1035. These things are circumstanced like the aliments or foods which are carried into the stomach and there triturated, for souls refer to those things which are sent into the stomach. Some foods have to be roughly treated in the stomach and afterwards in the intestines. Others are at once absorbed into the veins and thus easily purified. Some are absorbed into the lymphatics. Some foods are first absorbed in the mouth before reaching the stomach and, carried off by the veins, they are exhaled into the brain and at once commence a purer circulation, the purer parts of them being carried away towards the brain by the insensible, as it were, venous fibers. There are, moreover, those foods which are drawn from the air through the lungs, which fly at once into the brain; these are the purer foods of the brain. There are also those which are attracted by the imperceptible tunics of the whole body, and are carried up towards the brain, like the infants [see n. 1022]. There are foods from the air, and foods from the ether; thus there are innumerable varieties. But those which are vexed by the urinary province, and the provinces of the colon and gall-bladder, take a longer time to act, because their gross things adhere so closely. 1748, Feb. 26.