[58] Sprengel, Geschichte der Arzneikunde, ii Abschnitt, 4 Kapitel.
[59] I pass by unnoticed in my text several names that have been very gratuitously associated with the discovery of the circulation, such as that of Father Paul the Venetian, Walter Warner and Mr. Prothero, Honoratus Faber, &c. The claims of Father Paul have been satisfactorily explained by Dr. Ent in his ‘Apology,’ who has shown that instead of Harvey borrowing from the Monk, the Monk, through the Venetian ambassador to London, who was Harvey’s friend, had borrowed from Harvey. The others do not require serious mention. Dr. Freind has given an excellent summary of the entire doctrine of the circulation in his Harveian Oration, to which it is with much pleasure that I refer the reader for other information. I also pass by the still-recurring denials by obtuse and ill-informed individuals of the truth, or of the sufficiency of the evidence of the truth, of the Harveian circulation. Those who can not see, must, contrary to the popular adage, be admitted to be still blinder than those who will not see.
[60] Dr. William Hunter. Introductory Lectures, p. 59, (4to. Lond. 1784,) to which the reader is referred for a singularly inconsistent and extraordinary string of passages.
[61] On the Arteries, Introduction, p. ix.
[62] On Generation, p. 530.
[63] A True Relation, &c., p. 46.
[64] Aubrey, Op. cit. p. 384. In the printed work the phrase runs thus: “Not only danger of thieves, but of wild beasts.” Crowne’s anecdote suggests the proper reading.
[65] De Venis Lacteis. 4to, Milan, 1622.
[66] First Letter to J. D. Horst.
[67] Letters and Lives of Eminent Persons, 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1813.