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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
# Folio 223, page id 797370323:0381
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Fibres oF the concainins VeselS. NoW
the Flcart is a Muscle, likre other Muscles
contiltins of several Orders oF Aesty Fi-
bres, ot disferent Directions, it has two
licrle Pars and as manz Ventricles, Wrhick
arc Caricies for receiring or holdine the
Blood, as ic comes trom che severat Vel
sels, or is to be driven to different Places.
The Fibres oF this Muscle, aet by che
Concitudinal Diameters oF its Muscular
Cells beins Morened, and (0 by the win-
ding and Spiral Direction of its leveral
Ordersot Fibres, theCavicies of the lars
and Ventricles are lessen d or constrinsd.
And ic is obserrable thac aM the Muscular
Fibres ot the Coats ot the Vessels, act aF
ter the manner already explaind. Bue
the Membranons Coats, meeriy by their
omn Elasticity, beins Arecchd Erstby ex-
cernal