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 by unusual procedures;"—a statement fully borne out by a perusal of Harvey's works. But even bad it had not been so, I should have given Harvey credit for being as good a judge of the originality- of his methods of treatment as of the justice of his claim to have discovered the circulation. Certain it is that Harvey himself looked upon that discovery as on a very fruitful field, and that his own experience justified him in so doing. And we may take it that he either had written, or was preparing to write, several works on physiology, pathology, and therapeutics, of which the titles only are to be found scattered through his works; but which, had they seen the light, would have proved him to be no idle boaster. His treatise on the circulation would have been enlarged and supplemented by a Physiology and particular treatise on the Blood, by Disquisitions on the Respiration of Animals,” by an Essay on “The Causes, Uses, and Organs of Respiration," and by a work on “Physiology and we should have had the results of his experience as a practitioner set forth in his “Medical Observations,” his “Medical Observations and Pathology,” and his “Medical Anatomy or Anatomy in its application