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 and other parts of Italy. The former, whom his greatest detractors* have never accused of want of uprightness and honesty, does not allude to the discoveries of Cesalpino; and the lattert distinctly says that, having been in familiar intercourse with the most distinguished anatomists in Padua, Venice, and throughout Italy, for some years, he had found "the movement of the blood almost entirely unknown, or that it certainly was regarded as incredible." Schlegel manifestly speaks of the movement of the blood as taught by Harvey, because earlier writers had discussed the question of the circulation, as Harvey himself admits, § but,

in his two introductory lectures to his last course of Anatomical Lec- tures, 1784, pp. 43, et seq., speaks of Harvey in a manner that is a blot upon the lecturer's name, and shows that he had not investi- gated the question by a reference to the original works of the men whom he compares with Harvey. + Pauli Marquarti Slegelii, M.D. Hamburg, De Sanguinis Motu Commentatio. Hamburgi, 1650, p. 7. Schlegel (Latinised, Slegelius), the son of a merchant, was born at Hamburg in 1605, and studied medicinc at Altorf, Wittenberg, and Jena. In 1631, in company with Rolfink, he undertook a long scientific tour. He visited Hol- land and England, then went to Paris, where he remained two years; subsequently spent several years in Italy; and, after taking a degree at Padua in 1636, returned to Germany in 1638. He was at once appointed Professor of Anatomy, Surgery, and Botany at Jena. In 1642, Schlegel was invited to accept the office of "sub- physicus," or assistant officer of health, in Hamburg, where he founded an anatomical theatre. He died in 1653. For further details, see Mittheilungen aus der älteren Medicinal Geschichte IIam- burg's, von Physicus Dr. Gernet, Hamburg, 1869; and also Lexicon der IIamburgischen Schriftsteller bis zur Gegenwart, von Dr. H. Schroeder, now publishing. In the last, a list of twenty-four works by Schlegel is given, which illustrates both the variety and the depth of his studies. The original Latin is: Quin imo doctrinam illo tempore de motu sanguinis apud omnes ferc incompertam aut certe pro in- credibile habitam fuisse, neque obtineri potuissc rationibus ab iis ut assentirentur. § Sydenham Society's edition of Ilarvey's Works, p. 33.
 * Among these we are pained to mention William Hunter, who,