Great Feuds in Medicine
Publisher: Wiley
Published: February 2, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780471347576
First sentence: In the 17th century it had been "known" for some 1,400 years that the blood was created in the liver, moved outward from the heart toward the extremities, and, in nourishing the tissues, just disappearanced there.