 | Great Britain - 1802 - 764 pages
...larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water works at London Bridge; and the water roaring ii) its passage through that pipe is inferior, in impetus...from the •whale's heart. Hear Dr. Hunter's Account ol the dissection of a whale. • The aorta measured a fool diame' tef. Ten or fifteen gallons of blood... | |
 | Samuel Parkes - Chemistry - 1807 - 382 pages
...The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the m;;in pipe of the water-works at London bridge; and the water roaring in its passage through that...velocity to the blood gushing from the whale's heart." According to Dr. Hunter, ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart uf a whale at... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1809 - 516 pages
...the aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main-pipe of the waterworks at London-bridge 0 , and the water roaring in its passage through that...velocity to the blood gushing from the whale's heart. The minute wonders of anatomy, though less striking, will, perhaps, appear still more curious and interesting... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 636 pages
...larger in the bore than the main-pipe of the water-works at London Bridge ; and the roaring in the passage through that pipe is inferior, in impetus...velocity, to the blood gushing from the whale's heart.' He cares not whence he fetches his illustrations, provided they are to the purpose. The lamina of the... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1810 - 498 pages
...water works at London Bridge ; and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe, is inferi* our, in impetus and velocity, to the blood gushing from...measured a foot diameter. Ten or fifteen gallons of blood is thrown out of the heart at a stroke with an immense velocity, through a tube of 3 foot diameter.... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1812 - 572 pages
...aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main-pipe of the water-works at Londonbridge d and that the water roaring in its passage through that pipe...velocity to the blood gushing from the whale's heart. The minute wonders of anatomy, though less striking, will, perhaps, appear still more curious and interesting... | |
 | American periodicals - 1830 - 504 pages
...main-pipe of the water-works at London Bridge, and that the water roaring in its passage through the pipe is inferior in. impetus and velocity to the blood gushing from a whale's heart. Dr. Hunter, in his account of the dissection of a whale, states that the aorta measured... | |
 | Natural history - 1822 - 192 pages
...great artery of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water works at London bridge ; and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe, is inferior in force and velocity to the blood gushing from the whale's iieart. The heart performs this office in... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 382 pages
...through the heart, every hour, four thousand ounces, or three hundred and fifty pounds of blood. Jsow the whole mass of blood is said to be about twenty-five...in impetus and velocity, to the blood gushing from tlic whale's heart. Hear Dr. Hunter's account of the dissection of a whale : — " The aorta measured... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 382 pages
...blood, equal to the whole mass of blood, passes through the heart fourteen times in one hour; which ia about once every four minutes.'' Consider what an...roaring in its passage through that pipe is inferior, in unpetus and velocity, to the blood gushing from the whale's heart. Hear Dr. Hunter's account of the... | |
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The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water-works at London Bridge ; and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe is inferior, in impetus and velocity, to the blood gushing from the whale's heart. 
