Summary:
THIS work is a reprint from the Proceedings of the Oxford Bibliographical Society and Papers (4, 1; 1935). Prof. Fulton states that he has chosen this subject owing to the recent interest caused by Dr. K. J. Franklin's studies on Lower and Prof. T. S. Patterson's critical discussion of Mayow's work. In a short introduction to Lower's bibliography, Dr. Franklin adds some supplementary matter to his previous studies, and maintains that the pre-eminent position occupied by Oxford in scientific achievement during the seventeenth century was due among others to Lower, who was alike great as an anatomist, physiologist and medical practitioner. Dr. Fulton himself has an equally high opinion of Lower, whom he regards as the foremost English physiologist of the seventeenth century after Harvey. On the other hand, he agrees with Prof. Patterson that Mayow has been credited with many things which had been definitely mentioned by other people, though he emphasises the fact that Mayow was the second English writer after Glisson to publish a treatise on rickets with novel and praiseworthy suggestions concerning orthopaedic treatment.