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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    SECTION On the general laws by which the athereal and phlo- gijlic powers are regulated, in their operations with the material principles, and with each other. LAW I. J^HE excitation of the athereal and phlogiftic powers is Jimultaneous. i. The phlogiftic and aethereal powers, as already obferved, (fe£t. v. 19.) are unrVerfally extended; and, confequently always prefent in their common ftate of general diffufion. In that ftate they have the fimple excitement of ge- neral attradtion, by which diftant mafles of mat- ter are connected together; confequently the sethereal and phlogiftic powers in that ftate of general excitement attraft each other. I