Physico-Theology: Or, a Demonstration of the Being And Attributes of God ...
Physico-Theology: Or, a Demonstration of the Being And Attributes of God ...
W William Derham
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BooklVI. as wbnderfol, as ihey are excellent ProviGons fof the Manner of thofe Animals living. But I ffaalt concent myftlt with bare Hints of thefe Things, and fpeak only of two Peculiars more, and that bac briefly. One is, the Situation of the Heart, which in Beafts is near the Middle of the whole Body ; in Man, nearer the Head (d). The Reafons of which I ihall give from one of the moft curious Anato- .mifls ot that Part (f% " feeing, faith he, the Tra- ** je6tton and Diftribution of the Blood... depends ** wholly on the Syftole of the Heart, an^ that its " I^iquor is not driven of its own Nature fo readily *' into the upper Parts as into Veflels even with it» *' or downwards into thofe under it: If the Situa- *' tion of the Heart had been farther from the Head, *' it muft needs either have been made ftrongcr to •* caft out its Liquor with greater Force j or elfe ** the Head would want its due Proportion of •* Bk)od. But in Animals that have a longer Neck, ^^ and which is extended towards their Food as it ^ were, the Heart is feated as far from the other ** Parts ; and they find no Inconvenience frdm it; ** becaufe they feed with their Head for the moft ^ part hanging down^ and fo the Blood, as it hath .^^ farther to go to their Head than in others, fo it •* goes a plainer and often a fteep Way f/)." The trUle oftht Hearty there was mat her ^ nuhickpenetraied into the Arteria Veoofa.
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