The generation of animal heat, investigated / [E. Peart].

  • Edward Peart
Date:
1788
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Credit: The generation of animal heat, investigated / [E. Peart]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    as the two more pajfwe principles. Likewife, that * m the only immediate attra£lions, are lft. between Ether and Phlogiflon forming Light, Fire, or the Ele&ric Fluid, according to the quantity of each entering the compofition ; or mode of their com¬ bination ; L 2ly. between Ether and Acid, forming Pure Air, 3ty. Phlogiflon and Earth, forming metals, &c. and jjly. between Acid and Earth, forming faline fubftances. oni • •' • „ . • ; ■ cl v/J'.jm r* oi Lj:;: . It was intimated alfo, that Ether was the grand, or general Caufe of Elafticity and fluidity; and Phlogiflon, of fixity and folidity. r » * * f • 1 ^ i * ' ^ c /> ■ I ) ■ ■ » »' *' * ' t t ‘ * S ' * ^ W • L If from thefe principles, a conje&ure may be hazarded concerning the compofition of the ner¬ vous fluid, I fhould fuppofe, that it contains Phlo¬ giflon with an Earthy bafe, but intimately com¬ bin’d with a certain proportion of -Ether. — Its mobility and fluidity, point out the prefence of Ether : its phlogiflic nature hath been invefliga- ted already, partly from the materials of which it is form’d, and partly from the effe£ls it pro¬ duces ;
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