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Liver converts food into humours
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Humours generate "vital heat," which are mediated to the
body
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by 3
kinds of spirit
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Natural spirits
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Vapor
formed in the liver, carried with humours through veins
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Vital spirits
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Heart
acts on natural spirits using heat and air of lungs, carrying life and heat
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through
the arteries using a nobler kind of blood
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Animal spirits
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Vital
spirits are carried to the brain, where they partake of the body and soul.
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