Principles of physic, to be explained in a course of lectures / [George Pearson].

  • George Pearson
Date:
1805
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Credit: Principles of physic, to be explained in a course of lectures / [George Pearson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the agency of what may be called vital attrac- tive poivcr, and not to chemical attraction; of which the bell proofs are the digeftion of food in the ftomach, the compounding of inteftinal chyme, of chyle, and of blood. The decay of certain parts muft be referred either merely to the exhauflion of the vital powers, or to chemical and mechanical attractions, counter- acting the.vital powers. X. The power of compounding animate matter in each fpecies of Being, is deflroyed or exhaufted after a limited time: and death, from mere age, perhaps, mofl frequently takes place on this account. . XI. If any of the fubftances from which animate matter is produced (V.) be wholly, or even in a great degree,’ withdrawn, anima- tion under mofl; circumftances fpeedily ceafes; and thefe fubflances (V.) may be called vital excitants or Jlimull,
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