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He wrote in his monograph, "Exercitatio anatomica de
motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus": "I began to think there was a sort of
motion as in a circle. I afterwards found true, that the blood is pushed by the beat of
the left ventricle and distributed through the arteries to the whole body and back through
the veins to the vena cava and then returned to the right auricle, just as it is sent to
the lungs through the pulmonary artery from the right ventricle and returned from the
lungs through the pulmonary vein to the left ventricle, as previously described."
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