Front matter

Masters of Medicine

Title. Author.

John Hunter Stephen Paget

William Harvey D’Arcy Power

Edward Jenner Ernest Hart

Sir James Simpson H. Laing Gordon

Hermann von Helmholtz John G. McKendrick

William Stokes Sir William Stokes

Claude Bernard Michael Foster

Sir Benjamin Brodie Timothy Holmes

Thomas Sydenham J. F. Payne

Vesalius C. Louis Taylor

M

asters

of

edicine

WILLIAM HARVEY

Art Repro. Co.y Ph. Sc.

Cornelius Jonson Engraved by Hall.

WILLIAM HARVEY.

1578 1657

William Harvey

BY D’Arcy Power, F.S.A., F.R.C.S. Eng. SURGEON TO THE VICTORIA HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, CHELSEA

LONDON T. FISHER UNWIN PATERNOSTER SQUARE MDCCCXCVII

Copyright by T. Fisher Unwin, 1897, for Great Britain and Longmans Green & Co. for the United States of America

To DR. PHILIP HENRY PYE-SMITH, F.R.S. IN RECOGNITION OF HIS PROFOUND KNOWLEDGE OF THE PRINCIPLES ADVOCATED BY HARVEY, AND IN GRATITUDE FOR MANY KINDNESSES CONFERRED BY HIM UPON THE AUTHOR

PREFACE

It is not possible, nor have I attempted in this account of Harvey, to add much that is new. My endeavour has been to give a picture of the man and to explain in his own words, for they are always simple, racy, and untechnical, the discovery which has placed him in the forefront of the Masters of Medicine.

The kindness of Professor George Darwin, F.R.S., and of Professor Villari has introduced me to Professor Carlo Ferraris, the Rector Magnificus, and to Dr. Girardi, the Librarian of the University of Padua. These gentlemen, at my request, have examined afresh the records of the University, and have given me much information about Harvey’s stay there. The Cambridge Archæological Society has laid me under an obligation by allowing me to reproduce the Stemma which still commemorates Harvey’s official connection with the great Italian University. Dr. Norman Moore has read the proof sheets; his kindly criticism and accurate knowledge have added greatly to the value of the work, and he has lent me the block which illustrates the vileness of Harvey’s handwriting.

I have collected in an Appendix a short list of authorities to each chapter that my statements may be verified, for Harvey himself would have been the first to cry out against such a gossiping life as that which Aubrey wrote of him.

D’ARCY POWER.

May 20, 1897.

CONTENTS

PAGE

I. HARVEY’S LINEAGE 1

II. EARLY LIFE 11

III. THE LUMLEIAN LECTURES 39

IV. THE ZENITH 70

V. THE CIVIL WAR 117

VI. HARVEY’S LATER YEARS 141

VII. HARVEY’S DEATH, BURIAL, AND EULOGY 166

VIII. HARVEY’S ANATOMICAL WORKS 188

IX. THE TREATISE ON DEVELOPMENT 238

APPENDIX 267

INDEX 271

WILLIAM HARVEY