Great Feuds in Medicine
Subtitle: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2001
Number of pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780471045601
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.