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1 VII | Usu partium, lib. vi, cap. 10.]~Galen adduces this argument 2 Pref| Lib. ix, cap. xi, quest. 12.]~[Footnote 2: De Locis 3 Int | Kent, England, April 1, 1578. He was educated at the 4 Int | capacity that he delivered, in 1616, the lectures in which he 5 Int | in the British Museum.~In 1618 Harvey was appointed physician 6 Int | Merton College, Oxford (1645-6), and, when he was too 7 Int | Physicians. He died on June 3, 1657.~Harvey's famous "Exercitatio 8 III | Footnote 2: De Respir., cap. 20.]~I happened upon one occasion 9 IV | 1: Bauhin, lib. ii, cap. 21. Riolan, lib. viii, cap. 10 Pref| than both the iliac veins?~5. And I ask, as the lungs 11 Int | Merton College, Oxford (1645-6), and, when he was too infirm 12 Pref| Affectis. lib. vi, cap. 7.]~Since, therefore, from 13 IV | 2: De Motu Animal., cap. 8.]~I have also observed that 14 III | Footnote 1: De Anim., iii, cap. 9.]~[Footnote 2: De Respir., 15 XV | nutrition in its source and abating the powers at large, it 16 XVI | may still be found in the abdomen of the chick many days after 17 XI | castration of animals and the ablation of tumours. In the latter 18 XVII| possession, I trust I shall be able to make sufficiently plain 19 VI | adult they are closed up, abolished, and consolidated, although 20 XVII| and more perfect, as they abound in blood, which is always 21 Ded | its very heart; a Prince abounding in virtue and in grace, 22 XVII| in the left, yet they are absent in the right ventricle. 23 XVI | means of their orifices, absorb some of the things that 24 Pref| serum and pus in empyema, absorbed from the cavities of the 25 XII | part of the blood being abstracted, faintings and syncopes 26 I | after the manner of the Academy of old.~These views as usual, 27 Int | and in his own country was accepted at once; on the Continent 28 Ded | things are discovered by accident and that many may be learned 29 XV | mind of a similar kind are accompanied with emaciation and decay, 30 XIII| sufficient slowness of its own accord, as it would have to pass 31 XI | quantity can neither be accounted for by the ingesta, nor 32 I | republic of letters should accrue from my labours, it will, 33 XI | is this? Does the blood accumulate below the ligature coming 34 Ded | of sense, you have been accustomed to stand by and bear me 35 VII | of Padua, or others of an acidulous or vitriolated nature, or 36 Int | soundness of his views was acknowledged by the medical profession 37 V | and which Galen himself acknowledges in other respects consonant 38 XVII| plain how Aristotle was acquainted with the muscles, and advisedly 39 IV | heart too increased and acquired ventrieles, which then began 40 XVII| ovum, worm, foetus), it acquires perfection in each. These 41 Pref| quantity of turbid, fetid and acrid urine. But he died at last, 42 XIII| places the valves, by not acting with such perfect accuracy, 43 XVI | because they are severally active and passive, a mixture or 44 XI | the disease is of the more acute kind, and the swelling usually 45 XIII| and so accurate is the adaptation, that neither by the eye 46 Pref| reduced to the necessity of adding another ventricle for the 47 XVI | suffers delay and undergoes additional change, lest arriving prematurely 48 V | distributing it to the body, adds anything else to it - heat, 49 VII | lib. vi, cap. 10.]~Galen adduces this argument for the transit 50 XI | returning channels are not adequately obstructed; in the other 51 VI | blocking up the foramen, and adhering on all sides, finally closes 52 VIII| others, will give in their adhesion. But what remains to be 53 II | simultaneously by an admirable adjustment all the internal surfaces 54 V | body.~The above, indeed, is admitted by all, both from the structure 55 V | experienced by anyone in admitting what I have already proposed 56 VI | she seems compelled to adopt through want of a passage 57 XIV | to propose it for general adoption.~Since all things, both 58 XI | where a twig of the artery advances from the temple, and immediately, 59 XV | their peculiar or private advantage, just as the heart also 60 XI | also explain the uses and advantages to be derived from ligatures 61 XVII| Here surgeons are to be advised that, when the blood escapes 62 XVII| acquainted with the muscles, and advisedly referred all motion in animals 63 Pref| a two-fold material, one aerial, one sanguineous, is required 64 Ded | on the pinnacle of human affairs, you may at once contemplate 65 XV | the body of man. For every affection of the mind that is attended 66 Pref| Footnote 2: De Locis Affectis. lib. vi, cap. 7.]~Since, 67 Pref| themselves alike. Whence it is affirmed, as by Hieronymus Fabricius 68 Pref| artery, as Galen himself affirms in more than one place, 69 XVII| the temple, as in persons afflicted with lipothymiae asphyxia, 70 IV | little water, has frequently afforded myself and particular friends 71 Ded | distinguished men, I was greatly afraid lest I might be charged 72 VIII| therefore, are the canals and agents that transport the blood, 73 Ded | pathway trodden for so many ages, and illustrated by such 74 XVII| distance; and not merely agitated by an auricle, as it is 75 XV | fear, is the cause of an agitation whose influence extends 76 XVII| Nor are we the less to agree with Aristotle in regard 77 Ded | something that should be agreeable to the good, profitable 78 VI | mastered the science of agriculture; or who, upon the ground 79 Pref| will have it that fumes and air-fumes flowing from, air proceeding 80 XVI | umbilical vessels, one from the albumen passing entire through the 81 XV | iii: De Part. Animal. et alibi.]~The blood, therefore, 82 VIII| spirituous, and, as I may say, alimentive blood; which, on the other 83 V | the divine Galen will here allow, as in other places he does, " 84 XV | circumstances, and rest allowing them to escape and be dissipated. 85 IX | contraction; and all the world allows that with the systole something 86 XVI | confirmed. Colocynth and aloes in this way move the belly, 87 XVII| begins to be apparent. In the altered circumstances the right 88 IX | movement in the lungs and the alternate opening and shutting of 89 Pref| it is also in alarm, and amidst care, and under anxiety 90 VI | this point, they plainly do amiss who, pretending to speak 91 II | effect of thickening and amplifying the walls and substance 92 XVII| escapes with force in the amputation of limbs, in the removal 93 Int | Harvey's famous "Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis 94 Ded | very different from the ancient and beaten pathway trodden 95 II | the ventricle is filled anew with blood, that the deeper 96 Pref| causes, such as running, anger, the warm bath, or any other 97 III | arteries veins.~[Footnote 1: De Anim., iii, cap. 9.]~[Footnote 98 Int | Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus" was published in Latin 99 XVI | third book, "De partibus Animalium"? And so also of the blood, 100 Int | whose epoch-making treatise announcing and demonstrating the circulation 101 Pref| Nature had rather need of annular tubes, such as those of 102 VII | tide, it would ever and anon, like the Euripus, flow 103 V | what would have been the answer of that most ingenious and 104 Ded | any one who was sincerely anxious for truth, nor lay it to 105 | anywhere 106 VI | embryo, as it were, two aortas, or two roots of the great 107 VI | them forth in a treatise apart, lest I should be held as 108 IX | invisible porosities and apertures. But the heart not ceasing 109 XIII| purpose of guarding against apoplexy, as some have said; because 110 Pref| identical, there being the same apparatus of fibres, and braces, and 111 Pref| hearts; and also, by frequent appeals to vivisection, and much 112 IV | heart following; the motion appearing to begin from the auricles 113 IV | still to consider those that appertain to the auricles.~Caspar 114 VI | these animals, and matters appertaining, which, however, I cannot 115 Pref| blood?~Moreover, when they appoint the pulmonary artery, a 116 Int | Museum.~In 1618 Harvey was appointed physician extraordinary 117 Ded | in behalf of truth, or to appreciate the proposition that is 118 XIII| erect position was to be apprehended. Neither are there valves 119 VIII| circular motion, and by the approach and recession of the sun.~ 120 II | meaning, that as the apex is approached to the base, so are the 121 IX | valves; and let us suppose as approaching the truth that the fourth, 122 Int | Folkestone, Kent, England, April 1, 1578. He was educated 123 IX | motion.~Let us assume, either arbitrarily or from experiment, the 124 II | bulge out in the fashion of arches, the cavities to dilate, 125 I | found the task so truly arduous, so full of difficulties, 126 Ded | Very Dear Friend, Doctor Argent, The Excellent And Accomplished 127 XV | will deny.~[Footnote 1: Aristoteles De Respiratione, lib. ii 128 IV | and nature in death, as Aristotle2 further remarks, retracing 129 XIII| either side towards the arms, not a drop can pass; all 130 | around 131 IV | motions, so that the heart aroused, as it were, appears to 132 IX | hemorrhages are diminished and arrested.~Still further, it is from 133 XI | channels; it must needs, then, arrive by the arteries in conformity 134 XVI | additional change, lest arriving prematurely and crude at 135 Pref| blood is spirituous and arterious, and virtually concede that 136 XVII| like the elaborate and artful arrangement of ropes in 137 IV | pulsating, - when it was in articulo mortis in short, - that 138 Ded | as to imagine any of the arts or sciences transmitted 139 IX | manner, seeing that it can be ascribed to no other than the cause 140 Pref| not or would not perceive, asd inform us that, in the natural 141 XIII| are most readily pushed aside. The effect of this arrangement 142 IV | being made in the upper aspect of the body, near the part 143 XVII| afflicted with lipothymiae asphyxia, or hysterical symptoms, 144 Pref| contain spirits. They then assert, with Galen, against Erasistratus, 145 Pref| when they have previously asserted that the air entered by 146 VII | juices percolate the liver, asserting such a proposition to be 147 VI | be said in regard to the assertion that the heart in the embryo 148 IX | and make mere specious assertions without any foundation, 149 Pref| experience of Hollerius, asserts and proves that the serum 150 XI | employment, or derive any real assistance from them in effecting cures.~ 151 XVII| supplementary to the heart, assisting it to execute a more powerful 152 XVI | to the soles of the feet assists expectoration, cordials 153 XVII| and I must say that I am astonished to find such diversity in 154 IV | animals not destined to attain to the highest perfection 155 XIII| mass and fountain head, and attaining from warmer into colder 156 XIII| dissections of the veins: if I attempted to pass a probe from the 157 XIII| edges, that if anything attempts to pass from the trunks 158 XV | affection of the mind that is attended with either pain or pleasure, 159 II | dog and hog, if they be attentively noted when the heart begins 160 XVI | increasing, the matter becoming attenuated, the passages forced, and 161 I | Chapter I: The Author's Motives For Writing~When 162 II | heart.~We are therefore authorized to conclude that the heart, 163 VII | same arguments be held of avail for the passage of the blood 164 XI | all tumefaction, as indeed Avicenna has it, and of all oppressive 165 Ded | philosophy to sedulously avoid the fables of the poets 166 Ded | had fallen into error. I avow myself the partisan of truth 167 V | in the direction of the axis of the right ventricle, 168 VII | denying that the blood, aye, the whole mass of the blood, 169 VII | prevent regurgitation or backward motion; each, however, having 170 XVII| already in motion; just as the ball-player can strike the ball more 171 VIII| spirits, it might be said with balsam. Thence it is again dispersed. 172 XVII| fleshy, as in the carp, barbel, tench, and others, it bears 173 V | flame extends, enters the barrel, causes the explosion, propels 174 Int | Physicians, physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and Lumleian 175 Pref| running, anger, the warm bath, or any other heating thing, 176 Int | War, being present at the battle of Edgehill. By mandate 177 Ded | different from the ancient and beaten pathway trodden for so many 178 XV | supply for its own especial behoof in its coronary veins and 179 II | longitudinally, as we see them in the bellies of the muscles of the body 180 XVI | aloes in this way move the belly, cantharides excites the 181 Int | physiology, and its whole honor belongs to Harvey."~ 182 I | Finally, if any use or benefit to this department of the 183 Ded | clemency, I most humbly beseech you, illustrious Prince, 184 | beside 185 Ded | used all my endeavours, bestowed all my pains on an attempt 186 VIII| frequently and seriously bethought me, and long revolved in 187 XVI | contagions, poisoned wounds, the bites of serpents and rabid animals, 188 III | are filled like sacs or bladders, and are not filled because 189 XVII| animals which have been bled to death, is, because the 190 IX | Neither could the butcher ever bleed the carcass effectually 191 XVI | chyme or chyle and blood, blended together or distinct, but 192 Ded | we gladly refer all the blessings which England enjoys, all 193 XVII| passages indicated should be blocked up that the difference in 194 VI | this membrane in the adult blocking up the foramen, and adhering 195 II | when quiescent of a deeper blood-red color.~From these particulars 196 Pref| it has the structure of a blood-vessel here. Nature had rather 197 VIII| motion of the heart.~As the blood-vessels, therefore, are the canals 198 XI | I struck my forehead a blow upon the place where a twig 199 XVII| bands, such as the to be blown and to require a large quantity 200 XV | and cheeks and hands look blue, and how the blood, stagnating 201 Ded | are disposed at the first blush to accept and believe everything 202 Pref| with. And then Laurentius boasts that he had predicted the 203 XVII| it begins to have greater bodily consistence, the vesicle 204 XVII| in a heart which has been boiled, the arrangement of the 205 VI | inspired, and prevented from boiling up, and so becoming extinguished, 206 Ded | teach anatomy, not from books but from dissections; not 207 Int | blood is here printed, was born at Folkestone, Kent, England, 208 VI | perhaps, that imposed upon Botallus, who thought he had discovered 209 IV | heart will be found at the bottom of that orifice in the right 210 XVII| arrangement of ropes in a ship, bracing the heart on every side 211 XI | tide, as if it strove to break through and overcome the 212 IX | an animal has ceased to breathe and the lungs to move, the 213 XIV | may be allowed to give in brief my view of the circulation 214 VII | needless labour, neither to bring aught into the organ which 215 Ded | Prince Charles King Of Great Britain, France, And Ireland Defender 216 Int | are still preserved in the British Museum.~In 1618 Harvey was 217 XVII| stroke of the heart, which is broken by the great distance at 218 Pref| tubes, such as those of the bronchi in order that they might 219 Pref| as they do the pulmonary bronchia, wherefore do we find neither 220 XI | blood to be effused into the bruised part with unusual force 221 XVII| are coldest, of one great bulk, of soft texture, or of 222 II | notion countenance, quotes a bundle of osiers bound in a pyramidal 223 XVII| no chordae tendineae, nor bundles of fibres, neither are there 224 VI | the heart are conspicuous. Bur we have to inquire why in 225 IX | blood. Neither could the butcher ever bleed the carcass effectually 226 IX | some half-hour or less. Butchers are well aware of the fact 227 Pref| one body (like whey and butter in milk, or heat in hot 228 Int | Canterbury, and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; and 229 I | others less; some chid and calumniated me, and laid it to me as 230 Int | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; and studied medicine on 231 VIII| blood-vessels, therefore, are the canals and agents that transport 232 VIII| my love of truth and the candour of cultivated minds. And 233 Int | educated at the King's School, Canterbury, and at Gonville and Caius 234 XVI | this way move the belly, cantharides excites the urine, garlic 235 XI | distended, they are made capable of projecting their charge 236 XIII| entirely into the more open and capacious channels; for they occur 237 II | animal is laid open and the capsule that immediately surrounds 238 IX | the butcher ever bleed the carcass effectually did he neglect 239 XI | facts it is easy for every careful observer to learn that the 240 XVII| somewhat more fleshy, as in the carp, barbel, tench, and others, 241 XI | same cause? Thrown from a carriage upon one occasion, I struck 242 VIII| artery is the vessel which carries the blood from the heart 243 XI | arteries are the vessels carrying the blood from the heart, 244 XVI | drop of water is added to a cask of wine, or the contrary; 245 IV | appertain to the auricles.~Caspar Bauhin and John Riolan,1 246 VIII| all men. Still the die is cast, and my trust is in my love 247 XI | vicinity of the artery had caused the blood to be effused 248 V | left draw it from the venae cavae. This fact is borne witness 249 XIII| cognizable by the senses.~The celebrated Hieronymus Fabricius of 250 IV | and palpitating, after the cessation of all motion in the auricle. 251 XVII| more fleshy and stronger, changes its position, and passes 252 VII | greater propriety, merely changing the terms, for the passage 253 VIII| conduit from, the latter the channel to, the heart; the latter 254 Pref| veins by the dissimilar characters of their coats: the tunics 255 XV | external cold, how the nose and cheeks and hands look blue, and 256 VIII| various parts are nourished, cherished, quickened by the warmer, 257 XV | home and hearth, where the cherisher of nature, the original 258 VIII| its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, 259 I | more, others less; some chid and calumniated me, and 260 XVII| in whose hands lie the chief and highest authority, rules 261 X | three pints whilst nursing a child or twins, which must manifestly 262 XIII| examination, can the slightest chink along the line of contact 263 XIII| passing, as it were, by the chinks between the cornua, it is 264 X | will believe it about to be choked; but the obstacle removed, 265 XVII| most fishes, there are no chordae tendineae, nor bundles of 266 XVI | watery, and not yet perfectly chylified; on the other thick and 267 XVI | animal we do not find either chyme or chyle and blood, blended 268 II | of the heart bulge out in circles, but rather the contrary; 269 IX | manifest that the blood circulates, revolves, propelled and 270 XVI | a very large quantity of circulating blood, a quantity of chyle 271 XI | everyone, I have here to cite certain experiments, from 272 XVI | of the same kind might be cited. Perhaps it will not, therefore, 273 Int | family until the close of the Civil War, being present at the 274 XIII| obviously true, that they may claim general credence. Now the 275 Ded | therefore, with your wonted clemency, I most humbly beseech you, 276 XVII| their hearts, the thicker, closer, and stronger are the auricles 277 VI | adhering on all sides, finally closes it up, and almost obliterates 278 IV | in the guise of a little cloud, the shell having been removed 279 IV | water. In the midst of the cloudlet in question there was a 280 VIII| these parts, becomes cooled, coagulated, and so to speak effete. 281 Pref| similarly black in colour, and coagulated-why, I say, should their uses 282 VIII| preserved from corruption and coagulation; it is the household divinity 283 XVI | entering the mesentery by the coeliac artery, and the superior 284 VI | arteries.~I have, however, cogitating with myself, seen further, 285 XIII| these, and from experiments cognizable by the senses.~The celebrated 286 VI | polity; or who, having taken cognizance of the nature of a single 287 XVII| because these animals are coldest, of one great bulk, of soft 288 IX | truth; the veins, in fact, collapsing, and being without any propelling 289 I | and various animals, and collating numerous observations, I 290 XV | horror, and the like, to collect in its source, to concentrate 291 Ded | from which I have either collected the truth or confuted error. 292 XVI | the liver but a shapeless collection, as it were, of extravasated 293 XVI | contending for is confirmed. Colocynth and aloes in this way move 294 XVI | and along the back of the colon and rectum proceed the hemorrhoidal 295 XI | instantly become deeply coloured and distended, and the veins 296 XVI | and passive, a mixture or combination, or medium compound of the 297 I | and as the old man in the comedy says:~For never yet hath 298 Ded | hope that I should have the comfort of finding all that you 299 VII | aorta.~[Footnote 2: See the Commentary of the learned Hofmann upon 300 I | publicly, I have moved to commit these things to the press, 301 VI | studied the forms of a single commonwealth, should set about the composition 302 VI | ventricles were made to communicate by the removal of their 303 VI | foramen, of an oval form, communicating between the cava and the 304 Ded | still been usual with men to compare small things with great. 305 VII | much looser texture, and if compared with the kidneys are absolutely 306 XI | Besides, the ligature is competent to occasion the afflux in 307 XIII| vessels into the less, they completely prevent it; they are farther 308 Ded | state of forwardness or completeness, that nothing is left for 309 XVI | would not suffice for its completion.~In this place, therefore, 310 VI | the question, and rather complicating and quitting than illustrating 311 Pref| to purpose or to motion, comporting themselves alike. Whence 312 XVI | or combination, or medium compound of the two, precisely as 313 XI | of disease, yet very few comprehend their proper employment, 314 I | the heart was only to be comprehended by God. For I could neither 315 XI | extremities of the body, compresses the veins, and greatly or 316 XVII| and in like manner, on compressing the fingers in youthful 317 X | answered that the heart by computation does as much and more in 318 XIII| short space of time. And now compute the quantity of blood which 319 XVII| case with the insects which conceal themselves in winter, and 320 Pref| arterious, and virtually concede that the office of the arteries 321 Ded | your sheer love of truth, conceded by others who were philosophers 322 V | this father of physicians concedes all these things, - and 323 Pref| one particular, this being conceived to depend on the animal, 324 XV | collect in its source, to concentrate like parts to a whole, or 325 IX | contraction. Whence it is to be concluded that if at one stroke the 326 VII | the eleventh chapter he concludes: "That they (the valves) 327 XVII| aliment may be thoroughly concocted and acquire the last degree 328 V | preserved between them, the two concurring in such wise that but one 329 II | virtue of the direction and condensation of their walls, but farther, 330 VI | anatomists for the most part do, confine their researches to the 331 XV | its source and enter more confined and colder channels, and 332 IX | points present themselves for confirmation, which, being stated, I 333 X | conclude with a single example, confirming all that has been said, 334 IX | empty. But even this fact confirms our views, in no trifling 335 XI | arrive by the arteries in conformity with all that has been already 336 I | it seemed, variously and confusedly together. My mind was therefore 337 Pref| thither without admixture or confusion? If the mitral cuspidate 338 Ded | either collected the truth or confuted error. You have seen my 339 II | where the organ is more conical or elongated.~3. The heart 340 V | delivering many things upon conjecture, as we have already shown.~ 341 XI | slackened, is distinctly conscious of a sensation of warmth, 342 V | the auricles, take place consecutively, but in such a manner that 343 XVI | made? In the same way, in considering the pulse, why should one 344 Pref| impossible to him who carefully considers the entire subject, it would 345 XIII| valves in the veins, which consist of raised or loose portions 346 XVII| begins to have greater bodily consistence, the vesicle in question 347 VI | closed up, abolished, and consolidated, although the lungs, by 348 VI | the heart, in its turn, conspicuously transmits it by a pipe or 349 IV | pulsating henceforth give constant signs of life. When at length, 350 XVII| than the flesh and other constituents of the body, and in a similar 351 Pref| this vessel, and that it constitutes the principal element in 352 XI | tight or perfect when it so constricts an extremity that no vessel 353 II | one of its fibres is to constringe the heart at the same time 354 Pref| that nature is not wont to construct but one vessel, to contrive 355 XVI | arranged as it is by the consummate providence of nature? For 356 XVI | Whence it appears that the contagion impressed upon or deposited 357 XVI | themselves in connexion with contagions, poisoned wounds, the bites 358 XVI | by that organ is sent to contaminate the whole body.~In tertian 359 XVI | sometimes see the whole system contaminated, though the part first infected 360 Pref| Fabricius of Aquapendente, contends that the lungs were made 361 V | but then he would have contradicted himself, and given a foul 362 V | give utterance to various, contradictory, and incoherent sentiments, 363 XVII| derived from veuw, nuto, contraho; and if I am permitted to 364 XVI | tempered by the admixture of contraries; and nature mingling together 365 Pref| construct but one vessel, to contrive but one way for such contrary 366 XI | we use in amputations to control the flow of blood; and such 367 XII | hemorrhages of every kind, controlled. And now, a contrary state 368 Ded | moderns, and enter into controversy with those who have excelled 369 XVI | take for the effects of a contusion or ruptured vein.~But in 370 XV | circulation is matter both of convenience and necessity. In the first 371 VI | not speak till I can more conveniently set them forth in a treatise 372 VI | anatomists only been as conversant with the dissection of the 373 XIII| are the only vessels that convey the blood from the external 374 Pref| vein were destined for the conveyance of air, it has the structure 375 II | the impulse of the apex is conveyed through the chest wall), 376 X | which everyone may obtain conviction through the testimony of 377 VII | should require so much more copious a supply of nutriment, and 378 XVII| Hippocrates in his book, "De Corde," entitles it a muscle; 379 XVI | feet assists expectoration, cordials strengthen, and an infinite 380 Int | Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus" 381 II | drawn together as if with cords, and so is the charge of 382 XV | pendent or lower parts of a corpse, becomes of a dusky hue; 383 I | to his knowledge; Or made correction, or admonished him, That 384 XVI | which indeed would be more correctly placed among our observations 385 XV | decay. When the source is corrupted, there is nothing, as Aristotle 386 II | Vesalius giving this notion countenance, quotes a bundle of osiers 387 IV | a small shrimp in these countries, which is taken in the Thames 388 Int | interest, and in his own country was accepted at once; on 389 XVII| muscular and hardier bodies of countrymen, but fewer in more slender 390 XII | the blood by the bandage, coupled with the weaker action of 391 XII | fear and recovering his courage, the pulse strength is increased, 392 XVII| heart is made up of various courses of fibres running straight, 393 VI | extended like an operculum or cover; this membrane in the adult 394 Pref| of great size, with the coverings of an artery, to none but 395 X | milk in the mammae-for a cow will give three, four, and 396 Ded | even as they see that the credulous and vain are disposed at 397 II | with blood, that the deeper crimson colour returns. But no one 398 XVI | must consider the reason of crises and natural critical discharges; 399 XVI | reason of crises and natural critical discharges; of nutrition, 400 XV | with disordered fluids and crudity, which engender all manner 401 VIII| truth and the candour of cultivated minds. And sooth to say, 402 II | to acquire the form of a cupping-glass and so to suck in the blood. 403 XI | assistance from them in effecting cures.~Ligatures are either very 404 XVII| auricle is so strong, and so curiously constructed on its inner 405 Pref| confusion? If the mitral cuspidate valves do not prevent the 406 XII | puncture made in one of the cutaneous veins of the arm if a bandage 407 IX | bear witness to it; for, cutting the throat of an ox and 408 VI | say, and requiring to be damped or mitigated, that the blood 409 I | me as a crime that I had dared to depart from the precepts 410 V | or groping about in the dark, for they give utterance 411 XVII| hysterical symptoms, and in the debilitated and moribund.~Here surgeons 412 Ded | well that to err, to be deceived, is human; that many things 413 V | inquired into by-and-by, and decided upon other grounds. So much 414 XVI | illustrated by the truth we have declared, the light we have made 415 Ded | And as this book alone declares the blood to course and 416 XI | arm will instantly become deeply coloured and distended, 417 Ded | Britain, France, And Ireland Defender Of The Faith~Most Illustrious 418 IV | the ventricles. With all deference to such authority I say 419 XVI | of the nutriment; and of defluxions of every description. Finally, 420 XVII| winter, and lie, as it were, defunct, or merely manifesting a 421 XVI | meandering channels it suffers delay and undergoes additional 422 IV | pulsates sluggishly and deliberately, contracting slowly as in 423 I | accurately and learnedly delineated almost every one of the 424 Int | this last capacity that he delivered, in 1616, the lectures in 425 V | and incoherent sentiments, delivering many things upon conjecture, 426 V | heart, when there is the delivery of a quantity of blood from 427 XV | fountain ready to meet its demands.~Further, a certain impulse 428 XI | force, is either credible or demonstrable.~Besides, the ligature is 429 Int | treatise announcing and demonstrating the circulation of the blood 430 V | himself, and given a foul denial to that for which he had 431 Pref| parts of the body. Yet it is denied that the right ventricle 432 XVII| organic parts, or of the density of the substance; but the 433 I | crime that I had dared to depart from the precepts and opinions 434 I | any use or benefit to this department of the republic of letters 435 XVI | contagion impressed upon or deposited in a particular part, is 436 XVII| occasion numerous pits or depressions. They constitute a kind 437 XI | their proper employment, or derive any real assistance from 438 XI | more free, did the blood descend by the veins from superior 439 VIII| upwards are condensed, and descending in the form of rain, moisten 440 III | that part where the artery descends into the axilla, produced 441 IV | But I think it right to describe what I have observed of 442 XI | tightness. A ligature I designate as tight or perfect when 443 IX | without any foundation, and desire to innovate without sufficient 444 IX | I leave for particular determination afterwards, from numerous 445 VI | else of the sort. But to determine these matters, and explain 446 XI | tumour the size of an egg developed, without either heat or 447 Ded | lives.~Your Majesty's most devoted servant, William Harvey.~ 448 IV | lives before the heart and dies after it.~Nay, has not the 449 Pref| of respiration, and only differed in one particular, this 450 XVI | kindled in the heart is thence diffused by the arteries through 451 XI | course of the vessels and diffusing itself through the hand, 452 XV | it is imperative that the digestion and distribution be perfect, 453 I | using greater and daily diligence and investigation, making 454 XVI | opposite defects, and then diluting them with a large quantity 455 VII | flow inwards during the disastoles of the lungs and fill all 456 XVI | healed, fever and a train of disastrous symptoms may nevertheless 457 XI | all speedily shrink, and disburthening themselves into this they 458 Pref| inspection, to investigate and discern the truth.~~ 459 XVI | crises and natural critical discharges; of nutrition, and especially 460 VIII| household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, 461 XIII| and so on alternately.~The discoverer of these valves did not 462 Int | day the greatest of the discoveries of physiology, and its whole 463 I | vivisections, as a means of discovering the motions and uses of 464 Int | at Frankfort in 1628. The discovery was received with great 465 Ded | so. They do not esteem it discreditable to desert error, though 466 XVI | among the number, will be discussed: Wherefore is this part 467 XV | which engender all manner of diseases and consume the body of 468 XI | the veins collapse, and disgorge themselves of their contents 469 XV | emaciation and decay, or with disordered fluids and crudity, which 470 VIII| balsam. Thence it is again dispersed. All this depends on the 471 Ded | is their due, nor yet to dispute with the moderns, and enter 472 Pref| lungs of a subject in the dissecting-room, he would instantly see 473 Pref| arteries from the veins by the dissimilar characters of their coats: 474 XV | allowing them to escape and be dissipated. The blood, therefore, becoming 475 XVI | in this way overcome and dissolved by nature.~When we perceive, 476 XIII| are situated at different distances from one another, and diversely 477 III | an artery (especially a distant one) is felt, shall be otherwise 478 XVII| anything else can dilate or distend itself so as to draw anything 479 Pref| of a living dog, forcibly distending the lungs with a pair of 480 Pref| that the arteries by their distens artery beating beyond the 481 IV | heart with the greatest distinctness, the external parts of the 482 VII | nature never intended to distress the heart with needless 483 XIII| distances from one another, and diversely in different individuals; 484 Pref| fuliginous vapours when we divide the pulmonary vein? Why 485 VI | effected when that vessel divides into two branches after 486 Pref| but wonder, since he had divined and predicted that heterogeneous 487 VIII| coagulation; it is the household divinity which, discharging its function, 488 VI | inspection, as well as by a division of the vessel, when the 489 Ded | To His Very Dear Friend, Doctor Argent, The Excellent And 490 Ded | letters.~Farewell, most worthy Doctors, And think kindly of your 491 VIII| become a second nature. Doctrine once sown strikes deep its 492 XIII| in the arteries, and that dogs, oxen, etc., have invariably 493 Ded | nor lay it to any one's door as a crime that he had fallen 494 XVII| presents itself as a sort of double-pointed cone. And this is so, because 495 XVII| swallows, may be very properly doubted.~In all the larger and warmer 496 XVII| adapted to them as being of a doubtful nature, so that sometimes 497 III | for in a plenum (as in a drum, a long piece of timber, 498 Pref| of obscure or invisible ducts, and air through perfectly 499 Ded | do they observe that the dull and unintellectual are indisposed 500 XV | of a corpse, becomes of a dusky hue; the limbs at the same