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" Thus Harvey sought for Truth in Truth's own Book 

 The Creatures, which by God Himself was writ ; 



And wisely thought 'twas fit, 

 Not to read Comments only upon it, 

 But on th' original it self to look. 

 Methinks in Arts great Circle others stand 



Lock't up together, Hand in Hand, 



Every one leads as he is led, 



The same bare path they tread, 

 A Dance like Fairies a Fantastick round, 

 But neither change their motion, nor their ground : 

 Had Harvey to this Road confin'd his wit, 

 His noble Circle of the Blood had been untrodden yet." 



Harvey's death is recorded in a characteristic 

 seventeenth century sentence, taken from the 

 unpublished pages of Baldwin Harvey's " Bus- 

 torum Aliquot Reliquiae " : 



" Of William Harvey, the most fortunate anato- 

 mist, the blood ceased to move on the third day 

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

 movement of which in all men, moreover, he had 

 most truly asserted . . . 



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Among other great physiologists and physicians, 

 Sir Theodore Turquet de Mayerne (godson of 



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

 Moore's " History of the Study of Medicine in the British 

 Isles," Oxford, 1908. 



