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Analyfis of the Air. 









mical infe&ions are conveyed by the breath 

 to the blood (when we coniider what great ^J* 

 quantities of the airy vehicle lofes irs%la- 

 fticity among the veficles, whereby the in- 

 fectious Miafma is lodged in the lun^s. ' 



When I rcflea on the great quantities'" 

 of claftick air, which are deftroyed by bur- llsr 

 ning fulphurj it feems to me not improba- 

 ble, that when an animal is killed by light- ^ " 

 ning without any vifible wound, or imme- 

 diate ftroke, that it may be done by thefltfib 

 air's elafticity, being inftantly deftroyed by:U»fi 

 the fulphureous lightning near the animal, 

 whereby the lungs will fall flat, and caufer;::. 

 fudden death 5 which is further confirmed :: |fc 

 by the flatnefs of the lungs of animals thus, 

 killed by lightning, their veficles being found 

 upon difiection to be fallen flat, and to have. 

 no air in them : The burfting alfo of glafs 

 windows outwards, feems to be from the ,77 

 fame effect of lightning on the air's claf- 

 ticity. ^ 



It is likewife by deftroying the air's elaf- 

 ticity in fermented liquors, that lightning *• 

 renders them flat and vapid : For fmce ful- 

 phureous fleams held near or under veflels 



will check redundant fermentation, as well '*fc| 



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