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

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              Conjecture, as it is ſpecious enough, ſo I
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              might have admitted it for true; but that
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              I conſider'd, that (not to mention that
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              one, eſpecially of the Animals kill'd in
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              our Engine, ſeem'd manifeſtly for a pret­
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              ty while, and not long before he dy'd, to
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              move his
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              Thorax,
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              as if he exerciſ'd Reſpi­
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              ration) the diligent
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              Wallæus
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              relates, That
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              he divers times obſerv'd, in the Diſſecti­
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              on of live Bodies, that the Membrane
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              that inveſts the Lungs, had Pores in it
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              as big as the larger ſort of Peas, which a­
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              grees with the Obſervations of Chyrur­
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              gions and Phyſitians,
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              viz.
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              <s> That matter
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              collected in the
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              Thorax,
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              has penetrated in­
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              to the Lungs, and been diſcharged by
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              coughing. </s>
              <s>And I remember too, that moſt
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              of the Animals we kill'd in our Engine
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              were Birds, of whoſe Lungs
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              Harvey
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              ſomewhere informs us, That he ob­
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              ſerv'd them very manifeſtly to open at
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              their Extremities into the
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              Abdomen.
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              And by ſuch Perforations we may well
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              ſuppoſe the paſſage free betwixt the exter­
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              nal Air and that in the
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              Abdomen:
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              But this
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              Conjecture may be further conſider'd.
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              <s>Beſides, to ſhow that the Animals that
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              died in our Glaſſes, need not be ſuppoſ'd </s>
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