An experimental enquiry concerning the causes which have generally been said to produce putrid diseases / By William Alexander.
- William Alexander
- Date:
- 1771
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An experimental enquiry concerning the causes which have generally been said to produce putrid diseases / By William Alexander. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![I ] As the event of this experiment was fo different from what is mentioned by Boerhaave, I repeated it again with frefh drawn bullocks blood^/iot being able, juft at that time, to procure any human blood. The blood in the phial which ftood in a heat between 70 and 74 was become perceptibly foetid in 48 hours; that, in the phial which ftood in a heat between 86 and 90 was perceptibly foetid in 33. Hence it would feem that bullocks blood becomes fooner putrid than human blood, which may happen becaufe bullocks blood abounds more wdth craffamentum, which is the moft pu- trefcible part of that fluid. \ EXPERIMENT' III. I next refolved to try what would happen to folk! animal fubftances in the fame degrees of heat in which the blood had been tried. Accordingly, two pieces of beef, each two inches thick, were laid upon two faucers, and placed the one in the heat that varied between](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30517394_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
