Physiology, or, An attempt to explain the functions and laws of the nervous system : the contraction of muscular fibres, and the constant and involuntary actions of the heart, the stomach, and organs of respiration, by means of simple, universal, and unvarying principles : to which are added, observations on the intellectual operations of the brain : and on the diversity of sensations : with remarks on the effects of poisons : and an explanation of the experiments of Galvani and others, on animal electricty / by E. Peart, M.D. &c.

  • Peart, E. (Edward), 1756?-1824.
Date:
1798
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Credit: Physiology, or, An attempt to explain the functions and laws of the nervous system : the contraction of muscular fibres, and the constant and involuntary actions of the heart, the stomach, and organs of respiration, by means of simple, universal, and unvarying principles : to which are added, observations on the intellectual operations of the brain : and on the diversity of sensations : with remarks on the effects of poisons : and an explanation of the experiments of Galvani and others, on animal electricty / by E. Peart, M.D. &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    not make two atmofpheres of the fame power combine :—they may be comprefled, difplaced, or deranged, by extra force; but the inftant that the external force is removed, the power? refume their ufual ftate of arrangement; and this power of arrangement it is which conftitutes elafticity. 15. Let u^ now attend to eleCtric attraction.-— If a globe of glafs be connected to an infulated conductor; if an infulated rubber be alfo con- nected to an infulated conductor, and the rub- ber be made to excite the globe, an eleCtric af- mofphere will flow from the globe to its conduc- tor; and at the fame time, an eleCtric atmo- fphere will flow from the rubber to its conduc- tor alfo. If two light bodies, fufpended by non-con- duCting filaments, be brought to the conduc- tor of the globe, each will receive an atmo- fphere of eleCtric fluid; and the two atmo- fpheres will repel each other.