Volume 2

The anatomical exercises of Dr. William Harvey, professor of physick and physician to the Kings Majesty, concerning the motion of the heart and blood / With the preface of Zachariah Wood, physician of Roterdam. To which is added Dr. James de Back his Discourse of the heart. Physician in ordinary to the town of Roterdam. [And] Two anatomical exercitations concerning the circulation of the blood. The author, William Harvey.

  • Harvey, William, 1578-1657. De motu cordis. English
Date:
1653
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Credit: The anatomical exercises of Dr. William Harvey, professor of physick and physician to the Kings Majesty, concerning the motion of the heart and blood / With the preface of Zachariah Wood, physician of Roterdam. To which is added Dr. James de Back his Discourse of the heart. Physician in ordinary to the town of Roterdam. [And] Two anatomical exercitations concerning the circulation of the blood. The author, William Harvey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    one example, thatevery one may beleeved)),. his own eyes: Ifany one cut upalive A “el der, hé fhall fee the beart beat calm! i-i. fin&ly, for a whole hour, and fo contracti] ... its felt, (in its conftri&ion being oblong))|.. and thruft it felf out again like aa q Worm. That itis whitifh in the Syft ote, |i, and contrary in the Diastole together withalh,, ali thereft,by which I faid thistruth was e-- TM .vidently confirmed, for here the parts are: b. longer and more diftin&. But this we niayr |i, more efpecially find, and clearer than the |. noon-day. . The veaa cava enters the lower part off || the heart, the arterie comes out at the ups. per part, nowtaking hold of the veza ca-. |l. va witha pair of pinfers, or with your finger and thumb, and the courfe of the blood being ftop'd a littleway beneath the beart, you fhall upon the pulfe perceive to be prefently almoftemptyed chat place which is betwixt your fingers and the heart, the blood being exhaufted by the pulfeofthe Pert ; and that the heart wil be of a far whiter colour, and that it is lef- fer too in its dilatation for want of blood : and atlaft beats more faintly, infomuch that it feems in the end as it were to die;fo foon apain as you untie the veis both co- lour and bigneffe returns to the heart, Af- terwards, if you do leave the veins and doe gtafpor bind the arretie a little way s the