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5. An Invitation to a free and generous communication of secrets and
receits in Physick.
6. Whether or no, each several Disease hath a Particular Remedy?
7. A new and easie Method of Chirurgery, for the curing of all fresh
Wounds or other Hurts.
8. A Discourse about the Essence or Existence of Mettals.
9. The New Positions, pretended Prophetical Prognostications, Of what
shall happen to Physicians, Chyrurgeons, Apothecaries, Alchymists, and
Miners.
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HARVEY, William (1578–1657)
De motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus anatomica
exercitatio. Cui postrema hac editione accesserunt Cl. V. Johannis
Walaei... Epistolae Duae, quibus Harveii doctrina roboratur.
Padua: apud Sebastianum Sardum... sumptibus Dominici Ricciardi, 1643.
12mo: ✠6 A–I12 K6 , 120 leaves, pp. [12] 227 [1] (last page blank).
Woodcut device on title.
2 folding engraved plates (bound after p. 102).
165 x 75mm, untrimmed. Lower margin of title defective with loss
of last line of imprint, restored and missing words supplied in pen
facsimile; lower margin of E2 defective, with signature and catchword
supplied; 40 x 20mm piece torn from bottom of Wrst plate, and 25 x 20
piece torn from within the second plate, both restored and the missing
parts of the engravings supplied in pen and ink; both plates torn in the
fold and restored with some pen and ink work. The restorations are
expertly done, the patches on the plates almost unnoticeable; a clean
and fresh copy, probably washed.
Binding: Recent vellum boards.
Fourth edition (Wrst 1628). Keynes 4; Krivatsy 5330;
De motu cordis, Wrst printed at Frankfurt in 1628, the book in
which Harvey announced his discovery of the circulation of
the blood, is generally considered to be the most important
book in the history of medicine.
The importance of De motu cordis is that it convincingly
showed how observation and experiment could be used to
establish the truth about the workings of the human body.
To arrive at his conclusion that the blood circulates round
the body, rather than being continually regenerated and used
up, Harvey had to convince his contemporaries to put more
faith in experimental science than in the authority of Galen as
the ultimate source of scientiWc knowledge. It was the great
achievement of Vesalius to reveal, by detached observation, the
‘fabric of the human body’ (De humani corporis fabrica, 1545).
This new knowledge of anatomy forced a re­examination of
the workings of various organs. Harvey’s achievement was to