...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,...

...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...

...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...

...water works at London Bridge ; and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe, is inferi* our, in impetus and velocity, to the blood gushing from...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,...

...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...mind with wonder*." •The account which we have here staled, of the injection of blood into the arteries by the contraction, and of the corresponding reception...

...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,...

...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...

...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...corresponding reception of it from the veins by the dilation, of the cavities of the heart, and of the circulation being thereby maintained through the...

...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...

...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...