A paper showing the use of the spleen : showing also the use of the respirable element of the air to the blood / by T.H. Pasley.

  • Pasley, T.H.
Date:
1839
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A paper showing the use of the spleen : showing also the use of the respirable element of the air to the blood / by T.H. Pasley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    than from the physical nature of matter Inertia can be made cause. Immaterial cause to account for material effects is by no means maintainable. There- fore, and of necessity, we revert to existing* pres- sure as a universal cause, and the only means consis- tent with the inert nature of matter. Next, as to the origin of the phenomenon, the general pressure, there can be nothing of error in- troduced into science in proposing that out of the all-wise manner of putting together the parts of the system, has emanated the general, the universal mo- tive power, pressure. Neither is it unreasonable to conceive, that, from the first this state of pressure may have been originated and may now be maintained by means of the motion into which the same pressure retains the heavenly bodies. A planet may affect the medium it is passed through, so as to form a cur- rent—as it were a gulph stream current—of that me- dium against a neighbouring planet; this second may do the like against a third, and so ou throughout the entire circle of bodies belonging to the solar system —as, did the water displaced, lifted and forced for- ward at and from the bow of a ship under sail, con-