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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    14 A Difcourfe AM adion, which is both common to thói i i merves and brain, by the mediation ef fib TA certain humour with which they are imn)y) . dued from the brain. | For it is to be thought here are likewilft:) as in other places, a fprrituous fubftance,qqpr which the xezves and the nutritive juiequi. with which they abound as well as othegii parts, and the blood it felf are compoutqi. ded, and which being altogether infeparca:,), ble from the flefhie and folid parts, cann. fubfift a part. But leftany fhould doubt ofthe exiftess),, cy of this humour ; if a serve be but orn. touch'd with a very. prick, fo great abun, dance of it fometimes flowes out , that}; can be hardly ftop'd by an utskilfall Clit. rurgion. — Foritis to be obferv'd, tii as the body is continually and unceffaniy),, refrefh’d with new nucriment,fo the zer-q,,. are refrefh’d continually without inttihy, miffion, not with blood immediately pop. 114 fing out ofthe arteries , which perclraaihi,;, n belongs to the flefh alone;but with a yop), ] which they have in common with jf) Hh brain, from which they receive it in gy. | abundance, afwell thac it may be nuceiWh. ’ ! to them, asthatit may be communicasl ; to other parts endued with fenfe, h | They doe evidently demonftrare 19), ° the zerves have their nutriment preppy: by the brain; firftof all ,becaufe they; li. ud b. cm NE. - ^ae A tergo a E M * 2 an ee