The anatomical exercises / of Dr. William Harvey ... concerning the motion of the heart and blood. With the preface of Zachariah Wood ... To which is added Dr. James de Back his Discourse of the heart.

  • Harvey, William, 1578-1657.
Date:
1673
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Credit: The anatomical exercises / of Dr. William Harvey ... concerning the motion of the heart and blood. With the preface of Zachariah Wood ... To which is added Dr. James de Back his Discourse of the heart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eiua ml ricca iip rien tta — 168 body, the {pring, fountain, and firft canfer of lik is fo to be taken, as being joyn'd, together wit) the ve45, and all the erterics, and the bloo which is contained in them. Likeas the’ braig (together with all its fenfible serves, organs, an Spinal marrow ) is the adequate organ of the fenf (as the phrafeis.) But if you underftand by chi word heart , the body of the beart , with the ve tricles and ezrs,{ do not think it to be the frame motion,or heat,as the gift of the Peart ; and nex diftention , which is the caufe of the SyftoJe . an ul therel gue y att rf hav Wart 00 auled d. the ec — TT dig and ought to go before every Syftole, ] think i firft caufe of diltention is innate heat in the bloó it felf, which (like leven); by little and little ai tenuated and {welling, is the laft thing that ise tinct in the creature: I agree to Arzfotle’s inflane of pottage, or milk, in fo far as he thinks that ele fv Bo T come hele dott 0¢ c an internal principle. and blood, but rather the blood delivers that hea all the reft of the parts, as being the hotteft ofall fign'd to the heart , for that ufe which chey'am affigu'd to the reft of the parts, to wit, for inflüs 5 7 etQ