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Note (g). Page 8.
It seems strange that Harvey's "Medical Anatomy" or "Medical Observations" was not published after his death, and still stranger that this and other writings of his should have been lost, and that we should have no satisfactory account of the loss. I will venture to reproduce here some remarks I published on the subject in 1850.
In the Life prefixed to the College-Edition of his works we are informed that he had written
- Observationes de usu lienis.
- Observationes de motu locali.
- Tractatum Physiologicum.
- Observationes Medicinales.
- De Amore, Libidine et Coitu animalium.
In the same place it is stated that all these writings, together with observations on the generation of insects, perished when his house was plundered by parliamentary soldiers in the civil war. No authority is given for this statement; and its correctness may justly be disputed. In regard to more than one of the writings it is almost certainly erroneous.
Aubrey, who had from Harvey himself the fact that he had thus lost some very valuable papers, tells the story as follows: "He had made dissections of frogs, "toads, and a number of other animals, and had curious "observations on them, which papers, together with his "goods, in his lodgings at Whitehall, were plundered at .
