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1666. Boyle, Orig. Forms & Qual. (1667), 17. The Learned Horstius ascribes the Indolence of the Part, whilst uncompressd, to some slimy Juice.
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.
1808. J. Webster, Nat. Philos., 77. It produces considerable pain in the part which is uncompressed.
1863. Tyndall, Heat, ii. 24. The uncompressed lead they said had a greater capacity for heat than the compressed substance.