Keywords:
Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
In Mechanization of the Heart: Harvey and Descartes Thomas Fuchs discusses the similarities and differences of the views of the two seventeenth-century scholars William Harvey and Rene Descartes on the beart and circulationof the blood; Fuch traces the reception of the two views in the medical literature of the time and the influence both views had.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (268 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781580466042
Series Statement:
Rochester Studies in Medical History Series ; v.1
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=3003542
DDC:
612.1/09/032
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- TRANSLATOR'S FOREWORD -- AUTHOR'S FOREWORD -- ABBREVIATIONS -- A. HARVEY AND DESCARTES -- I. THEME AND BACKGROUND OF THE INVESTIGATION -- II. SUMMARY OF THE ARGUMENT -- B. THE GALENIC PARADIGM AND ITS CRISIS -- I. FERNEL'S SUMMA OF GALENISM -- a) Corollary: The Doctrine of the Spirits -- II. THE CRISIS OF GALENISM -- C. THE VITAL ASPECT OF THE CIRCULATION: WILLIAM HARVEY -- I. THE SCIENCE OF THE LIVING -- II. DE MOTU CORDIS: THE MOTION OF HEART AND BLOOD -- a) The Motion of the Blood -- b) The Motion of the Heart -- 1. Basis of the Motion -- 2. Mechanism of the Motion -- c) The Function of the Circulation -- 1. Blood and Heat -- 2. Tendencies of Harvey's Physiology -- d) Conclusion -- III. DE MOTU LOCALI ANIMALIUM: THE MOVEMENT OF LIVING THINGS -- a) Calor and Spiritu -- b) Muscles and Nerves -- c) Sensus and Motus in Harvey's Later Works -- IV. DE GENERATIONE: THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CIRCULATION -- a) The Early Stages of Ontogenesis -- b) The Regularities of Development -- c) The Blood as Principle -- d) Circulatio and Generatio -- e) Summary: Cycle and Polarity -- D. THE MECHANICAL ASPECT OF THE CIRCULATION: DESCARTES AND HIS FOLLOWERS -- I. CIRCULATION AND PHYSIOLOGY IN DESCARTES -- a) Cartesian Science -- b) The Body without Soul -- c) The Physiological Mechanisms -- 1) Motion of Blood and Heart -- 2) The Movement of the Spirits -- d) Conclusion -- II. THE MOTION OF THE HEART AND BLOOD AFTER DESCARTES -- a) Holland -- 1) Henricus Regius -- 2) Cornelis van Hoghelande -- 3) Franciscus Sylvius -- 4) Theodor Craanen -- 5) Cornelis Bontekoe -- 6) Stephen Blancaard -- b) England -- 1) Early Writers -- 2) Thomas Willis -- 3) Richard Lower -- 4) John Mayow -- c) Other Writers: The Latency of the Vitalistic Aspect -- E. VITALISM AND MECHANISM BETWEEN 1700 AND 1850 -- F. A LOOK AHEAD -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF NAMES.
