A treatise on the cause and nature of vital heat / by William Parker.

  • William Parker
Date:
1850
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Credit: A treatise on the cause and nature of vital heat / by William Parker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    tions of medicine it affords means of imparting energy to those vital organs that cannot subsist in a normal state without a due supply of its renovating powers.O2) Nitrogen, in its simple state, imparts food to the brain and blood, it circulates in the blood, and nerves, from the first moment that God “ breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.” The heart obeys the impetus then given, and its mighty piston rises and falls obedient to the laws of its great Creator. The cause of heat has been attributed to motion. The origin of motion has been sought in vain, and ascribed to the immutability of the Deity, leaving this law of his will undefined. The perfect mechanism of nature, adapted for muscular power in the human frame, has been in some measure explained: but the prime mover is want- ing in the exposition of physiologists. In observing the process of boiling, in a flask over a lamp, bubbles will first arise, and the motion be seen to com- mence from the bottom of the flask, 1 where the heat has been the strongest, consequently the heat has caused the first 1
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