Columbia University,
June 1, 1915.

CONTENTS

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]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[Portrait of William Harvey by Cornelius Jonson]Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
[The Anatomical Theater at Padua]2
[Page 80, right, of Harvey's Prelectiones, with transcript]42
[The Title-page of the Editio Princeps of Harvey's De Motu Cordis]96