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

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              quam deſiſtant animantia, quin aut ſpiritum
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              adducant, aut reddant.
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              <s>But touching the account upon which
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              the Inſpiration and Exſpiration of Air
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              (both which are comprehended in
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              ,
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              Reſpiration) is ſo neceſſary to Life, both
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              Naturaliſts and Phyſitians do ſo diſagree,
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              that it will be very difficult either to re­
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              concile their Opinions, or determine their
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              Controverſies. </s>
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              <s>For firſt, Many there are who think
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              the chief (if not ſole) uſe of Reſpiration
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              to be the Cooling and tempering of that
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              Heat in the Heart and Blood, which other­
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              wiſe would be immoderate: And this O­
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              pinion, not onely ſeems to be moſt recei­
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              ved amongſt Scholaſtick Writers, but di­
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              vers of the new Philoſophers, Carteſians,
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              and others, admitted with ſome variation;
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              teaching, That the Air is neceſſary, by its
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              coldneſs, to condenſe the Blood that paſ­
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              ſes out of the right Ventricle of the
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              Heart into the Lungs, that thereby it may
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              obtain ſuch a conſiſtence, as is requiſite
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              to make it fit Fewel for the vital Fire or
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              Flame, in the left Ventricle of the heart.
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              <s>And this Opinion ſeems favor'd by this,
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              That Fiſhes, and other cold Creatures,
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              whoſe Hearts have but one cavity, are al-</s>
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