Vital chemistry : lectures on animal heat / by Thomas Spencer ; published by request of the class.

  • Thomas Spencer
Date:
1845
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    oxidation in the lungs, combined with other elements ? Probably with water.—§ 21. Summary of conclusions.— Page 1—19. CHAPTER III. Changes of the blood in the systemic capillaries. § 22. Changes of color in the blood. Carbonic acid de- composed by the systemic capillaries and recomposed in the lungs. Dark pigment of the blood a compound of Car- bon with water.—§24. Proof.—§25. Carbon thrown off by the lungs and skin equals that used by the systemic ca- pillaries. Source of the Carbon in the venous pigment.— § 27. Carbonic acid universally diffused in nature. Analo- gy of vegetable to animal capillaries.—§ 29. Oxygen evolv- ed from leaves absorbes heat from water.—§ 30. Vegetable growth illustrated.—§ 31. Other proofs that Hydrate of Carbon is a solid.—§ 32. Origin of mineral coal.—§ 33. Other analogies between vegetables and animals.—$ 34. Dif- ferent uses of Hydrate of Carbon in vegetables and animals. § 35. Analogy of the pulmonic combustion of Carbon to the burning of wood.—§36. Analogy of pulmonic combustion to the decay of wood. Vegetables in mines, why luminous.— § 38. Comparison of this theory with that of Lavosier.— §39. Intimate connexion of respiration with the changes in the systemic capillaries. 20—35. CHAPTER IV. Function op calorification. § 40. Free heat of the lungs.—§ 41. Lungs not the only generators of heat.—§ 42. Old doctrines of calorification. —$ 43. Some facts already proved.—$ 44. Immediate cause of animal heat.—§ 45. Analogy and difference be- tween vegetables and animals.—§ 46. Harmony of all the ca- pillaries in calorification.—§ 47. Harmony of vital and inor-
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