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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
blood_n	artery_n	heart_n	vein_n	9,504	5	10.0908	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48701	A journey to Paris in the year 1698 by Dr. Martin Lister.	Lister, Martin, 1638?-1712.	1699 (1699)	Wing L2525; ESTC R14927	102,964	264

my Lord Ambassador's Retinue to see Mr. Bennis who was in the Dissecting Room working by himself upon a Dead Body with his Breast and Belly gutted There were very odd things to be seen in the Room My Companion it being morning and his Senses very quick and vigorous was strangely surprised and offended and retired down the Stairs much faster than he came up And indeed a private Anatomy Room is to one not accustomed to this kind of Manufacture very irksome if not frightful Here a Basket of Dissecting Instruments as Knives Saws c. And there a Form with a Thigh and Leg flayed and the Muscles parted asunder On another Form an Arm served after the same manner Here a Trey full of Bits of Flesh for the more minute Discovery of the Veins and Nerves and every where such discouraging Objects So as if Reason and the good of Mankind did not put Men upon this Study it could not be endured for Instinct and Nature most certainly abhors the Employment Monsieur Merrie I saw Monsieur Merrie a most painful and accurate Anatomist and free and communicative Person at his House Rue de la Princesse His Cabinet consisted of two Chambers In the outward were great variety of Skeletons also entire Preparations of the Nerves in two of which he shewed me the mistake of Willis and from thence gathered that he was not much used to Dissect with his own Hand The Pia Mater coating the Spinal Nerves but half way down the Back where it ends The Dura Mater coating the lowermost 20 pair which Willis as he said has otherwise reported But that which much delighted my Curiosity was the Demonstration of a blown and dried Heart of a Foetus also the Heart of a Tortoise In the Heart of a Foetus he shewed it quite open and he would have it that there was no Valve to the Foramen Ovale which seem'd equally open from the Left Ventricle to the Right as the contrary that it's Diameter well near equalled that of the Aorta That the two Arteries which ascend up into the two Lobes of the Lungs and are the Ramifications of the Pulmonick Artery after it has parted with the Canal of Communication which goes betwixt the Pulmonick Artery and the lower or descending Branch of the Aorta both put together far exceed if not double the Diameter of the Aorta it self He therefore not without good Reason assirms That of all the Blood which the Vena Cava pours into the Right Ventricle of the Heart and is thence in a Foetus forced up into the Pulmonick Artery a great part is carried by the Canal of Communication into the descending Trunk of the Aorta and is so circulated about the Body the Lungs as to that part being wholly slighted Also that of the two remaining thirds of the Blood which is carried about the Lungs when it comes down the Pulmonick Vein that which cannot be received by the Aorta and all cannot because the Aorta is much less than the two Branches of the Pulmonick Artery put together is therefore discharged back through the Foramen Ovale into the Right Ventricle of the Heart and so thrown up again with the rest of the Blood coming from the Vena Cava So that one part of the two remaining parts of the Blood is daily carried about the Body as in an Adult Foetus and a third part only Circulates in the Lungs passing by the Body or Grand Circulation That all this is done to abbreviate and reduce the Circulation to a lesser compass is certain and so for the same Reason and End that other lesser Circulation of the Liver is slighted by the Blood which returns from the Placenta by a Canal of Communication betwixt the Porta and the Vena Cava The Reason he gives of this I cannot at all allow of as being very ill grounded and therefore I shall not trouble my self to Confute or so much as Name it As for the Heart of the Land Tortoise it was preserved in Spirit of Wine and all the three Ventricles thereof slit and opened so that I had not all the Satisfaction I could have wisht but the Left Ventricle in this Animal had no Artery belonging to it but did receive only the Blood which descended from the Lungs and convey it by the Foramen Ovale into the Right Ventricle That the third or middle Ventricle was only an Appendix to the Right and had the Pulmonick Artery issuing from it So that the Blood in a Tortois was in a manner Circulated like that in a Foetus through the Body the Lungs as it were or in good part slighted This Thought of Monsieur Merrie's has made a great Breach betwixt Monsieur Verney and himself for which Reason I had not that freedom of Conversation as I could have wisht with both of them but 't is to be hoped there may come good from an honest Emulation Two English Gentlemen came to Visit me Mr. Bennis and Mr. Probie They were lodged near the Royal Garden where Monsieur Verney dwells and makes his Anatomies who in Three Months time shewed all the Parts of the Body to them He had for this purpose at least Twenty Human Bodies from the Gallows the Chatelet where those are expos'd who are found Murthered in the Streets which is a very common business at Paris and from the Hospitals They told me Monsieur Verney pretended to shew them a Valve which did hinder Blood from falling back into the Right Ventricle by the Foramen Ovale This Valve they said he compared to the Papillae in the Kidneys Musculous and Fleshy That if Wind was blown into the Vena Pulmonalis it did not pass through the Foramen Ovale but stop there by reason of the Valve That he did believe contrary to Mr. Merrie that no Blood did circulate through the Lungs in an Embrio Again in another Conversation with Monsieur Merrie he shewed me the blown Hearts of an Embrio and that of a Girl of 7 years old I saw clearly that the Skin of the supposed Valve of the Foramen Ovale was as it were suspended with two Ligaments And that in the Girl 's the two sides of the Foramen Ovale were drawn one over the other and so closed the hole but were easily to be separated again by a Bristle thrust betwixt them Also it seemed to me that this Membrane in an Embrio might cover the Foramen Ovale like the Membrana Nictans in a Brids Eye that is be drawn over it and so hinder the Ingress of the Blood from the Vena Cava as oft as the Right Auricle beats But the Dilating it self might give way to the descending Blood of the Vena Pulmonalis and possibly the Embrio living as it were the Life of an Insect can by this Artifice Command the Heart I remember in Discourse that day with him he told me That Monsieur Verney had an old Cat and a young Kitling just Born put into the Air-Pump before the Academie