Man, the microcosm . to the need ; Teach the strict Lacteals, duly this to guide Into the narrow way from out the wide. Where freed from feculence all white and clean, And trained, through mazes of the Glands between, For saintly fellowship and spousals sweet With the dear Lymph, as they together meet Within the Duct Thoracic, mount to gain The level of the pierced Subclavian Vein— Tempering the mass, to form a fluid part Of that humanity which fills the Heart. * The Gastric Juice, like the saliva, is not secreted in considerable quantity ( says not at all) except under the stimulus
Man, the microcosm . to the need ; Teach the strict Lacteals, duly this to guide Into the narrow way from out the wide. Where freed from feculence all white and clean, And trained, through mazes of the Glands between, For saintly fellowship and spousals sweet With the dear Lymph, as they together meet Within the Duct Thoracic, mount to gain The level of the pierced Subclavian Vein— Tempering the mass, to form a fluid part Of that humanity which fills the Heart. * The Gastric Juice, like the saliva, is not secreted in considerable quantity ( says not at all) except under the stimulus of recently ingested food. Itis estimated that the average total quantity secreted in a man of medium size in 24hours is 14 pounds, equal to nearly two gallons. This quantity would be altogetherincredible, were it not, that as soon as it has dissolved its quota of food, it isimmediately re-absorbed and agains enters into the circulation, together with thealimentary substances which it holds in solution.— THE MICROCOSM. 67 Heart—Circulation—Nutrition—Blood Exhilarations. Make room, my Heart ! * that pourst thyself abroad,Deep, central, awful mystery of God !Lord of my bosom ! wonder of the breast !** Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest: The young white blood, commingled with the old—Purple, impure, effete in part, and cold—Give needful furtherance through the Lungs, to whereIt meets the fiery spirits of the air—In friendly barter with the growing plantsExchanging what they need for what it wants ;For dingy carbon, refuse of the back the principle of flame ;While mystic cerebrations downward pourThe human flood to humanize yet it moral, with all passions rife,Instinct with mortal and immortal life ; * In the Fish, the Heart is a single organ, having- one Auricle and one Ventri-cle. In Reptiles, it has two Auricles placed side by side, and one Ventricle. InQuadrupeds and Man it is double, with two Auricles and two Ventr
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