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gist and scholar was also the first English comparative 

 anatomist. Of his knowledge of the lower animals he 

 makes frequent use, and he says (in his work on the 

 heart), "Had anatomists only been as conversant with 

 the dissection of the lower animals as they are with that 

 of the human body, many matters that have hitherto kept 

 them in a perplexity of doubt, would, in my opinion, have 

 met them freed from every kind of difficulty." Aubrey 

 says that Harvey often told him " that of all the losses 

 he sustained, no grief was so crucifying to him as the 

 loss of his papers (containing notes of his dissections of 

 the frog, toad, and other animals), which, together with 

 his goods in his lodgings at Whitehall, were plundered 

 at the beginning of the rebellion." 



