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forms and appearances, such as they are usually described bv 

 anatomists; and in what various aud remarkable ways they 

 were affected. For even as the dissection of healthy and well- 

 constituted bodies contributes essentially to the advancement 

 of philosophy and sound physiology, so does the inspection of 

 diseased and cachectic subjects powerfully assist philosophical 

 pathology/' This was precisely what Morgagni lived, in some 

 considerable measure, to achieve, and it is that which it has 

 been the business of modern pathology, through the illustrious 

 line of the Baillies, Laennecs, Andrals, Louis, Cruveilhiers, 

 Carswells, Richard Brights, and many others, to render more 

 and more complete. 



Riolan never replied to Harvey ; but neither did the Parisian 

 Professor attempt to vindicate his views, nor did he exhibit such 

 candour as to own himself otherwise convinced or converted. 

 His doctrine had no abettors, and never bore fruit ; it stood a 

 barren ear amidst the lusty, green, and copious harvest, that 

 had already sprung up and overspread the lands. 



Harvey must now, indeed, have seen his views assured of 

 general reception at no distant date. The same year in which 

 he himself answered Riolan, Dr. James de Back, of Amsterdam, 

 published his work on the Heart, 1 which is written entirely in 

 harmony with the Harveian doctrines, and the celebrated 

 Lazarus Riverius, Professor of Medicine in the University of 

 Montpellier, publicly defended and taught the circulation of 

 the blood. 2 The following year, Paul Marquard Slegel, of 

 Hamburg, produced his commentary on the Motion of the 

 Blood, 3 in which he addresses himself particularly to a refuta- 

 tion of Riolanus, whose scholar he had been, and at the same 

 time shows himself so thoroughly at home in the general ques- 



1 De Corde, Amst. 1649; in English, 12mo, Lond. 1653. 



2 A candour for which he was by and by summoned by an adherent of the old 

 school to resign his chair. 



3 De Sanguinis Motu Commentarius, 4to, Hamb. 1650. 



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