A letter to Dr. Cheyne : containing an account of the motion of water through orifices and pipes; and an answer to Dr. Morgan's remarks on Dr. Robinson's Treatise of the animal oeconomy.

  • Bryan Robinson
Date:
1735
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Credit: A letter to Dr. Cheyne : containing an account of the motion of water through orifices and pipes; and an answer to Dr. Morgan's remarks on Dr. Robinson's Treatise of the animal oeconomy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 4* ] be found by a larger Experience, that the Meafures of the Pulfes and Diameters of corrcfponding Blood- veflels are different from thofe af- figned in this Proportion, the Pro¬ portions of the Yelocities in health¬ ful and perfectly well-proportion’d Bodies of different Lengths, may be known. For Inftance, if it fhall be found that m inftead of being equal to - is equal to and that n is 7 as I have made it; then V. v :: vL. vl:: D. d. And if it fhall be found, that m is H t 4 and n 4, then V . v :: LT. 1T :: 5 * * 2 £ Df. d\ The Proportions of the Pulfes and Diameters of correfpond- ing Blood-veffels delivered from Ex¬ periments in this Proportion, are, as far as I can judge, intirely agreeable to the Phenomena, and therefore I fhall retain them till a larger Expe¬ rience fhall fhew that they are not