. Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease. < < ow Q CC. ( 45 ) water, or an animal breathing under the same conditions, equally causea diminution in the volume of the air—more, indeed, in amount whenan animal is thus suffocated than when the candle goes out. It may thus be taken that Mayow grasped the first factor of theprocess of external respiration, viz., that something is taken from theair by the blood. We have to wait a little longer before t
. Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease. < < ow Q CC. ( 45 ) water, or an animal breathing under the same conditions, equally causea diminution in the volume of the air—more, indeed, in amount whenan animal is thus suffocated than when the candle goes out. It may thus be taken that Mayow grasped the first factor of theprocess of external respiration, viz., that something is taken from theair by the blood. We have to wait a little longer before the know-ledge of the second factor is fully discovered, viz., that the bloodgives off something to the air in the lungs. Even Hales expresses theview that the expired air contains aqueous vapour and certainnoxious effluvia, and has its spring diminished, a view endorsed byHaller. If a small animal and a lighted candle be placed in a closed flask, so that no air can enter, in a short time the candle will go out, nor will the animal long survive. The animal is not suffocated by the smoke of the candle. . The reason why the animal can live some time after the candle has gone out seems to be tha
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