Parties engaged in the Difpute concerning them, and his Defcriptions being defign'd for a Syftem, not a particular Treatife, this Piece is ftill very fhort. He fuppofes the Nerves fo many Canals full of a fubtile Fluid. The following Facts allow'd by all Anatomifts are laid down, and all the Phenomena mention'd in the Defcription of particular Nerves, may be folved by them. 1. Motion and Senfation depend on the Nerves. 2. When the Nerves, their Source, or their Coats are vitiated, either a Convulfion or Palfy of the Muscles may enfue. 3. Senfations are pleasant, while the Nerves are only gently affected, but when a Force applied to them goes beyond this, and threatens a Solution of Union, it produces that uneafy Senfation which we call Pain.

The Account of the Alternate Motions of the Heart is chiefly taken from Boerhaave's Inftitutions, with the Addition of fome Circumstances. But this is too short to admit of an Abstract.

THE Descriptions of the Lacteal Sac and Duct is inferted, as our Author tells us, because they are not rightly made in the common Books of Anatomy. He adds, that in the Year 1719 he imagin'd himself the only Perfon, who could give a complete Demonftration of them in the Human Body. The Saccus Lacteus, or, as others term it, Receptaculum Chyli, is a membranous Bag, of a fomewhat pyramidal Form, two thirds of an Inch long, one third of an Inch over, in its largest Part, when collapfed. It is fituated on the firft Vertebra of the Loins, to the Right of the orta, a little higher, than the right emulgent Artery, under the right inferior Mufcle of

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the Diaphragm; and form'd by the Union of three Tubes. After a plain and full Account of its Structure and Situation, the Author concludes with these two Queries. 1. Whether the Situation of this Part fo much nearer the mufcular Appendices in Men than in Brutes, is not defign'd to fupply the difadvantageous Course, which the Chyle muft otherwife take in our erect Pofition? 2. Does not the Defcent of the Extremity of the Duct to the fubclavian Vein, and the opening of the Lymphatic into the Top of the Arch, contribute to the ready Admiffion of the Chyle into that Vein?

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