How to heal by nature's potent methods : a worthy counsellor in health, sickness, pain, and distress : a system of nature which reveals the correct laws of the moral and physical world for the pleasant perusal and profound study of everybody . ulsion,by which the entire circulation is carried on. The heart has two grand divisions, called right andleft ventricles. They have sometimes been called twohearts. They are separated by a wall of flesh which isimpervious. These two great divisions are dividedagain : each ventricle having a chamber divided off fromits upper part, called right and left au
How to heal by nature's potent methods : a worthy counsellor in health, sickness, pain, and distress : a system of nature which reveals the correct laws of the moral and physical world for the pleasant perusal and profound study of everybody . ulsion,by which the entire circulation is carried on. The heart has two grand divisions, called right andleft ventricles. They have sometimes been called twohearts. They are separated by a wall of flesh which isimpervious. These two great divisions are dividedagain : each ventricle having a chamber divided off fromits upper part, called right and left auricles. These fourare the divisions of the heart. In this figure, a denotesthe right auricle, b the left auricle, c the right ventricle,d the left ventricle. The principal blood-vessels of the heart are, the greatartery rising from the left ventricle, called aorta, whichforms an arch, e, and then passes down in front of thespine, and divides into two branches—one for each lowerlimb. An artery also rises from the right ventricle,called pulmonary artery, f, which divides to each principal veins are g and h, the great ascending anddescending vein, called vena cava, and the pulmonary 5i6 HOW TO HEAL PLATE IV. CIRCULATING ARTERIES. tfo. 2. VEINS. BY NATURES POTENT METHODS. 517 veins, which return the blood carried to the lungs bythe pulmonary arteries back to the heart again. The course of the blood is this : the nutrition of thefood, from which the blood is made, is taken up by thelacteals in the intestines, and deposited in the thoracicduct, and is emptied into the vein which passes alongthe left arm-pit. Thence it is carried into the greatvena cava, and emptied into the right auricle of theheart, thence into the right ventricle, through a valvelike that of a pump, which will not allow it to this venous, or dark blood, passes through thepulmonary artery into the lungs on each side, where itgives off a portion of its carbon, and takes in oxyg
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