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grbs-15193	Salas, Luis Alejandro	Fighting with the Heart of a Beast: Galen’s Use of the Elephant’s Cardiac Anatomy against Cardiocentrists	2014	30	.pdf	application/pdf	11910	526	63	Julius Rocca argues persuasively that Galen posits at least one other structure theoretically important to his human physiology and psychology by analogy from the ox, namely the retiform plexus (rete mirabile).9 Given his regular and frequent use of ruminants for anatomical research, Galen would also have been well acquainted with the os cordis in oxen and sheep. Here and at AA II 620, Galen treats hearts as structurally and functionally analogous across air-breathing creatures, which are themselves coextensive with the class of creatures Galen and Aristotle call “blooded” (ta enaima).23 The viscera that are identical across species are structurally identical although they need not be materially so.	cache/grbs-15193.pdf	txt/grbs-15193.txt