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 GENERAL INDEX.

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��Jugular vein of fallow deer, division of, to show the course of the con- tained Wood, 126.

Knowledge, manner and order of acquir- ing, 154; according to ARIS- TOTLE, 158.

Lacteals, HARVEY refers to the, 604. and lymphatics, HARVEY refers 'to, and finds various objections against the, 613 ; excuses himself from standing umpire in the con- troversy concerning, in his letter to HORST, 613 ; and from at- tempting to sdlve the problem of the use of the newly-discovered vessels, 615.

LAUREXTIUS quoted, 18.

Letters of HARVEY, 593 et seq.

Life, resides in the blood, 376.

Ligature of spermatic artery in a case of sarcocele, 254.

Ligatures on limbs cause the veins to rise, by preventing the return of the blood impelled into them by the arteries, 55.

Liquor amnii, observations on the, 434. may be swallowed and serve the foetus for nourishment, 438.

Liver, its ready permeability by the

blood, 41.

shown to be produced from the blood, 254.

Loves, &c., of animals, HARVEY pro- mises a treatise on the, 195.

Lymphatics. See Lacteals.

Magnifying glass, HARVEY uses one to discover the punctum saliens, 235.

Medical observations, HARVEY refers to his, 129.

Membranes and humours of the uterus generally, 551 ; of the humours, 557; of the membranes, 560; of the placenta, 563.

Mesentery, RIOLAN'S denial of a circula- tion in the vessels of the, 92 et seq. experiment on the vessels of, pro- posed, 141.

a circulation in the vessels of the, proved by experiment, 141.

Mesometrium of the fowl, 200.

Metamorphosis, of generation by, 338.

Moisture, of the primigenial, 513.

MORISON, R., Letter to, 604.

MONTGOMERY, Viscount, case of, 382.

NARDI, John, letters to, 603, 610, 615. Nutrition, remarks on, 96.

��Nutrition, {continued.)

on the, of the chick in ovo, and also

of the embryo generally, 434. Ossa pubis, frequently loosened in la- bour, 437. Ova, reflections on the small size of, 320.

aborted human, observations on, 420. Ovary, of the hen's, 172.

of frogs, crustaceans, fishes, &c., 1 75. Ovum, diversities of ova, 216.

all animals arise from eggs, 456.

PARISANUS, on the chick, 227.

PARR, Thomas, examination of the body of, 587.

Parrot, HARVEY refers to a pet, belong- ing to his wife, 186.

Parturition, on, 521.

HARVEY'S view of the immediate

cause of, 531. FABRICIUS'S account of the manner

of, 532 ; HARVEY'S, 533. case of, where twins were produced, and the mother walked 12 miles afterwards, 547.

PECCIUET, HARVEY speaks of the dis- covery by, of the receptaculum chyli, 604. See Lacteals.

Penis of some birds, 185.

Placenta, of the, 563.

Poisons, morbid, how they affect the system, 71.

Primordium, of the, whence all animals are derived, 554.

Punctum saliens in the egg, first seen

after 3 days of incubation, 235. of the embryo deer, HARVEY shows

to the King, 485.

first visible about the 19th or 20th November ; the embryo becomes visible on the 21st, 486.

Pulmonary veins, were held to convey air from the lungs to the heart, 16.

Pulse, transmitted through vessels whose walls are converted into bone, 112.

Pulsific power does not reside in the coats of the artery, but in the wave of blood impelled by the heart, 111.

Respiration, some observations on the,

of the foetus, 530. RIOI,AN, J., quoted on the motions of

the heart, 26. his idea of the motion of the

blood, 90. the first anatomical disquisition on

the circulation addressed to, 89 ;

the second disquisition, 109. Rutting of deer, 474.

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