Medical lectures and essays / by George Johnson.

  • Johnson, George, 1818-1896.
Date:
1887
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    f i 5 f CHAPTEE LL THE HARVEIAN ORATION DELIVERED AT THE ROYAL COLLEGE ' OE PHYSICIANS, JUNE 24, 1882. Mr. President and Gentlemen,—After accepting the invitation with which you. Sir, honoured me, to undertake the arduous p and responsible duty of Harveian orator, my first intention I was to take as the main subject of my address the additions 0 our knowledge of the vascular system, with its nerves supply, |, which have been made within the last thirty years; and i‘ thus to continue the history of these interesting discoveries from the point at which, for want of time, it was left by ■ ' Dr. Sanderson in the learned oration which he delivered here p , four years ago. On further consideration, however, it ap- ' ' peared to me that my attention should, by preference, be j,’ i directed to the systematic attempts which have recently been 1: made in Italy to rob our illustrious Harvey of the honour which for two centuries and a half has, by almost universal consent, been conceded to him, and to claim for the Italian 1' Cesalpino (Latin, Ciesalpinus) the credit of having anticipated;. Harvey in the discovery and demonstration of the circulation i, of the blood. These attempts to exalt Cesalpino at the I ; expense of Harvey have been referred to and refuted by thej late Dr. K. Willis, in his admirable volume entitled William y , Harvey} But the subject is so important and so full of| , interest for this college that it may well occupy all the time i at my disposal to-day. |- ?, It will be remembered that Dr. Sieveking, in his interesting oration delivered in 1887, referred to the fact that a monument h | in honour of Cesalpino had recently been unveiled in Eome. ^ | 1 am indebted tp the kindness of Dr. Pantaleoni, the eminently -j ' London, 1878.