130 ARTHUR E. SHIPLEY 



Of William Harvey, the most fortunate anatomist, 

 the blood ceased to move on the third day of the 

 Ides of June, in the year 1657, the continuous move- 

 ment of which in all men, moreover he had most truly 

 asserted. . . 



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Among other great physiologists and phy- 

 sicians, Sir Theodore Turquet de May erne 

 (godson of Theodore Beza), who settled in 

 London in 1611, has left us Notes of the dis- 

 eases of the great which, to the medically 

 minded, are of the greatest interest. He 

 almost diagnosed enteric, and his observations 

 on the fatal illness of Henry, Prince of Wales, 

 and the memoir he drew up in 1623 on the 

 health of James I, alike leave little to be de- 

 sired in completeness or in accuracy of detail. 



Before bringing to a close these short notices 

 of those who studied and wrote on the human 

 body, whole or diseased, a few lines must be 

 given to John Mayow of Oxford, who fol- 

 lowed the law, "especially in the summer time 

 at Bath." Yet, from his contributions to 

 science, one might well suppose that he had 



® The writer is indebted for this quotation to Dr. Norman 

 Moore's History of the Study of Medicine in the British Isles, 

 Oxford, 1908. 



