Essays on several parts of the animal oeconomy / By James Keill.

London : Printed for George Strahan, 1738.

xlviii, 295 pages : illustrations ; (8vo.)

The Fourth ed /

Medicina statica Britannica has special t.p

Partial contents: essay 1. Of the quantity of blood in the human body -- essay 2. Of the velocity of the blood -- essay 3. Of the force of the heart in driving the blood through the whole body -- A dissertation concerning the force of the heart / by James Jurin -- essay 4. Of animal secretion -- essay 5. Of muscluar motion -- disquisition, the first. An obstructed perspiration is not the cause of catching cold -- disquisition, the second. Of the attracting force of an animated body.

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