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Show Heat of the Body. That animal heat is due to combustion was first recognized by Lavoisier, who was unable to determine whether the combustion takes place in the lungs at the place where the oxygen is absorbed or throughout the entire system. Ber-tholet, Ber-tholet, in a late paper on the subject, states that one-seventh of the heat is oro iticed in the lungs, and Buc-aevenths in the system by reactions of oxidation and hydration. The temparature of the blood 1 In the lungs is raised by absorption of i oxygen, while the retn-i of carbon to a gaseous state and the evaporation of ' moisture tend to lower it. Herald of ' Health. |