Boyle, Robert, New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects, 1660

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              expiration diſcharges the Lungs; and,
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              which in the other caſes hitherto known,
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              may be ſuſpected, for want of room, to
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              ſtifle thoſe Animals that are cloſely pent
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              up in too narrow Receptacles. </s>
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              <s>I forgot to mention, that having cauſ'd
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              theſe three Creatures to be open'd, I
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              could, in ſuch ſmall Bodies, diſcover lit­
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              tle of what we ſought for, and what we
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              might poſſibly have found in larger Ani­
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              mals; for though the Lungs of the Birds
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              appear'd very red, and as it were inflam'd,
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              yet that colour being uſual enough in the
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              Lungs of ſuch winged Creatures, deſerves
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              not ſo much our notice, as it does, That
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              in almoſt all the deſtructive Experiments
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              made in our Engine, the Animals appear'd
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              to die with violently Convulſive Moti­
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              ons: From which, whether Phyſicians can
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              gather any thing towards the Diſcovery
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              of the Nature of Convulſive Diſtem­
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              pers, I leave to them to conſider. </s>
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              <s>Having proceeded thus far, though (as
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              we have partly intimated already) there
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              appear'd not much cauſe to doubt, but
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              that the death of the fore-mention'd Ani­
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              mals proceeded rather from the want of
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              Air, then that the Air was over-clogg'd
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              by the ſteams of their Bodies, exquiſite-</s>
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