The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq., epitomiz'd by Richard Boulton ... ; illustrated with copper plates.
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The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq., epitomiz'd by Richard Boulton ... ; illustrated with copper plates.
Author
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
Publication
London :: Printed for J. Phillips ... and J. Taylor ...,
1699-1700.
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Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Chemistry -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- 15th-18th centuries.
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TITLE IV. Of the Phaenomena afforded by a newly kit∣ten'd Kitling in Vacuo.
* 1.1A Newly kitten'd Kitling being included in a Receiver, when it began to be ex∣hausted, in a Minute, after Convulsions, lay with the Tongue out as if dead; but when expos'd to the Air, in a Trice recover'd. An∣other Kitling of the same Age, being included in the same Receiver, after it had been, by turns, convulsive six Minutes, upon pumping out the Air, seem'd dead; and when taken out of the Receiver, lay with its Tongue out, without either
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Pulse or Respiration; but being pinch'd, it pre∣sently gave signs of Life, and in a quarter of an hour, gaping and straining to fetch Breath, it recover'd. A third being put into the same Re∣ceiver, after violent Convulsions and want of Breath, in a Minute and half seem'd dead, no more Air being drawn out, than what was done at 3 Exsuctions. The Pump being still ply'd, and the Kitling seeming to swell, some time after gave signs of Life, being violently con∣vuls'd. After it had been inclos'd 7 Minutes, we let in the Air, and put Aq. Vitae into the Mouth of the Kitling, yet it dy'd in our Hands. These Animals continu'd perhaps 3 times as long alive in Vacuo, as others would have done.