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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    nervous fluid, and perhaps ftill combined with the earth and remaining phlogifton ; or by a final! quantity, obftinately retained by the acid of the Pure Air, to which it has fo great an affinity, as not to be eafdy inftantly feparated ; or by both. This opinion, concerning the nature and com* pofition of Volatile Alkali, and its produ£Hon by the Animal procefs, feems to be confirmed by the Chemical produ&ions of it. For when a quantity of Earth, hath an opportunity of com¬ bining with a large proportion of Phlogifton, with the interpofition of a Jrnall portion of Acid, and -Ether, the refult is volatile alkali ; for in- ftance, Dr. Prieftley * found, that Iron expofed to Nitrous Air, gave evident figns of the produc¬ tion of Volatile Alkali. In this cafe the Iron furnifhes Earth, and a quantity of Phlogifton; while the Nitrous Air, confifting of Acid, -Ether, and Phlogifton, gives the proper quantity of Acid and Auhcr, and fupplies a fufficient quantity of Phlo¬ gifton,. * Prieftley’s Experiments and Obfervations. Vol. 3. p. 203. *
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