Cardiac valves i8 



Chapter I, Reasons for Writing 25 



Chapter II, Motions of Heart Analyzed ... 28 



Chapter III, Analysis of Pulse 34 



Chapter IV, Analysis of Auricular and Ventricular 



Movement 38 



Chapter V, Actions and Functions of the Heart . . 47 

 Chapter VI, On the Pulmonary Circulation and Fetal 



Circulation 53 



Chapter VII, On the Pulmonary Circulation ... 61 

 Chapter VIII, Philosophical Consideration of Circula- 

 tion 69 



Chapter IX, Quantitative Estimation of the Pumping 



Action of the Heart 73 



Chapter X, Demonstration of Blood Flow Through 



Heart from Veins to Arteries on Snakes . 8 1 



Chapter XI, Demonstration of Circulation in Man by 



Bandage Experiments 84 



Chapter XII, Demonstration of the Circulation in the 



Phenomena of Blood-Letting . 93 



Chapter XIII, Explanation of the Function of the 

 Valves in the Veins on the Basis of the 



Circulation 96 



Chapter XIV, Summary of Demonstration of Circula- 

 tion 103 



Chapter XV, Speculations, in the Traditional Aris- 

 totelian manner, on the Significance of 



the Circulation 104 



Chapter XVI, Clinical and Physiological Applications 



of the Demonstration of the Circulation 108 



Chapter XVII, Summary of Work 115 



Chordae tendinae 3^ 



Circulation, fetal 55 



Circulation, pulmonary 67 



Circulation through tissues 62 



Columbus, M. R 10 



Comparative Anatomy of heart 44 



Copernicus, N. . . . .... 70 



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