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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    io6 by the portion of phlogifton already combined with them. The whole of the nervous fluid therefore is n0w difpofed of : part of its phlogifton forming beat with the tether of the pure air ; and the other part of the phlogifton remaining united with the Earthy bafe, and *ther entering into us ori¬ ginal competition, combining with fo much o The difengaged acid of the pure air, as they can intimately unite with. For the Earth and .Ether of the nervous fluid, being deprived of a great part of their phlogifton by the formation of heat, will eagerly attraa any thing they can meet with of a phlogiftic, or acid nature, to fupply ns place ; meeting therefore with the difengaged acid of the pure air, to which both the ^ther and Earth have fo Arong an affinity, they fe.ze upon it, and faturate themfelves with fo much as they can take into an intimate combination ; and this compound, is dtftinguilhed by the name of Vela- tile Alkali. r * • • 1 '. ' 1 •' ■ t ; f ' v. {! • We have then volatile alkali, and the remain¬ ing part of the difengaged acid, left. But, tho the Earth and ./Ether,, could not intimate!)’ com- bine
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