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# Title: Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 71; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 71)
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che Carier, cheretore ic is furrounded wvich a Arone
Lisament, Which rilestrom che edge ot che C avits
ot che Scapula. AFIES louer-end ic has EvO PrOTU
berances; che one exterhal, Which receires the
Excremies oFrhe Radius; Che orher Internal, Which
Is receired into rhe Sem-CHCular Sinus oF chC VI
na; on the Fore side ot ehis Procuberance, chere is
Imall Sinus, wvtich recerres un lore Process of che
Vina; and on che back.-hde chete ls dnocher lars
Sinus, wohich receires che Olecramum. There is
anorher (mail Proruberance M e side ot chis
From which che Muscles MaCMC O eC C O che
Armarise.
pula; bur becanse ehis Fead is mueh larper han ) sire pure Bodies in ic; co wir, Spirit, Sulphur Or
FIOMIO. Bloom, in his FTC
Tome Liguors and Fluids are endowed withi. This
dissers very much trom Fluidiey, as vou may sce
iinder thac Word; and seems ro be mecrly a Rela-
eire chins depending on che Congruirr oF che Com
ponene Parricles ofthe Liquor, eo che Pores oF luct
parricular Bodies, a5 ic is capable oF adherins 10
penerranins a licele into, o Wecting.
Thus for Instance, Ouiekhilrer is noca moist Li
quor, a5 ro our Flands or Clothes; but may be
ealled 10 in reserenee 10 Sold, Tin Or L cad, rC
evhole surtaces ie ill prelenely adhere. Non
even WVacer ie selE, char ivers almost every chins
and is the Breae Scandard of Noisture and Isumidi-
AY, LoHOF capable 25 Il apPears OF wetins every
ching: For it stands, and runs easily oR in Globular
Drops on the Leares ot Cabbages and mans orter
Oyi, Water, Salc, and Rarth.
There are threc general Flumours, erhich vact
the Wwhole Bodi, Blood, Lympha, (a FOrr ot pure
WVacex) and che Nerrous suice; buc chere are le-
veral parricular Fumours, as Chyle, Bile, Spicle,
Pancrearick-Juice, Sccd, (90.
Thereare also Flumours in the chree Membranes
chac cloath che Farus in che Womb, Wwhieh are
chree in those Animals chat hare Bladders: AC che
beginning wten the Fgg Falls donn From che Ova-
ria incothe Womb, the Flumours which arero chis
purpose in he bonom oF the Womb, sirst sink inro
The Mlembrane called Chorion, aud ehen into che
Amnion; buc in Procels oF rime, When che Faerus
is tormed, and che Narel. Vessels are extended ro
the Chorion, and the Amnium, we imagine charche
Nurritious Flumour beins receired by che openine
ot the Veins, is carried toche Faetus, and chence by
che Arteries lome parr oF ir is carried into the Am
nion, a5 inro che Childs Store house; (0 thac ac
che Caid rime the Liquor oF che Membrane Amnion
mas be encreased upon chis double Account. Blan-
AE last, wohen che rime oF Delirery drans near.
thac was ot Svearins chrouoh scems ro cealc, and
che ochers onts cake place; untels (a5 WNharton
irites) che Nucririous Flumour descend tromche
Placenta by the Navel Aring, and by chelicrle soFe
Protuberances, thence pals into che Carir of che
Amnion: The Osc oE chese Flumours is co nourictr
FHE FaFUS AE FHE BLOUTH.
The chird Flumour is che Vrine, which ROWS
From che Bladder by che Vrinary Palasc, into che
Vrinary Membranc.
ADMODRSos che Fge, are chrCC: THC WVa-
tery Or Aqueous, wtich is contained between che
Funiea Cornea an DVea.
2. The Chrystaline, ox Tey Pumour, wotiieh is
conrained in the Funica Dvea, and is chicker rhan
the rest.
3. The Vitrious or Classe Fumour, bieper chan
ans oE che rest, sills che backmard Cavies oF he
FyC.
The Aqueous Pumour Perres ro Moisten and Le
vigate the co orher denser Flumours, 25 al(o che
Tunica Dvea and Retina: And perhraps (Paith Die-
merbroeck) 0 nouris chem EOD. W hen chis Fails,
srons dresBr, or 100 chick, che Sighe prelency
sious dull and imperfect. IF it be (0 dreser, a5
chac preur large Parricles are formed, and svim
about in ic; che Perlon Fancies he sees Flies ane
Moars alvars betore his Fires, and is chele Parri
cles grom altosether in a Film Ox Membrane, and
(0 come to cover the Pupil, eis called a Suffusion
which is che beginnins ot a Cataract.
The Vitrious Humour, Pome Pay serres eo dilate
the Rays Which it receires From che Chrystalline, and
cobrins ehem ro rhe Retina: Ox as orhers chink,
ic helps ro collect che Rays retracted by che Chry-
stalline, inco one Point, chat the Vision may be rhe
more distinet and virid.
The Chrystalline FTumouY, Wtict Lore call Gla-
cialis, is ehe Primaty FNAEIMenE OE Vision, in re-
spect oF is collectins and receprion oF the RayS,
irtrich comine hicher dilared Dy che Aqueons HU
IOADLoES
raldry, sives you a Fesse oF chi
Form, wotich he callo, res
Fumid.
FTOMTDTEY, is che Oualicy etrich ve call chard.
Hoisture, or che Porver ot wecrins ochers, wvtich
Planes, and will not vec che L’eathers oF Ducts,
Sivans, and ocher Wacer Fol, as ic will’orher
Thines. And chac Texture onty may cause
Eluid robe Tumid, is plain trom hence; thort cho
neichet Laleshirer alone, Lead, or Bismurh, will
adhere ro Olass; vec beins mixed together, thes
viil form a Malsthac will do (0, 25 is plain From
such a Compnon veins trequentr uledro Foliare
Cooki Blales, Vid. . B0) stors s Eluia.
and Firmness, pa8. 187
FTOMITTIS. Sec Deprimens.
FTOMODRS. The Ancienis made Four Llu
mours in the Blood; theBilous, Piruitous, (Zello
ane Black Choler) Melancholick, and che Bl0Od,
properlr (0 called; and chat accordins eo chetour
Peripaterick Elemenes: Bur this Opinion is cashier-
ed, since the Invenrion oF che Circularion oF the
Blood. Zeccher are Found, When che Blood pre-
cernaturally devarrs trom ies due Temperature;
Duc cher do noi constiture an incepral parr ot the
Blood, for che Bl00d is ontr one Hlumour; if o.
herivile, Tarcar in Winc, and Dress in Beer, verc
constituene Parts os Wine and Bcer: In Blo0d chat
15 lec, etiere appear only chree different Species et
Bodies; For in the surtace, vou sec a kinu ot a
Fibrous Crust oF Coagulated Blood, wrnich spreads
it selF over che Whole Mals; ihien rou lec cerrain
ced Parricles amionest ehe Fibres, wrtrich gro black
about che BOITOMI, By realOn OF cheir tewness:
Lastly rou sec the Serum Wherein it Cvims. Bur
E any ore vill proceet more accuratoli, distil che
Bood, and distoive ic Chymieals, ha Mall tnd mom, are collected. and convered core Retine.