Royalist father and Roundhead son; being the memoirs of the first and second earls of Denbigh, 1600-1675 . A few years later Basil lost an old friend, for in theyear 1657 died William Harvey, whom we last sawat the battle of Edgehill. He had soon after movedto London, where in 1650 a friend visited him andasked him if all were well with him. How can thatbe, the great physician replied, when the State isso agitated with storms that I myself am yet in theopen sea? On another occasion he remarked : Thisobscure life and vacation from public cares, which woulddisgust other minds, is the medicine of
Royalist father and Roundhead son; being the memoirs of the first and second earls of Denbigh, 1600-1675 . A few years later Basil lost an old friend, for in theyear 1657 died William Harvey, whom we last sawat the battle of Edgehill. He had soon after movedto London, where in 1650 a friend visited him andasked him if all were well with him. How can thatbe, the great physician replied, when the State isso agitated with storms that I myself am yet in theopen sea? On another occasion he remarked : Thisobscure life and vacation from public cares, which woulddisgust other minds, is the medicine of mine. Hedevoted his time to the deeply interesting study ofgenetics. In his eightieth year, after having furnishedthe library of his beloved college with samples andrarities, he was attacked with paralysis and died. Aubrey tells us that in person he was not tall butof the lowest stature ; round faced ; olive as to com-plexion ; little eyes, round and very black ; full ofspirits ; his hair black as a raven but quite white twentyyears before he died. Harvey himself and all his contemppraries were well. SUSAN VILLIERS, COUNTESS OF DENBIGH FROM THE PAINTING BY BALTHAZAR GERBIER THE COMMONWEALTH 289 aware of the novelty and importance of his theory,and in the dedication of his treatise to Charles I hementions that he should not dare to set forth this bookhad he not for more than nine years preached it in hiscollege lectures. During a controversy with Professor Hoffman, Harveywrote : I accept your censure in the candid andfriendly spirit in which you say you wrote it ; but dbyou do the same by me, now that I have answered youin the same spirit. But the Professor reanained un-believing even after a personal discussion. Of Harvey as a practising physician little is tells us that he paid his visits on horsebackwith a footcloth ; his man following on foot, as thefashion then was, and, though all of his professionwould allow him to be an excellent anatomist I neverheard any
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