LECTURE II. 



HARVEY AND THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD. 

 THE LACTEALS AND LYMPHATICS. 



When in 1542 after the completion of his great work 

 Vesalius had leave to absent himself from Padua a young 

 man Matheus Realdus Columbus, a native of Cremona, was 

 appointed as his deputy, and when in 1544 Vesalius finally 

 left Padua, the Senate of Venice entrusted for two years 

 the duty of reading the lectures on Surgery and Anatomy 

 to the same Columbus. But Columbus did not remain Vesalius' 

 successor even for the two years ; in the next year, 1545, Cosimo 

 de' Medici appointed him as the first Professor of Anatomy in 

 the newly renovated University of Pisa ; and Vesalius' chair 

 was not adequately filled until 1551, when Gabrielus Falloppius 

 was placed in it. 



Falloppius, born in Modena in 1523, a favourite and a 

 devoted pupil of Vesalius, an accomplished and travelled 

 scholar, a careful and exact observer and describer, a faithful, 

 modest, quiet man has left his name in anatomy, in the terms 

 Falloppian canal and Falloppian tubes. We owe to him 

 many valuable observations on the skeleton, especially on 

 the skull, on the tympanum, on the muscles, and on the 

 generative organs. But he made no large contribution to 

 knowledge such as distinctly influenced the progress of physio- 

 logy ; and he left no mark on the doctrines of the circulation. 

 I have already spoken of his Anatomical Observations as 

 stirring up Vesalius in his later years to revived anatomical 



