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501 Int | infirm to undertake the duties, he was offered the Presidency 502 XVII| therefore, have, as it were, the duty of the whole heart committed 503 XVII| animal, as its work and dwelling-place: and as the prince in a 504 XI | and large fleshy tumours dwindle, die, and finally fall off.~ 505 Pref| from the other - the left, e.g., obtain blood from the right, 506 Ded | philosophers, who are only eager for truth and knowledge, 507 V | yields a pulse both to the ear and the touch; in the same 508 XVII| I may instance grubs and earth-worms, and those that are engendered 509 XVI | the other thick and more earthy, as derived from the faeces, 510 IX | And then the experiment is easily tried of leaving the vein 511 XI | as it is pulsating by the edge of the fillet, at the moment 512 Int | present at the battle of Edgehill. By mandate of Charles I, 513 Int | England, April 1, 1578. He was educated at the King's School, Canterbury, 514 VII | these induces, the other educes." And again he says: "Farther, 515 IV | appears in the flesh of eels, which even when skinned 516 XI | assistance from them in effecting cures.~Ligatures are either 517 VI | accuracy, they oppose an effectual obstacle to everything of 518 XV | colour and life, as by a new efflux and contact of heat from 519 XI | had caused the blood to be effused into the bruised part with 520 IX | to forty-one pounds and eight ounces; and were there one 521 IX | it would be as much as eighty-three pounds and four ounces; 522 IX | man, the ox, or the sheep, ejects but a single drachm of blood 523 XVII| in some sort, like the elaborate and artful arrangement of 524 XI | calculation, with the same elements as before, it will be obvious 525 V | also in deglutition: by the elevation of the root of the tongue, 526 XIII| large, certain knots or elevations (B, C, D, E, F) will be 527 VII | supplementary membranes." In the eleventh chapter he concludes: "That 528 V | strikes against the steel, elicits a spark, which falling among 529 II | organ is more conical or elongated.~3. The heart being grasped 530 XV | kind are accompanied with emaciation and decay, or with disordered 531 Ded | the body of man, and the emblem of your own sovereign power. 532 Ded | the heart I am the more emboldened to present to your Majesty, 533 IV | which even when skinned and embowelled, and cut into pieces, are 534 Ded | useless to a Prince, as embracing a kind of Divine example 535 X | in a general way must it emit upon each pulsation, and 536 XI | comprehend their proper employment, or derive any real assistance 537 VII | the necessity for them, employs the following language:1 " 538 Pref| that the serum and pus in empyema, absorbed from the cavities 539 VIII| that the air and the rain emulate the circular motion of the 540 XIII| sometimes found valves in the emulgent veins, and in those of the 541 XI | These considerations will enable anyone to understand the 542 I | in order that all may be enabled to form an opinion both 543 XVII| as it contracts, and so enabling it more effectually and 544 XVI | single chapter, I shall only endeavour to refer the various particulars 545 | ending 546 XVII| motion of an animal primarily endowed with a motive spirit (as 547 VIII| mankind at large for my enemies, so much doth wont and custom 548 XV | nutrition, and all vegetative energy may depend. Now, that the 549 XV | fluids and crudity, which engender all manner of diseases and 550 Int | degree later at both the English universities. After his 551 Ded | blessings which England enjoys, all the pleasure we have 552 II | substance of the organ than enlarging its ventricles. And, again, 553 | enough 554 XII | faintings and syncopes would ensue, and that not only would 555 Pref| tricuspid valves placed at the entrance into the right ventricle 556 Ded | the requests, I might say entreaties, of many, and here present 557 V | by its muscles and by the epiglottis. The pharynx is then raised 558 Int | Note~William Harvey, whose epoch-making treatise announcing and 559 IX | impelled in a continuous, equable, and incessant stream through 560 XVII| to perform, whence their equality of constitution. It is only 561 II | noted:~1. That the heart is erected, and rises upwards to a 562 Pref| proceeding from a wounded or eroded artery, the pulsation is 563 III | the axilla, produced by an erosion of the artery itself, and 564 Ded | they know full well that to err, to be deceived, is human; 565 VI | the probable cause of the errors that have been committed 566 V | that opinion which we now espouse, and which Galen himself 567 I | them indifferently, have essayed to traduce me publicly, 568 Ded | them to do so. They do not esteem it discreditable to desert 569 XII | shall have some grounds for estimating how much passes through 570 Int | medical profession throughout Europe, and "it remains to this 571 VIII| earth, warmed by the sun, evaporates; the vapours drawn upwards 572 XIII| nor by any other means of examination, can the slightest chink 573 XVII| capacity of the pulmonary veins exceeds that of both crural and 574 Ded | controversy with those who have excelled in anatomy and been my teachers. 575 VIII| to recover its state of excellence or perfection. Here it renews 576 Ded | Friend, Doctor Argent, The Excellent And Accomplished President 577 X | deficiency, and suffocation from excess. Examples of both have now 578 XI | the hand will be perceived excessively distended, injected, gorged 579 XVI | move the belly, cantharides excites the urine, garlic applied 580 XVI | not without their use in exciting belief, as it were, a posteriore; 581 XVI | come to perfection and is excluded from the shell; for this 582 XVI | chick many days after its exclusion, and is a substitute for 583 XVII| the heart, assisting it to execute a more powerful and perfect 584 V | all these motions, though executed by different and distinct 585 Int | 1657.~Harvey's famous "Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis 586 XVI | medicines applied externally exert their influence on the body 587 XVI | sighing, and indisposed to exertion, because the vital principle 588 XVII| perceptible pulse, or they rarely exhibit one, and never except where 589 XVI | foramen or an anastomosis existing from the vena portae. The 590 XVII| is the first part which exists, and that it contains within 591 XVI | might proceed so far, and expatiate so widely, that this my 592 XVII| the ventricles, we should expect that the more dense and 593 III | contractions. Nor is it to be expected that because of the motion 594 XVI | soles of the feet assists expectoration, cordials strengthen, and 595 VII | incessantly receiving and expelling the blood by and from its 596 IV | are still seen to move.~Experimenting with a pigeon upon one occasion, 597 VII | moved backwards during the expirations, had not our Maker instituted 598 VII | of the heart. Now Galen, explaining the use of these valves, 599 I | others desired further explanations of the novelties, which 600 V | enters the barrel, causes the explosion, propels the ball, and the 601 I | I have not hesitated to expose my views upon these subjects, 602 V | thrown open, and being once exposed, no further difficulty will, 603 IV | winter and the colder season, exsanguine animals, such as the snail, 604 XI | induce sloughing and more extensive mortification in extremities; 605 XV | heat and life are almost extinct? Or how should they whose 606 X | evidence of two kinds of death: extinction from deficiency, and suffocation 607 VI | boiling up, and so becoming extinguished, or something else of the 608 Pref| could one of the ventricles extract anything from the other - 609 XVI | collection, as it were, of extravasated blood, which you might take 610 I | the truth, that I should extricate myself and escape from this 611 Ded | to sedulously avoid the fables of the poets and the fancies 612 XII | blood being abstracted, faintings and syncopes would ensue, 613 XII | other causes, a state of faintness supervenes, in which the 614 Ded | have in general been the faithful witnesses of almost all 615 Ded | door as a crime that he had fallen into error. I avow myself 616 Ded | would not charge with wilful falsehood any one who was sincerely 617 XV | show further, from certain familiar reasonings, that the circulation 618 Int | on June 3, 1657.~Harvey's famous "Exercitatio Anatomica de 619 Ded | fables of the poets and the fancies of the vulgar, as the false 620 V | septum of the heart. But this fancy I have already refuted. 621 Ded | and useful to letters.~Farewell, most worthy Doctors, And 622 IV | moisture is more glutinous, or fat and sluggish, and less readily 623 V | drink is pushed into the fauces, when the larynx is closed 624 Int | on the Continent it won favor more slowly. Before his 625 Pref| cannot be held fitted to favour or impede the motion of 626 XIII| in the larger branches is favoured, or, at all events, a free 627 Ded | Neither do they swear such fealty to their mistress Antiquity, 628 VI | adults, and that nature feels no such necessity. I have 629 Int | return to England he became Fellow of the College of Physicians, 630 XVII| more slender frames and in females.~In those animals in which 631 IX | dividing either the jugular or femoral veins and arteries, by any 632 VIII| heat, and becomes powerful, fervid, a kind of treasury of life, 633 Pref| passing a quantity of turbid, fetid and acrid urine. But he 634 Pref| mind; sometimes, too, in fevers, the pulse is rapid, but 635 XVII| bodies of countrymen, but fewer in more slender frames and 636 II | contrary; inasmuch as every fibre that is circularly disposed, 637 XIII| which these letters and figures refer appear here in the 638 XVII| the use of the auricles in filling the ventricles, we should 639 XIII| blood flows upwards, and fills the vessel from below, you 640 XIII| in what manner the blood finds its way back to the heart 641 XVII| the lungs. Wherefore, in fine, the pulmonary artery has 642 XV | the original of the native fire, is stored and preserved; 643 V | contrivance which is adapted to firearms, where, the trigger being 644 II | diastole that the heart grows firm and tense, but in the systole, 645 XVII| and powerful men are, the firmer their flesh; the stronger, 646 XI | those which compress a limb firmly all round, but short of 647 IX | will have been ten pounds five ounces expelled; if with 648 II | death, the heart is soft, flaccid, exhausted, lying, as it 649 II | when the heart begins to flag, to move more slowly, and, 650 V | powder, ignites it, when the flame extends, enters the barrel, 651 I | coming and going like a flash of lightning; so that the 652 V | touched, down comes the flint, strikes against the steel, 653 XVII| seems to be suspended or to float above the heart. In those 654 XIII| parts, the valves, like the floodgates of a river, give way, and 655 VIII| perfection. Here it renews its fluidity, natural heat, and becomes 656 Int | here printed, was born at Folkestone, Kent, England, April 1, 657 V | motion of the heart is as follows:~First of all, the auricle 658 IV | under the influence of this fomentation it recovered new strength 659 X | being now seized either with forceps or between the finger and 660 XV | as well as an impeller or forcer, such as the heart, was 661 II | tension, precisely as when the forearm is grasped, its tendons 662 Pref| Since, therefore, from the foregoing considerations and many 663 XI | one occasion, I struck my forehead a blow upon the place where 664 XV | Reasons)~It will not be foreign to the subject if I here 665 V | opinion not allowed, because, forsooth, besides not seeing the 666 XI | thus left open, the blood forthwith no longer escapes, save 667 I | occasion to proceed more fortunately, and to inquire more accurately.~~ 668 IX | the quantity would come to forty-one pounds and eight ounces; 669 Pref| ventricle, and have brought forward these same mitral valves 670 Ded | ancients, in such a state of forwardness or completeness, that nothing 671 VII | Euripus, flow backwards and forwards by the same way, with a 672 V | contradicted himself, and given a foul denial to that for which 673 XV | imperative that from its fount and origin, it should again 674 XVII| partridge and the common fowl, serpents, frogs, tortoises, 675 I | almost tempted to think, with Fracastorius, that the motion of the 676 XVII| In some men of sturdier frame and stouter make the right 677 XVII| but fewer in more slender frames and in females.~In those 678 Ded | Charles King Of Great Britain, France, And Ireland Defender Of 679 Int | was published in Latin at Frankfort in 1628. The discovery was 680 XV | filled with condensed and frigid blood, admit fresh aliment - 681 XIII| conceive that the three fundamental propositions laid down for 682 XVII| ventricle, but likewise to furnish aliment to the lungs.~It 683 Pref| private purpose, that of furnishing the lungs, the other to 684 XIII| distended above the valve (O, G). The blood being thus pressed 685 Pref| resting on the authority of Galen2 and the experience of Hollerius, 686 VII | simply swallow drinks by the gallon, pass all off again within 687 X | three, four, and even seven gallons and more in a day, and a 688 XVI | cantharides excites the urine, garlic applied to the soles of 689 XVI | the posterior coronary, gastric, and gastroepiploic veins, 690 XVI | posterior coronary, gastric, and gastroepiploic veins, all of which are 691 XVII| serpents, birds, and very many genera of animals, the arteries 692 XV | congealed. For we see motion generating and keeping up heat and 693 VIII| By this arrangement are generations of living things produced; 694 I | the guidance of a happier genius, may make occasion to proceed 695 XVII| sponges, and the whole genus of zoophytes or plant-animals 696 XII | the great veins; for it gets into the parts below the 697 III | leads from the heart to the gills be divided, at the moment 698 Ded | in grace, and to whom we gladly refer all the blessings 699 XI | the blood will be felt to glide through, as it were, underneath 700 XVII| circularly together into a globe - the whole heart, in short, 701 IV | radical moisture is more glutinous, or fat and sluggish, and 702 IV | end of her course to the goal whence she had started. 703 Int | School, Canterbury, and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; 704 VI | as, for example, in the goose, snipe, and various birds 705 V | have already shown.~The grand cause of doubt and error 706 Ded | finding all that you had granted me in your sheer love of 707 XI | employed in blood-letting, or grasping the limb lightly with his 708 XIII| which no such effect of gravity from the erect position 709 VI | and when adult their heat greater-ignited, as I might say, and requiring 710 XV | it may perchance be why grief, and love, and envy, and 711 XVII| distinct or contained in grooves in the walls and partition, 712 V | like persons purblind or groping about in the dark, for they 713 II | diastole that the heart grows firm and tense, but in the 714 XVII| the number I may instance grubs and earth-worms, and those 715 XIII| veins for the purpose of guarding against apoplexy, as some 716 I | them, advancing under the guidance of a happier genius, may 717 IV | of the incubation, in the guise of a little cloud, the shell 718 XIII| valves in the jugular veins hang downwards, and are so contrived 719 XVI | the first instance, and hanging about the heart and lungs, 720 III | De Respir., cap. 20.]~I happened upon one occasion to have 721 I | under the guidance of a happier genius, may make occasion 722 II | hand, is felt to become harder during its action. Now this 723 XVII| large, more muscular and hardier bodies of countrymen, but 724 II | during its action. Now this hardness proceeds from tension, precisely 725 V | distinct organs, are performed harmoniously, and in such order that 726 V | that there is a kind of harmony or rhythm preserved between 727 | hath 728 Ded | warped by the passions of hatred and envy, which unfit men 729 XIII| branches which come from the haunches, in which no such effect 730 XVI | made by a rabid dog having healed, fever and a train of disastrous 731 XV | be unaffected, life and health may be restored to almost 732 X | thing does not happen in the healthy and uninjured body when 733 II | osiers bound in a pyramidal heap in illustration; meaning, 734 VII | those, therefore, whom I hear denying that the blood, 735 V | takes place, and can be heard within the chest.~The motion 736 XVII| therefore, two ventricles to its heart-one right, the other left; and 737 XV | fountain, a kind of home and hearth, where the cherisher of 738 Pref| warm bath, or any other heating thing, as Galen says, they 739 VII | contracted, than that which is heavy; and in like manner is anything 740 XVII| something pulsating with the help of a magnifying glass; in 741 XVI | colon and rectum proceed the hemorrhoidal veins. The blood returning 742 IV | formed, which pulsating henceforth give constant signs of life. 743 Pref| transmission of the blood. But by Hercules! no such pores can be demonstrated, 744 | herein 745 Pref| it is plain that what has heretofore been said concerning the 746 V | would he perchance still hesitate, like all who have come 747 I | From that time I have not hesitated to expose my views upon 748 Pref| divined and predicted that heterogeneous matter could be discharged 749 XIII| former, and so is effectually hindered from getting any farther.~ 750 VI | streaming from the cava, and hindering the tide at the same time 751 XI | but would prove a positive hindrance; it would have to be applied 752 XVII| without good grounds that Hippocrates in his book, "De Corde," 753 V | Footnote 1: De Placitis Hippocratis et Platonis, vi.]~But had 754 VII | Commentary of the learned Hofmann upon the Sixth Book of Galen, " 755 II | animals, such as the dog and hog, if they be attentively 756 Pref| Galen2 and the experience of Hollerius, asserts and proves that 757 XVII| bands, or anything like hollow pits, as in almost all the 758 XVII| bodies which are connate and homogeneous and without limbs; so that 759 XIII| farther so arranged, that the horns of those that succeed are 760 V | everyone may see, when a horse drinks, that the water is 761 Int | physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and Lumleian lecturer at 762 Ded | and illustrated by such a host of learned and distinguished 763 XVII| in blood, which is always hotter and more spirituous, and 764 VIII| and coagulation; it is the household divinity which, discharging 765 XV | corpse, becomes of a dusky hue; the limbs at the same time 766 Ded | wonted clemency, I most humbly beseech you, illustrious 767 XVII| lipothymiae asphyxia, or hysterical symptoms, and in the debilitated 768 Pref| experience in opposition to this idea, though Galen endeavours 769 I | allowed that I have not lived idly, and as the old man in the 770 V | falling among the powder, ignites it, when the flame extends, 771 I | admonished him, That he was ignorant of much which he Had thought 772 Pref| greater capacity than both the iliac veins?~5. And I ask, as 773 VI | complicating and quitting than illustrating it. And now returning to 774 XVI | than those of the mesentery imbibe the chyle from the intestines 775 Pref| the septum, or could be imbibed from the ventricles, what 776 IV | been removed and the egg immersed in clear tepid water. In 777 XV | pulse and the rest, which impairing all nutrition in its source 778 XI | and greatly or altogether impedes the return of the blood 779 XVI | it will not be altogether impertinent to notice in this place 780 XII | applied), nor with such impetuosity, such readiness, such celerity, 781 IX | forth with force abundantly, impetuously, and as if it were propelled 782 VII | consists of a simple covering implanted in the heart, and another 783 IX | arteries (as their name implies) contained nothing but spirits 784 V | the body, unless for some important end"; if, I say, this father 785 Pref| thickness of the arterial tunics impose upon us, and lead us to 786 VI | circumstance it was, perhaps, that imposed upon Botallus, who thought 787 VIII| of treasury of life, and impregnated with spirits, it might be 788 XVI | appears that the contagion impressed upon or deposited in a particular 789 Ded | send it beyond seas for impression, unless I had first proposed 790 III | arteries are due to the impulses of the blood from the left 791 VI | lungs are yet in a state of inaction, performing no function, 792 XVI | certain though small and inappreciable portion of chyle or incompletely 793 IX | continuous, equable, and incessant stream through every part 794 XVI | to notice in this place incidentally. From the splenic branch 795 V | attained - all of which incidents, by reason of the celerity 796 IV | saliva is discharged, the incision being made in the upper 797 V | obscure undulation and lateral inclination in the direction of the 798 XI | And I have myself been inclined to think that this cold 799 XV | to which it spontaneously inclines, the blood requires both 800 Pref| alluded to is this: "If you include a portion of an artery between 801 V | various, contradictory, and incoherent sentiments, delivering many 802 VII | the Euripus, it should be incommodiously sent hither and thither, 803 XVI | inappreciable portion of chyle or incompletely digested matter mingled 804 XI | as the swelling is on the increase, and has not reached its 805 XV | wonder that various forms of incurable disease in the extremities 806 XVI | should one kind of pulse indicate death, another recovery? 807 Pref| discharged by the course he indicates, why he could not or would 808 IX | temperament, age, etc., of the individual, to external and internal 809 Ded | The Most Illustrious And Indomitable Prince Charles King Of Great 810 XI | occasion hemorrhage; how they induce sloughing and more extensive 811 VII | valves, two serving for the induction and two for the eduction 812 Ded | left for the ingenuity and industry of others. On the contrary, 813 Pref| bound up with great and most inextricable difficulties. The heart, 814 III | it be by compression or infarction, or interception, there 815 XVI | contaminated, though the part first infected remains sound; the lues 816 XVII| the blood.~Farther, we can infer the action and use of the 817 XIII| of a finger upon the vein inferiorly, you will see no influx 818 XVI | cordials strengthen, and an infinite number of examples of the 819 Ded | that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still 820 Int | 6), and, when he was too infirm to undertake the duties, 821 XI | same thing happen in local inflammations, where, so long as the swelling 822 XVII| a pulse in the teeth, in inflammatory tumours, and in the fingers; 823 Pref| indeed, doubts that, did he inflate the lungs of a subject in 824 XIII| the head is more apt to be influenced by the contents of the carotid 825 Ded | that they welcome further information from whomsoever and from 826 V | the answer of that most ingenious and learned man? Had he 827 Ded | nothing is left for the ingenuity and industry of others. 828 IV | spirit an obscure palpitation inherent in it, which it has even 829 VI | The pulse," he observes, "inheres in the very constitution 830 VIII| unheard-of that I not only fear injury to myself from the envy 831 VIII| to its source, or to the inmost home of the body, there 832 IX | foundation, and desire to innovate without sufficient cause, 833 X | heart itself, to become inordinately distended, to assume a deep 834 VII | a mutual anastomosis and inosculation of the arteries with the 835 VII | the lungs and the minute inosculations of vessels. It therefore 836 V | spirit, perfection, - must be inquired into by-and-by, and decided 837 IV | me to remark that he who inquires very particularly into this 838 Pref| believed that these spirits are inseparable from the blood, like those 839 X | convinced, he shall still insist that when an artery is divided, 840 VI | tempered by the air that is inspired, and prevented from boiling 841 VII | from it. For nature never intended to distress the heart with 842 III | diverted into the tumour and so intercepted.~Whence it appears that 843 III | compression or infarction, or interception, there do the remote divisions 844 Int | was received with great interest, and in his own country 845 Pref| lest the liquid should interfere with the passage of the 846 VII | the office of the lungs be interfered with.2 Finally, our position 847 XV | through food digested in their interior, it is imperative that the 848 XVII| surface of bands and variously interlacing fibres, that it seems to 849 XVI | with the blood, nature has interposed the liver, in whose meandering 850 X | some space below the heart interrupted, you will perceive the part 851 XIII| phlebotomy (A, A, fig. 1). At intervals in the course of the veins, 852 X | will perceive the part that intervenes between the fingers and 853 Ded | President. For I was most intimately persuaded, that if I could 854 II | And in like manner the intrinsic motion of the heart is not 855 XIII| But if the probe be now introduced from the extreme towards 856 Int | Introductory Note~William Harvey, whose 857 Pref| much ocular inspection, to investigate and discern the truth.~~ 858 Pref| lungs, even to their extreme investing tunic, but none in either 859 XVI | although they may seem to be involved in much doubt and obscurity, 860 VII | the lungs, being driven inwardly, and powerfully compressed 861 Ded | Great Britain, France, And Ireland Defender Of The Faith~Most 862 XVI | small, and occasionally irregular; but the heat increasing, 863 VIII| vessels that enter into and issue from them, the symmetry 864 XVII| spirit (as Aristotle has it2) is contractile; in which 865 IV | Chapter IV: Of The Motion Of The Heart 866 XIII| learned Riolan will have it, Jacobus Silvius, first gave representations 867 Int | physician extraordinary to James I, and he remained in close 868 Pref| far, alternately, or in jets; and the jet always takes 869 IV | auricles.~Caspar Bauhin and John Riolan,1 most learned men 870 XIII| the points where branches join. Neither do they exist for 871 XVII| walls, and in some sort jointed on to the left (as Aristotle 872 VI | open to us to conclude, judging from the mass or multitude 873 Int | of Physicians. He died on June 3, 1657.~Harvey's famous " 874 Pref| that every one of them is justly brought under suspicion. 875 V | to that for which he had keenly contended in his writings 876 XIII| from H to O, (fig. 2,) and keep the point of a finger upon 877 XV | see motion generating and keeping up heat and spirits under 878 Int | was born at Folkestone, Kent, England, April 1, 1578. 879 VII | dense, so is that of the kidney; the lungs, however, are 880 IX | did any one say that in killing animals in the shambles, 881 XVI | whilst the preternatural heat kindled in the heart is thence diffused 882 Ded | worthy Doctors, And think kindly of your Anatomist,~William 883 I | which he Had thought he knew; or led him to reject What 884 IX | throat of the ox which he has knocked on the head and stunned, 885 XI | show themselves tumid and knotted; after ten or twelve pulses 886 VII | the Spa waters or those of La Madonna, in the territories 887 I | made participators in my labors, and partly moved by the 888 I | myself and escape from this labyrinth, and that I had discovered 889 XI | them, that the flesh is lacerated and the vessels ruptured. 890 XI | small vein be pricked with a lancet, they all speedily shrink, 891 VII | them, employs the following language:1 "There is everywhere a 892 IV | all things are becoming languid, and the heart is dying, 893 XII | farther, owing to the weak and languishing state of the heart, the 894 IV | at length, and after the lapse of a few days, the outline 895 V | into the fauces, when the larynx is closed by its muscles 896 VII | dilated or constricted. Lastly, if no one denies the possibility 897 Pref| Respiration," which has lately appeared, that as the pulsation 898 | later 899 II | contracts; and is distended laterally and thickened, as in the 900 Int | Animalibus" was published in Latin at Frankfort in 1628. The 901 XVII| the lungs are softer and laxer in structure than the flesh 902 Pref| tunics impose upon us, and lead us to conclude that the 903 XI | for it being one who is lean, and who has large veins, 904 I | although he has accurately and learnedly delineated almost every 905 | least 906 IV | as Aristotle observed, leaves their body with a bound 907 IX | experiment is easily tried of leaving the vein untouched and only 908 Int | s Hospital, and Lumleian lecturer at the College of Physicians. 909 VII | would then perform this lengthened course in vain; it would 910 Pref| whilst they attempt to lessen the difficulty, affirm that 911 Ded | Letter To The King And Dedication~ 912 Pref| remain open, and not be liable to collapse; and that they 913 Ded | are indisposed to see what lies before their eyes, and even 914 XVII| which the sac that stands in lieu of the auricles is of such 915 V | that is to be filled is lifted up and its mouth dilated. 916 XVII| are both stronger and more ligamentous, whilst in extreme parts 917 I | and going like a flash of lightning; so that the systole presented 918 XVII| throws the greatest light and likelihood upon the point. Whilst the 919 II | heart only moves in the lines of its straight fibres, 920 IV | life, therefore, appears to linger longest in the right auricle. 921 XVII| in persons afflicted with lipothymiae asphyxia, or hysterical 922 I | allowed that I have not lived idly, and as the old man 923 Pref| either greatly oppressed or loaded in a less degree with phlegm, 924 V | blood, giving it motion locally, and distributing it to 925 Pref| quest. 12.]~[Footnote 2: De Locis Affectis. lib. vi, cap. 926 Ded | servant, William Harvey.~London, 1628.~Dedication To His 927 IV | therefore, appears to linger longest in the right auricle. Whilst 928 VII | then I think it would be looked upon as no trifle, etc." 929 XIII| as before, and the veins looking full and distended, if you 930 II | towards the sides so that it looks narrower, relatively longer, 931 XIII| which consist of raised or loose portions of the inner membranes 932 VI | so contrived that falling loosely upon itself, it permits 933 VII | however, are of a much looser texture, and if compared 934 V | and the pulmonary veins losing themselves in the lungs, 935 XV | and seem almost to have lost their vitality. Now they 936 Int | Bartholomew's Hospital, and Lumleian lecturer at the College 937 VII | or the eyes, with their lustrous and truly admirable structure, 938 II | soft, flaccid, exhausted, lying, as it were, at rest.~In 939 Int | receiving the degree of M.D. from the University of 940 V | than it is in a piece of machinery, in which, though one wheel 941 VII | Spa waters or those of La Madonna, in the territories of Padua, 942 IV | but they are filled as magazines or reservoirs of the blood, 943 Pref| For these reasons it is maintained that fishes are without 944 XI | the parts above it, and maintains those beneath it in a state 945 VI | creatures, that for the major part, and generally, there 946 VII | what takes place in the majority of animals, and indeed in 947 VII | expirations, had not our Maker instituted those supplementary 948 X | abundant supply of milk in the mammae-for a cow will give three, four, 949 Int | the battle of Edgehill. By mandate of Charles I, he was, for 950 XVII| were, defunct, or merely manifesting a kind of vegetative existence. 951 X | child or twins, which must manifestly be derived from the food 952 VIII| but I tremble lest I have mankind at large for my enemies, 953 XIII| by the contact of their margins; and so accurate is the 954 V | propels the ball, and the mark is attained - all of which 955 VI | should imagine that he had mastered the science of agriculture; 956 Pref| the left ventricle draws materials for the formation of spirits, 957 VI | more perfect animals of mature age nature has rather chosen 958 VII | up to the period of their maturity; and that the same thing 959 IV | auricles or ventricles, I mean contractions: first the 960 XVI | interposed the liver, in whose meandering channels it suffers delay 961 IX | this not in any trifling measure. For neither are the conduits 962 X | that all may come from the meat and drink consumed, and 963 V | simultaneously; or in that mechanical contrivance which is adapted 964 XI | arteries into the veins, or mediately by the porosities of the 965 Int | was acknowledged by the medical profession throughout Europe, 966 XVI | perceive, further, that medicines applied externally exert 967 Pref| certain person affected with melancholia, and who suffered from repeated 968 Ded | parade of the strength of my memory, the extent of my reading, 969 XII | the same reasons, are the menstrual fluxes of women, and indeed 970 Int | a short time, Warden of Merton College, Oxford (1645-6), 971 XVI | the superior and inferior mesenterics, proceeds to the intestines, 972 VIII| manner are tempests and meteors engendered by the circular 973 Pref| no fluid like that he had micturated was discovered either in 974 IV | clear tepid water. In the midst of the cloudlet in question 975 XVI | of contraries; and nature mingling together these two kinds 976 XVII| ventricle, and the right but to minister to it. The right neither 977 Pref| body where the arteries are minutely subdivided, as in the brain, 978 XIII| divarications or smaller trunks and minuter branches, and not be suffered 979 Ded | swear such fealty to their mistress Antiquity, that they openly, 980 VI | requiring to be damped or mitigated, that the blood is sent 981 VI | assume that no other path or mode of transit can be entertained. 982 Ded | yet to dispute with the moderns, and enter into controversy 983 VIII| superior bodies; for the moist earth, warmed by the sun, 984 VIII| descending in the form of rain, moisten the earth again. By this 985 IV | tenacious of life, whose radical moisture is more glutinous, or fat 986 IV | the beginning of the third month, the heart then being whitish 987 VI | described them, but for several months subsequently, in some indeed 988 IV | the primum vivens, ultimum moriens, - the first part to live, 989 XI | sloughing and more extensive mortification in extremities; and how 990 IV | when it was in articulo mortis in short, - that an obscure 991 | mostly 992 XVII| primarily endowed with a motive spirit (as Aristotle has 993 I | Chapter I: The Author's Motives For Writing~When I first 994 VI | the larger members of the mouse family, in the adult state, 995 V | mouth dilated. Upon the mouthful being received, it is forced 996 Ded | once contemplate the prime mover in the body of man, and 997 XVII| The auricles are prime movers of the blood, especially 998 VI | judging from the mass or multitude of living creatures, that 999 XVII| De Corde," entitles it a muscle; its action is the same; 1000 Int | preserved in the British Museum.~In 1618 Harvey was appointed