Arcana microcosmi: or, the hid secrets of mans body disclosed: first, in an anatomatical [sic] duel between Aristotle and Galen, about the parts thereof. Secondly, by a discovery of the ... diseases, symptomes, and accidents of mans body. With a refutation of Doctor Brown's Vulgar errors, the Lord Bacon's Natural history, and Doctor Harvy's book De generatione, Comenius, and others; whereto is annexed a letter from Doctor Pr. [i.e. Primrose] to the author, and his answer thereto, touching Doctor Harvy's book ... / By A.R.

  • Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.
Date:
1652
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Credit: Arcana microcosmi: or, the hid secrets of mans body disclosed: first, in an anatomatical [sic] duel between Aristotle and Galen, about the parts thereof. Secondly, by a discovery of the ... diseases, symptomes, and accidents of mans body. With a refutation of Doctor Brown's Vulgar errors, the Lord Bacon's Natural history, and Doctor Harvy's book De generatione, Comenius, and others; whereto is annexed a letter from Doctor Pr. [i.e. Primrose] to the author, and his answer thereto, touching Doctor Harvy's book ... / By A.R. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    = — ~ q ———— —— SRR Sette se I HTT HEY RTE - ss ee — . chet tenements share in its et et f a ip iii meer it tpt tet - The bid Secrets of the liver.may-be called the fountain of bloud.. 2. As‘the heart: is che firft ching that liveth in us, fv it muft needs be firft nou-. rifhed, for life cannot be without nutriment, & nutriment Ccan- not be without blood, therefore there muft: needs be blood in the heart before chere was any inthe) liver.” 3. As the heare: firftlivetly, fo it firft operates, for life: confifts in operation’: but che proper work of the heart isito beger‘arterial blood and vital {pirirs,therefore the bluod was firftin the heart.4. Though thlood refemble the liver in. colour, it will not therefore follow charblood hath its firft originabfrom the liver, but only: that it’ is the receptacle and cyftern:of blood; fo the bag,in which the gall-lieth;, hath the fame colour'with the gall, and yet this is generated in the liver, and onely: contained: in the bag 5 and irsaqueftion, whether the liver coloureth rhe blood:, or the blood: theliver. 5. Infear dnd fadnefs, the blood retires in- to-theheart, whichisby means: of the {pirits recoiling thither: with the blood, as to their original. “6. In the. brain we finde fourfenfible concayities for the animal] fpirits 5 in the heart tiwo,: for the bleod and vital fpirits; but inthe liver none,for the blood ; in the tefticles none, for the feed 5. nor.in-thie breaft for the milk 5 which makes me doubt, whether the blood,feed, aad milk, haveany concodion in thefe parts, if they have, ic mutt be furely ina very fmall quantity: 7.1 finde pure blood no where butin the heart and veins: by which: I garher thac there muft bea greater commerce between the heart'and veins, then fome doe conceive, which appears alfo by the implanta- tion of the-vena cava in the heart, which cannot be feparated without tearing, of the: heart or vein 5 and: that. eicher the- blood is perfeéted in the heart, and prepared in the liver, or elfe prepared in the heart, and perfected in the liver: belides, that the arteries doe all along-accompany the veins. IL. I fee no reafon why we may notaftirm, that the heart is continually in its. Diaftole, drawing blood out of the’ vena cavas and:in its Syftole or contraction, refunding blood:into the fame vein: for this continual motion of the blood, is: nomore impoffible then the continual motion of the heart and arteries; neither isit moreablurd for perfect and imperfect blood’ to bee mingled in this motion, then for cholerick, melancholick*and flegmatick blood, to be mingled with pure blood in the veins. 2. When the liver is vitiated , fanguification failech., and {fo hydropfies follow, which doth nor prove that the liver: is: the fole canfe-of: fanguification ;, burthat ic is fubordinate to’ the heart: {o when-the Chryftalline:humour is yitiated,: the fight” frileth,