contem poraries carrie 
Ct = generitions Re ’ Which hat 
. HARVEY. 
dogtrine; thefe points are been amply elucidated in a for- 
(See CircuLATION, of.) As this 
ruth, Har 
living to fee his doétrine “fully eflablithed, and ‘all Pa. 
oppolition withdrawn, It is fomewhat. mor rti ying, how- 
ever, to find that, fo far from advancing his reputation and 
fuccefs as a candidate for practice, this unrivalled difplay of 
fagacity, indultry, and knowledge feems to have hada con- 
trary effect; for he never appears to have occupied the 
higheit rank as a medical practitioner. ‘ Perhaps,” fays 
Dr. Aikin, “his experimental refearches took him out of 
the common road to popular eminence ; and they os to 
have expofed him to the prejudice fo commonly prevailin 
inft an innovator ; for we find him complaining to a friend, 
that his pratice confiderably declined after the publication 
of his difco 
The peOy te which Harvey had obtained, bi cas yo d 
hum however to the notice of the court; he received conti- 
derable favours from James I., and ftill ede regard from 
Charles I., who ufed to nha occafionally, wi ve fome of 
his courtiers, to witnefs his diffetions and cen The 
intereft which his m ccefs “9 fe anato- 
that great refort of featout the Bafs iftas 
breaking out of the civil war, fhe femmiiied attached both i 
office and affeétion to the royal perfon, and after the battle of 
Edge-hill, went, with ee reft of the houfehold, to Oxford, 
where he received other marks of favour. During thefe 
troubles, his houfe in Lovaas was pillaged, and his papers, 
containing obf peotions in anatomy and natural. hiftory, the 
refult o ur of many years, pres relating to 
the ects, were deilro Of this irre- 
inf 
trievable tof het fal complained in his Aca F in terms which, 
ve mild and modeit, fhew how feverely he felt it. (See 
Sao Ixviii, ad finem a Upon the sue prac of Ox- 
to the parliament, he retired to a private mode of life 
ndon, at Lambeth, or at his brother’s he at Rich- 
year 1728, under the title of « Exercitatio Anatomica de 
- . . . ” at 
$¢ portion of his time and attention. Thefe fe exerci 
‘tions are el in number, and the general in 
the whole of the faéts is the univerfal pr 
Secialioce of tril go> 
f infcription Pa hc his egnae® 
After his return 
i oe then returned 
Ifo 1 
spate aaa work has mihogeee numerous editigns ion 
the con 
In ier year, 1652, Harvey had the fatisfaction 
of feeing his merits acknowledged by his brethren in an un- 
ufual and moit honourable manner ; by a vote of the college, 
his buft in marble was placed in dete = oss a {uitable 
is com- 
college, 8 a t iplendid enter~ 
pliment, by prefenting tot 
at the er an ee fur- 
tainment. to which he in 
nifhed convocation room, and amufeum filed with choice 
books and chirurgical nftruathis, which hie had bul at his 
ence, in ee en gt ie refignat 
exp 
Prajeas in 16545 
e pr 
ings of the pile ee ; and his attachment’ ‘to. that -body was 
fhewn more conf{picuoufly in 1656, when, at the firlt anni» 
verfary feaft ialermed by himfelf, he gave up his paternal 
eltate of fifty-fix pounds per annum in perpetuity, for their 
ufe. The particular purpofes of this donation were, the in- 
ftitution of an anhual featt, at which a Latin oration fhould 
oken in commemoration of the benefactors of the cols 
lege, a gratuity for the orator, “a a provifion for the keeper 
of his library and mufeum., old age was afflicted with 
infirmities, efpecially with matt exeruciting attacks of the 
gout; but he lived to complete his 80th year, and expired 
on the 3d ‘ot June 1658, in great tranquility and felf-pef- 
feffion. 
= 
The private character of this great man 1 ler to have 
in every refpeé&t worthy of his public reputation. 
neal candid, and upright, he lived on terms of great 
harmony. with his friends and brethren, and exhibited na 
r. Laufence. See Gen. Biog. Aikin 
Aa 2 ad Did. Hitt. 
v, Gipron, alfo a phyfician, es bora in Sur- 
‘ xg cquired the Greek and Latin ges in the 
> as admitted ‘of yi etl Bes Ox- 
Vv Ve 
he was admitted false weg en 
Hague, and alfo ag hyfictan to Char 
“te he was fent to Fandos. in aJoly 
1659, in the offen of firft phyfician to the forces, after 
which duty he travelled through Germany to Italy, tpending 
a confiderable time at each of the principal feats of learning, © 
Switzerland and Holland to Eng- 
ind. On the arrival of William I1I., he was appointed 
ie Ye to the Tower. He died about pthe Years) I 19% 
Gideon Harvey publithed feveral works after th i 
tion of his travels, which e nearly forgotten, oa his 
aaa the fame, name, whofe modelty equalled 
knowledge, and who never proceeded a ftep without fact 
1 and experiment, Gideon H was a vain and hypothetical 
prater throughout Under | pretence of ing th 
art of medicine, he attacked the ters of the moft emi- 
nent phyficians of the time, combining the moft infulting far. 
3 Be ‘eee SCM, 
