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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    104 of it, altho’ there is no great mufcular exertion carried on there, feeras to confirm the idea. Thefe conjeftures, making the principles of which the nervous fluid is compofed, the fame as thofe forming Light, Fire, arid the Elearic fluid, «- ceptirtg the fmall quantity of Earth contained in the nervous fluid, feem to acquire a degree of probabi¬ lity from confidering the Torpedo, which hath the power of giving a Jhock, fumlar to that of Elec¬ tricity, by the nervous fluid tranfmitted in confe- quence of volition. But in the Torpedo, the ner¬ vous fluid feems to contain a greater proportion of iEther, than of Phlogifton ; and if fo, per¬ haps the bafe is Acid, or the mode of combina¬ tion between the /Ether and Phlogifton, is fome how different from what it is in other animals, not poffeft of that peculiar property, or power. « * * ' S T Suppofing therefore that the nervous fund con- Cfts of an Earth, united to much Phlogifton, along with a certain fmaller quantity of /Ether; the next thing to be confider’d, is the efFeas that muff enfue, from its meeting with the pure air in the blood. The
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