1189. It therefore came about that they occupied the upper region of the palate [n. 1177], because that is the place where the corporeal things ascend into the brain as blood, and there also do they descend, so that the place is as it were an inn; for which reason they called also the chamber into which they were removed [n. 1183] an inn. Hence the natural things accompanied them even within the cranium; nor is the blood purged from its natural dregs except in the brain. Those spirits then occupied the left knee for the reason that the loves of such things as pleasures are signified by the left thigh and left knee; and the sole of the right foot signifies such corporeal things to which they adhere. 1748, Mar. 6.