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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    ill eat, for the entertaining and confervation of T | herefore all the hotter parts, how much more wizuine they are,and more abundant with blood, yar are faid convertibly fo to be ; and thus the pert having fignal concavities, isto :bethoughe T | Ware-houle , continual fire , and fountain of fff blood, not becaufz of the corpulency of it, but Maule of the blood which it contains like a hot (icles asin the fame manner the [pleen, lungs, v D. ,other parts are thought hot, becaufe they | Me many vezis or vefí:ls containing blood. ped after.this manner do | believe that the na. gg heat , call'd innate » to. be the firft efficient we of pulíe, as likewife to be the common in- x [ment of all operations. This as yet-I do not ytantly:averr, butpropound it asa’ Zbefis; ] yl ild tain know what may be objected by good : sic hes, or bafe language,and any body fhall be n «quii ome to dóito bs, fort id |hcfe. things then are asit were the patts,and ili footfteps of the paflage, and Circulation of suo lood 3 to wits from: the right ear: into the firicle, out of the ventricle through the dengs ee the Jeft ear, then into the /eft ventricle, into eons, and into alli the zrteries from the bert, ^ ihe porofities of the-parts into the veins, and Nn Ihe veins into the Bafisof thebeart.; the blood rns molt fpeedily;c 5::: . da dy an experiment any: man may try that plea- oo yy the veins, let thearm be tied, as the cutom hi witha gentle ligature 5 and let it remain tied abn g , fill moving the armup and down, ail peris all of them fwell exceedingly , and the f ils | co yd M grow very red below the Jigaswre , and then LA let tos } [e I