42 BIOLOGY AND ITS MAKERS 
those of Galen; and his conception of the use of the valves 
of the veins was entirely wrong. A portrait of this great 
teacher of Harvey is shown in Fig. 9. 
At Padua young Harvey attracted notice as a student of 
originality and force, and seems to have been a favorite with 
the student body as well as with his teachers. His position 
in the university may be inferred from the fact that he be- 
longed to one of the aristocratic-student organizations, and, 
further, that he was designated a “‘ councilor” for England. 
The practice of having student councilors was then in vogue 
in Padua; the students comprising the council met for 
deliberations, and very largely managed the university by 
their votes upon instructors and university measures. 
It isa favorable comment upon the professional education 
of his time that, after graduating at the University of Cam- 
bridge, he studied four or more years (Willis says five years) 
in scientific and merlical lines to reach the degree of Doctor 
of Physic. 
On leaving Padua, in 1602, he returned to England and 
took the examinations for the degree of M.D. from Cam- 
bridge, inasmuch as the medical degree from an English 
university advanced his prospects of receiving a position at 
home. He opened practice, was married in 1604, and the 
same year began to give public Jectures on anatomy. 
His Personal Qualities.—Harvey had marked individual- 
ity, and seems to have produced a powerful impression upon 
those with whom he came in contact as one possessing 
unusual intellectual powers and independence of character. 
He inspired confidence in people, and it is significant that, 
in reference to the circulation of the blood, he won to his way 
of thinking his associates in the medical profession. This is 
important testimony as to his personal force, since his ideas 
were opposed to the belief of the time, and since also away 
from home they were vigorously assailed. 
