Ten lectures examining the history of physiology from about the sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth century.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... long duration, brings about an essential change or a "conspicuous alteration in the fermenting bodies themselves. "Latent fermentation, than which nothing is more common "alike in the works of nature and of man, is an adventitious "and expansive movement of heterogeneous parts and insensible "bodies excited without sensible cause, which, when it is "vehement or of long duration brings about an essential change "or a conspicuous alteration in the fermenting bodies themselves "and is excited so gradually and in so hidden a manner that "while it is taking place it can not be detected by the senses, "and hence is only recognised by the effects which in a given "time it produces. "Of this kind is the movement of the particles of a mass of "dough which is beginning to ferment, but which so gradually "liquefies and swells that the change which it is undergoing "is only recognized when after some time it becomes softened "and expanded. "Sensible fermentation is the adventitious "bodies themselves and is recognized by the senses so soon as "ever it begins. Such is the fermentation which is brought "about when water is poured on quick-lime, or spirits of vitriol "is mixed with oil of tartar. "Vehement fermentation is the adventitious "sensible cause, which quickly brings about an essential change "or a conspicuous alteration in the fermenting bodies them"selves and is produced with a certain impetus and indeed "sometimes with considerable tumult. Of this kind is the "movement which is observed when spirits of vitriol is poured "on oil of tartar or water on quick-lime. "Moderate fermentation is the...

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