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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    has all the appearance of death; now heat, if applied to dead matter, will only produce motion, or chemical combination ; but if it be applied to the fnake, let us fee what will be the confequence; the reptile firft begins to move, and opens its eyes and mouth; when the heat has been ap- plied for fome time, it crawls about in fearch of food, and performs all the functions of life. Here then, dead matter, when applied to a living body, produces living functions ; for if the heat had not been applied, the fnake would have continued fenfelefs, and apparently lifelefs. In more perfed