[223] Book I., chaps. [v.]-xi.
[225] On account of his idea of a simple tissue not susceptible of further analysis.
[226] Or “cell”; cf. p. 153, [note 2].
[227] The horror vacui.
[228] Prosthesis of nutriment; cf. p. 39, [note 6].
[229] Anadosis, “absorption”; cf. p. 13, [note 5].
[230] Lit. diadosis.
[231] i.e. let him explain the diadosis.
[232] “Spiritus animalis”; cf. p. 152, [note 1]. The nutriment was for the walls of the vessels, not for their cavities. cf. p. 319, [note 3].