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

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              that by the dilatation of the Cheſt the
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              contiguous Air is thruſt away, and that
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              preſſing upon the next Air to it, and ſo
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              onwards, the Propulſion is continued till
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              the Air be driven into the Lungs, and ſo
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              dilate them: When this (I ſay) is an­
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              ſwered, it is Objected even by
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              Bartholine
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              himſelf, as a convincing Reply, that, ac­
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              cording to this Doctrine, a Man could not
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              fetch his Breath from a great Veſſel full of
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              Air, with a ſlender Neck, becauſe, that
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              when his Mouth covers the Orifice of the
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              Neck, the dilatation of his
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              Thorax
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              could
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              not propell the Air in the Veſſel into his
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              Lungs, by reaſon of its being ſeparated
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              by the incloſing Veſſel from the ambient
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              Air; and yet, ſay they, Experience wit­
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              neſſes that out of ſuch a Veſſel a Man may
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              ſuck Air. </s>
              <s>But of this difficulty our Engine
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              furniſhes us with an eaſie Solution, ſince
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              many of the former Experiments have ma­
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              nifeſted, That in the caſe propoſed, there
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              needs not be made any (though 'tis true
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              that in ordinary Reſpiration there is wont
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              to be made ſome) propulſion of the Air by
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              the ſwelling
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              Thorax
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              or
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              Abdomen
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              into the
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              Lungs; ſince upon the bare Dilatation of
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              the
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              Thorax,
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              the Spring of that internal
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              Air, or halituous ſubſtance that is wont </s>
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