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 all that was known in Anatomical science was taught, and where the germs of his future discoveries were probably formed. In 1602 he graduated in medicine, and soon after came to London and began the active duties of his professional life, but we have very slight records of these years. In 1601 he joined the Royal College of Physicians and became fellow of the College in 1607. Two years later we find, that he obtained the office of Physician to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, and had received Royal support in his application. In 1615, Harvey was appointed lecturer on Anatomy and Surgery at the College, but it was not till 1628, that his great work was published, his “Anatomical disquisition on the motion of the heart and blood vessels in animals.” James I. had died three years before in 1625; Shakspeare had finished his career, and Sir Walter Raleigh had been unrighteously led to the block when the eventful times of Charles I. were ushered in. Harvey was a lover of peace, and a student of science, but, he could not have remained un-