Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 292
ace, and to about16,000 kilogrammes on the surface of the body of a man of or-dinary stature. But since this pressure is exerted equally in alldirections, and since the cavities of the body are filled either byair or other gases, which exert a pressure on the one surface ofits delicate membranes… … L J Fig. 255. ever, by any means, we can remove the pressure from one sideonly of a membrane, then the pressure on the other side vill be-come evident. We can readily remove the pressure from the interior surfaceof a vessel, by removing the air by meansof an air-pump (175), and thus remov-ing the…
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