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262 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
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pondently with respiration ; so that when the lungs shrink
in expiration, the brain rises a little ; but when the chest
expands, it again subsides : and another discovery of Dr.
Wilson, concerning the vacuum which takes place when
the blood is expelled from the contracted cavities, into
which vacuum, according to the common laws of deriva
tion, the neighbouring blood must rush, being prevented,
by means of the valves, from regurgitating."
"We find, (says the same author, at p. 456,) that
Swedenborg, after having guaged the height and depth of
physics ; after having carried the physical facts of his day
to the last psssible deductions, turning his attention to the
human microcosm. He mastered the whole of the ana
tomical materials necessary for his purposes ; and now
proceeded to construct a grand system of physiology.
Here we see the same unity and precision as in his
previous works, and the same serial character and relation
in his proceedings ; his physical man is an exactly-fitted
inhabitant of his finite universe ; organ is adapted to
object and object to organ, and the world within and the
world without are in kindly and indispensable relation.
In his Economia Regni Animalist he gives his analysis
of the blood-globule -a mechanical and geometrical
analysis-building up on it, as a basis, the structures
and functions of all the sanguineous organs. Beginning
from a knowledge of the blood, he holds in his hand the
end and principle of all the fabrics which generate that
fluid ; seeing their uses from an almost prothetic point of
vision. Here he also commences to treat of the motions
of the human body ; a subject of which, indeed, he may
be considered the discoverer. He demonstrates that the
brain has a respiratory motion, a rising and falling, syn
The author of An Inquiry into the Moving Power’s employed in
the Circulation of the Blood.
+ Swedenborg’s three great scientific works, the Principia,
Economia Regni Animalis, and Regnum Animale, are, we under
stand, already in English, and will be published almost imme
diately, seriatim. Unhappily, however, a large number of his
physiological treatises, as those on the internal ear and the
organs of generation, are yet in manuscript, and in imminent
peril of destruction.
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