id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 2939 Huxley, Thomas Henry William Harvey and the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood .txt text/plain 8082 244 61 WILLIAM HARVEY AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD circulation of the blood and the movements of the heart, the nature of way as Harvey's discovery of the circulation in the seventeeth century Fig.2,--The Course of the Blood according to Galen (A.D. 170). during life, is full of scarlet arterial blood, Galen's next point the heart in this way; the rest of the blood, he thought, passed through Fig 3.--The course of the blood from the right to the left side of the led Harvey to imagine the course of the circulation of the blood. Fig. 4.--The circulation of the blood as demonstrated by Harvey (A.D. 1628). Harvey further found that, in the arteries, the blood, as had previously blood passes from the right side of the heart, through the lungs, to the circulation of the blood was not taught in the way in which Harvey had ./cache/2939.txt ./txt/2939.txt