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Anthropologia nova, or, a new system of anatomy. With additions / [James Drake].

  • James Drake
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1727-1728
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Credit: Anthropologia nova, or, a new system of anatomy. With additions / [James Drake]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    them Convi&ion, at Ieaft not to me. The Rea- 1bn of this Mifearriage of fo many great Wits, leems not to be any want in them of Qualifica¬ tions lufficient for fuch Inquiries, but that the Matter is in its own Nature not precifely de¬ terminable. Blood However all theie (except they who bring a commonly Nutritious Juice thro' the Nerves) agree that the Ibcthc *4-^°°^ is the Vehicle, that conveys the Alimen- hicie of tary Parts, through all the Body, whatsoever they Nutritious may be, and whencefoever deriv'd. But perhaps Particles. Up0n t]ie Score of its Heterogeneity or Compo- fition of different Elements, they did not make that itfelf the Nutritious Fluid without refrain¬ ing the Faculty of Nourilhing to fome particu¬ lar parts of it, as thinking the general Account too vague and indefinite. I muff conlefs myfelf of another Mind, and own, that I think all thole precife Determinations to be too narrow and reftrain’d, and that the Blood in its largefi: acceptation (including all thole parts which have been before delcrib’d as belonging to it) is Am¬ ple and homogeneous enough for the purpole of Nutrition. No partf I conceive therefore that all the Ipecifically •:uiar Tsu. different parts (be they more, or fewer than thole we have already delcrib’d) which circulate toge¬ ther in the Velfels under the common Name of Blood ^ do contribute fomething either Inftru- mentally or Materially to the Augmentation or Reparation of the Parts through which they pals : But how much each precifely for its lhare does leparately contribute, I do not pretend to know : Nor indeed to be able to lay, that the Liquor, which we call Blood, confifts pre¬ cifely and exactly of fo many Elements or Parts Ample, as to Senle, and our Analyfis, and no more. tritious Juice. There**
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