AN ANATOMICAL DISQUISITION

ON THE

CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD

TO

JOHN RIOLAN, Jun., of Paris

A MOST SKILFUL PHYSICIAN; THE CORYPHÆUS OF ANATOMISTS REGIUS PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY AND BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS; DEAN OF THE SAME UNIVERSITY AND FIRST PHYSICIAN TO THE QUEEN MOTHER OF LOUIS XIII.

BY WILLIAM HARVEY, AN ENGLISHMAN

PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY AND SURGERY IN THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON; AND PRINCIPAL PHYSICIAN TO HIS MOST SERENE MAJESTY THE KING.

Cambridge, 1649.