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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    fugar will feparate from each other, and join themfelves to the particles of the water; the fait and water in thefe inftances, are faid to act on each other chemically; and in all cafes whatever, in which inanimate, or dead bodies adt on each other, the effects produced are, motion, or che- mical attraction. / But, when dead matter adts on thofe bodies which we call living, the effects are much different; let us take for example a very fimple inftance.— Snakes, at leaft fome fpecies of them, pafs the winter in a torpid date, which has