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

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              ply the place of thoſe very hot Medicines
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              that are wont to be employ'd in ſuch Di­
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              ſtempers: That Nature might much bet­
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              ter have given the Heart but a moderate
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              heat, then ſuch an exceſſive one, as needs
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              to be perpetually cool'd, to keep it from
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              growing deſtructive; which the gentle,
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              and not the burning heat of an Animals
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              Heart, ſeems not intenſe enough ſo indi­
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              ſpenſably to require. </s>
              <s>Theſe, and other
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              Objections, might be oppoſ'd, and preſſ'd
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              againſt the recited Opinion: But we ſhall
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              not inſiſt on them, but onely adde to
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              them, That it appears not by our fore­
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              going Experiments (I mean the 38
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              ) that in our exhauſted Receiver,
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              where yet Animals die ſo ſuddenly for
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              want of Reſpiration, the ambient Body is
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              ſenſibly hotter then the common Air. </s>
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              <s>Other Learned Men there are, who will
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              have the very ſubſtance of the Air to get
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              in by the Veſſels of the Lungs, to the
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              left Ventricle of the Heart, not onely to
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              temper its heat, but to provide for the
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              generation of Spirits. </s>
              <s>And theſe alledge
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              for themſelves the Authority of the An­
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              tients, among whom
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              Hippocrates
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              ſeems
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              manifeſtly to favor their Opinion; and
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              both
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              Ariſtotle
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              and
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              Galen
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              do ſometimes </s>
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