A mechanical account of the non-naturals: being a brief explication of the changes made in human 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:
1722
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Credit: A mechanical account of the non-naturals: being a brief explication of the changes made in human 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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    COROL. ri The Vifcidity of the feparated Fluid- •will be reciprocally, as the Celerity of the Blood at the Orifice of the feparating Canal COROL. II. The Velocity of the Blood at the Ori¬ fice of the feparating Canal, being as the, number of Plications in the complicated Artery ; (by the 40tb Prop. of ‘Bellini de motu dor did) therefore the Vifcidity of the fecerned Matter, will be as the number of Plications in the comolicated Artery. PROP/X, , When the Motion of the Blood is too; flow, the moft ferous Part of the Blood is thrown upon thefe Arteries, which are the fmalleft, moft complicated, or at the greateft diftance from the Heart. For the Motion of the Blood being too flow,more of the red part of it Will move along the Axis of the Artery than before (by the jtb Prop.) therefore the red Part Will move with much greater celerity than the Serum, (by the %th and gth Prop.) and confcquently thro5 fuch Arteries where there is the leaft refiftance, viz. thro’ the wideft, the leaft complicated, and thofe neareft the. Heart, for which teafon the Serum will be forced upon