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The Works of William Harvey M.D.: Translated from the Latin with a life of the authorHarvey, William

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The Works of William Harvey M.D.: Translated from the Latin with a life of the author

Name: The Works of William Harvey M.D.: Translated from the Latin with a life of the author
Author: Harvey, William

Harvey, William

Blood -- Circulation -- Early works to 1800; Embryology -- Early works to 1800; Physiology -- Early works to 1800

ON ANIMAL GENERATION.

Wherefore we begin with the history of the hen’s egg                 169

Of the seat of generation                                            171

Of the upper part of the hen’s uterus, or the ovary                  172

Of the infundibulum                                                  179

Of the external portion of the uterus of the common fowl             180

Of the uterus of the fowl                                            190

Of the abdomen of the common fowl and of other birds                 195

Of the situation and structure of the remaining parts of the
fowl’s uterus                                                        198

Of the extrusion of the egg, or parturition of the fowl, in general  201

Of the increase and nutrition of the egg                             202

Of the covering or shell of the egg                                  204

Of the remaining parts of the egg                                    211

Of the diversities of eggs                                           216

Of the production of the chick from the egg of the hen               225

The first examination of the egg; or of the effect of the first
day’s incubation upon the egg                                        228

Second inspection of the egg                                         232

The third inspection of the egg                                      234

The fourth inspection of the egg                                     243

The fifth inspection of the egg                                      252

The sixth inspection                                                 256

The inspection after the tenth day                                   257

The inspection after the fourteenth day                              259

Of the exclusion of the chick, or the birth from the egg             264

Of twin-bearing eggs                                                 268

Certain deductions from the preceding history of the egg             270

Of the nature of the egg                                              ib.

The egg is not the product of the uterus, but of the vital
principle                                                            279

The egg is not produced without the hen                              284

Of the manner, according to Aristotle, in which a perfect and
fruitful egg is produced by the male and female fowl                 287

Of the uses of this disquisition on fecundity                        291

The egg is not produced by the cock and hen in the way Aristotle
would have it                                                        293

Nor in the manner imagined by physicians                             294

The male and the female are alike efficient in the business of
generation                                                           296

Of the matter of the egg, in opposition to the Aristotelians and
the medical writers                                                  297

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The Works of William Harvey M.D.: Translated from the Latin with a life of the author

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