William Harvey and the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood
William Harvey and the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood
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igations," as distinguished from "large publications." I
have in my hand a little book, which those of you who are at a great
distance may have some difficulty in seeing, and which I value very
much. It is, I am afraid, sadly thumbed and scratched with annotations
by a very humble successor and follower of Harvey. This little book is
the edition of 1651 of the 'Exercitationes de Generatione'; and if you
were to add another little book, printed in the same small type, and
about one-seventh of the thickness, you would have the sum total of the
printed matter which Harvey contributed to our literature. And yet in
that sum total was contained, I may say, the materials of two
revolutions in as many of the main branches of biological science. If
Harvey's published labours can be condensed into so small a compass,
you must recollect that it is not because he did not do a great deal
more. We know very well that he did accumulate a very considerable
number of observations on the most varied topics of medicine, su
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