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He seems to have been very anxious to live in the memory of his 

 sisters-in-law and of his nephews and nieces, whose legacies are 

 mostly given to the end that they may buy something to keep 

 in remembrance of him. To Dr. Ent he was much attached, 

 and, besides his bookcases, there are ' five pounds to buy a ring.' 

 Dr. Scarborough, who also stood high in Harvey's favour, has 

 his ' silver instruments of surgery and his best velvet gown.' 



We cannot fancy that Harvey was at any time very eager 

 in the pursuit of wealth. Aubrey tells us that, " For twenty 

 years before he died, he took no care of his worldly concerns ; 

 but his brother Eliab, who was a very wise and prudent 

 manager, ordered all, not only faithfully, but better than he 

 could have done for himself." The effect of this good manage- 

 ment was that Harvey lived, towards the end of his life, in 

 very easy circumstances. Having no costly establishment to 

 maintain, for he always lived with one or other of his brothers 

 in his latter days, and no family to provide for, he could afford 

 to be munificent, as we have seen him, to the College of 

 Physicians, and at his death he is reported to have left as 

 much as 20,0007. to his faithful steward and kind brother 

 Eliab, who always meets us as the guardian angel of our 

 anatomist, in a worldly and material point of view. Honoured 

 be the name and the memory of Eliab Harvey for his good 

 offices to one so worthy ! 



Though of competent estate, in the enjoyment of the highest 

 reputation, and trusted by two sovereign Princes in succession, 

 Harvey never suffered his name to be coupled with any of 

 those lower-grade titles that were so freely conferred in the 

 time of both the First and Second Charles. When we associate 

 Harvey's name with a title at all, it is with the one he fairly 

 won from his masters of Padua : by his contemporaries he is 

 always spoken of as Dr. Harvey ; we in the present day rightly 

 class him with our Shakespeares, and our Miltons, and speak of 

 him as Harvey. Harvey, indeed, had no love of ostentation or 



