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
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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.

    39/396
    blood very full of vitall Spirits into all the parts which do nourifh the heat of the parts, wake it when it is afleep,and recruit it being fpent?and how comes it to paffe, that if you tye the arteries, the ME parts are not onely numm’d, cold, and look = pale, but at laft leave off to be nourifhed? which ai happens, according to Galen , becaufe they are | alío depriv.d of that heat , which did flow | from above out of the bert: Since it is clear from |l hence , that the arteries do rather carry heat to the| arts, than cooling or refrigeration. Befides, how iy fhall the Diaftole , both draw Spirits from thea heart to warm the parts, and likewife draw cold| m from outwards ? Further, although fome atfirm I] that the /sgs, arteries, and beart do ferve for one| and the fame purpofe;, Yet they fay that the beare} js the ftorehonfe of the S pirits,and likewife that the) arteries do contain fpirits and fend them abroad 3j but contrarie to the opinion of C olumbus , they dol deny that the /ungs do make any Spirits or retain} them. But likewife thefe men affirm with Galea) m againtt Erafiftratus that blood is contain’d in the) arteries, and not Spirits. Thele opinions feem tq quarrel with one another ; and to refuce cacti) il the other, infomuch that all are not undelervedld ME fufpe&ed. It is manifett that the blood is contain’d) in the arteries, and that the arteries alone do cat] ry out the blood, both by the experiment of Galery as likewife by the cutting of an arteriein wounds) (which Galen in his book,that blood is contain'd if the arlertes affirms, and in very many places) chap by a great and forcible profufion the whol M maf ee N N -— ee ans