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The angel of Bethesda, visiting the invalids of a miserable world [Seven lines of…
The angel of Bethesda, visiting the invalids of a miserable world [Seven lines of quotations] / By a Fellow of the Royal Society.
printed by Timothy Green, 1722
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XV. TIS the Nishmath-Chajim, that is the Strength of every part in our Body, and that gives Motion to it. Here perhaps the Origin of Muscular Motion may be a little accounted for. And this is the Spirit, and the Balsam, & one might almost say, the Keeper, of each part, which is Occupied and Befriended with it. Yea, what Construction shall we make of it, when People have Lived without any Brains in their Heads, & after the Destruction of almost all the Bowels in their Bodies? We are supplied and surprised with many most Credible Relations of such Things. And I Question, whither any thing will do so well, or go so far, as our Nishmath-Chajim, to account for them?
XV. TIS the Nishmath-Chajim, that is the Strength of every part in our Body, and that gives Motion to it. Here perhaps the Origin of Muscular Motion may be a little accounted for. And this is the Spirit, and the Balsome, & one might almost say, the Keeper, of each part, which is Occupied and Befriended with it. Yea, what Construction shall we make of it, when People have Lived without any Brains in their Heads, & after the Destruction of almost all the Bowels in their Bodies? We are supplied and surprized with many most Credible Relations of such Things. And I Question, whither any thing will do so well, or go so far, as our Nishmath-Chajim, to account for them?
XVI. THE Principal Wheel in the Animal Economy, is the Stomach. And we shall now find that which above all things the Digestion there, is to be ascribed unto. Dispute, O Philosophers, and Physicians, How Digestion is Performed in the Stomach. Tis the Nishmath-Chajim ⟨p. 10⟩after all, that is above all, the Main Digester. Else, how could a Stomach that is actually Cold, and has in it no very Tastable or Notable Humour for this purpose, Digest the very Stones that are taken down into it?
XVI. THE Principal Wheel in the Animal Oeconomy, is the Stomach. And we shall now find that which above all things the Digestion there, is to be ascribed unto. Dispute, O Philosophers, and Physicians, How Digestion is Performed in the Stomach. Tis the Nishmath-Chajim