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REMARKS 



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PRESER- the human body. But the chief caufes, originally depofiting tha 



fomes of putrefcence into our body^ have in my opinion, hitherto 

 not been attended to, and ftill lefs have they been placed in that 

 point of view, in which I flatter myfelf to reprefent it to the 



VATION 

 OF MARI 

 KERS, 



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public ', and which I trufl: may lead us to find out the remedies 

 againft this dreadful fcourge to fea- faring people. 



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We find that the blood of animals imbibes through the lungs a 

 confiderable portion of phlogiftic matter; for when a quantity of 



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inflammable air made by pouring fome weakened oil of vitriol 



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on fteel filings, contained in a bladder or veflfel, is breathed into 

 the lungs and exhaled again into the fame vefifel, it not only after 



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breathings ceafes to be inflammable 



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on 



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the contrary will extinguifh a burning candle put into it; which. 



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circumfl:ance inconteftibly proves,, that the inflammable air, when 



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in the lungs had been deprived of its phlogiilon,, and confequently 

 that the latter had been abforbed into the blood. That ingenious 

 and accurate philofopher,. Dr. Priefl:ley, inferred from the. experi- 

 ment wherein common air becomes, by being inhaled into the 

 lungs unfit for the purpofes of refpiration or giving nouriJfhment to 

 the flame of a candle, '*■ that the ufe of the lungs is. to carry oiF a 



putrid effluvium^ or. to dif charge, that phlogiji^ 



which had 



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been taken into the fyftem with the aliment, and was become 



were, effete ; . the aic that 



fpired ferving a§ a menjlruum 



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