Some recently discovered letters of William Harvey, with other miscellanea / by S. Weir Mitchell ; with a bibliography of Harvey's works by Charles Perry Fisher.
- William Harvey
- Date:
- 1912
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Some recently discovered letters of William Harvey, with other miscellanea / by S. Weir Mitchell ; with a bibliography of Harvey's works by Charles Perry Fisher. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![niece, daughter of his brother Daniel, and whose family is now represented by the Earl of Winchilsea.^ In this volume William Harvey wrote some medical advice for the young man he calls in his will Cousen; and hence my interest in a volume which is otherwise of singular value for its record of the youthful industry of the great Lord Chancellor. Since printing this last contribution to Harveiana, I have gathered other material of less moment, which taken alone were hardly worth printing, but is quite available for use in connection with copies of the important Harvey letters which by happy fortune have come into my possession. Before considering what are new and valuable additions to our personal knowledge of Harvey, one may pause to comment on certain matters which seem to have been too easily neglected in the larger interests of his matchless career. The surname Harvey is presumably Norman. Herve is found in France, and in England as Hervie, Hervy, and Harvey. The name is frequent in Kent.^ In some of the Clarendon manuscript letters and else- where the great doctor's name is spelled Hervie or Hervey. Thomas, his father, born in 1549, had one brother and three sisters, from whom may have descended other of the many Kentish Harveys. The belief in the descent of this energetic family from a certain Sir Walter Harvey,_ 1 Heneage Finch, of Burley on Hill, and others. - County Genealogies: Kent, by William Berry, London, 1830. [4]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21173370_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
