Experiments and observations on animal heat, and the inflammation of combustible bodies : being an attempt to resolve these phenomena into a general law of nature / by A. Crawford, M.D. F.R.S. L. and E. and member of the philosophical societies of Dublin and Philadelphia.

  • Crawford, Adair, 1748-1795.
Date:
1788
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    AND O B S E R V A T 1 O N S UPON ANIMAL HEAT, &c. TH E words heat and fire are ambigu- ous. Heat, in common language, has a double fignification. It is ufed indifcrimi- nately to exprcfs a fenfation of the mind, and an unknown principle, whether we call it a qualify or a fubjlance, which is the ex- citing caufe of that fenfation ■ Philofophers, who have applied themfelves to this fubjeft in modern times, have ge- nerally appropriated the word heat to the unknown principle ; and in the language of * See Dr. Rcid's Inquiry into the Human Mind, p. 78. B fcience^