. Annals of medical history. idedly, though anonymously, abu-sive. In France, we learn, it was customary In the absence of clear ideas upon combustion andoxidation notions regarding the source of the bodyheat were necessarily indefinite. The following pass-ages from Pepys and livelyn arc of interest in thisconnection. Pepys. January 22, 166>fi . . But what, amongother fme discourse pleased nic most, was Sir about Respiration: that it is not to this dayknown or concluded on among physicians, nor to bedone either, how the action is managed by nature,or for what use it is. Evelyn. Decemb
. Annals of medical history. idedly, though anonymously, abu-sive. In France, we learn, it was customary In the absence of clear ideas upon combustion andoxidation notions regarding the source of the bodyheat were necessarily indefinite. The following pass-ages from Pepys and livelyn arc of interest in thisconnection. Pepys. January 22, 166>fi . . But what, amongother fme discourse pleased nic most, was Sir about Respiration: that it is not to this dayknown or concluded on among physicians, nor to bedone either, how the action is managed by nature,or for what use it is. Evelyn. December 13, 1685 . . Dining at , Dr. Slayer shewed us an experiment of awonderful nature, pouring first a very cold liquor to bleed patients as many as forty times forfevers, while young physicians in this coun-try, having newly arrived from the univer-sity, diligently repair to the apothecariesshops, for to inform themselves with theforms and receipts of the Elder later reference to one who was formerly. Thomas Sydenham, M. 1). into a glass, and super-fusing on it another, to appear-ance cold and clear liquor also; it first produced a whitecloud then boiling, divers coruscations and actualflames of fire mingled with the liquor, which beinga little shaken together, fixed divers suns and starsof real lire, perfectly globular, on the sides of thcglasse, and which there stuck like so many constella-tions, burning most vehemently, and resemblingstars and heavenly bodies, and that for a long seemed to exhibitc a theory of the eduction oflight out of the chaos, and the fixing or gatheringof the universal light into luminous bodys. Thismatter, or phosphorus, was made out of humanblood and urine, elucidating the vital flame or heat,in animal bodies. A very noble experiment! Gideon IIakniiv: Sidelights on Medical Life Captain of a Troop of horse, but of lateyears hath practised as a Doctor of Phy-sick is one of his numerous digs at Syden-ham and his work on fev
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