xxxviii THE LIFE OF HARVEY. 



Having thus accompanied Harvey over so much of the 

 way in his mortal career, let us, before proceeding further, 

 briefly advert to his WRITINGS, to the influence they had 

 in the republic of letters during his life-time, to the fruits they 

 have since produced, and to the impression still made on the 

 mind that holds communion through their means with the 

 mind that dictated them so many years ago. The intellectual 

 endowment of a man necessarily appears in his writings ; 

 it is not always from them that so true a conception of his 

 moral character can be formed. Harvey, however, though in 

 his long life he accomplished but a small fraction of all his 

 literary designs, has still left us sufficient from which to form 

 an estimate of him as a philosopher, as a physiologist, and it 



Medicinae Doctor, Coll. Med. Lend. Socius et Consiliarius, 



Anatomes, Chirurgiseque Professor, 

 Regis Jacob! Familiae, Caroloque Regi Medicus, 



Gestis clarus, omissisque honoribus, 

 Quorum alios tulit, oblatos renuit alios, 



Omnes meruit. 



Laudatis priscorum ingeniis par ; 



Quos honoravit maxime imitando, 



Docuitque posteros exemplo. 



Nullius lacessivit famam, 

 Veritatis studens magis quam glorias, 



Hanc tamen adeptus 

 Industria, sagacitate, successu nobilis 



Perpetuos sanguinis aestus 

 Circular! gyro fugientis, seque sequentis, 



Primus promulgavit mundo. 



Nee passus ultra mortales sua ignorare primordia, 



Aureum edidit de ovo atque pullo librum, 



Albae gallinae filium. 



Sic novis inventis Apollineam ampliavit artem, 

 Atque nostrum Apollinis sacrarium augustius esse 



Tandem voluit ; 



Suasu enim et cura D. D. D ni - Francisci Prujeani Prasidis 

 Et Edmundi Smith Electoris 



An. MDCLIU, 



Senaculum, et de nomine suo Musaeum horto superstmxit, 



Quorum alterum plurimis libris et Instrumentis Chirurgicis, 



Alterum omnigena supellectile ornavit et instruxit, 



Medicinae Patronus simul et Alumnus. 



