| | PAGE |
| Prefatory Note | [v] |
| Editorial Note | [vii] |
| Illustrations | [xi] |
| CHAPTER I |
| Harvey's Attitude toward the Question of the Use of the Circulation | [1] |
| CHAPTER II |
| The Circulation and the Feeding of the Tissues | [7] |
| CHAPTER III |
| Respiration and the Circulation | [11] |
| CHAPTER IV |
| The Circulation and the Aristotelian Primacy of the Heart | [42] |
| CHAPTER V |
| Physicians versus Philosophers—Harvey for the Philosophers | [55] |
| CHAPTER VI |
| The Circulation and the Primacy of the Blood | [64] |
| CHAPTER VII |
| The Cause of the Heart-beat | [79] |
| CHAPTER VIII |
| Harvey's Delineation of the Venous Return | [95] |
| CHAPTER IX |
| The Blood the Seat of the Soul | [103] |
| CHAPTER X |
| The Blood the Innate Heat | [116] |
| CHAPTER XI |
| The Innate Heat not Derived from Elemental Fire | [139] |
| CHAPTER XII |
| The Circulation of the Blood and the Circulation of the Heavens | [154] |
| Notes | [159] |
| Index | [191] |