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Lation of the Blood

-Though no shining sun, nor twinkling star Bedeck'd the crimson curtains of the sky; Though neither vegetable, beast, nor bird, Were extant on the surface of this ball, Nor lurking gem beneath; though the great sea Slept in profound stagnation, and the air Had left no thunder to pronounce its Maker:

Yet MAN at home, within himself might find The Deity immense, and in that frame So fearfully, so wonderfully made!

See and adore his providence and power.

Smart.

With what admirable skill and inimitable structure is formed that muscular body, situated within the cavity of the chest, and called the human heart! Its figure is somewhat conical, and it is externally divided into two parts: the base, which is uppermost, and attached to vessels; and the apex, which is loose and pointing to the left side, against which it seems to beat. Its substance is muscular, being composed of fleshy fibres, interwoven with each other. It is divided internally into cavities, called auricles and ventricles; from which vessels proceed to convey the blood to the different parts of the body. The ventricles are situated in the substance of the heart, and are separated from each other by a thick muscular substance; they are divided into right and left, and each communicates with its adjoining auricle, one of which is situated on each side the base of the heart. The right auricle receives the blood from the head and superior parts of the body, by means of a large vein; and in the same manner the blood is returned to it from the inferior parts, by all the veins emptying their stores into one, which terminates in this cavity; which, having received a sufficient portion of blood, contracts, and by this motion empties itself into the right ventricle, which also contracting, propels the blood into an artery, which immediately conveys it into the lungs, where