A physical essay on the animal oecomomy. Wherein the circulation of the blood, and its causes are particulary consider'd, also what assistance the heart and lungs give thereto ... To which are added, some ... remarks on inflammatory disorders / [Francis Penrose].

  • Penrose, Francis, 1718-1798
Date:
1754
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Credit: A physical essay on the animal oecomomy. Wherein the circulation of the blood, and its causes are particulary consider'd, also what assistance the heart and lungs give thereto ... To which are added, some ... remarks on inflammatory disorders / [Francis Penrose]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ «4 ] the Human Frame, are, from numberlefs Ex¬ periments, proved to be Firft, “ A fufficient Quantity of Meat and <c Drink taken fuccceffively at proper Diflances €C of Time into the Stomach, by the Excefs or <c Defedt of which, the Fluids will run either <c too faft, or too ilowly, and in a fihort Time <c ftand Hill. Secondly, cc The natural PrefTure of the At- <£ mofphere.” Therefore, as the Human Frame receives its continual Supply for Encreafe and Nouriihment from the Meat and Drink we take into the Sto¬ mach ; fo it feems moft natural we fhouid there begin our Enquiry : But in Order the better to underftand the Cauies and Method of Digeftion, I (hall here add a Note on Fermentation, with¬ out which Digeftion will not be fo readily un- derflood ; and this Digreflion, I hope, will the more eafily be forgiven as Fermentation muft be allow'd to be an Operation of the utmoft Con^ fequence in the Medicinal Art. Therefore, as I imagine, it is an Operation, the Caufes of which have not already been made clear ; fo I fhall ufe my Endeavour in affifting to explain it; and if I do not fiicceed I fhall then be on as good a Footing as many that have mifearried before me, in the fame Attempt; but thro' the whole I have taken all poftible Care to advance nothing but what is confirmed by Experiment. Of