A History of the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood
A History of the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood
P Pierre Flourens
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) 96 CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD. heat; Lower demonstrated that it is in the lungs and not in the liver that the elaboration of the blood is completed, and the conversion of the black blood into red takes place. So much for the four principal errors of the theory of Galen. There remain only two acces- sory ones that of the spirits and that of innate heat. Let us give a rapid glance at the manner of their fall. The spirits. We know that of Galen's three kinds of spirit the moderns only adopted one,... the animal spirits. "The ancients admitted, " says Bordeu, "three sorts of spirits; and it is not easy to -under- stand by what fatality the natural and the vital have not been able to maintain themselves and have succumbed, while the animal still subsist. " 1 Begging Bordeu's pardon, nothing is easier to un- derstand. It was because Descartes introduced the animal spirits into his philosophy, and did not introduce the others. The fortune of the animal spirits in modern times depended entirely upon the philosophy of Descartes.
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