Note 16 — THE LIFE OF WILLIAM HARVEY, M.D.

Slegel (P. M.) De Sanguinis Motu Comment., 4to, Hamb. 1650, informs us in his Preface, that, whilst living with Hofmann in 1638, he had sedulously tried to bring him to admit the circulation; Slegel goes on to say, however, that it was in vain, and indeed that Harvey himself had failed to convince him: “Neque tantum valuit Harveus, vel coram (i. e. in his presence) cum salutaret Hofmannum in itinere Germanico, vel literis,” &c. The old man, nevertheless, seems not to have been altogether deaf to reason; Slegel had hopes of him at last had he but lived: “Nec dubito quin concessisset tandem in nostra castra.”