A mechanical account of the non-naturals: being a brief explication of the changes made in humane bodies, by air, diet, etc. Together with an enquiry into the nature and use of baths ... To which is prefix'd the doctrin [sic] of animal secretion ... / By Jer. Wainewright.

  • Wainewright, Jeremiah.
Date:
1737
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Credit: A mechanical account of the non-naturals: being a brief explication of the changes made in humane bodies, by air, diet, etc. Together with an enquiry into the nature and use of baths ... To which is prefix'd the doctrin [sic] of animal secretion ... / By Jer. Wainewright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    great part of the bilious Mals re¬ turns again to the Blood ; and that by the Lacteals too : For as by the Analyfis of the Bile we are inform’d, that it con fills of a great deal of Water, a little Oil, and a little Salt • this Water, which is the lymph or ferous part of the Blood, and which indeed is the greatell part of it, and of very great Importance, in confi- deration that it is a Vehicle for Sjr the Parts it dilfolves, as was be¬ fore obferv’d lpeaking of Chyh~ fication. This Lymph then, we may affirm, does the fame kind Office to thole parts of the Blood, with which being join’d, it has the Denomination of Bile ^ which it keeps fufficiently diluted, becomes their Vehicle, and being well mix’d, gives them Conveyance to the Inteftines ; where being O mix’d