Note 14 — THE LIFE OF WILLIAM HARVEY, M.D.

Vide his procedure for the removal of a sarcocele, ‘On Generation,’ p. 254. “My Lady Howard had a cancer in her breast, which he did cut off and seared.” (Aubrey, Lives, p. 386.) He speaks of having been called to a young woman in labour in a state of coma (On Generation, p. 534); and in another place (Ib. p. 437) he says, in connexion with the subject of labour, ‘Haud inexpertus loquuor,’—I speak not without experience. Vide also p. 545, where he passes his fingers into the uterus and brings away “a mole of the size of a goose’s egg;” and p. 546, where he dilates the uterine orifice with an iron instrument, and uses a speculum, &c.