With all

animals that are furnished with these parts, the parts
are similarly situated, and with the exception of man, the heart is in
the middle; in man, however, as has been observed, the heart is placed
a little to the left-hand side. In all animals the pointed end of
the heart turns frontwards; only in fish it would at first sight
seem otherwise, for the pointed end is turned not towards the
breast, but towards the head and the mouth. And (in fish) the apex
is attached to a tube just where the right and left gills meet
together. There are other ducts extending from the heart to each of
the gills, greater in the greater fish, lesser in the lesser; but in
the large fishes the duct at the pointed end of the heart is a tube,
white-coloured and exceedingly thick.