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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    theufe of the ears, which we did demonsimiit ftrate was to fill the ventricles with blooog) iu we feeitcomes to paffe, that the tchickequu and more compact the heart is, and offi eroffer wall, the more servous and meh } cnlous the ears are to draw in and fill iiij andinthofein whom they are contrarrpu.: wife, it doesappear in them as a blaajji, der of blood , or a membrane conteyning}i); blood , as in fifhes , for there the bladdd}j; which isin lieu of the ear is very third dy, and fo large that the beart feems to {wiih above it; but in thole fithes in which thi} yy bladder is a little more fleíhie, it feerihy: very precifely to emulate and counterfit).:. the /ungs , as in the Barbell , Tench, au others. 1 Infome men, to wit fuch as are brawl . nie, and ofa rougher habie of body dii have found the right ear fo ftrong andi] neatly madeup within, with the varied), contexture of fibers , that it did feemnja. be equall in ftrength to the ventricles)», other men; and truely I did wonder thi, in divers men there fhould be fuch défi}, rence. But it is to be obferv'd , that]. the birth the ezzs are farre greater th}, proportion ,' becaufe before the heart), made, that it may do its own fundiog),,. ( as before was fhew'd) they do the off}, of the ^eart. nz