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which I am well assured none in the present nineteenth century would reverse.
Full of this teaching, Harvey went to Canterbury. He stayed at the King’s School for five years, from childhood to youth, and left[1] at the age of fifteen, entering at Caius College on May 31, 1593. He took his degree of B. A. in 1597, and left the University; and I know of no record of who were his friends or what his pursuits during those four years. All that we can be sure of is that they were not years wasted, for he was well furnished for his future career when, on quitting Cambridge, he went immediately to Padua, attracted thither doubtless by the fame of its University as a school for those anatomical studies for which he had acquired a taste at college. The University of Padua became to Harvey a second mother, and
- ↑ The terms in which Harvey’s admission at Caius College, Cambridge, ‘in commeatum scholarium’ is recorded, seeming to imply that he went thither with a scholarship from Canterbury, I addressed myself to my friends Dr. Paget, Regius Professor of Medicine at Cambridge, and Dr. Lochée of Canterbury, and as the result of their kind enquiries, I feel able to state confidently that Harvey entered college as a pensioner, and that he held no scholarship from Canterbury.
