Book 2 — Chapter I
Arthur John Brock translation
Chapter I
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.