230 Index 



Fish (continued) 



the heart of, has only one ventricle, 42 



auricles of the heart of, 103 

 Florence 



Harvey refers to his visits to, 185, 194 



and three of his nephews, 199 

 Flourens 



on Harvey's work, viii 

 Foramen ovale 



of heart of foetus, 20, 44 



its significance in fcetal life, 47, 98 

 Frankfort-on-Main 



Harvey's treatise on the Heart and Blood first published 



there, xv 

 Fuliginous vapours 



views of the ancients on, ix, 10, n, 17 



G 



Galen 



high regard in which he was held by mediaevalists, vii 



on the object of the pulse, 9 



his experiment to show arteries contain only blood, 12 



his experiment- to prove arteries expand like bellows, and 

 controverted by Harvey, 14 



his experiment of dividing the trachea of a dog, 18 



on the beat of the auricles, 32 



quotations from, on movement of the blood, 40, 41 



aware of the use of the semilunar valves, 51, 52 



believed blood passed from right ventricle into the lungs, 53 



on the structure of the heart, 105 



his experiment on an artery, 134 



performed and disproved by Harvey, 135 

 Galileo 



at Padua with Harvey, vii, xiv 



as a pioneer in scientific discovery, viii 

 Generation of Animals 



Harvey's treatise on, its publication, xx 



interesting points in, xxi 



Harvey refers to his work on the, 177 



Quotation from, on the Acquisition of Knowledge, xix 



