| Note [18] | |
William Harvey n’écrivait certes pas un traité, mais une simple lettre. Ce qu’il disait était imprégné de son dernier livre sur la reproduction des animaux (v. supra note [16]), où il avait principalement étudié celle des poulets et des cervidés. On peine toutefois à suivre son raisonnement, à tel point que je suis allé regarder la traduction anglaise publiée en 1847 (v. supra note [2]), qui a un peu enjolivé le propos du très éminent maître (pages 608‑609) : Now it is a most certain fact (as I have shown elsewhere) that the embryos of all red-blooded animals are nourished by means of the umbilical vessels from the mother, and this in virtue of the circulation of blood. They are not nourished, however immediately by the blood, as many have imagined, but after the manner of the chick in ovo, which is first nourished by the albumen, and then by the vitellus, which is finally drawn into and included within the abdomen of the chick. All the umbilical vessels, however, are inserted into the liver, or at all events pass through it, even in those animals whose umbilical vessels enter the vena portæ, as in the chick, in which the vessels proceeding from the yelk always so terminate. In the selfsame way, therefore, as the chick is nourished from a nutriment (viz. the albumen and vitellus,) previously prepared, even so does it continue to be nourished through the whole course ot its independent existence. And the same thing, as I have elsewhere shown, is common to all embryos whatsoever : the nourishment mingled with the blood, is transmitted through their veins to the heart, whence moving on by the arteries, it is carried to every part of the body. |
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Jean Pecquet et la Tempête du chyle (1651-1655), édité par Loïc Capron. – Paris : Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de santé, 2018. –
Texte : Trois lettres de William Harvey sur les Experimenta nova anatomica de Jean Pecquet (1652-1655), note 18. Adresse permanente : https://numerabilis.u-paris.fr/editions-critiques/pecquet/?do=pg&let=1010&cln=18 (Consulté le 10/12/2025) |