"On the body of Margaret Johnson we find two things (which) may be called teats. The first in shape like to the teat of a bitch but in our judgement nothing but the skin as it will be drawn out after the application of leeches. The second is like the nipple or teat of a woman's breast, but of the same colour with the rest of the skin without any hollowness or issue for any blood or juice to come from thence." The report is signed by ten midwives, by Alexander Reid, M.D., the lecturer on Anatomy at the Barber Surgeons' Hall, whom Harvey seems to have deputed to take his place, and by six surgeons evidently chosen from amongst the most eminent of those then practising in London. The result of this report was that four of the seven convicted witches were pardoned, an exercise of mercy "which may have been due," says Mr. Aveling, "to the enlightened views and prompt and energetic action of Dr. Harvey." There is no doubt that at this time and throughout his life Harvey practised every branch of his profession. That he was primarily a physician is evident; that he was a surgeon is shown by the fact that in his will he bequeathed to Dr. Scarborough his "silver instruments of surgery," whilst in his writings he says, "Looking back upon the office of the arteries, I have occasionally, and against all expectation, completely cured enormous sarcoceles by the simple means of dividing or tying the little artery that supplied them, and so preventing all access of nourishment or spirit to the part affected, by which it came to pass that the tumour on the verge of mortification was afterwards easily extirpated with the knife or searing iron." No one, reading his treatise on Development, can doubt for a moment that he was well versed in the diseases of women and in such practical midwifery as the prejudices and habits of the time allowed him to become familiar. Specialism, indeed, as it is now understood in England, did not exist at this time, though there was a debased form in which men attended only to outward injuries or to internal complaints. Harvey sometimes got into trouble with his cases, as must always happen even to the most experienced. The records of the Barber Surgeons' Company contain the following notice under the date 17th of November, 1635. It has the marginal note, "Dr. Harvey's ill practise":--