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Sarpi's death by his friends who claimed the discovery for 

 him, 



(Foster) "AH such attempts to take away from Harvey 

 what is his due are vain and useless efforts. The greatness 

 of all great men is partly built on the worth of those who have 

 gone before. In science no man's results are entirely his own, 

 like other living things they come from something that lived 

 before. Vesalius, Servetus, Fabricius, and the rest led up to 

 Harvey ; but they were not Harvey. He was himself, and his 

 greatness is in no wise lessened by its having come through 

 them." 



In the second part of the paper I want to make Harvey's 

 discovery apply to actual living mainly in the phase of mus- 

 cular activity and show how the circulation of blood and the 

 true notion of it. is important in every day life. To be sure 

 men lived many years before they had the true notion of the 

 circulation of the blood but 1 want to show that it is possible 

 to live more and better by having the proper idea of the cir- 

 culation of the blood. 



The direct result of muscular activity, in a popular sense, 

 is the strengthening of the muscles themselves. Many ])eo])le 

 overlook the indirect results and fail to see what bearing they 

 have on the general health" of the body; in their influence on 

 the circulation of the blood and the lymph ; the process of res- 

 tion ; the digestion of the food ; in fact how the whole organ- 

 ism is tied up to these results. The popular notion is if we 

 want strong muscles they must be exercised, if they are to be 

 increased in size they must be exercised. This is very true 

 ])Ut we will see later that this is a very small part as com- 

 ])ared with the indirect results brought about by the grosser 

 activities of the organism. 



Everv cell of the body must be fed. Every cell gets its 

 food in just the same way as the amoel)a, l:)y absorption. To 

 be sure the amoeba has the power of digestion to a limited 

 degree because he is a generalized cell, l)ut tlie bulk of his 

 food, suspended in the water in wliich he lives, is absorbed 



