too, and that from a Letter to you, from your unknown, yet faithful Servant, and Well∣wisher, T. S.
I believe indeed, as you do, that he's a Gentle∣man of Candor and Ingenuity, nay and a Prophet too, for he said, you would Write on till you ex∣pos'd your self, which is most true. But the De∣vil's in your Impudence for comparing your Dis∣covery, as you call it, to Harveys Circulation; you accuse the Ancients of more Ignorance than Harvey thought fit to do, and even his Discovery it self must be lessen'd by you; if you had been be∣fore his time twou'd certainly have been yours; but I'll swear, I doubt you understand it still, for as evident as it seems to you,
I admire, say you, how People could be so sottish, as to see Blood run from a Vein below the Ligature, and not from thence infer a Circulation.
Is this all the Evi∣dence you have to disparage
Harvey's Discovery by, and to entitle you to the liberty of making Dunces of former Physicians? Mr.
Member if I were to Examin you upon this Point, I'm afraid, you should be Remitted to your Studies. Let us suppose then with the Ancients, that Blood came from the Head, the Liver,
&c. into the Arms and Legs, and that this Blood was returned by these
Veins, a
Ligature in this case stopping the motion of the Blood in its return, obliges the Blood to run out of a Wound that's made below the
Ligature, as much on this Supposition, as upon
Harvey's De∣monstration, and therefore we hear them talk of Bleeding the
Cephalick in the Arm for Head-Aches, the
Hepatick in Inflamations, and the
Me∣dian in more Ambiguous cases. You see now, how well you understand the Circulation; but you confound every thing you meddle with, if it were even a T—d. But after all your boasting, we return to your Powder that cures Wounds of the Guts, and Lungs certainly; here's Impudence indeed, but for evincing this