And every person who
has seen a recently killed animal opened knows that these two kinds of
tubes to which I have just referred, are connected with an apparatus
which is placed in the chest, which apparatus, in recently killed
animals, is still pulsating. And you know that in yourselves you can
feel the pulsation of this organ, the heart, between the fifth and
sixth ribs. I take it that this much of anatomy and physiology has
been known from the oldest times, not only as a matter of curiosity,
but because one of the great objects of men, from their earliest
recorded existence, has been to kill one another, and it was a matter
of considerable importance to know which was the best place for hitting
an enemy. I can refer you to very ancient records for most precise and
clear information that one of the best places is to smite him between
the fifth and sixth ribs. Now that is a very good piece of regional
anatomy, for that is the place where the heart strikes in its
pulsations, and the use of smiting there is that you go straight to the
heart.
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