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of the vascular system. Reid was a good anatomist, 

 one of our most distinguished Medico - Chirurgical 

 Fellows, and a liberal benefactor. If, as has been 

 stated, he was not a convert on account of his age, it 

 was on account of his youth, for the Harveian doctrine, 

 if in meagre form, is to be found in the later editions 

 (5th) of his Manual. But we would miss Lodge, the 

 poet, ' cried up to the last for physic,' as he had recently 

 started for the Continent. And we may be sure that 

 Harvey's old fellow-students at Padua Fortescue, Fox, 

 Willoughby, Mounsell, and Darcy would honour their 

 friend and colleague with their presence ; and Edward 

 Lister, also a fellow- Paduan, the first of his name in 

 a family which has given three other members to our 

 profession two distinguished and one immortal. 1 It 

 was not a large gathering, as the Fellows, members, 

 licentiates, and candidates numbered only about forty ; 

 but as the lecture was a great event in the community, 

 there would be present many interested and intelligent 

 laymen, of the type of Digby, and Ashmole, and Pepys 

 the ' curious ', as they were called, for whom throughout 

 the seventeenth century the anatomy lecture equalled in 

 attraction the play. Delivered in Latin, and interspersed 

 here and there with English words and illustrations, 

 there were probably more who saw than who com- 

 prehended, as Sir Thomas Browne indicated to his son 

 Edward when he lectured at Chirurgeons' Hall. 



It is a fortunate, and perhaps a unique, circumstance 

 in bibliography that the manuscript of this course of 

 lectures should have been preserved, and that we 

 should be able to follow step by step the demonstration 



1 I followed Munk's Roll, but Lord Lister tells me that he does 

 not know of a relationship. I am sorry, as Martin Lister deserves 

 the honour. 



