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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    blood flows continually out of the artersed).,,. into the vesms, not out of the veis; into thi.,,, arteries : We fee moreover, that from ong. arm the whole maffe of blood may be ery)... haufted, and that coo by opening but orn), cuticular vein witha lance, if the gatum. be handfomly made: We fee befides, thaa)..... it is powred out fo forcibly , and fo abun... dancly, that it is certain that not only thaal,, which was comprehended in the arm bed), . neath the ligature, beforethe fe&ion, 4), quickly and ina little time evacuated, bud.’ likewife the blood out ofthe whole boditdl. as well the vééns as the arteries. | Wherefore we muft confeffe firft that bij), ftrength and force it isfurnifh'd , and bby). force it is driven beyond the ligature ( fool, with force it goes out, and therefore boy. the ftrength and pulie ofthe Zezzr) for thi, force and impulfion of the blood is onll | from the beart. | | ^ Next, thatthis flux comes from thi bh. heart, and thatit flows by a paffage madii: through the heart out of the great veiass], leeing below the Zigatzre the blood entett]. by the arteries, not by the veins, and chi arteries at no time receive blood out of thi veins, unleffeit be out of the deft vestrieli ofthe heart. Nor could there any otherr].. wile fo great abundance be exhaufted oum. of one veiw, making a ligarure above, eed, Specially fo forcibly, fo abundantly, fo iM ‘a n