haggisbasher16 t1_iqnqwyp wrote on October 1, 2022 at 7:19 PM Reply to TIL that Santorio Santorio, an Italian Professor, Physician, qnd Physiologist weighed everything he consumed and excreted over a period of 30yrs in the study of Insensible Perspiration or what we know today as metabolism. by mfairview I suppose there was no concept of fuel/energy then so I can see where the idea of perspiration came from Permalink 49
haggisbasher16 t1_iqnqwyp wrote
Reply to TIL that Santorio Santorio, an Italian Professor, Physician, qnd Physiologist weighed everything he consumed and excreted over a period of 30yrs in the study of Insensible Perspiration or what we know today as metabolism. by mfairview
I suppose there was no concept of fuel/energy then so I can see where the idea of perspiration came from