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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_
SURGEON TO THE VICTORIA HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, CHELSEA
_Copyright by T. Fisher Unwin, 1897, for Great Britain and Longmans Green & Co. for the United States of America_
IN RECOGNITION OF HIS PROFOUND KNOWLEDGE OF THE PRINCIPLES ADVOCATED BY HARVEY, AND IN GRATITUDE FOR MANY KINDNESSES CONFERRED BY HIM UPON THE AUTHOR
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.
VII. HARVEY'S DEATH, BURIAL, AND EULOGY 166
The history of the Harvey family begins with Thomas Harvey, father of William, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood. The careful search of interested and competent genealogists has ended in the barren statement that the family is apparently descended from, or is a branch of the same stock as, Sir Walter Hervey, "pepperer," or member of the ancient guild which afterwards became the important Company of Grocers. Sir Walter was Mayor of London in the year reckoned from the death of Henry III. in November, 1272. It was the noise of the citizens assembled in Westminster Hall clamouring for Hervey's election as Mayor that disturbed the King's deathbed.