 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...animals. 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. It has been shown, by a variety of experiments, that the blood perpetually receives oxygen gas from... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - 1845 - 510 pages
...that the aorta of a whale he 117 dissected measured a foot across. 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. You did not say, how much fat they get from the whale. They very often fill from seventy to eighty... | |
 | William Paley - Natural history - 1849 - 306 pages
...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...The whole idea fills the mind with wonder." * [The force with which the human heart expels the arterial blood, may be demonstrated by the simple experiment... | |
 | 1849 - 442 pages
...the dissection of a whale, the aorta measured a foot in diameter. Ten or fifteen gallons of blood arc 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. The places where this whale is now most sought... | |
 | William Paley - Natural history - 1851 - 492 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...foot diameter. The whole idea fills the mind with wonder."f The account which we have here stated, of the injection of blood into the arteries by the... | |
 | William Paley - 1851 - 766 pages
...dissection of a whale : — " The aorta measured a foot diameter. Ten or fifteen gallons of Mood are virtuously brought up to lead a godly and Christian life ; remembering always, that ba di. ameter. The whole idea fills the mind with wonder."* The account which we have here stated, of... | |
 | William Paley - Natural history - 1854 - 442 pages
...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 v. of a foot diameter. The whole idea fills the mind with won-1 der."* The account which we have here... | |
 | William Paley - Natural history - 1857 - 442 pages
...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...wonder."* The account which we have here stated, of the injectftn of blood into the arteries by the contraction, and of the corresponding reception of it from... | |
 | American literature - 1867 - 588 pages
...ourselves that, probably, ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out at a single stroke, and moved with an immense velocity through a tube of a foot...diameter, the whole idea fills the mind with wonder." Paley compared the aorta of a whale, with the blood rushing through it, to the water passing through... | |
 | House - Physiology - 1869 - 210 pages
...dissection of a whale, says, " The aorta measured a foot diameter. Ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a stroke, with an immense...whole idea fills the mind with wonder." ' The account here given will not convey to a reader ignorant of anatomy, anything like an accurate notion of the... | |
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The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water works at London Bridge ; and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe, is inferior, in impetus and velocity, to the blood gushing from the whale's heart. 
