Excerpt from Criticon Febrium, or a Critical Essay on Fevers: With the Diagnosticks and Methods of Cure, in All the Different Species of Them; To Which Is Prefix'd, a Large Introduction Concerning the Use and Abuse of the Mathematicks in Physick, and the Basis on Which Indications Are Founded<br><br>Hence 5tis concluded, that the Blood, in our Arte ries and Veins, prelfes downwards and fidewife, or, as the learned Bellini has it, the Blood's Motion is Longitudinal and Latitudinal. From this lateral Pref fure it happens that our Velléls are Circular, and as the Velfels are of that Form, all their Ramifications are of a fimilar Shape, and-as the Glands are only Complications or Conrorfions of Arteries, they are of the fame Shape, and therefore alfo are their Orifices.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.