 ... as a means of discovering the motions and uses of the heart, and sought to discover these from actual inspection, and not from the writings of others, I found the task so truly arduous, so full of difficulties, that I was almost tempted to think,...  A Catechism of vivisection - Page 47by Edward Berdoe - 1903 - 181 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Rutherfurd Russell - 1861 - 646 pages
...task so truly arduous, so full of difficulties, that I was almost tempted to think, with Fracastorius, that the motion of the heart was only to be comprehended by God ; for I could neither rightly perceive, at first, when the systole and diastole took place, nor when... | |
 | sir William Withey Gull (1st bart.) - 1870 - 60 pages
...task," he says, " so truly arduous, so full of difficulties, that I was almost tempted to think .... that the motion of the heart was only to be comprehended by God. For I could neither rightly perceive at first when the systole and when the diastole took place, nor... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1877 - 1178 pages
...task so truly arduous, so full of difficulty, that I was almost tempted to think with Fracastorius, that the motion of the heart was only to be comprehended by God." And then a little farther on — "At length, and by using greater and daily diligence, having frequent... | |
 | 1877 - 924 pages
...outset he regarded ''as so full of difficulties! that he was almost tempted to think with Fracastorius that the motion of the heart was only to be comprehended by God.'1 It will be interesting to the Fellows of this College, no less than to the world of science... | |
 | W. Gimson Gimson - 1879 - 174 pages
...discover these secrets, let us be, not almost (to use Harvey's words), but quite tempted to think, " that the motion of the heart was only to be comprehended by God." Long before the discovery of Harvey, the diseases and injuries of the circulating system had engaged... | |
 | 1880 - 560 pages
...task so truly arduous, so full of difficulty, that I was almost tempted to think, with Fracastorius, that the motion of the heart was only to be comprehended by God. For I could neither rightly perceive at first when the systole and when the diastole took place, nor... | |
 | William Harvey - 1889 - 202 pages
...task so truly arduous, so full of difficulties, that I was almost tempted to think, with Fracastorius, that the motion of the heart was only to be comprehended by God. For I could neither rightly perceive at first when the systole and when the diastole took place, nor... | |
 | 1906 - 422 pages
...So conflicting were these views that, as Harvey quaintly tells us, he was "almost tempted to think that the motion of the heart was only to be comprehended by God." He performed experiments, resorted to vivisection (though he was a lover of animals), studied the researches... | |
 | Sir D'Arcy Power - 1897 - 326 pages
...the heart must be examined whilst it is alive ; but he says, " I found the task so truly arduous and so full of difficulties that I was almost tempted to think with Fracastorius that the movement of the heart was only to be comprehended by God. For I could neither... | |
 | 1897 - 328 pages
...192 heart must be examined whilst it is alive ; but he says, " I found the task so truly arduous and so full of difficulties that I was almost tempted to think with Fracastorius that the movement of the heart was only to be comprehended by God. For I could neither... | |
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