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June, 1657. From the only account we have of his last days, there is 

 no question that he died of left cerebral hemorrhage, for he had aphasia 

 and paralysis. In a death-mask made from the old bust in the church, 

 the right eye is more closed than the left, which would agree with right- 

 sided paresis. 



He was buried on June 26 in the Harvey vault which his brother 

 Eliab had constructed below the parish church of Hempstead only two 

 years before. Hempstead is an ancient village seven miles southeast of 

 Saffron Walden in Essex. The funeral was attended by the president 

 of the College of Physicians and a deputation from the same, and by 

 Aubrey, his biographer, who helped to place the body in the vault. 

 Aubrey says he was " lapt in lead," and on his body in great letters his 

 name, "Doctor William Harvey." Quite a number of the members of 

 the Harvey family were buried in these curious mortuary cases. In 

 1847 the late Sir B. W. Richardson, on visiting the church, found the 

 window of the vault broken and rain gaining access to the floor: the 

 case containing Harvey's remains was cracked and a frog jumped out 

 of it. Eichardson rightly thought that this state of things was not 

 as it should be. In 1878 the conditions were still worse; by aid of 

 magnesium light and a mirror he managed to reflect some light into 

 the case and convinced himself that some remains were there. Accord- 

 ingly he obtained permission from Dean Stanley to have the shell re- 

 buried under a glass slab in the pavement of Westminster Abbey be- 

 side the grave of John Hunter, Hunter his descendant, not according 

 to the flesh, but according to the spirit of a seeker after truth. Owing 

 to the Dean's death, the project fell through. In 1882 the tower of the 

 church fell through the roof, and so Eichardson thought the sooner 

 that Harvey's remains were put into a place of safety the better. At 

 the expense of the College of Physicians, a beautiful sarcophagus of 

 white Sicilian marble was built in the north transept of the church just 

 above the vault, and on St. Luke's Day, 1883, Eichardson and seven 

 other Fellows placed the old shell in the sarcophagus which bears this 

 inscription. 



The remains of Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, were 

 reverently placed in this sarcophagus in 1883 by the Eoyal College of Physicians 

 of London. 



On the wall of the chapel close to the tomb there is a bust above the 

 family coat-of-arms and a Latin inscription, a translation of which I 

 shall give here, as it is in no account of Harvey's life and because 

 it is always interesting to know what the competent contemporary opin- 

 ion of a man was. The translation I owe to the kindness of my learned 

 friend, Professor Wallace Lindsay, M.A., LL.D., of the University of 

 St. Andrews: 



William Harvey, to whose honorable name all academies rise up out of 

 respect, who was the first after many thousand years to discover the daily move- 

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