Medical, philosophical, and vulgar errors, of various kinds, considered and refuted / by John Jones, M.B.

  • Jones, John, 1726?-
Date:
1797
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    The fudden refrefhment from a glafs of wine held in the mouth of a perfon unable to fwallow it, and the amazingly quick paffage of afparagus into the bladder of urine, has induced fome people to fancy filch inftances to proceed from a direct ab- forption into the blood, and not along the highway of the receptaculum chylu That cajlor is generated in the tejles of the beaver. This a great miftake ; for it is found in two glandular fubftances, fituated in the pofterior part of the female, as well as the male. The ancients, from vbferving a hen to hold up her head in drinking, conceived that our food pa fed into our fomachs by its weight only. The contrary to this would have appeared, had they remarked how horfes and long¬ necked animals drink, or feen rope- dancers drinking a glafs of liquor while hanging by their toes, with their heads downwards, which