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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    1nAtOomicAa be farnifh'd to the left ventricle, and chit left ear) opens an oval hole, which fh n fhuts in young men,and thofe that breatf it. freely. Ic likewife appears, why thofe thaitj have the veffels of their /exgs oppreff*dlj.. and ftuff'd, or thofe chat have any loffe ox; their breath, it is prefent token of death. | || y. It is likewife clear, why the blood of th... Jungs is fo flame-colour'd; for it is thinnetf,.. that is ftraind through there. ltis befidi n to be obferv'd from our former conclufti4|, on, in order to thofe who require the caui;, fes of Circulation, & think the power oj, the heart to be the effecter of all things ||. and as itis the author of tran{miffion »r pulfe, fo with -Ars/fotle they think ic cha]; author of attraction , and generation of}? biood,and that theSpirits are made by the) ; bear! nd the influxive heat ( & that by hij; innat heat of the 4earr,as by the immediaiq},, inftrument of the fou! , or by a common), bond and the firft organ for perfe&ingj, of all the works of lifes And fo cho), motion ofthe blood and fpirit , its perfe: n : ction and heat , and every propertty, thereof, to be borrow'd from the heart a li from its beginning; (which Arif’. fays is iti D in the blood, as in hot water, or boyliny d. | pottage) is inthe bezrt, and that it 1s ched), firft caufe of pulfation and life. If I may” Speak freely , I do not think that thefíd; things are fo(as they are commonly E D vedi} ™
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