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On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals

por William Harvey · 33 partes · about 5 hours 50 minutes de leitura

Olá, meu nome é Finn e vou ajudar você a entender este livro.

Aqui está, explicado como se você tivesse 10 anos:

Há muito tempo, os médicos repetiam sobretudo o que os livros antigos diziam sobre o corpo. William Harvey observou corações vivos, ligou veias e contou quanto sangue o coração envia para fora. Neste livro, na tradução de Robert Willis a partir do latim, ele mostra que o sangue não vai e vem como uma maré. Anda em círculo, sai pelas artérias e volta pelas veias, com o coração como a sua bomba. A medicina moderna começa aqui.

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Capítulos

Editor's Introduction26 min Dedication6 min Introduction21 min Chapter 1: The Author's Motives for Writing3 min Chapter 2: Of the Motions of the Heart, as Seen in the Dissection of Living Animals6 min Chapter 3: Of the Motions of Arteries, as Seen in the Dissection of Living Animals4 min Chapter 4: Of the Motion of the Heart and Its Auricles, as Seen in the Bodies of Living Animals9 min Chapter 5: Of the Motion, Action, and Office of the Heart8 min Chapter 6: Of the Course by Which the Blood Is Carried from the Vena Cava Into the Arteries, or from the Right Into the Left Ventricle of the Heart12 min Chapter 7: The Blood Percolates the Substance of the Lungs from the Right Ventricle of the Heart Into the Pulmonary Veins and Left Ventricle10 min Chapter 8: Of the Quantity of Blood Passing Through the Heart from the Veins to the Arteries; and of the Circular Motion of the Blood5 min Chapter 9: That There Is a Circulation of the Blood Is Confirmed from the First Proposition10 min Chapter 10: The First Position: of the Quantity of Blood Passing from the Veins to the Arteries. And That There Is a Circuit of the Blood, Freed from Objections, and Farther Confirmed by Experiment4 min Chapter 11: The Second Position Is Demonstrated12 min Chapter 12: That There Is a Circulation of the Blood Is Shown from the Second Position Demonstrated4 min Chapter 13: The Third Position Is Confirmed: and the Circulation of the Blood Is Demonstrated from It10 min Chapter 14: Conclusion of the Demonstration of the Circulation1 min Chapter 15: The Circulation of the Blood Is Further Confirmed by Probable Reasons5 min Chapter 16: The Circulation of the Blood Is Further Proved from Certain Consequences9 min Chapter 17: The Motion and Circulation of the Blood Are Confirmed from the Particulars Apparent in the Structure of the Heart, and from Those Things Which Dissection Unfolds22 min The First Anatomical Disquisition on the Circulation of the Blood, Addressed to John Riolan33 min A Second Disquisition to John Riolan69 min Letter I: To Caspar Hofmann3 min Letter II: To Paul Marquard Slegel13 min Letter III: To John Nardi1 min Letter IV: In Reply to R. Morison13 min Letter V: To John Nardi3 min Letter VI: To John Daniel Horst3 min Letter VII: To John Dan. Horst4 min Letter VIII: To John Nardi1 min Letter IX: To John Vlackveld1 min Appendix: The Anatomical Examination of the Body of Thomas Parr7 min Appendix: The Last Will and Testament of William Harvey13 min