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Experiment” in which, by dissecting away the dia - phragm of a dog and blowing air through the immobi - lized lungs, he showed that the animal could be kept alive, and in this way verified “my own Hypothesis of this Matter,” namely that it is the air passing into the blood, not the motion of the lungs, that was neces - sary for life.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas HENRY GUERLAC 1968
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