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Heart in the right place's origion?

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Anonymous

11y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

According to "Say, Did You Know?" by Webb Garrison, published 1992, the expression "Heart in the right place" is descended from a belief of medieval physicians. They observed that the rate and intensity of blood vessel's throbbing differed between people, and even between the limbs on one individual's body, and to explain this, concluded that the heart could move about in the body. Hence, someone whose "heart was in the right place" was properly ordered physically, and therefore, probably properly ordered mentally.

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