“A Defence of Harvey,” by George Johnson, M.D., 1884.

“Masters of Medicine: William Harvey,” by D’Arcy Power 1897.

NOTE

In the present edition of Harvey’s Treatise on the Circulation of the Blood, which is reprinted from the Sydenham Society’s edition of 1847, the footnotes by Willis, the editor and translator of that edition, are distinguished by brackets from Harvey’s original notes.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

AN ANATOMICAL DISQUISITION ON THEMOTION OF THE HEART AND BLOOD IN ANIMALS
PAGE
EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION

[vii]

DEDICATION

[3]

INTRODUCTION

[9]

CHAP.
I.THE AUTHOR’S MOTIVES FOR WRITING

[22]

II.OF THE MOTIONS OF THE HEART, AS SEEN INTHE DISSECTION OF LIVING ANIMALS

[24]

III.OF THE MOTIONS OF ARTERIES, AS SEEN INTHE DISSECTION OF LIVING ANIMALS

[28]

IV.OF THE MOTION OF THE HEART AND ITSAURICLES, AS SEEN IN THE BODIES OF LIVING ANIMALS

[31]

V.OF THE MOTION, ACTION, AND OFFICE OF THE HEART

[37]

VI.OF THE COURSE BY WHICH THE BLOOD ISCARRIED FROM THE VENA CAVA INTO THE ARTERIES, OR FROM THE RIGHT INTO THELEFT VENTRICLE OF THE HEART

[42]

VII.THE BLOOD PERCOLATES THE SUBSTANCE OFTHE LUNGS FROM THE RIGHT VENTRICLE OF THE HEART INTO THE PULMONARYVEINS AND LEFT VENTRICLE

[49]

VIII.OF THE QUANTITY OF BLOOD PASSING THROUGHTHE HEART FROM THE VEINS TO THE ARTERIES; AND OF THE CIRCULAR MOTIONOF THE BLOOD

[55]

IX.THAT THERE IS A CIRCULATION OF THE BLOODIS CONFIRMED FROM THE FIRST PROPOSITION

[58]

X.THE FIRST POSITION: OF THE QUANTITY OFBLOOD PASSING FROM THE VEINS TO THE ARTERIES. AND THAT THERE IS A CIRCUITOF THE BLOOD, FREED FROM OBJECTIONS, AND FARTHER CONFIRMED BY EXPERIMENT

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XI.THE SECOND POSITION IS DEMONSTRATED

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XII.THAT THERE IS A CIRCULATION OF THE BLOODIS SHOWN FROM THE SECOND POSITION DEMONSTRATED

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XIII.THE THIRD POSITION IS CONFIRMED: AND THECIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD IS DEMONSTRATED FROM IT

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XIV.CONCLUSION OF THE DEMONSTRATION OF THE CIRCULATION

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XV.THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD IS FURTHERCONFIRMED BY PROBABLE REASONS

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XVI.THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD IS FURTHERPROVED FROM CERTAIN CONSEQUENCES

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XVII.THE MOTION AND CIRCULATION OF THE BLOODARE CONFIRMED FROM THE PARTICULARS APPARENT IN THE STRUCTURE OF THEHEART, AND FROM THOSE THINGS WHICH DISSECTION UNFOLDS

[96]

THE FIRST ANATOMICAL DISQUISITIONON THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD, ADDRESSED TO JOHN RIOLAN

[111]

A SECOND DISQUISITION TO JOHN RIOLAN;IN WHICH MANY OBJECTIONS TO THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD ARE REFUTED

[131]

LETTERS
TO CASPAR HOFMANN, M.D.

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TO PAUL MARQUARD SLEGEL, OF HAMBURG

[176]

TO THE VERY EXCELLENT JOHN NARDI, OF FLORENCE

[184]

IN REPLY TO R. MORISON, M.D., OF PARIS

[185]

TO THE MOST EXCELLENT AND LEARNED JOHN NARDI, OF FLORENCE

[193]

TO JOHN DANIEL HORST, PRINCIPAL PHYSICIAN OFHESSE-DARMSTADT

[195]

TO THE DISTINGUISHED AND LEARNED JOHN DAN.HORST, PRINCIPAL PHYSICIAN AT THE COURT OF HESSE-DARMSTADT

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TO THE VERY LEARNED JOHN NARDI, OF FLORENCE,A MAN DISTINGUISHED ALIKE FOR HIS VIRTUES, LIFE, AND ERUDITION

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TO THE DISTINGUISHED AND ACCOMPLISHED JOHNVLACKVELD, PHYSICIAN AT HARLEM

[200]

APPENDIX
THE ANATOMICAL EXAMINATION OF THE BODY OFTHOMAS PARR, WHO DIED AT THE AGE OF ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-TWO YEARS; MADE BYWILLIAM HARVEY

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THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF WILLIAM HARVEY, M.D.

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INDEX

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AN ANATOMICAL DISQUISITION

ON THE

MOTION OF THE HEART AND
BLOOD IN ANIMALS

TO
THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS AND INDOMITABLE PRINCE
CHARLES
KING OF GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND IRELAND
DEFENDER OF THE FAITH