A Digreſsion containing ſome
Doubts touching Reſpi
ration.
Doubts touching Reſpi
ration.
I Fear Your Lordſhip will now expect,
that to theſe Experiments I ſhould add
my Reflections on them, and attempt,
by their aſſiſtance, to reſolve the Diffi
culties that occur about Reſpiration; ſince
at the beginning I acknowledg'd a further
Enquiry into the Nature of that, to have
been my Deſign in the related Tryals.
But I have yet, becauſe of the inconve
nient Seaſon of the Year, made ſo few
Experiments, and have been ſo little ſa
tisfied by thoſe I have been able to make,
that they have hitherto made Reſpiration
appear to me rather a more, then a leſs
Myſterious thing, then it did before. But
yet, ſince they have furniſh'd me with
ſome ſuch new Conſiderations, concern
ing the uſe of the Air, as confirms me in
my Diffidence of the Truth of what is
commonly believ'd touching that matter;
That I may not appear ſullen or lazy, I
am content not to decline employing a
that to theſe Experiments I ſhould add
my Reflections on them, and attempt,
by their aſſiſtance, to reſolve the Diffi
culties that occur about Reſpiration; ſince
at the beginning I acknowledg'd a further
Enquiry into the Nature of that, to have
been my Deſign in the related Tryals.
But I have yet, becauſe of the inconve
nient Seaſon of the Year, made ſo few
Experiments, and have been ſo little ſa
tisfied by thoſe I have been able to make,
that they have hitherto made Reſpiration
appear to me rather a more, then a leſs
Myſterious thing, then it did before. But
yet, ſince they have furniſh'd me with
ſome ſuch new Conſiderations, concern
ing the uſe of the Air, as confirms me in
my Diffidence of the Truth of what is
commonly believ'd touching that matter;
That I may not appear ſullen or lazy, I
am content not to decline employing a