The remark about preferring to err with Galen than to "believe with Harvey" is attributed by Amita Lal Sircar, writing in the Calcutta Journal of Medicine in 1908, to one Riolan, a follower of Hippocrates and Trousseau. Presumably this is Jean Riolan II (1580-1657), a Court Official to the French Queen Mother and physician to Henry IV and Louis XIII.

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