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viii HARVEY IN ANCIENT AND MODERN MEDICINE I thought I should be honoured with this opportunity of asserting its connection with the Harveian scheme. Without claiming any other value for the views I have put forward than that they were the results of observation and thought, I judged it more fitting to lay them before the College as such rather than to offer that which had cost me nothing.