Boyle, Robert
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New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects
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1660
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the Muſcles of the Cheſt be on both
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ſides diſſected, upon the Ingreſs of the
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Air, the whole Lungs, though untouch'd,
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Bartholinus,
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ſo, namely, That it being wounded, the
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Lungs will fall together, and the Reſpi
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ration ceaſe, which my Experiments op
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poſe not, provided the Wound be any
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ſeems the principal Inſtrument of ordina
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ry and gentle Reſpiration, although to
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reſtrain'd Reſpiration (if I may ſo call
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it) the intercoſtal Muſcles, and perhaps
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verſies formerly pointed at, is not yet de
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cided, namely, what it is that conveys the
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Air into the Lungs. </
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terballance all that has been alledg'd, thoſe
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that plead for the Lungs, demand what it
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is that ſhould bring the Air into the
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Lungs, if themſelves do not attract it,
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their Antagoniſts diſagree about the Re
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