Excerpt from Harvey’s Views on the Use of the Circulation of the Blood
It was in 1628, the year of his fiftieth birthday, that Harvey published, at frankfort-ou-the-main, his fa mous Latin treatise entitled: An Anatomical Exer cise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals. A reader of to-day will be inclined to skim rapidly over the Introduction to this treatise and over much in the last three chapters; and probably he will take only a languid interest in the two brief Latin treatises which Harvey published in defense of the circulation, after more than twenty years of silence, In his seventy-first year, at Cambridge In 1649; these treatises being en titled: Two Anatomical Exercises on the Circulation of the Blood, to Johannes Riolanus, Junior, of Paris.
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