An essay concerning the effects of air on human bodies / By John Arbuthnot.

  • John Arbuthnot
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MDCCLI [1751]
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Credit: An essay concerning the effects of air on human bodies / By John Arbuthnot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A N ESSAY Concerning the EffeEls of Air on Human Bodies, CHAP. I. Of the Contents of the Air. I R is that thin Fluid which furrounds the Earth in which we move and breathe. Air is not vifible. What we fee in the Stream of Light let in by a fmall Aperture into a Room, is not Air, but Duft, and other Bodies floating in the Air. Air is fenfible to the Touch by its Motion, and by its Refiftance to Bodies moved in it. B II. Air