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pr ihe Neiphibourins Parrs, Mat contd give an O. )Posrion, and be oF 2 800d lenerh; for orheroise
rixinarion co rhole Mluleles belon cheir Interrion, che Mear dixested in che Scomach voud pals a-
25 in lome duadrupeas; Wheretore the Divine AF.
chirect of (lumane Bodies has placed chis double
Pully belou cheir Terminarions, wohereby chey
pertorm their designed ORice. Elence Declutition
is hindred, when chese Muscles are in Action, chey
chen prevenens ine Allen et lil Tongue and La
may 100 Fast.
The ses oE chese, ihe Liquid Menstruum or
Nacural Ferment oE rhe Scomach he chinks contists
OE thele Ingredients; L. Thie Saliva or Spiecle
2. The Juice contained in the Scomachical Colarics.
and 3. The Nirro aeria l Spiric oE che Nerves.
DICESTIVE Medicines, are ciiter anvernat Ox
Faeternal.
Thic Incernat are ulually presetib d eo prexare
the Body by Purgarion, Wrhich chey do by ma
a
ing the tumours Auid, acreruarins and drawine
viscous or rough substances, remperins such ad
are Marp, dilurins Sales, blunrins, concentratine;
and imbibine Acids, C5C
Fxternal Digestives, are sucti a5 ripen a Lumor.
or generare pood and laudable Marrer in
Wound.
DIGIT, in Aptronomy, is che tvelsch pare ob
he Diamerer Ot the Sun or Moon; Tis uled EO
DIOTTATOM Folium, amonsthe Boranists, is
the Ferm For che L eaF oF a Plane, wHich cirher is
composed os many simple Leares ser rogetter ux
on one FOOr Scalk, as in Cinque- Eoil, Verches, (9C.
er else nhen chere are many decp Cathes Or Curs
in ehe Leat, a5 in chose oE SeraW. Berries, HOp3,
(9C
DIOTTORUM Tensor: Sec Fxrensor Disito
rum Communis.
DIGTES OE Monades, 2 Term in Arichmerick.
sienityins any inreser under Ten, 25 1, 2, 3, 4.
5. 6
DTIAMBOS, is the FOOT OF a Parin Verse ob
DIGESTER a Vessel (0 called by irs Inventor four Syllables, and componnded ot ruo tambicks
midale lons; 25 Severitas.
DILATATION, amone the Anaromists, is
just as they are narurally in the Scomach, Wleh IS wtien any Pallases or Recepracies in ehie Body are
wrhen tome Macter is pur over a genele Hear, e0 e00 much strerehed or distended; and in generai
intuse ic in lome proxer Menstruum, OE Liquor HC) it Bxrities a chinsS cakine ux imore Space Than it
did betore
DTLATORIOM, is 2 Chprurseons InArU.
triene, wherewith che Mouth is dilated or opened.
Ic is cassed sitevise speculum Oris, because by it
one may sec inco che MouTH.
DILATORES Nlarum Hasi, are sinall thir
in Oxon, tas 2 Dilcourle concernins Direstion pub. Muscles; harine a double order ot Fibres de
listred in Phil. Transact. N. 162. Wherein he sup- cussacins each ocher, noc unlite che Musculi In
poles char there is necellary ro Dixeltion in che rercostales; chey puIl ux che Alae and dilace ihc
NoArilS.
DTEEMMA, is an Areument compounded ulu
ally oF four or more Proposicions, and (o dilpoled.
in che Scomach, Which he chinks ic receires trom chac omn or grane which pou vill of them, yer
he Liver, and cherein talls in wich the Opinion oF sill the Arsumene Phall prels vou, and hem you
DE. Clisson. 3. Tis necessarr chac che Scomach in vich Diskcalries noc readily ro be solved or lur-
bad Dixestion and lols oE Apperice; and’eis allo more of the Propositions; and che Arouer himsels
DIEDTF, is a ord trequentiy uled by etie
Wrirers oF Chymistey and Pharmacy, and bigni
OIMEHSIODI in Geomerry, is cicter L. eneth.
neceflacy chac ihce Cn1s Moula d   ac) ble Dimension,s ein LegoM; a duitsce, trre; vis
Tengrt
rynx; neicher can ve ac char cime draw the louvei
Pan donn becaute e Cenr o Direction is pullc
upwards, vheretore we are oblised on char occa
sion ro keep the Paws clole rogerher. Bur ir
Woes and orher Voracious Animals, who have rhele
Muccles aritins from the transverle Processes ol
ehe sirHt Vertebra O e eck, thele Actions arc
limene (0 quick.
DIGESI dr Pandects; the A Volume O
Fome oC the Civil. La is callea eHe seest 
Pandects: Disest, because che Aucot Nath put Ot
digested all chines, every B00K a LIIC II I
Dioper and narural Place and Ordet, au Lan-
comprehendins in ic selt all chac evec fuscintan
Booies oF che LaW.
This Digest was collected trom the notRSO
27 Venerable and Eminem Old Lawvers, Where.
ot leveral evere betore Christ, and che ortiers
Lolrimed in che Fime ot che Cimperots, ereu un-
WOIDE Lime oF Maximinus, 25 we Aind trom Spar.
tianus and Lampridius in ThaE EmperOIs LMC
Lhc Tome ot che Digests is crca alo 7 Parrs
noc dependant; whence ir is chey deroux their A
dects trom mer and sexouas, as conrainins and expressche Ouantier oF an Pclipse.
drem or collected our ot 150000 Verses ot theolc
auet cher agan inIo 50B0015. L0CIS LomC dI
Thomas Ridley ad45 che Institutidus et institules
Wrhich sec under chac word.
DIGESTIO Chrmica, 2 Chymical Digest
irtien thines are digested by an Arciticial blcal,
MP. Papin, and is akind oF Balneum Mariae Clausum. Co rtiac che tiest and last arc More and etie eve
eo dilolve ie, thac (0 ic may as near as lan be, DC
like the effect ot a Nacural hear.
DIGESTION, che ConcoctMO TheAliment.
or che Dissolurion ot lie, es thich chey are
curned inro Chyle.
Mr. Charles Leish, chen oE Brazen-Nose Colles
Scomachs oE Animals, I. A Liquid Menstruum,
ertrich by iis peculiar Faculty operates uxon cheir
Meac, and helps to dissolve ir. 2. A genele FIear
have a Natural Situarion. 4. Thac che Omentum mouneed, especially is che Dilemma De just; in
be asticting, for ic hach been found by Anaromr. order eo which, the Division and Fnumeration o
chac where rhe Omentum hach been purritr d in an the Parts must be adequate and entire; jour Anta
Hluman Body ic was alvays accompanied wirh a sonist must be truly pressed and affected vithone or
obserrable, char chole Creacures which have no, frec tiom a Postibiliry ot havins rhe Dilemma re-
Omentum, 25 Elares, and Conies, C90. do help) curned upon trim
cheir Concoction by doublins cheir hinder L egs.
and restins cheir Bellies uxon chems 4. TIS ne-
losa, Wtiiet boch helps ro divide che Meat ino a Moist or Liquid one: tor wheri che Bod is (0
Imail Parcels, and allo kecps rhe Tunica Carnosa dissoved, cher Cay ris diluted.
From beins 100 much distended, whieh nould by
cellary rhar ehe Scomach Mould have a Punica Vil- sies rhe Dissolurion of che Parrs ot à dry Body in
deorees meaten and injure irs Tone. 5. Vis Brendch op Thicknels, chus a Linc has, cher lay.