An anatomical disquisition on the motion of the heart & blood in animals
By: translated from the Latin by Robert Willis.
Series: Everyman's library -- [v. 262]
Publisher: Dent
Published: 1908
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Blood -- Circulation.; Physiology.
Table of contents: value: Dedication (p. 3); value: Introduction (p. 9); value: Chapter I: The Authors Motives for Writing (p. 22); value: Chapter II: Of the Motions of the Heart, as Seen in the Dissection of Living Animals (p. 24); value: Chapter III: Of the Motions of Arteries, as Seen in the Dissection of Living Animals (p. 28); value: Chapter IV: Of the Motion of the Heart and its Auricles, as Seen in the Bodies of Living Animals (p. 31); value: Chapter V: Of the Motion, Action, and Office of the Heart (p. 37); value: 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 (p. 42); value: Chapter VII: The Blood Percolates the Substance of the Lungs from the Right Ventricle of the Heart into the Pulmonary Veins and Left Ventricle (p. 49); value: 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 (p. 55); value: Chapter IX: That There is a Circulation of the Blood is Confirmed from the First Proposition (p. 58); value: 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 (p. 64); value: Chapter XI: The Second Position is Demonstrated (p. 67); value: Chapter XII: That There is a circulation of the Blood is Shown From the Second Position Demonstrated (p. 75); value: Chapter XIII: the third Position is Confirmed; And the Circulation of the Blood is Demonstrated from it. (p. 78); value: Chapter XIV: Conclusion of the Demonstration of the Circulation (p. 85); value: Chapter XV: The Circulation of the Blood is Further Confirmed by Probable Reasons (p. 86); value: Chapter XVI: The Circulation of the Blood is Further Proved from Certain Consequences (p. 90); value: 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 (p. 95); value: The First Anatomical Disquisition on the Circulation of the Blood, Addressed to John Riolan (p. 111); value: A Second Disquisition to John Riolan; in Which Many Objections to the Circulation of the Blood are Refuted (p. 131); value: To Caspar Hofmann, M.D. (p. 175); value: To Paul Marquard Slegel, of Hamburg (p. 175); value: To the Very Excellent John Nardi, of Florence (p. 184); value: In Reply to R. Morison, M.D., of Paris (p. 185); value: To the Most Excellent and learned John Nardi, of Florence. (p. 193); value: To John Daniel Horst, Principal Physician of Hesse-Darmstadt (p. 195); value: To the Distinguished and Learned John Dan. Horst, Principal Physician at the Court of Hesse-Darmstadt (p. 197); value: To the Very Learned John Nardi, of Florence, a Man Distinguished Alike for his Virtues, Life, and Erudition (p. 199); value: To the Distinguished and Accomplished John Vlackvelk, Physician at Harlem (p. 200); value: Appendix:; value: The Anatomical Examination of the Body of Thomas Parr, who Died at the Age of One Hundred and Fifty-two years: Made by William Harvey (p. 205); value: The Last Will and Testament of William Harvey, M.D. (p. 212); value: Index (p. 223)