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 52 dilation of the blood, of which subject he made a treatise, consisting of two books, which he sent to Dr. Harvey, who epitomised and printed them in his own name ; he usually said that Dr. Harvey did not under- stand the motion of the heart, which was a perfect hydraulik Dr. Pain, that very ingenious and learned canon of Christ Church, told me that he had seen and perused this book of WarrenerV Finally, the excellent Biographia Britannica has em- balmed Wood's and Aubrey's story, in the articles 'Harriott' and 'Harvey,' pp. 2542 and 2550, ed. 1757. Many d priori impro- babilities will at once be seen to attach to this story, and it is easy enough to discredit more than one of the witnesses. But I have better than indirect evidence to bring for- ward, and I will have the agreeable mental exercise of excogitating it to the ingenuity of my hearers, which ingenuity will be sharp- ened, no doubt, by their regard for their own Harvey, and strengthened by the belief that ' Whatever records spring to light, He never shall be shamed.' I may be asked, after this quotation, why