Three anatomic lectures concerning 1. the motion of the bloud through the veins and arteries, 2. the organic structure of the heart, 3. the efficient causes of the hearts pulsation : read on the 19, 20 and 21 by Walter Charleton ...

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Three anatomic lectures concerning 1. the motion of the bloud through the veins and arteries, 2. the organic structure of the heart, 3. the efficient causes of the hearts pulsation : read on the 19, 20 and 21 by Walter Charleton ...

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Charleton, Walter, 1619-1707.

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London :: Printed for Walter Kettilby ...,

1683.

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Subject terms

Cardiovascular system -- Early works to 1800.

Blood -- Circulation -- Early works to 1800.

Anatomy -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• March 28. 1683.
• title page
• PRAELOQUIUM.
• PRAELECTIO I. Of the Circular Motion of the Bloud, and the admirable Effects thereof.
  • First PROPOSITION, That the bloud is carried in a round through the body of an Animal, in a truly continued, and never interrupted mo∣tion▪
  • Second PROPOSITION. That by the artifice of the Valves, the Compressions of the Veins protrude the Bloud toward the heart with a moti∣on doubly swifter; not indeed in a continual flux, but with little pauses interpos'd, and with unequal velocities.
  • PROPOSITION III. That the Arteries of an Animal, their constriction or pul∣sation being complete, do not remain wholly empty of Bloud.
  • PROPOSITION. That the motion of the Bloud in the Arteries, is threefold swifter than the motion of the Heart, that impells the Bloud;
  • PROPOSITION, That the cause expelling the Bloud out of the Arteries, is not the Systole of the Heart alone, but the constrictive or peristaltic motion of the Arteries themselves natural∣ly and necessarily succeeding their expansion.
    • The admirable effects and benefits arising to the Animal Oeconomy from the same Velocity of the Circulation of the Bloud;
    • But what may we conceive to be the reason that induced Her to institute also so multiplied a repe∣tition of this course of the bloud through the same ways?
• PRAELECTIO II. Of the Heart, and its Pulsation.
  • FIGURE III.
    • The Mechanic reason of this Operation.
• PRAELECTIO III. Of the Efficient Causes of the Pulsation of the Heart.
  • The admirable Motive force of the Heart.
  • PROPOSITION, That the immediate Motive cause of the heart, is the very same with that, by which the Muscles of the Limbs are moved Voluntarily.
  • PROPOSITION, That the Mediate Cause of the Hearts Motion seems to differ from that, by which the Muscles of the Limbs are incited to Voluntary Motion.
• illustration
• EPILOGUS.
• GVALTERI CHARLETONI Scripta jam in Lucem emissa