Essay Review: An Harveyan Prelude to Harvey: Lectures on the Whole of Anatomy

Journal of the History of Medicine, xii (1957), 152–3.

Pagel , ibidem, 150–52.

666a, lib. III, cap. 4, Opera omnia ed. Guil. du Val (Paris, 1619), i, 1004; the Greek text: “En meso keisthai tou anankeiou somatos. Toutou de peras he ta perittomata apokrinetai” ed. Bekker (Oxford, 1837), 68.

Aristotle, On the parts of animals, transl. by Ogle W. (London, 1882), 67.

See my article in Journal of the History of Medicine, vi (1951), 116–124.

de Bouelles Charles In hoc opere … contenta. Liber cordis. Liber propriae rationis. (J. Badius Ascensius, Paris, 1523), sig. c 5 verso between fol. xiii and xiv; copy used as quoted in Poynter F. N. L. , Catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Library, i (London, 1962) no. 6845, p. 363 (supplement).

De rerum principiis et elementis et causis, 1590. Opera latina Tocco F. Vitelli H. (Florence, 1891), iii, 507 et seq.; 521 et seq.

Historia anatomica humani corporis (1600), (Frankfurt, 1602), 746.

Hispalensis Isidorus liber etymologiarum (Venetiis, 1483), lib. XI, cap. 1 de homine et partibus ejus, fol. 56r.

Anglici Bartholomaei de proprietatibus rerum (Argentine, 1491), lib. V, cap. 36, sig. fl r.

De anatomic, administr. lib. VIII, cap. 15: “amydra kai bracheia kinesis … en tois osi tes kardias phainetai”, editor Kühn , Opera omnia, ii, 641.

trans. Willis R. , The Works of William Harvey (London, 1847), 27.

Edwardes David , Introduction to anatomy, 1532; facsimile reproduction with English translation by O'Malley C. D. Russell K. F. (Oxford, 1961), 61–62.

Harvey's views on the circulation of the blood (New York, 1915), 92.

De motu, cap. IV. Ed. princeps p. 27; transl. by Willis p. 28.

De general. animal. ii, 740a; 741b; 743b and elsewhere.

Trans. Willis op. cit., p. 237, exercise 17. In the first edition (London, 1651) this occurs in the 16th exercise, p. 51.

Praxis universalis artis medicinae (Treviso, 1606), 2.

“On certain errors respecting the structure of the heart attributed to Aristotle”, Nature, xxi (1879) 1–5; Scientific memoirs, iv, 380.

Aristotle on the parts of animals (London, 1882), p. 198 ad: Lib. III, cap. 4, n. 23.

Pagel , Journal of the History of Medicine, xii (1957), 151. See also the interesting confirmation by new documentary evidence brought forward by Poynter in: Ferrario E. V. Poynter F. N. L. Franklin K. J. , ibidem, xv (1960), 10.

Historia anatomica (Francof. 1602), 750; the italics are mine.

e.g. Quaestionum peripateticarum (Venice, 1593), v, 4, fol. 125 v.

Transl. Willis , p. 174.

Bartholinus Thomas , Anatomia reformata (The Hague, 1655), 280; van Helmont , Catarrhi deliramenta cap. 45, particularly (f), (g), (t), in Ortus medicinae (Amsterdam, 1648), 439–40.

Fernel , De abditis rerum causis, lib. II, cap. 15 (De venenatis morbis). Universa medicina editors Heurnius J. Heurnius O. (Trajecti ad Rhenum, 1656), ii, 513.

Fernel , Pathologia lib. VI, cap. 10 (De morbis intestinorum). Ibidem, ii, 167.

Praxis universalis artis medicinae (Treviso, 1606), 197. For examples from Sennert see Castelli , Lexicon medicinae (Lipsiae, 1713), 115.

I am not aware of any such authority other perhaps than the title of an essay by Lady Drower on “Adamas” in Theologische Literaturzeitung 1961, col. 173–180 as quoted by Scholem G. , Ursprung und Anfänge der Kabbala (Berlin, 1962), p. 136, n. 149; also with reference to Lady Drawer's book The secret Adam (Oxford, 1960)). One would like to ask how Harvey could have possibly had acquired knowledge of the Mandaeangnostic lore on which all this is based. On the use of the term Adamas denoting the archetype of man by the Gnostic sects of the Ophites and Naassenes, Ireneus (known at Harvey's time) and Hippolytus (not known at Harvey's time) should, of course, be mentioned as classical sources.