Thursday, April 19, 2012

What is the heart & circulatory system?



As I have explored, and allowed for life, I have encountered time and again stops, walls. These were attended to sometimes by simply letting the wall be. I could be found sitting there for a bit, then moving through, over, around.  These walls that seemed to be there were not really so solid.  They were addressed  by lesser known or less mainstream theories, and persons.

See:
http://www.rsarchive.org/RelArtic/Marinelli/

 Excerpt of link:
"Introduction
The fact that the heart by itself is incapable of sustaining the circulation of the blood was known to physicians of antiquity. They looked for auxiliary forces of blood movement in various types of `etherisation' and `pneumatisation' or ensoulement of the blood on its passage through the heart and lungs. With the dawn of modern science and over the past three hundred years, such concepts became untenable. The mechanistic concept of the heart as a hydraulic pump prevailed and became firmly established around the middle of the nineteenth century.

The heart, an organ weighing about three hundred grams, is supposed to `pump' some eight thousand liters of blood per day at rest and much more during activity, without fatigue. In terms of mechanical work this represents the lifting of approximately 100 pounds one mile high! In terms of capillary flow, the heart is performing an even more prodigious task of `forcing' the blood with a viscosity five times greater than that of water through millions of capillaries with diameters often smaller than the red blood cells themselves! Clearly, such claims go beyond reason and imagination. Due to the complexity of the variables involved, it has been impossible to calculate the true peripheral resistance even of a single organ, let alone of the entire peripheral circulation. Also, the concept of a centralized pressure source (the heart) generating excessive pressure at its source, so that sufficient pressure remains at the remote capillaries, is not an elegant one..."
http://www.rsarchive.org/RelArtic/Marinelli
http://youtu.be/H4FM6yEbHLI

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