GENERAL INDEX. 



623 



Jugular vein of fallow deer, division of, 

 to show the course of the con- 

 tained Wood, 126. 



Knowledge, manner and order of acquir- 

 ing, 154; according to ARIS- 

 TOTLE, 158. 



Lacteals, HARVEY refers to the, 604. 

 and lymphatics, HARVEY refers 'to, 

 and finds various objections 

 against the, 613 ; excuses himself 

 from standing umpire in the con- 

 troversy concerning, in his letter 

 to HORST, 613 ; and from at- 

 tempting to sdlve the problem of 

 the use of the newly-discovered 

 vessels, 615. 



LAUREXTIUS quoted, 18. 



Letters of HARVEY, 593 et seq. 



Life, resides in the blood, 376. 



Ligature of spermatic artery in a case of 

 sarcocele, 254. 



Ligatures on limbs cause the veins to 

 rise, by preventing the return of 

 the blood impelled into them by 

 the arteries, 55. 



Liquor amnii, observations on the, 434. 

 may be swallowed and serve the 

 foetus for nourishment, 438. 



Liver, its ready permeability by the 



blood, 41. 



shown to be produced from the 

 blood, 254. 



Loves, &c., of animals, HARVEY pro- 

 mises a treatise on the, 195. 



Lymphatics. See Lacteals. 



Magnifying glass, HARVEY uses one to 

 discover the punctum saliens, 235. 



Medical observations, HARVEY refers to 

 his, 129. 



Membranes and humours of the uterus 

 generally, 551 ; of the humours, 

 557; of the membranes, 560; 

 of the placenta, 563. 



Mesentery, RIOLAN'S denial of a circula- 

 tion in the vessels of the, 92 et seq. 

 experiment on the vessels of, pro- 

 posed, 141. 



a circulation in the vessels of the, 

 proved by experiment, 141. 



Mesometrium of the fowl, 200. 



Metamorphosis, of generation by, 338. 



Moisture, of the primigenial, 513. 



MORISON, R., Letter to, 604. 



MONTGOMERY, Viscount, case of, 382. 



NARDI, John, letters to, 603, 610, 615. 

 Nutrition, remarks on, 96. 



Nutrition, {continued.) 



on the, of the chick in ovo, and also 



of the embryo generally, 434. 

 Ossa pubis, frequently loosened in la- 

 bour, 437. 

 Ova, reflections on the small size of, 320. 



aborted human, observations on, 420. 

 Ovary, of the hen's, 172. 



of frogs, crustaceans, fishes, &c., 1 75. 

 Ovum, diversities of ova, 216. 



all animals arise from eggs, 456. 



PARISANUS, on the chick, 227. 



PARR, Thomas, examination of the body 

 of, 587. 



Parrot, HARVEY refers to a pet, belong- 

 ing to his wife, 186. 



Parturition, on, 521. 



HARVEY'S view of the immediate 



cause of, 531. 

 FABRICIUS'S account of the manner 



of, 532 ; HARVEY'S, 533. 

 case of, where twins were produced, 

 and the mother walked 12 miles 

 afterwards, 547. 



PECCIUET, HARVEY speaks of the dis- 

 covery by, of the receptaculum 

 chyli, 604. See Lacteals. 



Penis of some birds, 185. 



Placenta, of the, 563. 



Poisons, morbid, how they affect the 

 system, 71. 



Primordium, of the, whence all animals 

 are derived, 554. 



Punctum saliens in the egg, first seen 



after 3 days of incubation, 235. 

 of the embryo deer, HARVEY shows 



to the King, 485. 



first visible about the 19th or 20th 

 November ; the embryo becomes 

 visible on the 21st, 486. 



Pulmonary veins, were held to convey air 

 from the lungs to the heart, 16. 



Pulse, transmitted through vessels whose 

 walls are converted into bone, 112. 



Pulsific power does not reside in the 

 coats of the artery, but in the 

 wave of blood impelled by the 

 heart, 111. 



Respiration, some observations on the, 



of the foetus, 530. 

 RIOI,AN, J., quoted on the motions of 



the heart, 26. 

 his idea of the motion of the 



blood, 90. 

 the first anatomical disquisition on 



the circulation addressed to, 89 ; 



the second disquisition, 109. 

 Rutting of deer, 474. 



