Candles and Animals Both Need Oxygen

If a small animal and a lighted candle be placed in a closed flask, so that no air can enter, in a short time the candle will go out, nor will the animal long survive. ... The animal is not suffocated by the smoke of the candle. ... The reason why the animal can live some time after the candle has gone out seems to be that the flame needs a continuous rapid and full supply of nitro-aereal particles. ... For animals, a less aereal spirit is sufficient. ... The movements of the lungs help not a little towards sucking in aereal particles which may remain in said flask and towards transferring them to the blood of the animal.

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Quoting John Mayow.

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Some apostles of physiology

Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Stirling , William (1902), Some apostles of physiology, Retrieved on 2012-06-12

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