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Fabricius for he must have known of the works of Servetus, 

 of Caesalpinus, of Vesahus, and of Fallopius. He himself was 

 a pupil of Fallopius who in turn was a pupil of Vesalius the 

 i^reatest anatomist of his day, and if he had used his own 

 knowledge of the valves in the veins rightly it would have 

 t)verthrown the doctrine of Galen completely. Fie had such 

 respect for old doctrines that his eyes were closed to "facts 

 staring him in the face" and his ears were deaf "to voices 

 crying out new views." "It was left for William Harvey, i\ 

 ])upil of his, to seize that which he had just failed to lay hold 

 of, to weld together, as he was passing away, into one sus- 

 tained and convincing argument, the several links which he 

 and the rest had furnished, and nine years after his death U> 

 make known to the world that true view of the circulation 

 which was the real beginning of modern physiology." (Foster. ) 

 Harvey was born at Folkstone. England, in 1578. FIc 

 was four years old when Fabricius published his work. En- 

 tering college at Cambridge in 1593, he took his arts degree 

 in 1597 and left at once for Padua to study medicine in the 

 greatest medical school of his day. He was made adoctor of 

 medicine in 1602 after five years of hard work under the great 

 master, Fabricius. We have already seen what the views of 

 Fabricius were in regard to the circulation and respiration. 

 Not being satisfied with the working of the old theories of 

 (jalen, Flarvey at once, after returning to England, set to 

 work to improve them. He developed his ideas in his lectures 

 at the college of phve'cians in 1(515. His book Exercit:iti<). 

 fiowever. did not appear until 1638. The method that pre- 

 vails in all of Harvey's work is to advance from one thorough- 

 • Iv demonstrated pomt to another, not depending upon any one 

 method of demonstration. He resorts to vivisection in many 

 cases, not dei^tendin-^- upon analo2:ics or any course of reason- 

 ing to establish his points. His first work was to establish 

 tlie movements of the heart itself. In doing this he found 

 great difficultv in studying the live heart on account of its 

 rapid movement, so much so that he nearly came to the con- 



