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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
# Folio 227, page id 797370323:0385
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COats,
nent ot
OF the
lparent
tearthe
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Veins,
Arteries.
erueture
the in-
erctood,
exhe AF
cch; tHC
oblique
OF saturat Beli
obligue Fibres, wrtrich malce buE Fe turnS
Perrecsto propasate genely che included
Fluid, the Loncitudinal ones to more thc
Vesset, and the included Fluid, up or
donn in a direction parallel to its lenoct,
by encreasins chis dimention and cherebr
lelenine the ocher, i. c. the trantverle
Diameter; the Spiral ones by Equeerins it
crantrerlely, and (o encreatino ic in lenoch
Or lessening ic in breadch. Thus the BI00d
beins pustre by che contraction oF chetTCALE
into che Arteries, distends their COats a
long their Whole leneth, till the force ot
the nacural Flasticity oF che Membranons
Coat, bc equal to the Force oF this Im-
Pulse; then chac Flasticitr, ot this Coat bc.
Sinmine co act, at the Came cine the ner-
vons Juice is (quecr dout tromthe Nerves
by chis dilatation oE che (mall Arteries, a-
mons the Originatine Nerves in the Brain,
and Co brings the Nnscular Fibres into A
ction, atter the manner alreads explain d.
And boch chele Forces actins ac once,
propell che Blood in a continued SErCaM,
chrough che unincerrupted Channels ot
ehc