INDEX 



ALEXANDRIA, school of, n. 

 Anastomosis between veins and 



arteries, 33, 63. 

 ,, meaning of the 



Greek word, 32. 

 Aortic valves, 6, 8. 

 Aristotle on heart, 10, n. 



,, on innate heat, 16. 

 Arterial vein = pulmonary artery, 



6, 13, 38, 54, 64. 

 Arteries, distinction from veins, 



3, 65. 

 Auricles, described by Leonardo, 



20. 



Bacon, Lord Francis, 66. 

 Berengar of Carpi, 21, 22. 

 Bologna, Malpighi at, 70, 71. 



Caius, John, 42. 



Calvin, 35. 



Capillary blood-vessels, i, 7, 71, 



74- 

 Circulation, lesser and greater, 



distinguished, 5. 

 ,, as first enunciated 



by Harvey, 45. 

 ,, described, i-io. 



,, Harvey's work on, 



epitomised, 50-68. 

 ,, meaning of term, 5. 



College of Physicians, 43, 47. 

 Columbus, Realdus, 36-37. 

 Corpuscles of blood, 72-75. 



Egyptian ideas on pulse, 10. 



Fabricius of Aquapendente, 38- 

 41, 43, 60. 



,, on respiration, 41. 



,, on valves of veins, 40. 

 Falloppius, Gabriel, 38. 



Galen on anastomosis, 32, 33, 



54- 

 ,, on heart, 12-17. 



Galen's physiology, persistence 



of, 12, 18, 25, 54. 

 Galileo, 69. 

 Geneva, Calvin at, 35. 



,, Servetus at, 35. 

 Greek, revived knowledge of, 



18. 



Harvey, 9, 43-68. 



,, experiments on band- 

 aged arm, 58-62. 

 ,, his death, 69. 

 ,, in Cambridge, 42. 

 ,, in London, 43 ff. 

 ,, in Padua, 43. 

 Harvey's Anatomical Disserta- 

 tion, 47. 



,, first enunciation of cir- 

 culation, 45. 

 ,, handwriting, 43. 

 ,, lecture notes, 43-46. 



style, 43,48. 



Heart, structure of, 6 and through- 

 out. 

 Hippocrates on pulse, 10. 



Innate heat, 16, 17, 41, 63, 67. 



Latin, importance of, in six- 

 teenth century, 24. 

 Leeuwenhoek, Anthony van, 74. 

 Leonardo da Vinci, 19. 



,, on heart, 21. 



,, on respiration, 20, 



Malpighi, 70. 



,, on capillaries, 71. 



Methods, scientific, 67. 

 Middle Ages, physiology in, 18. 



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