What the Discovery of Blood Flow Can Teach Us About Science Itself with Dr. Dhun Sethna
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The Impossibility Galen's Hypothesis and the Reality of in the Valve
If the heart's moving 500 and forty pounds of blood every hour, then only way it could be possible is if we were both eating and excreting 500 forty pounds worth of ass every single hour. Putting those two together, he figured out that e enoug blood has to be going from the arteries into the veins. He also did a few ligature experiments where he tied a ligature on the arm. And in fish, when he looked at the the eorta and the vina capa, which are the two big vessels in the centre of the belly. So putting it altogether is circulation was inevitable.
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