Experiments on the insensible perspiration of the human body, shewing its affinity to respiration / by William Cruikshank.

  • Cruikshank, William.
Date:
1795
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    periments lately fallen into my hands, wherein he draws conclusions the reverse of mine. I have also lately met with an account of some experiments made by Mr. Abernetby, of St. Bartholomew's hos- pital, which tend to confirm my conclu^- sions.— Dr. Priestley says, Mr. Cniikshank's experiments, if they could be depended upon, would both prove that fixed air is composed of common air and phlogis- ton; a:nd that the perspiration of ani- mal bodies, in a healthy state, has the same effect on air that breathing it has, viz. phlogisticating it, and making it noxious, which is contrary to the expe- riments of which I shall presently give an account. And afterwards he says, I cannot therefore but see reason to conclude, as I did before, that it is « only respiration, and not the perspira-