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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    win the performance of any action, of For the part being prepar^d with a jut n femper, a fit frame, aright union ; being n «| nlivened by the power of the Soul , and moulleing warm'd and made movable by the si rcular motion ofthe blood , does in my 'sillpinion perform any actions. Jind There may bé a great difficulty rais'd as amipncerning the 297,2] faculties, which are swiPrform'd both by fenfe and motion, _ rough mediation of the nerves. thofe be- oo 8 ftop'd, held or cut, the part it felf re- ,daining whole, yet notwithitanding fenfe ld motion is taken away, asthey affirm, ,iFcaule the paffage of the fpiritsis ftop- WFor they being moft thin fubftances, and Jickly pafling and repaffing through the pres of the nerves, tO carry and brin | ick the facultie to the member, and the infible becies cothe brain; The bufineffe ‘tog well look'd into and rightly confi- Jr d, that going and returning of the fpi- XR» even of the lighteftair, though free, ™ moot be fo fudden, even in imagination. | Why do we multiply Entities and fly to ^ ipfe things which are not demonftrable > i mutt follow things evident, which may J^ percetv'd by the fenfe. | i Mt is better in my opinion notto expect ne from the interception of the Ípirits, (WE rather from the hindering of tbat iL | X action { P I