MEMOIRS 
OF THE 
LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL 
SOCIETY OF MANCHESTER. 
Some Remarks on the Opinion that /^Animal 
Body pojfejfes the Power of generating Cold. 
By George Bell, M. D. Read May 16, 1781. 
A CURIOUS and important difcovery 
was announced to the world in the 
lxy, vol. of the Philofophical Tranf- 
aflions. We are there informed, that Dr. For- 
dyce and other gentlemen, feveral different times, 
went into a room, the air of which was heated 
to a degree far above that of the human blood; 
and though they remained there, fometimes 
for the fpace of half an hour, yet the heat of their 
bodies was not increafed by more than 3 or 4 de¬ 
grees. From hence they concluded, that the 
living body poffeffes a peculiar power of generat- 
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