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textbooks of the day. From no work of the period 

 does one get a better idea of the current anatomical and 

 physiological teaching in London than from Crooke's 

 Body of Man (1615 and 1631). Collected out of Vesalius, 

 Plantinus, Platerius, Laurentius, Valverda, Bauchinus, 

 and others, it is an epitome of their opinions, with the 

 comments of the professor who read the anatomy lecture 

 to the Company of the Barber-Surgeons. In the preface 

 to the first edition he speaks of the contentment and 

 profit he had received from Dr. Davies's Lumleian 

 Lectures at the College of Physicians. There is no indi- 

 cation in the second edition that he had benefited by the 

 instruction of Dr. Davies's successor. Galen is followed 

 implicitly, with here and there minor deviations. The 

 views of Columbus on the lesser circulation are men- 

 tioned only to be dismissed as superfluous and erro- 

 neous. The Gresham Professor of the day, Dr. Winston, 

 makes no mention of the new doctrine in his Anatomy 

 Lectures which were published after his death, 1651, and 

 are of special interest as showing that at so late a date 

 a work could be issued with the Galenical physiology 

 unchanged. In Alexander Reid's Manual, the popular 

 textbook of the day, the Harveian views are given in 

 part in the fifth edition, in which, as he says in the 

 preface, 'the book of the breast ' is altogether new an 

 item of no little interest, since he was a man advanced 

 in years, and, as he says, ' the hourglass hasteneth, and 

 but a few sands remain unrun.' Highmore, the distin- 

 guished Dorsetshire anatomist, and a pupil of Harvey, 

 in his well-known Anatomy published in 1651, gives the 

 ablest exposition of his master's views that had appeared 

 in any systematic work of the period, and he urges his 

 readers to study the de Motu Cordis as ' fontem ipsum ' 

 from which to get clearer knowledge. He quotes an 



