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ABSTRACT IN a letter to the Lancet of November 17, dealing with the remarkable absence of any reference in Harvey's writings to his predecessor Caesalpinus, who is still regarded by
some Italians as the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, Dr. D. F. Fraser-Harris remarks that he has recently found the three words “J. Cæsalpinus Aretinus” in a translation of the
MS. notes of Harvey's lectures edited by a committee of the Royal College of Physicians in 1886. He points out, however, that the Christian name of Caesalpinus of Arezzo was Andreas, so
that the initial letter should have been A. instead of J. He therefore suggests that Harvey, whose handwriting was execrable, really wrote “J. Cæs. Arantius”, an abbreviation of Julius
Caesar Arantius, the celebrated anatomist of Bologna (1530–89), to whom Harvey afterwards referred in his essay on the placenta when dealing with the relation of the umbilical vein to the
uterine vessels. In support of this suggestion is the context, in which Harvey is describing the three semi-lunar valves at the base of the aorta and pulmonary artery, on the cusps of which
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