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��GENERAL INDEX.

��Generation, anatomical exercises on, 143. ideas of physiologists on, 151. mode of procedure in studying, 163. seat or place where it occurs, 171. the male and female of like efficiency

in, 296. how it takes place from the egg, 323 ;

the same subject continued, 325. of the chick, efficient cause of the,

340.

all derived from the Creator, 369. of the order of, and of the primary

genital particle, 372. this is the blood, 373. on the order in which the parts are

produced according to FABRI-

cius, 397 ; to ARISTOTLE, 407 ;

as they appear from observation,

414. of certain paradoxes connected with,

426.

of viviparous animals, 461. ARISTOTLE'S definition of, 272.

HARVEY, life of, xvii.

his will, Ixxxix.

his treatment of his opponents, 109.

injunctions on the subject of prose- cuting inquiries in natural science, 152 et seq.

speaks of the loss of his furniture

and papers, 481.

Heart, its systole and diastole always associated with the respiratory movements by preceding physio- logists, 9.

motions of the, 21.

is diminished in all its diameters when it contracts, 21.

has no power of drawing or sucking

. in the blood, 23.

and its auricles, motions of the, 26.

the primum vivens, ultimum mo- riens, 29.

its action, compared to the process of deglutition, 32.

always has auricles or some part analogous to, 30.

and lungs, their intimate connexion, the cause of much difficulty and error to the old physiologists, 33.

acts like a muscle, contracting and putting in motion its charge of blood, 70.

is the sole propeller of the blood, 70.

structure of the, in different tribes of animals, confirms the occur- rence of a circulation of the blood, 75.

��Heart, (continued.)

has only one ventricle in some ani- mals, 77.

is a muscle, and moves its charge of blood, 82.

is styled a muscle by HIPPOCRATES, 82.

enlarged, case of, 127.

of the, as the source of the heat, perfection, motion, &c., of the blood, 136.

is the fountain and origin of all things in the body, 137.

dilatation of the, due to the innate heat, 137.

does not give heat to the blood like a chauffer, 137.

observations on the motion of the fish's, 139.

its office stated to be the propulsion of the blood, 374.

is insensible, 382.

case in which it could be touched, 382.

the primigenial part, 409. Heat, innate, of the, as cause of the heart's pulsations, 137, 138.

innate, of the, 501.

innate, identical with the blood, 508,

510. Hen, of the, in particular, 313.

discussion on the manner in which she is impregnated, 313; HAR- VEY ascribes this to a conta- gion, 315.

sense in which she may be called the prime efficient, 318.

parturition of the, 319.

in how far is she efficient in the production of the egg, and why is the male required, 300. Hermaphrodite, case of alleged, 185. HOFMANN, Caspar, letter to, 595. Homoeomerism, doctrine of, 409. HORST, J. D., letters to, 612, 613.

Impregnation, HARVEY'S idea of, 190 et

seq. of the whole of the more mature

yelks in the ovary by one contact

of the cock, 191. experiment on, 194. Incubation, effect of the 1st day of, on

the egg, 228 ; 2d day, 232 ;

3d day, 234 ; 4th day, &c. Infundibulum, or second portion of the

uterus of the hen, 179. Intercourse, sexual, of the common fowl,

&c., 186.

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