The Evolution of Modern Medicine

Renew：Part 15
Author：William Osler
Update：08-15-2023
Tags：History
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Chapter List

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter IV) at Padua.
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter IV, in which he describes the movements of the auricles and ventricles, is a model of accurate description, to which little has since been added. It is interesting to note that he mentions what is probably auricular fibrillation. He says: "After the heart had ceased pulsating an undulation or palpitation remained in the blood itself which was contained in the right auricle, this being observed so long as it was imbued with heat and spirit." He recognized too the importance of the auricles as the first to move and the last to die. The accuracy and vividness of Harvey"s description of the motion of the heart have been appreciated by generations of physiologists. Having grasped this first essential fact, that the heart was an organ for the propulsion of blood, he takes up in Chapters VI and VII the question of the conveyance of the blood from the right side of the heart to the left. Galen had already insisted that some blood pa.s.sed from the right ventricle to the lungs--enough for their nutrition; but Harvey points out, with Colombo, that from the arrangement of the valves there could be no other view than that with each impulse of the heart blood pa.s.ses from the right ventricle to the lungs and so to the left side of the heart. How it pa.s.sed through the lungs was a problem: probably by a continuous transudation. In Chapters VIII and IX he deals with the amount of blood pa.s.sing through the heart from the veins to the arteries. Let me quote here what he says, as it is of cardinal import:
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Chapter 15