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printed in the Year MDLIII. he clearly asserts, that the Blood passes through the Lungs, from the Left to the Right Ventricle of the Heart; and not through the Partition which divides the two Ventricles, as was at that Time commonly believed. How he introduces it, or in which of the Six Discourses, into which Servetus divides his Book, it is to be found, I know not, having never seen the Book my self. Mr. Charles Bernard, a very learned and eminent Chirurgeon of London, who did me the Favour to communicate this Passage to me, (set down at length in the Margin) which was transcribed out of Servetus, could inform me no further, only that he had it from a learned Friend of his, who had himself copied it from Servetus.
(d) Duæ insunt cordi cavitates, h. e. ventriculi duo; ex his alter à dextris est: à sinistris alter; dexter sinistro multò est major; in dextro sanguis adest naturalis, ac vitalis in sinistro: illud autem observatu perpulchrum est, substantiam cordis dextrum ventriculum ambientem tenuem satis esse, sinistram vero crassam; & hoc tum æquilibrii causâ factum est, tum ne sanguis vitalis, qui tenuissimus est, extra resudaret. Inter hos ventriculos septum adest, per quod fere omnes existimant sanguini à dextro ad sinistrum aditum patesieri; id ut fiat facilius, in transiem ob vitalium spirituum generationem tenuem reddi: sed longâ errant viâ: nam sanguis per arteriosam vemam ad pulmonem fertur, ibique attenuatur; deinde cum aëre unà per arteriam venalem ad sinistrum cordis ventriculum defertur; quod nemo hactenus aut animadvertit, aut scriptum reliquit. Reald. Columb. Anat. lib. vii. p.325. Edit. Lut.Realdus Columbus, of Cremona, was the next that said any thing of it, in his Anatomy, printed at Venice, 1559. in Folio; and at Paris, in 1572. in Octavo; and afterwards elsewhere. There he asserts the same (d) Circulation through theLungs,
