_Circulation of the Blood_ (Vol. ii., p. 475.).--Having recently had
occasion to look into the works of Bede, I have found, in lib. iv., _De
Elementis Philosophiae_, the passage which was the subject of my Query.
Though not strictly in accordance with the established fact of the
circulation of the blood, it will yet be allowed to be a near
approximation to it. It is as follows:--
"Sanguine in epate generato, per venas ad omnia transit membra,
calore quorum digestus, in eorum similitudinem transit:
superfluitas, vero, partim per sudorem exit, alia vero pars ad
epar revertitur, ibi decocta cum urina exit descendens, sedimenque
vocatur; sed si in fundo sit urinae dicitur hypostasis; si in
medio, eneortim: si in summo nephile."--_Bedae Opera_, vol. ii. p.
339., ed. Basiliae, MDLXIII.