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 printed in the Year MDLIII. he clearly asserts, that the Blood passes through the Lungs, from the Left to the Right Ventricle of the Heart; and not through the Partition which divides the two Ventricles, as was at that Time commonly believed. How he introduces it, or in which of the Six Discourses, into which Servetus divides his Book, it is to be found, I know not, having never seen the Book my self. Mr. Charles Bernard, a very learned and eminent Chirurgeon of London, who did me the Favour to communicate this Passage to me, (set down at length in the Margin) which was transcribed out of Servetus, could inform me no further, only that he had it from a learned Friend of his, who had himself copied it from Servetus.

Realdus Columbus, of Cremona, was the next that said any thing of it, in his Anatomy, printed at Venice, 1559. in Folio; and at Paris, in 1572. in Octavo; and afterwards elsewhere. There he asserts the same (d) Circulation through the