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1666.  Boyle, Orig. Forms & Qual. (1667), 17. The Learned Horstius … ascribes the Indolence of the Part, whil’st uncompress’d, to some slimy Juice.

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1713.  Derham, Phys.-Theol., 5, note. I shall leave the ingenious Reader to judge what the cause was of both the Birds living longer in compressed, than uncompressed Air.

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1808.  J. Webster, Nat. Philos., 77. It produces considerable pain in the part which is uncompressed.

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1863.  Tyndall, Heat, ii. 24. The uncompressed lead they said had a greater capacity for heat than the compressed substance.

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