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An anatomical disquisition on the motion of the heart & blood in animals

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An anatomical disquisition on the motion of the heart & blood in animals

William Harvey and Ernest Albert Parkyn

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For over a thousand years physicians believed the liver made blood the body simply consumed. William Harvey proved instead that the heart pumps it in a circle, endlessly around. This is his revolutionary disquisition, laying out the experiments and reasoning that founded modern physiology. One of the most important books in medical history. Read the discovery of how blood truly moves.

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  1. 1THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD
  2. 2EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
  3. 3NOTE
  4. 4TABLE OF CONTENTS
  5. 5TO THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS AND INDOMITABLE PRINCE CHARLES KING OF GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND IRELAND DEFENDER OF THE FAITH
  6. 6INTRODUCTION
  7. 7CHAPTER I THE AUTHOR’S MOTIVES FOR WRITING
  8. 8CHAPTER II OF THE MOTIONS OF THE HEART, AS SEEN IN THE DISSECTION OF LIVING ANIMALS
  9. 9CHAPTER III OF THE MOTIONS OF ARTERIES, AS SEEN IN THE DISSECTION OF LIVING ANIMALS
  10. 10CHAPTER IV OF THE MOTION OF THE HEART AND ITS AURICLES, AS SEEN IN THE BODIES OF LIVING ANIMALS
  11. 11CHAPTER V OF THE MOTION, ACTION, AND OFFICE OF THE HEART
  12. 12CHAPTER 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
  13. 13CHAPTER VII THE BLOOD PERCOLATES THE SUBSTANCE OF THE LUNGS FROM THE RIGHT VENTRICLE OF THE HEART INTO THE PULMONARY VEINS AND LEFT VENTRICLE
  14. 14CHAPTER VIII OF THE QUANTITY OF BLOOD PASSING THROUGH THE HEART FROM THE VEINS TO THE ARTERIES; AND OF THE CIRCULAR MOTION OF THE BLOOD
  15. 15CHAPTER IX THAT THERE IS A CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD IS CONFIRMED FROM THE FIRST PROPOSITION
  16. 16CHAPTER 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
  17. 17CHAPTER XI THE SECOND POSITION IS DEMONSTRATED
  18. 18CHAPTER XII THAT THERE IS A CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD IS SHOWN FROM THE SECOND POSITION DEMONSTRATED

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