“ Good God! how should the mitral valves prevent the regurgitation of air and not of blood? ”
The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth depends, from which all power proceeds.
~ William Harvey
Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.
I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.
