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UNPRETENDING as it is, this is an admirable little book. It is concise but full of matter, is scholarly and accurate, and, for those who concern themselves with the history of ideas, very interesting. It is a curious thing that of the scores of orators on Harvey none has given any considerable place to a closer discussion of the relations of Harvey, to Aristotle and to Galen. Some of us have touched upon the attitude of Harvey towards the overbearing tradition of these two great ancients, and of the degree, or terms, in which he doggedly asserted his independence of it, or in which he admitted their doctrines or approved their speculations; but no one seems to have completed the task of setting forth exactly how far the ideas, let us say, especially of Aristotle and of Harvey, coincided or diverged. This Prof. Curtis has done, and done finally. Unhappily, upon the appreciation of the reviewer there lies a shadow: this able and interesting scholar died, in September 1913, before the publication of his work. At the author's request, this volume has been edited by his colleague, Frederic Lee, of Columbia University.
Harvey's Views on the Use of the Circulation of the Blood.
By Prof. J. G. Curtis. Pp. xi + 194. (New York: Columbia University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1915.) Price 6s. 6d. net.
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ALLBUTT, C. Harvey's Views on the Use of the Circulation of the Blood . Nature 97, 217 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097217a0
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