326. EPILOGUE.
AT the end of each Part of my Analyses, I intend to subjoin an Epilogue, for the purpose of collecting the several uses of the viscera treated of and the several amounts of their offices, into one sum, and drawing a line underneath it; that is to say, of reducing and connecting the scattered ideas of particulars, and the vague and faint notions, into a single and general idea, just in the same manner as the peritonaeum reduces and connects the functions of the viscera of the abdomen (a). The whole of the viscera which inhabit or constitute this earth, or subthoracic region of the body, are altogether devoted to preparing and refining the chyle and the blood. CHYLIFICATION, SANGUIFICATION, and PURIFICATION are the sum of their offices. These offices form a circle and everlasting chain; that is to say, chylification must take place; what is chylifled, must undergo sanguification; what is sanguified, must undergo purification; and what is purified, must undergo chylification; and so on perpetually. But let us examine the links of this chain, one by one.
(a) Respecting the office of the Peritonaeum, see the whole of the preceding Chapter.
