Table of Contents
Illustrations xi
A Note on the Text xii
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction xv
Dedication to Charles I 1
Dedication to the College of Physicians 3
Introduction 6
Chapter 1 The Author's Motives for Writing 17
Chapter 2 The Motions of the Heart as Seen in the Dissection of Living Animals 19
Chapter 3 The Motions of the Arteries as Seen in the Dissection of Living Animals 22
Chapter 4 The Motion of the Heart and Its Auricles as Seen in the Bodies of Living Animals 25
Chapter 5 The Motion, Action, and Function of the Heart 30
Chapter 6 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
Chapter 7 The Blood Percolates the Substance of the Lungs From the Right Ventricle of the Heart Into the Pulmonary Veins and Left Ventricle 41
Chapter 8 The Quantity of Blood Passing Through the Heart From the Veins to the Arteries and the Circular Motion of the Blood 47
Chapter 9 That There is a Circulation of the Blood is Confirmed From the First Proposition 51
Chapter 10 The First Position, Concerning the Quantity of Blood Passing from the Veins to the Arteries, Through the Circulation of the Blood, is Freed from Objections and Confirmed by Experiment 57
Chapter 11 The Second Position is Demonstrated 60
Chapter 12 The Second Position is Demonstrated Showing That There is a Circulation of the Blood 67
Chapter 13 The Third Position is Confirmed and the Circulation of the Blood is Demonstrated By It 70
Chapter 14 Conclusion of the Demonstration of the Circulation 76
Chapter 15 The Circulation of the Blood is Further Confirmed By Probable Reasons 77
Chapter 16 The Circulation of the Blood is Further Proved From Certain Consequences 80
Chapter 17 The Motion and Circulation of the Blood are Confirmed From the Particulars Apparent in the Structure of the Heart and From Those Things That Dissection Reveals 85
