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Title: A practical treatise on medical jurisprudence : with so much of anatomy, physiology, pathology, and the practice of medicine and surgery, as are essential to be known by members of Parliament, lawyers, coroners, magistrates, officers in the army and navy,
Year: 1834 (1830s)
Authors: Chitty, Joseph, 1776-1841
Subjects: Medical jurisprudence Anatomy Physiology
Publisher: London : H. Butterworth
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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tion. II. The Blood, and III. The mannerin which the Function of Circulation is performed, and its incidents. g^^^ J Section I.—The Organs and Parts concerned in the Function of Circa- ) The Organs of Nation are principally the Heart, with its Pericardium, and the Arteries,Circulation Capillaries and Veins. IN GENERAL. The Heart. The Heart is the central and principal organ of the function of Circula- tion, and indeed the main spring of all the other functions, for if the due (a) Some physiologists even consider thisFunction superior to, and more importantthan any other, especially those physiolo-gists who consider that diseases and theirremedies are principally connected with thestate of the blood, Parks Inquiries, 42 and 359, to the end. But as life cannot con-tinue for five minutes without Respiration,and without its perpetually renovating qua-lities, the blood would not circulate, 1 havetherefore treated respiration as the superior,ante, 92 to 123. P/^-fe/f^ .C/-»/^/7^. /2/ ■
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onStCn^-b.y n.•/!,in_ For ChMi\/fi- MsdicaX- Ji.n-<~» ORGANS OF CIRCULATION. Explanation of the opposite Plate No. IV., representing theTrunk and principal Vessels circulating the Blood ; viz., theHeart, and some of the principal Arteries, Veins, &c. First, above the Diaphragm, (a) 1. The right Auricle of the Heart. (6) 2. The right Ventricle, resting in part on the Diaphragm. 3. The Pulmonary Artery, (c) 3. 3. 3. 3. Its Branches, passing to the right and left Lobes, or parts of the Lungs. 4. The left Auricle. 5. The left Ventricle. 6. The Apex of the Heart, formed by the left Ventricle, which pulsates between the 5th and 6th Ribs, on the left side of the Sternum,removed from the Clavicles or Collar Bones above, to show thesituation of the heart. 7. The Aorta, which curves to the left, and is seen again at 1. 1. below the Diaphragm. 8. 8. The two Carotid Arteries, passing upwards to the Head. The Thrachea, Epiglottis, &c. are seen in the centre of the Thr

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