On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AN ANATOMICAL DISQUISITION ON THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD. JOHN EIOLAN, Jun., Of Paris; A MOST SKILFUL PHYSICIAN; THE CORYPHAEUS OF ANATOMISTS; REGIUS PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY AND BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PABIS; DEAN OF THE SAME UNIVERSITY; AND FIRST PHYSICIAN TO THE QUEEN, MOTHER OF LOUIS XIII. BY WILLIAM HARVEY, AN ENGLISHMAN, PHOFESSOK OF ANATOMY AND SURGERY IN THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON; AND PRINCIPAL PHYSICIAN TO HIS MOST SKRENE MAJESTY THE KING. Cambridge, 1649. THE PIEST ANATOMICAL DISQUISITION ON THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD, ADDEESSED TO JO. KIOLAN. Some few months ago there appeared a small anatomical and pathological work from the pen of the celebrated Eiolanus, for which, as sent to me by the author himself, I return him my grateful thanks.1 I also congratulate this author on the highly laudable undertaking in which he has engaged. To demonstrate the seats of all diseases is a task that can only be achieved under favour of the highest abilities; for surely he enters on a difficult province who proposes to bring under the cognizance of the eyes those diseases which almost escape the keenest understanding. But such efforts become the prince of anatomists; for there is no science which does not spring from pre-existing knowledge, and no certain and definite idea which has not derived its origin from the senses. Induced, therefore, by the subject itself, and the example of so distinguished an individual, which makes me think lightly of the labour, I also intend putting to press my Medical Anatomy, or Anatomy in its Application to Medicine. Not with the purpose, like Eiolanus, of indicating the seats of diseases from the bodies of healthy subjects, and discussing the several diseases that make their appeara...