What the Discovery of Blood Flow Can Teach Us About Science Itself with Dr. Dhun Sethna
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Blood Is the Infra Structure of the Body, Right?
The Greek theory of blood flow was that there is a life giving fluid within the body that ebbs and flows like the tide. And as an extension, they said that air also flows in the same way. So you have air actually pushing the blood back and flow. That became the standard model for physiology, the ebb and flow of blood, for 15 centuries until the time of harvey. The title of my book is the wine dark sea within. I think it its a great introduction to sort of briefly cover the the history of how how blood flows.
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