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 chap. iii, pp. 25 and 26. The Second Disquisition to Riolanus, pp. 112 and 113, 135.

Note k, p. 23.

Exercises lxvii and lxviii, pp. 477, 478, 479. These repeated examinations of the uterus of the hind and doe were made on animals given to Harvey for the purpose by the king,

Note 1, p. 23.

Harvey gives us the arguments, or at least some of them, in the Essay on Conception, where this view is broached at length; and the creations, as he terms them, of the uterus are compared with creations of the brain (vide p. 577). His arguments are not very strong, but the whole essay on conception is conceived in a Platonic rather than an Aristotelian spirit.

Note m, p. 23.

The words of Harvey which approach nearest to this aphorisin are nos autem asserimus (ut ex dicendis constabit) omnia om- nino animalia, etiam vivipara, atque hominem etiam ipsum, ex ovo progigni" (Exercise I). Vide on this point Dr. Arthur Farre's Harveian Oration in 1872. Dr. Farre is, I think, the only Harveian orator who has treated at length with the De Genera- tione Animalium.

Note 2, p. 25.

Exercise xli. And he goes on to remark, "And yet these ani- mals are supposed to have arisen spontaneously or from decompo- sition, because their ova are nowhere to be found. This exercise concludes with a remarkable passage concerning epidemic and contagious diseases, in which Harvey distinctly foreshadows the doctrine that epidemic, contagious, and pestilential diseases are propagated through the air by bodies multiplying themselves by a kind of generation."