Copy 1, Volume 1

Dissertations on inflammation / [John Burns].

  • John Burns
Date:
1800
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Dissertations on inflammation / [John Burns]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f I 13 juices, which exhibit certain vital pheno- mena, different from common fluid mat^ ter : afterwards organifation is added, in which the vegetable life is exhibited with moft perfedfion. In animals, again, there is a greater gradation, and more compli- cated change, before animal life be im- parted in its greateft perfedlion. The food is firfl: converted into chyle, which has a lower fpecies of life than the blood, which again is more imperfedl in its vi- tality than the organifed parts. The living principle of the blood difl^ers, both in degree and kind, from that which be- longs peculiarly to the animal ; but thefe two are connedled, and readl on each other. No fubfliance or piece of matter, whe- ther Ample or compound, has of itfelf a tendency to decompoAtion, or change of ftate. For eifecling this, th9 principle of
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