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Title: Theory of Circulation by Respiration
Synopsis of its Principles and History

Author: Emma Willard

Release Date: August 15, 2006 [EBook #19053]

Language: English

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THEORY

OF

CIRCULATION BY RESPIRATION.

SYNOPSIS OF ITS PRINCIPLES AND HISTORY.

WRITTEN, BY REQUEST,
FOR THE "U. S. JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY,"
BY EMMA WILLARD.

NEW-YORK:
FRANCIS HART & CO. PRINTERS AND STATIONERS, 63 CORTLANDT STREET.
1861.

THEORY

OF

CIRCULATION BY RESPIRATION.

SECTION I.

First step in the discovery--Animal Heat the product of Respiration.
Second step--Heat evolved in the lungs by Respiration there produces
Expansion. Third step--Expansion; implied motion, which from the
organism must conduct the blood to the left ventricle of the Heart.
Theory imperfect, until the formation of sufficient vapor or steam
in the lungs is perceived and acknowledged.

TO DR. MARCY.--In complying with your request to write for your journal
an article embodying my theory of the motive powers which produce the
circulation of the blood, together with some account of its rise and
progress, I obey what I regard as a call of duty; and thus requested, do
it with pleasure.

But my theory, with its history, cannot thus be written without egotism.
Logicians say, that the way to convince others is to retrace, in order,
the steps by which you yourself became convinced, which is to be
egotistic. But in this case, ther