Introductory course of natural philosophy for the use of schools and academies. Ed. from Ganot's popular physics. By William G. Peck (1869)
Ganot, Adolphe, 1804-1887, Peck, William Guy, 1820-1892 · New York A.S. Barnes · leaf 126
no longerresisted by the pressure ofthe air. The hand swells.and the blood tends to flowout through the pores. The question may beasked, why, when the handis placed upon a body, it isnot retained there by thepressure of the atmosphere.The answer is. there is athin layer of air betweenthe hand and… … Fig. 82. The operation of cupping, in medicine, depends upon the principlejust explained. TTnw shown that the tissues of the body contain gases f Explain experiment,xiinciple of cupping. 124 POPULAR PHYSICS. II. — MEASURE OF THE ELASTIC FORCE OF GASES. Mariottes Law. 120. When a given mass of any…
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