Note 69 — 1. OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.

Jo. Alph. Borellus, in speaking of the pretensions of Honoratus Faber to this discovery, concludes Omnes enim sciunt Harveium Anno Dom 1628 Fancofurti typis Gual. Fitzeri suam exertationem primum edidisse; scilicet decem annos antequam Fabri sanguinis circulationem docuisset. See Goodall’s Proceedings of the College.

His work de Generatione Animalium, although eclipsed by his superior discovery, must be considered as a valuable acquisition to the science of Physiology; its luminous reasonings overturned the doctrine of Equivocal Generation, that had been maintained in the schools since the days of Aristotle, and established the universal principle “Omnia ex Ovo.”