Memoirs for the natural history of humane blood, especially the spirit of that liquor by Robert Boyle.
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Title
Memoirs for the natural history of humane blood, especially the spirit of that liquor by Robert Boyle.
Author
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
Publication
London :: Printed for Samuel Smith,
1683/4.
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Blood -- Early works to 1800.
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"Memoirs for the natural history of humane blood, especially the spirit of that liquor by Robert Boyle." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28998.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
Pages
Experiment. II.
HAving into a wide-mouth'd glass put as much Spirit of Blood, as would more than cover the Ball of a small seal'd Weather-glass, and suffer'd this Instrument to stay a while, that the Ambient Liquor and the Included might be reduc'd to the same temper, as to Heat and Cold; we pour'd on some Spirit of Verdegreece made per se, and observ'd that, tho this Spirit with some other Volatile Saline Li∣quors, had a very differing operation, yet working on our Spirit of Blood, with which it made a conflict and excited Bubbles, there was produc'd in the Mixture a degree of Warmth, that was not insensible on the outside
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of the glass, but was much more sensible in the Thermoscope, whose Liquor being hereby rarified, ascen∣ded to a considerable height above the former station, towards which when the conflict of the two Liquors was over, it began, tho but slowly, to return.
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