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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    get into the arteries, if not altogether impoffibles| ,, Likewife fince all the arterzes , afwell thofe whic:l _, lye deeper, as thofe which are nextto the skin, arr |. diftended with the (ame fwiftneffe,how can the aii fo freely, fo fwiftly, paffe through the skin, fleffm] & habit of the whole body, into the depth, asit casq | through the skin alone? And how fhall the arteriesy | | of Embryos draw the air into their concavitiess) through their mothers belly, and the body of thee; | womb? And how fhall Whales, Dolphins, andi| great Fifhes, and all forts of Fifhes inthe bottom) | of the Sea, cake in the air, by the fwift pulfe in thee} Spftote and Diaflole of their arteries, through fuchi| || a great maffe ofwater? But to fay that they fupj| up the air implanted in the water , and does} | return their fumes into it, is not unlike aj} |fi&ion. And if in the Syslole the artepieg:| | doe expell their fumes out of their concavities E through the pores of the flefh and skin why: | I | not the Spirits likewife , which they fay are con-. | | tain'd there too, fince Spirits are much thinner than fumes £. And ifthe arteries do receive the air both | in the Sy/tole and the Diaffole, and returnit, as tle | dangs do in respiration , why doe not they do this | in infli&ing of a wound whenan arterie is cut? In | the cutting of the wind pipe by a wound itis clear, |that the air does enter and return by two contrary jmotions. But it isclear in the fe@ion of an arterie, that the air is thruft out with one continuall moti- (on, and theair does nor enter and return. If the |. pulle of the arteries doe refrigerate the parts of the B body, and coolit, as the lungs doe the heart it felf, | how do they fay that the arteries do carry che | blood