For the concept of a circuit of the blood does not destroy, but rather advances traditional medicine.

For the concept of a circuit of the blood does not destroy, but rather advances traditional medicine.

Nature is a volume of which God is the author.

Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten paths; nor is there any better way to advance the proper practice of medicine than to give our minds to the discovery of the usual law of nature, by careful investigation of cases of rarer forms of disease.

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could discover the function and offices of the heart's movement in animals through the use of my own eyes instead of through the books and writings of others, I kept finding the matter so truly hard and beset with difficulties that I all but thought, with Fracastoro, that the heart's movement had been understood by God alone.

Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.