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Dissertations relative to the natural history of animals and vegetables / Translated from the Italian of the Abbé Spallanzani.

  • Spallanzani, Lazzaro, 1729-1799. Dissertazioni di fisica animale, e vegetabile. English
Date:
1789
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Credit: Dissertations relative to the natural history of animals and vegetables / Translated from the Italian of the Abbé Spallanzani. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    upon the edge of the two hemifpheres, into thefe new tubes and fpherules I repeated the preceding experiments, not only upon common fowls, but upon ducks, turkeys, geefe, doves, and pigeons: and as a larger quantity of liquor could now find its way to the inclofed fubftances, they were more tho- roughly foaked, and had acquired a bitterer flighteft token of folution, though they con-- tinued along time in the ftomach. ‘vill. Thefe facts afford an irrefragable proof, that the trituration of feeds in the fto- mach of granivorous birds, is folely owing to cuffions: effects produced by the powerful mufcles with which that organ is furnifhed. 1x. The contents of the ftomach are fo violently agitated as to be driven in at the and fpherules, which occafions fome confu- fion, Hence I have frequently found it of fervice to introduce thefe receivers when the ftomach was empty, and to keep the animal fafting during the whole time of the expe- riment, x... Lbs
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