Note 18 — THE LIFE OF WILLIAM HARVEY, M.D.

The author of the life of Harvey in the ‘General Dictionary, Historical and Critical’ (folio, Lond. 1738), the original of all our other lives of Harvey, is certainly in error when he recognizes Harvey as the type of the Physician who takes part in the Dialogue of Hy. Neville’s Plato Redivivus, and assumes that he “relieved his abstruser studies by conversations in politics.” In a third edition of Neville’s work I find it stated that the physician who did so was Dr. Lower.