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soiling, to the establishment of sound and logical 

 conclusions ? Nor has anatomy yet ceased to unfold 

 the varied structural arrangements by means of 

 which nature is enabled to produce with one cause 

 an infinity of effects; for every year brings with it 

 an account of some minute mechanism, some beau- 

 tiful contrivance, each admirably adapted, by means 

 the most simple, to the accomplishment of ends the 

 most elaborate and important. And who can say 

 how many more such which the eye of man hath not 

 yet seen, and all the uses of which the understanding 

 of man shall perhaps never fully comprehend, may 

 still exist, buried and concealed in the dark nooks 

 and unexplored recesses of the animal body ? 



While meditating, then, upon the immeasurable 

 benefits which his discovery would ultimately confer 

 upon mankind, and thus gathering by anticipation 

 the glory which would redound from it upon himself, 

 his profession, and his country, well might Harvey 

 exclaim, in a burst of lofty and almost prophetic 

 enthusiasm "Denique in omni parte medicine, 

 physiologica, pathologica, semeiotica, therapeutica, 

 cum quot problemata determinari possint, ex hac 

 data veritate et luce, quanta dubia solvi et quot 

 obscura dilucidari, animo mecum reputo, campum 

 invenio spatiosissimum, ubi longius percurrere et 

 latius expatiari adeo possum, ut non solum in volu- 

 men excresceret, prseter institutum meum, hoc opus, 

 sed mihi forsan vita ad finem faciendum deficeret."* 



De motu cord is, cap. xvi. 



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