1036. THAT THE BLOOD SEEMS TO PERFORM SIMILAR GYRES When the red blood, or its globules, is tender, soft, soluble, and fluid, it seems to be able to perform gyres similar to those of spirits inaugurated into their society, and this with four-fold terminations. The blood globule seems to flow, or at least endeavors to flow, into such gyres, as is evident from its form. That which does not endeavor to flow into these gyres, or cannot, is banished from the community, thus from the circulation, and is vexed, as was said before [nos. 1015-16; 1033-35]; for a gyre is not a simple gyre, but revolves.