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example in this matter, and the lesson had been well 

 learnt. The lecture notes show that by 1616 Harvey 

 had already dissected very carefully more than eighty 

 different kinds of animals. This performance is the 

 more remarkable when we remember that he had been 

 in busy practice ever since settling in London. 



There is one page of the lecture notes on which we 

 may concentrate our attention (Plate VI.). It is only 

 half-filled with writing, and the actual words on the 

 page, copied line for line, are as follows : 



VMHconstat per fabricam cordis sanguinem 

 per pulmones in Aortam perpetuo 

 transferri, as by two clacks of a 

 water bellows to rayse water 

 constat per ligaturam transitum fanguinis 

 ab artery's ad venas 

 vnde A perpetuum sanguinis motum 

 in circula fieri pulsu cordis 

 An ? hoc gratia Nutritionis 

 an magis Conservationis sanguinis 

 et Membrorum per Infusionem calidam 

 vicissimque sanguis Calefaciens 

 membra frigifactum a Corde 

 Calefit. 1 



This, so far as it is translatable at all, may be trans- 

 lated as follows : 



' On account of the structure of the heart, William 

 Harvey is of the opinion that the blood is constantly passed 



1 The passage contains two peculiar signs which need explanation. 

 At the beginning is the sign \f\\-\, making an abbreviated form of 

 the initials of William Harvey's name. He was accustomed to put 

 this monogram opposite statements that he thought peculiarly his 

 own. The other sign is the triangle A which is the capital form of 

 the Greek letter delta. This sign Harvey uses as an abbreviation 

 of the phrase " it is demonstrated." 



