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l"~abricius for he must have known of the works of Servetus. 

 of Caesalpinus, of X'esahus. and of h^alloj^ius. lie himself was 

 a pupil of Fallopius who in turn was a pupil of Vesalius the 

 j,'"reatest anatomist of his day, and if he had used his own 

 knowledge of the valves in the veins rightly it would have 

 overthrown the doctrine of (jalen completely. He had such 

 respect for old doctrines that his eyes were closed to "facts 

 staring him in the face" and his ears were deaf "to voices 

 crying out new views." "It was left for William Harvey, a 

 pupil of his, to seize that wh:ch he had just failed to lay hold 

 of, to weld together, as he was passing away, into one sus- 

 tained and convincing argument, the several links which he 

 and the rest had furnished, and nine years after his death to 

 make known to the world that true view of the circulation 

 which was the real beginning of modern physiology." (Foster. ) 

 Harvey was born at Folkstone. England, in 1578. He 

 was four years old when Fabricius published his work. En- 

 tering college at Cambridge in 1593, he took his arts degree 

 in 159T and left at once for Padua to study medicine in the 

 greatest medical school of his day. He was made a doctor of 

 medicine in 1602 after five }ears of hard work under the great 

 master, Fabricius. A\'e have already seen what the views of 

 Fabricius were in regard to the circulation and respiration. 

 Xot being satisfied with the working of the old theories of 

 (lalen, Flarvey at once, after returning to England, set to 

 work to im]")rove them. He develoived his ideas in his lectures 

 at tl:e coUc c of pl\\--'c^ans in 1()!5. His book Exercitatio. 

 fiowever, did not appear until Kl^s. The method that pre- 

 vails in all of Harvey's work is to adxance from one thorough- 

 Iv demonstrated pouit to anotlicr. not depending upon any one 

 method oi demonstration. He resorts to \-ivisection in many 

 cases, not denend^'n'^ noon analo'Tics. or any course of reason- 

 ing to establish his points. His first work w'as to establish 

 the movement'- of the heart itself. In doing this he found 

 great difficulty in studving tlie live heart on account of its 

 rapid movejnent, so much so that he nearly came to the con- 



