The Physiology of Man: Introduction. The blood. Circulation. Respiration

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D. Appleton, 1866
 

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Página 171 - ... the course of the blood through the lungs, from the right to the left side of the heart. This...
Página 240 - The vent-art (semilunar) valves are closed by back pressure in the aorta and pulmonary artery. But the pressure of the blood in the ventricles is so much greater that the...
Página 192 - That the heart is erected, and rises upwards to a point, so that at this time it strikes against the breast and the pulse is felt externally.
Página 1 - THE PHYSIOLOGY OF MAN. Designed to represent the Existing State of Physiological Science as applied to the Functions of the Human Body.
Página 411 - ... make the Bloud pass through the Lungs out of the right ventricle of the heart to the left, or to reduce the thicker venal blood into thinner and finer parts ; and affirming, That there is something in the Air, absolutely necessary to life, which is conveyed into the Bloud; which, whatever it be, being exhausted, the rest of the air is made useless, and no more fit for Respiration. Where yet he doth not exclude this use, That with the expelled Air, the vapors also, steaming out of the Bloud, are...
Página 186 - We also particularly observed the movements of the heart, viz., that in the diastole it was retracted and withdrawn : whilst in the systole it emerged and protruded : and the systole of the heart took place at the moment the diastole or pulse in the wrist was perceived ; to conclude, the heart struck the walls of the 247 chest and became prominent at the time it bounded upwards and underwent contraction on itself.

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