A dissertation on respiration / translated from the Latin of Dr. Menzies ; with notes, by Charles Sugrue.

  • Menzies, Robert, 1894-1978.
Date:
1796
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Credit: A dissertation on respiration / translated from the Latin of Dr. Menzies ; with notes, by Charles Sugrue. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    which the volume was afcertained, and of which one end was immerfed in fome bubbles of foap, he found the quantity of air received into the lungs in one infpiration, to be about 15 cubic inches; and towards the end of the ex- periment, to be between 18 and ,20 cubic in- ches. It is however clear, that befides the fridion and other caufes which render this experiment inaccurate, it is liable to objedion, as being on- ly the meafure of one infpiration. For as re- fpiration is a fundion in fome degree fubfervi- ent to the will, it is evident, we can draw no concluiidn from the meafure of a lingle infpi- ration. The next author we fliall mention, who at- tended to this fubjed is the celebrated Jurin, who came fo near the truth, that we fliall give his experiment in his own words. “ In confe- quence of an experiment he had made, the “ celebrated Borelli imagined the quantity ot “ air expelled, in an ordinary expiration, to be between