Boyle, Robert, New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects, 1660
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              was kill'd with violent Convulſions,
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              within five Minutes from the beginning
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              of the Pumping. </s>
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              <s>A while after we put in a Mouſe, new­
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              ly taken, in ſuch a Trap as had rather af­
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              frighted then hurt him; vvhil'ſt he vvas
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              leaping up very high in the Receiver, vve
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              faſten'd the Cover to it, expecting that
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              an Animal uſed to live in narrow holes
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              vvith very little freſh Air, vvould endure
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              the vvant of it better then the lately men­
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              tion'd Birds: But though, for a vvhile af­
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              ter the Pump vvas ſet avvork, he conti­
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              nued leaping up as before; yet 'tvvas not
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              long ere he began to appear ſick and gid­
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              dy, and to ſtagger, after vvhich he fell
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              dovvn as dead, but vvithout ſuch violent
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              Convulſions as the Birds died vvith.
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              <s>Whereupon, haſtily turning the Key, we
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              let in ſome freſh Air upon him, by vvhich
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              he recovered, after a vvhile, his ſenſes and
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              his feet, but ſeem'd to continue vveak and
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              ſick: But at length, grovving able to
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              skip as formerly, the Pump vvas plyed
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              again for eight minutes, about the mid­
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              dle of vvhich ſpace, if not before, a very
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              little Air by a miſchance got in at the
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              Stop-cock; and about tvvo minutes after
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              that, the Mouſe divers times leap'd up </s>
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