Deliramenta catarrhi, or, the incongruities, impossibilities, and absurdities couched under the vulgar opinion of defluxions / The author ... Joh. Bapt. van Helmont, &c. The translator and paraphrast Dr. Charleton.

  • Jan Baptist van Helmont
Date:
1650
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Credit: Deliramenta catarrhi, or, the incongruities, impossibilities, and absurdities couched under the vulgar opinion of defluxions / The author ... Joh. Bapt. van Helmont, &c. The translator and paraphrast Dr. Charleton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fe eae PN Lat UE ee Tee Naty VEL fhe ae ie aRECe Gea ey aoe LY Mee Ra al trae oat é i aN Pd . r kag MS: 7 re F. ; ; . “eopeerning Defluxions, © Ag i __ , The Gullet isnot opened longwayes, but during the ON » defcent of Aliment. Whichif very,dry, makesa ftand in ‘) the paflage, nor eafily defcends, unlefledriven down by li- Rr i _ ‘quor fuperadded < which could notbe, if theGuZercontai- Pe ial ned aer beneath the mortell, unlefle there followed a Belch | upon the deglutition of each morfell. Yet the top of the ee Guillet , about the Larinx or head of the wind-pipe, is com- se aan _ monly open. | | eS | Aah . 9. The lower end of the Gullet is contra&ted by an aliene tol oe power, andis therefore never opened but by the violence of ut {ome alimentor other tenent, either-entering into, or ex- ee - palfedfrom theftomack : Orupon the knocking of Huz- By ~ ger, it may be unlocked bya ftrange key, i.€. not by itsown motion, fince the humidity of its fides naturally difpofethh ~~ ng them to C oncidence, or failing together. FASE be a ae 10. No Aer, and much lefle Vapour, arifeth out of the .. Tyan «ea _ ftomack, and aicends, without giving the loud repertof ie ‘a Beleb. ie | | ‘ 43. Though that heat, which is neceffary to the ftomack, immediately caufeth the exhalation of vapours: yet it fol: Jowsnot, that the fame heat fhould protrude thofe vapours ie _ supward, with fo great violence ‘as is required to break open ie: rf _ the dore of the fromack, being faft locke, and diftend the cr _ ‘Gullet,fince any. one of the contradifory Thefés being con- ceded, it will be a genuine iaference, that every man miutft be troubled with continual] belchings. ise ‘i 12. Inthe ftomack, as in all other vellels moderately hot, — - fee: every watery vapour doth fooner upon’ the left comprefli- e's “on, return to its primitive confiftence , and.anice againin — ee ‘drops; then tobe of power fafficient to elevateand diftend . a ‘aclofely compreffed membrane of confiderable magnitude. - Where we obferve, bytheby, That Vzponrs'are not the Caufe : of Belchings: -but onely the Gas feluefire, * or acertain Wilde Gas bifircas — _ fpirit exhaling from fome aliment. | tum, ab Hel- - 7 Beet | Ssbhoalens x as montio zoftra. __— fabricatum iaveni : primum fcilicet Aque, five Meteoron ; /écundum fylveftres Gas Me- _ teoron defignat Aquam, ia -vaporem, per geniale acris frigus (ubi ommiaco femel deduéha con- — fomuntur, & in priftianm aque elementam retroceduat) refolutam. Quinam vapor alteriis. — rs pes oh hen ptique. = ‘ & Th , N : - 5 A ce i; .