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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    s£thcry Sufficient to give the due degree of Elas¬ ticity and mobility. The pure air contained in the blood, confifts of JE.th.tT and the Acid Principle* When a mufcle is excited, a quantity of the nervous fluid palTes along its fibres, and is after¬ wards received into the blood Supplied from the heart and contained in the arteries of that muf- cle ; which blood is Saturated, with the pure air imbib’d during its pafTage through the lungs. A duantity of this phlogiflon of the nervous fluid, unites with the ./Ether of the Pure Air, Sufficient to Saturate it, and form that heat, which is called Animal heat : and the acid now difen- gaged, {fill retains a Small portion of ./Ether, and perhaps acquires a Small quantity of Phlogiflon, by which it becomes pofSefl of peculiar proper¬ ties, different from pure acid, and from every other Acid, produced under different circum- fiances, and containing j/Ether and Phlogiflon in different proportions ; and to this peculiai acid, ChemiSts give the name of Phofphoric Acid. i
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