On the influence of physical agents on life / by W.F. Edwards ; translated from the French, by Dr. Hodgkin and Dr. Fisher.

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1832
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Credit: On the influence of physical agents on life / by W.F. Edwards ; translated from the French, by Dr. Hodgkin and Dr. Fisher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I owe the acknowledgment of my obligations to my pupil M. Vavasseur, who assisted me in the course of my experiments. water, was read to the Academy in 1818, and inserted in the An- nates de Physique et de Chimie, Vol. 10. Chap, IV. The first part, On the Vivifying Influence of the At- mosphere— Chap. V. First part, On the Influence of the Atmosphere on Transpiration— Chap. VI. First part, On Absorption and Transpiration™ Water, —were read to the Academy of Sciences in 1819. These three chapters united to the second part with a short state- ment of the facts contained in the third, were presented to the con- curs for the prize of experimental physiology in 1819, and were crowned by the Royal Academy of Sciences, together with the work of M Serres sur les VOsUog&nie in 1820. Baron Cuvier gave an account of these memoirs mt^Anahjsis of the Transactions of the Royal Academy of Sciences, published each year. The 1st and 2d sections of chap. 16. 4th part, are extracted from a paper which I read to the Academy, January 1821, On Respiratwn and the Influence of the Seasons on the Animal Economy; and winch beino-presented to the concours, divided the prize for experimental physiology with M. Dutrochefs paper. On the Growth and Repro- duction of Vegetables. The 3d section. On the Exhalation and Absorption of Azote, Chap 16, 4th part, was read to the Academy in 1823, and printed in the Annates de Physique et de Chimie, and in Magendie's Jour- nal de Physiologic; the 4th section, On the Production of Carbonic Acid in Respiration; and the 5th section, A General Vtew of the Changes in the Air in Rcspiration-yvere read to the Academy m the same year It will he seen from several parts of this work that 1 did not originally intend here to treat of the changes of the ait in respiration, this subject being designed for one of the parts of an- other work, On the Influence of the principal Chemical Agents. For reasons which I need not relate, I have concluded to publish these researches in this place, where they will serve as a supple - ment to those which precede them.
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