HARVEY. 93 



In 1604 he joined the College of Physicians, and 

 three years later was elected a Fellow of that learned 

 body. Two years afterwards he applied for the post 

 of physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital ; and his 

 application being supported by letters of recommendation 

 to the governor, from the king and from the president 

 of the College of Physicians, he was duly elected to the 

 office in the same year, as soon as a vacancy occurred. 



In 1615, when thirty-seven years of age, Harvey was 

 chosen to deliver the lectures on surgery and anatomy 

 to the College of Physicians, and it is possible that at 

 this time he gave an exposition of his views on the 

 circulation. He continued to lecture on the same 

 subject for many years afterwards, although he did 

 not publish his views until 1628, when they appeared 

 in the work " De Motu Cordis." 



Some few years after his appointment as lecturer 

 to the college, he was chosen one of the physicians 

 extraordinary to King James I., and about five or six 

 years after the accession of Charles I. he became physician 

 in ordinary to that unfortunate monarch. The physio- 

 logist's investigations seem to have interested King 

 Charles, for he had several exhibitions made of the 

 punctum saliens in the embryo chick, and also witnessed 

 dissections from time to time. 



When, in 1630, the young Duke of Lennox made a 

 journey on the Continent, Harvey was chosen to travel 



