OBSERFATIONS and EXPERIMENTS 



ON THE 



AHIMAlCUiLA OF INFUSIONS, 



CHAPTER lo 



V^THETHER, ACCORDING TO A NEW THEORY OF GE- 

 NERATION, ANIM LCULA ARE PRODUCED BY A VE. 

 GETATIVE POWER IN MATTER. INFUSIONS AND IN 

 FUSED SUBSTANCES EXPOSED TO HEAT. 



JNoTHiNG is more common v/ith plillofophers 

 who have invented any theory, or given a new 

 form to one already eflablifhed, and univerfaliy 

 known, than to republifh it on fome other oc^ 

 cafion, correded, improved, or illuftrated, with 

 additional information. If v/e would review our 

 difcoveries, if we would examine them profound- 

 ly and with impartiality, we fhould in general 

 .find defeas unnoticed before, which arife from 

 Vol. I, A .the 



