298 Analyfis of the Air. 
Have we not reafon alfo hence to con- 
clude, that the energy of acid fpirits may in 
fome meafure be owing to the ftrongly at- 
tracting air particles in them ; which adivc 
principles may give an impetus to the acid 
fpicuUy as well as the earthy oily matter, 
which is found in thefe acid fpirits > 
There are we fee alfo great ftore of air 
particles found in the Analyfis of the blood, 
which arifes doubtlefs as well from the ferum 
as from the craff amentum, for all the animal 
fluids and foiids have air, and fulphur in 
them : Which ftrongly attracting principles 
feem to be more intimately united together 
in the more perfect and elaborate part of it, 
its red globules 5 fo that we may not unrea- 
sonably conclude, that air is a band of union 
here, as well as in Salts : And accordingly, 
we find the greateft plenty of air in the moft 
folid parts of the body, where the cohefion 
of the parts is the ftrongeft : For by compa- 
ring Experiment 49 and 51. we fee that 
much more air was found in the diftilla- 
tion of horn than of blood. And the co- 
hefion of animal fiibftances was not, as we 
find by the fame Experiment, diffolved even 
in the blood, without confiderable violence 
of fire 5 tho* it is fometimes done to a fa- 
tal 
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