1010. These all function as cleansers of the blood, consequently of the passions and such qualities, for being within the peritoneum they belong to the provinces of the heart; whereas the spirits of the kidneys are cleansers of falsities, and are therefore not within the peritoneum even though it enfolds them, at the side [993-995]. 1748, 25 February.
1010. All of them are castigators of the blood, consequently of cupidities and like things; for they are within the peritoneum, and pertain to the provinces of the heart. But the kidney spirits are castigators of falsities, for which reason also they are not within the peritoneum, although within a fold thereof at the side. 1748, Feb. 25.
1010. Illi omnes agunt castigatores sanguinis, proinde cupiditatum, ac similium, nam intra peritonaeum sunt, et ad cordis provincias pertinent, at vero renales sunt castigatores falsitatum, quare etiam non intra peritonaeum, tametsi in duplicatura ejus, a latere. 1748, 25 Febr.