1) Dr. Leon Manteuffel-Szoege, who reported the case of a New Haven man whose venous circulation bypassed his heart

2) Dr. Matthew Rodermund, who explained that “the heart is not a pump” in great detail in 1896, 1901, and 1910

3) Dr. J.M. Sanchez-Perez, a Madrid heart surgeon who thoroughly investigated the role of the arterio-venous glomic anastamoses in psychic abilities

4) Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose, who extensively described the similarities between heart tissue and plant tissue over a hundred years ago

5) Paavo Johannes Nurmi (The Flying Finn), who dominated long-distance running although his heart was only half the size of a “normal” human heart

6) Low temperatures “turn off” the venous pump responsible for blood circulation