Blood
In Our Time
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The Non-Materialist Nature of Blood
Aristotelian ways of thinking would suggest that the body is also mirroring in some way the world. But nobody comes up before the 17th century with an idea of circulation of the blood, as you say. Galenic views of the blood are essentially a one-way flow, but it's not a circular flow. It's very difficult for us to put our finger on it, but whether it's some sort of sense of the soul, it's a kind of notion of what it is that makes us human, it resides in some way in the blood. Blood turns into menstrual blood and women when their pregnant turn into milk. So blood is actually just the beginning of a
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