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Diuretic 



drinks, their quick action in illustration of the large quantity 



of blood circulating, 49 

 Diutus arter;osus 



shrinks gradually after birth, 45 



its function in the foetus, 98 



E 

 Eel 



observations on the heart of the, 33 

 Embryology 



Harvey a pioneer in the science of, xx 

 Ent, Dr. George 



persuaded Harvey to publish his treatise on Generation, xx 



directed in Harvey's will to present his books and collections 

 to the College of Physicians, 216 



Harvey left him his presses and shelves, 216 

 Epigenesis 



Harvey's doctrine of, xxi 

 Erasistratus 



thought the arteries contained only spirits or air, 40, 140 

 Euripus 



the tides of, the motion of the heart as perplexing as, 22 



Galen refers to, in speaking of the use of the semilunar 

 valves, 53 



Sliolan applies, to the movement of the blood in the mesenteric 



vessels, 11$ 

 Experience 



importance of, for scientific observation, 160 

 Experiment 



the direct appeal to, viii 



Galen's, to show arteries contain only blood, 12 



Galen's, to show arteries filled like bellows, controverted by 

 Harvey, 14 



of arteriotomy, 14, 28, 29 



Galen's, of dividing the trachea, 18 



to observe the beating heart, 24 



of dividing the gill vessels of fishes, 28 



on the hearts of an eel, a fish, and a pigeon, 33 



to show the capacity of the left ventricle, 59 



