Some recently discovered letters of William Harvey : with other miscellanea / by S. Weir Mitchell ; with a bibliography of Harvey's works by Charles Perry Fisher.

  • Silas Weir Mitchell
Date:
1912
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Credit: Some recently discovered letters of William Harvey : with other miscellanea / by S. Weir Mitchell ; with a bibliography of Harvey's works by Charles Perry Fisher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    18/78 page 9
    imagine, that so provident a cause as nature had not so placed so many valves without design; and no design seemed more probable, than that since the blood could not well, because of the interposing valves, be sent by the veins to the limbs, it should be sent through the arteries, and return through the veins, whose valves did not oppose its course that way.” The wonderful volume of Harvey’s lecture-notes should be the subject of far more careful commentary than it has yet secured. These notes are full of varied illustra¬ tions of the anatomist, the physiologist, the physician, and of the man’s personal character. He is unconsciously autobiographic. The second series, on the muscles, soon to be published, should prove of equal interest. Before leaving this matter of the lecture-notes, an allusion may be made to one of the many matters in the first series to demonstrate the way in which these pages reward critical examination. In speaking of dwarfs, he thus classifies them, using English, Latin, and Italian, as elsewhere in his notes, a strange medley: vnde Nanorum 3 species pigmei pusilli proportionati pomiliones sumbody { informes vgly gibbosi quibus spinae curvae artus satis long! gibber Gobbo Nang [9]
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