Harvey's Views on the Use of the Circulation of the Blood

by John Green Curtis

Air, and fire, [14];
and respiration, [15], [23], [31], [40];
and spirits, Harvey on, [29];
soul in, [147].
Alcmæon, [111].
Ancients, Harvey and, [2], [3].
Anima, [23], [103], [147].
See also Soul.
Animal spirits, [22], [25], [127].
Animals, Aristotle on, [105].
Aorta, [62].
Aphrodite, [149].
Aretæus, [55].
Aristotle, [2];
on air and fire, [14];
on animals, [105];
and "artery," [49];
on causes of man, [144];
on cosmos, [121];
on chick's heart, [48];
on ether, [123], [125];
on faculties, [104];
on fire and soul, [143];
onmfunction of heart, [48], [113];
on heart as psychological center, [50];
on heart as seat of motion, [52];
ignorant of function of muscle, [53], [84];
on innate heat, [14], [44], [139];
as leader of Harvey, [48], [53], [67];
on life, [104]; on movement of blood, [53];
on pulsation of heart, [82];
on respiration, [15], [30];
on semen, [120], [128];
on sexes, [145];
on soul, [51], [104], [114];
on spirits, [21];
on spontaneous generation, [143], [145];
on sun and fire, [150];
on sun and generation, [151].
Arterial vein, [57].
Artery, Aristotle's use of word, [49];
bronchial, [38];
flow in, [99];
Galen's demonstration of blood in, [3];
venous, [30], [57].
Aselli, Gasparo, [10].
Aubrey, John, [2], [12].
Auricles, action of, [75], [87];
fibrillar contractions of, [75].
Automatic generation, [143].
Avicenna, [2].
Blood, as arising in liver, [56], [60];
Aristotle on movement of, [53];
arterial and venous, [35];
color of, [35];
as constructor, [153];
as divine, [156];
as the first to live, [68], [69], [75], [109];
Galen on movement of, [56];
Harvey on arterial and venous, [35];
as innate heat, [116];
as the last to die, [73], [109];
life in, [76];
palpitation of, [75];
primacy of, [64], [81];
the seat of soul, [103], [105], [156];
as source of heat, [80], [109];
and spirits, [117], [120], [127].
Bloodletting, Harvey on, [110].
Blood pressure, Hales on, [96];
Harvey on, [97].
Bronchial arteries, [38].
Capillaries, circulation of blood in, [98].
Chemistry, Harvey on, [12].
Chick, development of, [47], [71].
Chyle, [9].
Cicero, [2], [141].
Circulation of blood, in capillaries, [98];
and circulation of heavens, [154];
according to Columbus, [58];
and feeding of tissues, [7];
first announcement of, [4], [42];
Harvey on use of, [1], [43];
opposition to, [5], [62];
and primacy of blood, [64];
and primacy of heart, [42];
pulmonary, [27], [38], [58], [101];
physicians and philosophers on, [55], [60];
and respiration, [11];
use of, [1], [5], [8], [43].
Circulation of heavens, [154].
Cleanthes, [141].
Columbus, Realdus, on pores of septum, [27];
and pulmonary circulation, [27], [38], [58];
on spirits, [27], [30].
Copernicus, [118], [155].
Cosmos, [121], [154].
Critias, [112].
Cruor, [76], [117], [156].
Democritus, [132].
Descartes, [85].
Diastole as caused by heat, [80].
Diogenes, [111].
Empedocles, [20], [112], [132].
Empyema, [29].
Erasistratus, and valves of heart, [55];
and Galen, [61];
on spirits, [21].
Ether, [123], [125], [129].
Fabricius ab Aquapendente, [1].
Faculty, intellectual, [105];
motor, [105];
nutritive, [104];
sensory, [105].
Female, function of, [145].
Fernel, Jean, [118];
on innate heat, [117].
Fever, Harvey's view of, [46].
Fire, and air, [14];
not the source of innate heat, [119], [139];
and soul, [143];
and sun, [150].
Galen, [2], [3];
circulation opposed by followers of, [62];
demonstration of blood in arteries by, [3];
and Erasistratus, [61];
on function of muscle, [84];
and Harvey, [61];
on innate heat, [17], [44];
on mitral valve, [58];
on movement of blood, [56];
on net-like plexus, [24];
on respiration, [16], [22], [27];
on spirits, [22], [27].
Galileo, [96], [155].
Generation, automatic, [143];
causes in human, [144];
eternity in, [126];
spontaneous, [143], [145], [152];
and sun, [145], [151].
Hales, Stephen, [96].
Hamlet, [103].
Harvey, William, and ancients, [2], [3];
on arterial and venous blood, [35];
on blood-letting, [110];
on blood pressure, [97];
on cause of heart-beat, [79], [81], [86], [90];
on chemistry, [12];
on development of chick, [47], [71];
on eternity in generation, [126];
on fever, [46];
first announcement of circulation by, [4], [42];
on flow in arteries, [99];
on flow in veins, [95], [100];
as follower of Aristotle, [48], [53], [67];
on functions of blood, [114];
on function of heart, [45];
on function of muscle, [84];
and Galen, [61];
and "heart," [56], [92];
on heart as seat of sensation, [107];
on innate heat, [19], [33], [39], [44], [116];
Lecture Notes of, [4], [18];
on mechanism of heart-beat, [86];
on moderns, [2];
on nerve impulse, [32];
as observer, [6], [70], [78];
at Padua, [1], [155];
publications of, [3], [4], [18], [66], [67];
on pulmonary circulation, [38], [101];
on respiration, [12], [18], [26], [28], [31], [39];
on soul, [103], [106];
as speculator, [6], [7];
on spirits, [28], [31], [33], [127], [133];
on spontaneous generation, [152];
on sun and generation, [151];
on use of circulation, [1], [5], [8], [43];
on venous return, [95].
Heart, action of excised, [92];
action of heat on, [76];
Aristotle on function of, [48], [113];
Aristotle on pulsation of, [82];
Aristotelian primacy of, [42];
of chick, [47], [71];
as common sense-organ, [51];
as the first to live, [47];
Harvey's use of word, [56], [92];
as origin of life, [45];
pores of septum of, [27], [57];
primacy of, [42];
as psychological center, [50];
the seat of motion, [52], [107];
the seat of sensation, [107];
the seat of soul, [51], [114];
the source of innate heat, [43], [49], [113];
valves of, [15], [16], [55], [58], [62].
Heart-beat, cause of, [79], [81], [90];
mechanism of, [81], [86], [89].
Heat, action of, on heart, [76];
in semen, [119], [124], [128], [140], [143].
Heat, innate, Aristotle on, [14], [44];
blood as, [116];
blood as source of, [80], [109];
as cause of diastole, [80];
as cause of pulse, [81], [93];
Fernelius on, [117];
Galen on, [17], [44];
Harvey on, [19], [33], [39], [44], [116];
heart as source of, [43], [49], [113];
not from fire, [119], [139];
and respiration, [14], [15], [16], [18], [33], [39];
Scaliger on, [117];
and spirits, [126], [129].
Heavens, [121], [149];
circulation of, and circulation of blood, [154].
Heraclitus, [111].
Hibernating animals, [77].
Hippocrates, on respiration, [15], [20];
on spirits, [20];
works of, [15].
Hofmann, Caspar, [5].
Intellectual faculty, [105].
Intellectual soul, [105].
Lacteals, discovery of, [10].
Laurentius, [29].
Life, Aristotle on, [104];
in blood, [76].
Ligature, [42].
Liver as source of veins and blood, [56], [60].
Male, function of, [145].
Milton, [70], [124], [155].
Mitral valve, [58].
Moderns, Harvey on, [2].
Motor faculty, [105].
Motor soul, [105].
Muscle, function of, [84];
function of, unknown to Aristotle, [53], [84].
Natural spirits, [25], [27].
Nerve impulse, [26], [32].
Nervous system and spirits, [31].
Net-like plexus, [22], [24].
Nutritive faculty, [104].
Nutritive soul, [50], [105], [145].
Oxyhæmoglobin, [26].
Paracelsus, [118].
Pascal, Blaise, [96].
Philosophers versus physicians, [55], [60], [65].
Physicians versus philosophers, [55], [60], [65].
Planets, [122].
Plato, [23], [51], [112].
Pneuma, [20], [23], [127], [147], [148].
See also Spirits.
Pores of septum, [27], [57].
Porosities of tissues, [98], [100].
Portal vein, [8].
Powers of the elements, [130].
Primitive moisture, [131].
Psyche, [23], [104], [147].
Psychical spirits, [23].
Pulmonary circulation, [27], [38], [58], [101].
Pulse, as caused by heat, [81];
as dependent on heart, [83].
Quintessence, [124].
Respiration, and air, [15], [23], [31], [40];
Aristotle on, [15], [30];
and circulation, [11];
Galen on, [16], [22], [27];
Harvey on, [12], [18], [26], [28], [31], [39];
Hippocrates on, [15], [20];
and innate heat, [14], [15], [16], [18], [33], [39].
Rete mirabile, [24].
Scaliger, Julius Cæsar, [118];
on innate heat, [117].
Semen, Aristotle's view, of, [120], [128];
heat in, [119], [124], [128], [140], [143];
spirits in, [119], [128], [140], [148].
Semilunar valves, [15], [16], [55], [62].
Sensory faculty, [105].
Sensory soul, [51], [105], [145].
Sexes, Aristotle on, [145].
Socrates, [112].
Soul, in air, [147];
Aristotle on, [51], [104], [114];
in the blood, [103], [105], [156];
as cause of vital activity, [143];
and fire, [143];
Harvey's view of, [103], [106];
in the heart, [51], [114];
intellectual, [105];
motor, [105];
nutritive, [50], [105], [145];
sensory, [51], [105], [145].
Spirits, [20], [23], [127], [147], [148];
and air, Harvey, on, [29];
animal, [22], [25], [127];
Aristotle's view of, [21];
and blood, [117], [120], [127], [133];
Columbus on, [27], [30];
Erasistratus's view of, [21];
Galen's view of, [22], [27];
Harvey's view of, [28], [31], [33], [127];
Hippocrates's view of, [20];
and innate heat, [126], [129];
natural, [25], [27];
and nervous system, [31];
psychical, [23];
in semen, [119], [128], [140], [148];
vital, [22], [24], [27].
Spiritus, [20], [147].
Spontaneous generation, [143], [145], [152].
Sun and fire, [150].
Sun and generation, [145], [151].
Taenia, [42].
Thales, [111].
Tissues, feeding of, and circulation, [7].
Torricelli, Evangelista, [96].
Tricuspid valve, [55].
Universe of Aristotle, [121].
Uranus, [149].
Valves of heart, [15], [16], [55], [58], [62].
Veins, arising in liver, [56], [60];
flow in, [9], [95], [100].
Vena cava, as distributer of blood, [55];
Galen's view of, [56].
Venous artery, [30], [57].
Vesalius, [118];
on pores of septum, [27].
Vital spirits, [22], [24], [27].
Wind-egg, [135], [145], [151].

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