The fifth essay of D.M. a friend of truth and physick, against the circulation of the blood : in two parts. The first, shewing its absurdity and impossibility three several ways ... The second, shews the true cause of the motion of the heart ... / [Oliver Hill].

Hill, Oliver, active 1702.

Date:: 1700

Credit: The fifth essay of D.M. a friend of truth and physick, against the circulation of the blood : in two parts. The first, shewing its absurdity and impossibility three several ways ... The second, shews the true cause of the motion of the heart ... / [Oliver Hill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$-ceafing to gather, ceafe to yield a Flafh 5 and fo out goes Flammula vite. And if the Spirits gather and concenter in the Eyes, as by the Experimen offer’d by Doftor Willa, of him who faw the bet- _ter for a large Dofe of good Wine, whofe Spirits “yofe in his Head, and did enlighten his Eyes, (as were thofe of Fonathan by the eating of Honey, t Sam. 14.17.) he grants tacitly they do ; why not in the left Ventricle, which fupplies the Head it felf, and all other Parts with them? | . And that they break out into a Flafh or a Flame, » appeats from the Effetts which we fee accompany the Motion and Pulfation of the Heart. Firft, ft _ moves by Intervals, and by rifing and falling; that | which caufeth it to {well being not always capable ‘to blow and keep it pufft up: but dilipates and {eaters as often as it gathers. This Symptom — (which puzzleth you, and would puzzle you for — ever, if] had not fhewed you the way andreafon — of ic) demonftrating of it felf, without any further — 2 Proof, that it moves thus by the Flafh and the Spirits gathering and difftpating again, or difperfing — of themfelves, as it happenteh in Lightning. This ; way being peculiar to Lightning , Flafhing and Flames. No Flame burning conftandy, with an equal even Blaze, but by hopping, Vulcan-wite , per faltus, by Puffs and Gafps, and not with a con-— ftant Breath, as it may diftin€tly be perceived from its blowing with an articulated or uneven Sound or Noife. And we fee that-no Vulcans which keep | conftantly burning do ic with a conftant klame, but break out from time to time, like Lightning; Belch-_ ing our Flames but when their Vapours which — ~ were diffipated in the Flafh do meet and gather a- gain, Then the rifing of the Heart, which is the ey ee Diafiole, a$