Volume 1

Medical extracts : on the nature of health, with practical observations, and the laws of the nervous and fibrous systems / by a friend to improvements.

  • Robert John Thornton
Date:
1796
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Credit: Medical extracts : on the nature of health, with practical observations, and the laws of the nervous and fibrous systems / by a friend to improvements. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAGE Id State of Expanfion, or that of Fluidity. {The firfl Expanfion carried a little further produces the State of Fluidity, - - - cxxii {Until the 'whole he melted Ice always continues of the fajne Degree of Coldnefs, viz. 32°, - ib. • {The fenfihle Heat, therefore, which pafles into the Ice becomes latent, - - - - cxxii {This arifes upon a Change of Capacity in the Body for heat, - -- -- -- - ib. ^ An Explanation of the Word Capacity, cxxiii {The Formation of a Frigorific Mixture depends upon this Principle, - - - - cxxiv 3 d State of Expanfion, or the Aeriform State. (This is exemplified by an Experiment with ] AEther, which being put into the ex- d haufted Receiver of an Air-pump became j gazeous, and the Water which furrounded L it was converted into Ice, ----- exxv {Water hoils at different Degrees of Heat, ac- cording to the Preffure of the Atmofphere, cxxvi -^Papin’s Digfier, - -- -- -- - ib. How the Air becomes Elajlic, - - - - ib. The Phenomenon of Glass-Booms, - - cxxvii