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Nervous Juice or Spirit
Nervous Juice or Spirit is a pure, subtil, volatile
humour, commonly called the animal spirits; secreted from the arterial blood in
the cortical part of the brain, collected in the
medulla
oblongata, and driven thence by the force of the heart, into the cavities
of the nerves, to be by them convey’d throughout the body, for the purposes of
sensation and animal motion.
Definition taken from
The Universal Etymological English Dictionary,
edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)
Nagel *
Neˊw Year’s Gift