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Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Changes Induced on Atmospheric Air: By the Germination of Seeds, the Vegetation of Plants, and the Respiration of Animals
By comparing attentively the chemical facts which relate to this function with certain pathological ap pearances, and considering both in connection with the actual structure of the respiratory organs, he was induced, not only to reject the sufficiency ofthe planations which have been hitherto proposed, but to form some Opinions on the subject more conso nant, as it appeared a}. Him, ypth the real designs of nature. In the course of this mvestigation, analogy readily suggested to him a comparison of the facts ascertained in human respiration with those which.
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