 | Andrew Combe - Hygiene - 1842 - 486 pages
...these results do not setm extravagant. But even admitting that there may be some unperceived source of fallacy in the experiments, and that the quantity...is more abundant than the united excretions of both bowels and kidneys, and that, according as the weather becomes warmer or colder, the skin and kidneys... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1845 - 846 pages
...Combe goes on to observe, " When the extent of surface which the skin presents, calculated at 2500 square inches, is considered, these results do not...is more abundant than the united excretions of both bowels and kidneys ; and that, according as the weather becomes warmer or colder, the skin and kidneys... | |
 | Andrew Combe - Health education - 1852 - 380 pages
...these results do not seem extravagant, while they render it abundantly evident that exhalation must be a very important function of the skin ; and although the precise amount varies with circumstances, they make it certain that in health the cutaneous and pulmonary exhalations... | |
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admitting that there may be some unperceived fallacy in the experiments, and that the quantity is not so great as is here stated, still, after making every allowance, enough remains to demonstrate that exhalation is a very important function of the skin.... 