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Circe. In physics, terrestrial and celestial, Galileo, 

 persecuted as he was, had some current with him 

 and before him ; Copernicus had preceded himi 

 Kepler was beside him : but in physiology the waters 

 had closed upon the path of Galen as upon the wake 

 of a great ship ; the anatomists, themselves galenists, 

 had given Harvey little help ; and the share of Ser- 

 vetus 1 , Colombo, and Fabricius was but small in the 

 discovery of the central fact of the science, and of 

 the method which opened the way to Pecquet and 

 Aselli, to Glisson, to Steno, to Wharton and Willis, 

 to Haller and Bernard. Harvey's discovery was 

 the first step to a transfiguration of medicine ; 

 and though after Harvey there arose much false 

 physiology and therewith again great floods of 

 medical sophistry, yet from his time medicine has/ 

 had to reckon with physiology, the only source 

 of scientific nosology and therapeutics. 



We celebrate the memory of great men in the 

 certain hope that in their children they will be 

 born again. 



1 " The share of Servetus was small " ; that is, the effect of 

 his remarkable discovery was small, for it was buried in a 

 theological work of which but a few copies were rescued from 

 the burning; namely "Christianismi restitutio. Viennee Allo- 

 brogum, 1553." (Haeser gives the reference to pp. 170177, 

 De Trinitate divina.) The work was reprinted at Nuremberg 

 in 1790. 



