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Quotation from The Works of William Harvey by William Harvey
“Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows traces of her workings apart from the beaten path”
The Works of William Harvey, Letter to John Vlackveld, physician at Haarlem (1657), trans. Robert Willis (1847)
In one of his last letters Harvey commends the study of rare cases of disease as the way to learn nature's usual law.
Citation: "Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows traces of her workings apart from the beaten path" — William Harvey, The Works of William Harvey, Letter to John Vlackveld, physician at Haarlem (1657), trans. Robert Willis (1847). (id harvey-works-q5)
