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fooner felc in the Lungs or Pleura, than in 
other parts of the Body, may be this, 'viz. 
by Exper. CXIII. Vol iff, p. 253- was 
found that when a Gage was fixed to the 
Thorax of a live Dog, the Spirit of Wine 
rofe in the Gage, about fix Inches in ordinary 
Infpirations, and twenty or thirty Inches in 
laborious Infpirations ; whence it is evident 
that there is then fo much lefs PrelTure of Ait- 
in the Thorax, both on the Pleura and Surface 
of the Lungs, the Confeqncnce of which is, 
that more Blood will at that time flow into the 
Veflels, as they are then lefs compreflTed by Air, 
as is the known Cafe in Cupping ; and which 
is further evident from the following Experi- 
ment, viz. I flit Holes thro’ the intercoflal 
Mufcles on each fide of the Thorax of a 
Kitten, and then placing it upder an Air 
Pump Receiver, it was killed in yacno j 
when on opening the Thorax I found the 
Lungs very red with coagulated Blood, which 
had flowed more freely into its BIood-velTels, 
on the Weight of the Atmofphere being ta-^ 
ken off of its Veljcjes, both within their Ca- 
vities, and on the Sides next the Thorax e 
Whereas if a Kitten be killed in Vacuo, with- 
out having Orifices made into its Thorax^ 
G a, the 
