Mary Jane, or, spiritualism chemically explained, with spirit drawings / also essays by, and ideas (perhaps erroneous) of "a child at school."

  • [Guppy, Samuel].
Date:
1863
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Credit: Mary Jane, or, spiritualism chemically explained, with spirit drawings / also essays by, and ideas (perhaps erroneous) of "a child at school.". Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    shape, increasing and rejecting impurities, as a crystal ? But, hay in water, meat, cheese, vinegar, &c., with heat, produce different animalculas—each article invariably producing the same sort of animalcula3. Either these are produced by the action of electricity, from the substances themselves, or by ova in the atmosphere. The atmosphere, then, would have in all places to be full of all sorts of ova, ready to be de]30sited, or rather flying in an instant each into its par- ticular mixture. This cannot be, for we know that the farmer is glad of a sharp frost, because it destroys the eggs of grubs. How much more, then, would it destroy the ova of animals 1,000 times more fragile? We must conclude, therefore, that light, heat, and albuminous or other matter is capable of taking a vital form.