 | Books and bookselling - 1788 - 588 pages
...that probably ten or fifteen gallons of blood are throws out at one irroke, and moved with an immenfe velocity through a tube of a foot diameter, the whole idea fills the mind with wonder. The membranous portion of the poflerior noitrils is one canal ; but when in the bon/ part, in mod of them,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1802 - 764 pages
...dissection of a whale. • The aorta measured a fool diame' tef. Ten or fifteen gallons of blood 4 is thrown out of the heart at a • stroke, with an immense velocity, ' through a lube of a foot Diameter.' The whole idea fills the mind with wonder." /. 164—166. The communication... | |
 | Samuel Parkes - Chemistry - 1807 - 382 pages
...heart." According to Dr. Hunter, ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart uf a whale at a stroke, with an immense velocity, through a tube...diameter. The whole idea fills the mind with wonder. See Dr. Hunter'<Bccount of the disjection of a whale* in the Philosophical Transactions. " It was necessary... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1810 - 498 pages
...inferi* our, in impetus and velocity, to the blood gushing from the whale's heart. Hear Dr. Hunter's account of the dissection of a whale. " The aorta...stroke with an immense velocity, through a tube of 3 foot diameter. The whole idea fills the mind with wonder."* The account which we have here stated,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1830 - 504 pages
...whale, states that the aorta measured a foot in diameter, and that ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a stroke with an immense velocity, through a tube of a foot diameter. It has been well observed, that we cannot be sufficiently grateful that all our vital motions are involuntary,... | |
 | Arminianism - 1840 - 1122 pages
...the dissection of a whale : " The aorta measured a foot diameter. Ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a stroke, with an immense velocity, through a tube of a foot in diameter. The whole idea fills the mind with wonder.'^ Observe these facts, we repeat, and what... | |
 | 1824 - 528 pages
...heart." According to Dr. Hunter, ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart of a whale at a stroke, with an immense velocity, through a tube of a foot diameter. The whole ideafillsthemind with wonder.' See Dr. Hunter's account of the dissection of a whale, in the Philosophical... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 382 pages
...of the heart at a stroke, with an immense velo;;ity, throughatube of a foot diameter. The whole ulea fills the mind with wonder."* The account which we have here stated, of thn injection of blood into the arteries by the contraciion, and of the corresponding reception of... | |
 | Technology - 1825 - 428 pages
...heart." According to Dr. Hunter, ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart of a whale at a stroke, with an immense velocity, through a tube...diameter. The whole idea fills the mind with wonder. See Dr Hunter's account of the dissection of a whale, in the Philosophical Transactions. " It was necessary... | |
 | Legacy - Women - 1827 - 332 pages
...dissection of a whale: — "The aorta measured afoot diameter. Ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a stroke with an immense...diameter. The whole idea fills the mind with wonder." Four cavities become necessary ; and four are accordingly provided : two, called ventricles, which... | |
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Hunter's account of the dissection of a whale: — The aorta measured a foot diameter. Ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a stroke, with an immense velocity, through a tube of a foot diameter. The whole idea fills the mind... 
