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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    [ 57 ] pours andExhalations are not thrown off from humid Bodies by any Vir¬ tue in the Air, but by the repul five Powers of their Particles, when by the Action of Heat, they are once feparated from the Bodies, and are got beyond the Spheres of their At¬ tractions and of the Attractions of one another. For this repulfive Power will carry off the feparated Particles, as well in vacuo as in the open Air. I could have wifh’d Dr. Morgan had confidered my Animal0economy with a little more Temper as well as Care, and then I am fatisfied he would have faved both himfelf and me fome Trouble. It is however fome Satisfaction to me, that he has given me an Opportunity of pub- lickly declaring my felf, Sir, Tour moji Obliged, July it. 173f. Humble Servant, Bryan Robinson. F 1 N I S