adhering to the Womb from the first Conception, or why (as I have said) many hundreds of them are not conceiv'd and formed together, &c.
A short Discourse concerning Concoction: Read at a Meeting of the Royal Society, May ... 1699 , by Clopton Havers , M. D. Fellow of the Royal Society.
THE manner in which the Digestion of the Aliment is performed, is a thing not very easie to be understood and explained. However, it has not escap'd the Conjectures of some Philosophical Men, who having curiously observ'd the Phænomena of Nature, and enquired into their Causes, have, amongst other things, endeavour'd to account for this. But their Sentiments about it have been various, and the Hypothesis, by which they have studied to explain it, very different. Some have thought the Concoction of the Food to be a kind of Elixation; and that the grosser and more solid Parts being, as it were, boil'd in the Liquid by the Heat of the Stomach, and the Parts adjacent to it, as the Liver, Spleen, and Omentum, are by a long and continued Elixation, first render'd more tender, and then colliquated, and dissolved into minuter Particles, so as