TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Preface v 



Life of William Harvey xv 



Last Will and Testament of William Harvey Ixxxv 



AN ANATOMICAL DISQUISITION ON THE MOTION OF THE 

 HEART AND BLOOD IN ANIMALS. 



Dedication . . . 3 



Introduction 9 



CHAPTER 



I. The author's motives for writing 19 



II. Of the Motions of the Heart, as seen in the Dissection of 



Living Animals ....:.... 21 



III. Of the Motions of Arteries, as seen in the Dissection of 



Living Animals 24 



IV. Of the Motion of the Heart and its Auricles, as seen in the Bodies 



of Living Animals 26 



V. Of the Motion, Action, and Office of the Heart . . . .31 

 VI. Of the Course by which the Blood is carried from the Vena Cava 

 into the Arteries, or from the Right into the Left Ventricle of 



the Heart 35 



VII. The Blood percolates the Substance of the Lungs from the Right 

 Ventricle of the Heart into the Pulmonary Veins and Left 

 Ventricle 40 



