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 part of the Brain; the Kidneys; the Spleen; the Polypus of the Heart. Concerning the Liver, hefirst gives a summary Account of what hath been said of ix; then relateth what himself hath observed in that part, in all sorts of Living Creatures, finding it to have Lobes and to be a Glandul of that kind, which by Anatomists are called Conglomerate in contradistinction to the Conglobate; thirdly examines (very modestly) the reasons given by the Learned Dr. Wharton against 'its being a Glandul; fourthly, assigneth 'its office and Use, and making it no other, then that it separateth the Gall, and conveighs the same, by means of the porus biliarius, into the Intestins; notwithstanding all the Exceptions of De Bills, Deusingius, Sylvius &c, Whereunto he subjoyns also the great Use of the Gall (esteemed a kind of Excrement by the Vulgar) in performing the part of a necessary condiment and ferment in digestion; so that upon it's absence, or obstruction in the Liver, very dangerous diseases, and especially the Dropsy, must needs ensue.

Touching the Exterior part of the Brain (called by Anatomists Cerebri Cortex) he first inquires into the Nature of i'tsit's [sic] Substance, and finds it a Congeries of Glanduls, more conspicuous to be Inch in boyled than in crude Brains, and most discernable in Fishes and Birds: Where he alledges an Observation of a Stone found in the Brain, which was fashioned like the fruit of Mulberrys, conglobated and made up of many final kernels or grains, of ash-color, probably thus form'd by the petrified Cortex of the Brain, and so retaining the natural Shape of the Glanduls thereof. Next, he solveth the arguments of the above mentioned Dr. Wharton produced in his Book De Glandulis, against that Opinion. Further, explaining the Vessels of the Brain, and their Process, he affirms, that the whole Substance called the Medulla of the Brain and the After-brain, is a Heap of Fibres or Vessels, which from the Stock or Trunck of the Spinal marrow, by many Windings and Crinkles forme those Cavities and Involutions, to be found there, and are at last deeply implanted in the very Glanduls of the Brain: Where he teaches, that the whole Work of separation and deputation is perform'd by the inward structure of the Glanduls of the Brain, the Iuyce passing Rh