A lecture on the preservation of health / By T. Garnett.

  • Thomas Garnett
Date:
1800
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Credit: A lecture on the preservation of health / By T. Garnett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    kinds of attraction, or repulfion, fuch as eleCtric and magnetic, yet thefe come under the head of mechanical attraction, as producing motion; vve may therefore lay it down as a law, that when dead, or inanimate bodies aCt upon each other, no other than mechanical, or chemical effeCts are produced ; that is, either motion, or the decompofition, and new com- bination of their parts. If one ball ftrike another, it communicates to it a certain quantity of motion, this is called mechanical aCtion ; and if a quantity of fait, or fugar, be put into water, the particles of the fait or fugar