The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the creation : In two parts. viz. the heavenly bodies, elements, meteors, fossils, vegetables, animals, (beasts, birds, fishes, and insects) more particularly in the body of the earth, its figure, motion, and consistency, and in the admirable structure of the bodies of man, and other animals, as also in their generation, &c / By John Ray.

  • John Ray
Date:
1692
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Credit: The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the creation : In two parts. viz. the heavenly bodies, elements, meteors, fossils, vegetables, animals, (beasts, birds, fishes, and insects) more particularly in the body of the earth, its figure, motion, and consistency, and in the admirable structure of the bodies of man, and other animals, as also in their generation, &c / By John Ray. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -the extrajSingof the Nutritious Juice out oi the Aliment in feveral kinds of CreatureSi 1. In viviparous ^adrupeds the Food moiftried with the S^\vdQ [^ faliva ] is firft chewed and prepared in the Mouth ; \ then Swallowed into the Stomach , where being mingled with fome difTolvent Juices j it is by the heat thereof concodled, macerated and reduced into a Chyle or Cremor; and fo evacuated into the Inteftines j where be¬ ing mixed with the Choler and pancreatick Juice, it is further fubtilized and rendred ib fluid and penetrant, that the thinner and finer part of it, cafily finds its way in at the ftrait Orifices of the la£teous Veins. 2. In Birds there is no Maftication of Comminution of the Meat in the Mouth; but in fuch as are not Carnivorous ^ it is imme¬ diately fwallowed into the Crop or Craw; or at'Ieafl: into a kind of Anteftomach ( which- i I have obferved in many , efpecially Pifcivo- rous Birds ) where it is moiftned and molli¬ fied by fome proper Juice from the Glandules diftiliing in there ; and thence transferred ’ into -the Gizzard dr Mufculous Stomach j where by the working of the Mufcles com¬ pounding thefides of that Ventricle, and by the affiflance of fmall Pebbles (which the : Creature fwailows for that purpofe ) it is, as it were, by Millftones, ground fmall, and fo
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