foot of a Latin Verlc offour Syllables, and compounded of two lambicky ;so that the first and last are short and the rvo.middle song; as Severitas.
DILATATION, among the Anatomists, iswhen any Passages or Receptacles in the Body aretoo much stretched or distended ; and in generalit signifies a thing’s taking up more Space than itdid before.
D 1 LATORIUM, is a ChyrurgeonV Instru-ment, wherewith the Mouth is di aied or opened.It is called likewise Speculum Otis, becaule by itone may fee into the Mouth.
DILATOR.ES Alarum Nast , are small thinMuscles , having a double order of Fibres de-cussating each other, not unlike the Mufculi In -ter cost ales ; they pull up the Ale and dilate theNostrils.
DILEMMA, is an Argument compounded usu-ally of four or more Propositions, and so disposed,that own or grant which you will of them, yetstill the Argument shall prels you, and hem youin with Difficulties not readily to be tolved or sur-mounted , especially if the Dilemma be just, inorder to which, the Division and Enumeration ofthe Parts must be adequate and entire ; your Anta-gonist must be truly pressed and affected with one ormore of the Propositions ; and the Arguer himselffree from a Possibility of having the Dilemma re-turned upon him.
DILUTE, is a word frequently used by theWriters of Chymistry and Pharmacy, and signi-fies the Dissolution of the Parts of a dry Body ina Moist or Liquid one; for when the Body is sodissolved, they say 'tis diluted.
DIMENSION, in Geometry, is either Length,Breadth, or Thicknels, thus a Line has, they lay,one Dimension, wif. Length; a Surface, two, vi%,G g a Length