2 j 8 Analyfis oj the Air. . 
mical infeaions are conveyed by the breath 
to the blood (when we confider what great 
quantities of the airy vehicle lofes its ela- 
fticity among the vcficles, whereby the in- 
feftious Miafma is lodged in the lungs. ^ 
When I refleft on the great quantities j 
of claftick air, which are dcftroyed by bur- | 
ning fulphur j 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 the 
air’s clafticity, being inftantly deftroyed by 
the fulphureous lightning near the animal, 
whereby the lungs will fall flat, and caufe 
fudden death ; which is further confirmed 
by the flatnefs of the lungs of animals thus 
killed by lightning, their-veficles being found 
upon difleaion to be fallen flat, and to have 
no air in them : The burfting aho of glafs 
windows outwards, feems to be from the 
fame effed of lightning on the air’s elaf- 
ticity. 
It is like wife by deftroying the air’s elaf- 
ticity in fermented liquors, that lightning 
renders them flat and vapid : For fince ful- 
phureous fleams held near or under veflels 
will check redundant tcrmentation, as well 
as 
