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It was in the library that Sir Andrew presided at the Harveian Oration the day before he was taken ill. Sir Andrew could not be judged of by the surface. As Sir Joseph Phayres truly says: "I have known him intimately, and the more I knew him the more I respected and admired him." Those who knew him best loved him best.
Come and see for yourselves, was his constant cry." Harveian Oration, Dr. J.F. Payne, 1896. Opera, tom. x. p. 462. De Vita Propria, ch. xxviii. p. 73. Ibid., ch. xxiii. p. 64. De Utilitate, p. 309. He also writes at length in the Proxenata on Domestic Economy. Opera, tom. i. p. 377. De Vita Propria, ch. xxxvii. p. 118. De Varietate, p. 589. De Varietate, p. 589. Ibid., p. 640.
With a heartfelt pang, hundreds read in an evening paper on October 20th of the serious illness of Sir Andrew Clark, so truly spoken of by George Eliot as "the beloved physician." Only the previous day he had presided at the Annual Harveian Oration as President of the College of Physicians.
In 1697 Garth spoke that which is now called "The Harveian Oration;" which the authors of "The Biographia" mention with more praise than the passage quoted in their notes will fully justify.
Many of these can be found in the admirable works of Dalton, Flourens, Richet and Curtis. In my Harveian Oration for 1906 I have dealt specially with the reception of the new views, and have shown how long it was before the reverence for Galen allowed of their acceptance.
I well remember the deep impression made upon me by his original communication, which in completeness, in accuracy of detail, in Harveian precision and in practical results remains one of the most brilliant pieces of experimental work ever undertaken.
It took long for men to realize the value of this "inventum mirabile" used so effectively by the Alexandrians by Galen indeed, its full value has only been appreciated within the past century. Let me quote a paragraph from my Harveian Oration. "To the age of the hearer, in which men had heard and heard only, had succeeded the age of the eye in which men had seen and had been content only to see.
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