Excerpt from On Heredity in Relation to Disease: The Harveian Oration for 1908, Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians of London on October 19th, 1908 Us brilliant word pictures of the man, his times, his friends, and his lectures at this College. Alas, that I cannot compete with them! That I have no fresh offering to lay on Harvey's shrine I and that I can only bow my head, as do we all, in memory of this great and good man, of his noble char acter, his transcendent genius, and his im mortal discoveries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.