The Circulation of blood / William Harvey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harvey, William, 1578-1657.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blood--Circulation--Early works to 1800.

Blood.

Blood flow.

Physiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Electric Book Co., c2001.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Intro

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-4619-1163-X

OCLC:

70731502