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Aristotle
On youth and old age, on life and death, on breathing

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1 5 | not prevent the passage of air, and again they enable it 2 5 | extinction by the surrounding air by means of the supply of 3 6 | nutriment and the surrounding air supply. For the food has 4 6 | produces heat and thirst. The air, if it be motionless, becomes 5 6 | cools it. If the surrounding air is excessively cold owing 6 6 | the water, others in the air, and therefore these media 7 6 | water in the one case, air in the other. We must proceed-and 8 8 | water through their gills, air is formed in the mouth, 9 8 | their gills, they suck the air out of the water surrounding 10 8 | for he believes there is air in the water.~But these 11 8 | they breathe out. But the air and the water must meet 12 8 | both exhale and inhale the air, and if none of these animals 13 9 | assertion that they draw in air out of the mouth or out 14 9 | body which draws in the air, but in the fishes this 15 9 | bubbles are formed of the air which is forcibly discharged, 16 9 | since they do not contain air drawn from an external source. 17 9 | water. For if fishes draw in air out of the surrounding water 18 9 | same way as fishes, draw in air out of the mouth. If in 19 9 | they respire, die in the air and gasp (as can be seen) 20 9 | foolish, for he says that in air they take in too much air 21 9 | air they take in too much air and hence die, but in the 22 10| succour them. For in the air there are many of those 23 10| when we breathe and the air enters, these enter along 24 10| compression by the surrounding air gains the upper hand, and, 25 10| being unable to respire, the air from outside can no longer 26 10| exerted by the surrounding air. Death, however, occurs 27 10| breathe faster. But, when the air around is cold and contracts 28 10| the time when the external air should enter and annul the 29 11| is said that when the hot air issues from the mouth it 30 11| it pushes the surrounding air, which being carried on 31 11| when it has become hot the air passes out again by the 32 11| inwards through the mouth the air that had been discharged 33 11| that the passage of the hot air out through the mouth and 34 13| passages leading to the outer air, the calibre of which is 35 13| relatively to those in the air. Hence, since it is the 36 13| when it moves down the air rushes in and inspiration 37 13| when the blood rises, the air is forced out and the outward 38 13| while the gore~Lies hid, for air is cut a thoroughfare most 39 13| the vessel enters, but the air,~Until she frees the crowded 40 13| being closed,~The outer air that entrance craves restrains 41 13| contrariwise~Once more the air comes in and water meet 42 13| recesses~Admits a stream of air rushing with swelling wave,~ 43 13| backward leaps, in like bulk air flows out.~ ~This then is 44 13| the same channel that the air is taken in and let out, 45 13| the mouth is, some of the air going this way through the 46 15| the surrounding water or air is sufficient to prevent 47 15| if of panting by means of air, for, in the middle section 48 15| middle section itself, the air which exists internally 49 15| animals that breathe the outer air, or to the gills in fishes. 50 15| bloodless remain alive longer in air than those that have blood 51 15| of heat they possess, the air is for a long time adequate 52 16| cases it is the surrounding air, in others fluid, that aids 53 16| which have a lung admit the air and produce the cooling 54 16| refrigeration by means of the air (it seems to have derived 55 17| windpipe is expanded, and the air enters to effect refrigeration. 56 19| animals have an excess of air and fire respectively. It 57 20| water has less heat than air. But it is wholly absurd 58 20| dry on land, the warm in air. With regard, however, to 59 21| explanation of the admission of air and respiration in those 60 21| of their vital fire; the air also must penetrate all 61 21| can be easily performed by air, for, being of a subtle 62 22| admitted or expelled. If air is limited in amount and 63 25| suffocated in water and fishes in air. For it is by water in the 64 25| in the latter class, by air in the former that refrigeration 65 27| When it dilates the outer air must rush in as into a bellows, 66 27| and when it collapses the air which entered must pass 67 27| again. When it enters the air is cold, but on issuing 68 27| The inward passage of the air is called respiration, the


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