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the title, ' 4394, Bircli Collection/ numbered on in continuation of 

 the Sloane Collection. 



Mr. E. Maunde Thompson, by the employment of various scientific 

 methods, the observation of which went some way to compensate 

 me for the tedious labour entailed upon me by the result to which 

 they brought him, identified the MS. as being really Warner's, 

 and brought its date down to a year close upon 1610, half-a- 

 dozen years or so, therefore^ before Harvey first lectured at the 

 College of Physicians. The MS. being thus identified I set myself 

 down to look through its 416 folio pages, the average number of 

 lines in a page being thirty-three or thirty-four ; the average of 

 words, many of them idle ones, being eight or nine in a line. I do 

 not think it is very likely that I have missed any clearer exposition 

 of Warner's views than the one which I am about to read from 

 page 138 ; nor do I think that, by choosing it, I can in any way 

 misrepresent them, for they are stated elsewhere in the treatise in 

 very much the same words, e.g. page 137. These, then, were his 

 views : — ' By this spontaneall pulsatory motion the bloud is con- 

 tinually extracted from the vaines (propter fugam vacui) as well 

 originally exsuctory as secondarily circulatory and propelled into 

 the arteries (propter fugam penetrationis), but with some diversity 

 in the distribution, some part thereof being propelled up into the 

 head by the internal jugular arteries, ad plexum choroideum for 

 gpirito-faction, the rest into all the rest of the arteries in universum 

 corpus for organ o-faction. Out of that part of the blood that is 

 propelled by the jugular arteries up to the head, the spiritus con- 

 fusus or immersus thereof being expressed and segregated in plexu 

 choroidi, either by excussion or exhalation, and animal spirits, 

 thereof made by the self-operation of the prae-existent in somno, it 

 is again distributed as before, one portion thereof being still de- 

 rived and transmitted to the heart, ad motum spontaneum pulsa- 

 tionis ciendum, and so about again, perpetua circulatione durante 

 fabrica corporea, and all violent destructions or impediments ab- 

 stracted.' 



It is, perhaps, needless to dwell further upon Warner's claims— 

 certainly I do not propose to trouble you with reading to you any 

 more of his speculations and conclusions. I have, however, had a 

 copy made of pages 140, 141, 142, i94» ^^^ ^95^ ^^^' ^^o»ff^ 

 the gift may not seem a very valuable one, it will enable any fellow 



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