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Author Harvey, William, 1578-1657.

Title The Circulation of blood / William Harvey
Published London : Electric Book Co., ©2001

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Contents EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION -- Note on the Text -- AN ANATOMICAL DISQUISITION ON THE MOTION OF THE HEART AND BLOOD IN ANIMALS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER I The Author's Motives for Writing -- CHAPTER II Of the motions of the Heart, as seen in the Dissection of Living Animals -- CHAPTER III Of the Motions of Arteries, as seen in the Dissection of Living Animals -- CHAPTER IV Of the motion of the Heart and its Auricles, as seen in the Bodies of Living Animals -- CHAPTER V Of the Motion, Action, and Office of the Heart
CHAPTER VI Of the course by which the Blood is carried from the Vena Cava into the Arteries, or from the Right into the Left Ventricle of the Heart -- CHAPTER VII The Blood percolates the substance of the Lungs from the Right Ventricle of the Heart into the Pulmonary Veins and Left Ventricle -- CHAPTER VIII Of the quantity of Blood passing through the Heart from the Veins to the Arteries -- and of the circular motion of the Blood -- CHAPTER IX That there is a Circulation of the Blood is confirmed from the first proposition
CHAPTER X The first position: of the quantity of Blood passing from the Veins to the Arteries. And that there is a Circuit of the Blood, freed from objections, and farther confirmed by experiment -- CHAPTER XI The second position is demonstrated -- CHAPTER XII That there is a Circulation of the Blood is shown from the second position demonstrated -- CHAPTER XIII The Third Position is confirmed: And the Circu lation of the Blood is Demonstrated from it -- CHAPTER XIV Conclusion of the Demonstration of the Circulation
CHAPTER XV The Circulation of the Blood is further confirmed by Probable Reasons -- CHAPTER XVI The Circulation of the Blood is further proved from certain consequences -- CHAPTER XVII The Motion and Circulation of the Blood are confirmed from the particulars apparent in the structure of the Heart, and from those things which Dissection unfolds -- THE FIRST ANATOMICAL DISQUISITION On the Circulation of the Blood, Addressed to Jo. Riolan -- A SECOND DISQUISITION TO JOHN RIOLAN -- LETTERS -- APPENDIX -- INDEX
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Subject Blood -- Circulation -- Early works to 1800
Blood flow.
Physiology.
Blood Flow Velocity
Physiology
physiology.
MEDICAL -- Physiology.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Human Anatomy & Physiology.
Blood -- Circulation
Blood flow
Physiology
Genre/Form Early works
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781461911630
146191163X