Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen
Chapter I
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In order to explain dispersal of food from alimentary
canal _viâ_ the veins (_anadosis_) there is no need to
invoke with Erasistratus, the _horror vacui_, since here
again the principle of specific attraction is operative;
moreover, blood is also driven forward by the
compressing action of the stomach and the contractions
of the veins. Possibility, however, of Erasistratus's
factor playing a certain minor _rôle_.
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