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Title: Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Stirling, William, 1851-1932
Subjects: Physiology Physiologists Physiology
Publisher: London : Priv. print. by Waterlow and sons limited
Contributing Library: West Virginia University Libraries
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e elder was afterwards Charles II., the younger James II.—he withdrew with them under a hedge reading a book. It is evensuggested that the book was his favourite treatise of Fabricius upongeneration. He accompanied the King to Oxford, and Aubrey saysthat during his brief stay here I remember he came several times toour College (Trinity), to George Bathurst, B.D., who had a hen tohatch eggs in his chamber, which they opened daily, to see theprogress and way of generation. Harvey remained in the service of the King until 1646, whenfeeling the effects of age—he was already sixty-eight and sorely triedby repeated attacks of gout—he retired into private life. Five yearslater, in 1651, he published his second great work, De Generation\eAnimalium. He died in 1657, ?et. 79, and was buried at Hemp-stead in Essex. Harvey died without issue, and his wife pre-deceased him. He gave the College of Physicians the value of hispaternal estate to pay the salary of the librarian, and for an annual
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WILLIAM HARVEY. ( 13 ) commemoration address, now known as the Harveian Oration.Harvey did more than discover the circulation of the blood ; hedemonstrated, by the experimental method, that the blood moves ina circle, that the movement of the blood is due to the mechanicalaction of the heart as a pump, that systole is an active contraction ofthe heart and diastole a passive act of dilatation. He gave a truetheory of the pulse. For all time he set the method, viz., that ofexperiment and induction, which has led to all modern progress inphysiology. He tells us both his motives and his methods. When I first gave my mind to vivisections, as a means of discovering the motionsand uses of the heart, and sought to discover these from actual inspection and not from thewritings of others, I found the task so truly arduous, so full of difficulties, that I wasalmost tempted to think, with Frascatorius, that the motion of the heart was only to becomprehended by God. . . . At length, and by using g

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