In the medical world this phrase, The Law of the Heart, means the great discovery by Professor Ernest Henry Starling of the precise method by which the heart accelerates and retards itself through the heart muscle; also the manner in which it accomplishes the vital twoway exchange of fluids between the bloodstream and the body tissues.
, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, , But on the viewless wings of Poesy, , Though the dull brain perplexes and retards , Already with thee!