Surgical And Physiological Essays

Excerpt from Surgical and Physiological Essays, Vol. 2 It never appeared to me very difficult, to afcertain with tolerable precifion, the nature of the 'matter? Which the fkin emits or im bibes. If the hand be introduced into an inverted jar filled with quickfilver; the mat ter detached from it will afcend to the top of the mercury, and remain unaltered a (abject of chemical examination. A trough contain ing a fufiicient quantity of quickfilver to allow fuch introduction, was all that feemed requifite; this I procured, and profecuted the experiments in the manner, which I lhall re late: but it will be previoufly necefi'ary, briefly to defcribe the vefi'els, and other apparatus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.