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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![members of the Levant Company,^ capital must have been required. One daughter married, and certainly not without dowry. Here assuredly was varied need for large means. Of more moment than this unanswered question of how Thomas Harvey became the fortunate possessor of wealth, would it be to learn why only his eldest son was bred to learning, and in this little village was so early meant to be a physician. Harvey settled in London in 1602, became a hospital physician and no doubt was soon busy dissecting and ex- perimenting. But of what he did in these years before his anatomical lectures in April, 1616, we know nothing; yet long before that date the great new truth must have become his assured mental property. A single couplet in a strange and most indecent set of anonymous doggerel of about 1611, concerning London doctors, is quoted in my former memoranda, to the effect that Harvey was dissecting and was notably small in stature. This is all w^e learn of those busy years. ^ Memoranda taken from Queen Elizabeth and the Levant Company, by the Rev. H. G. Rosedale, and published by the Royal Society of Literature. The Levant Company were merchants trading in the Levant, and sometimes known as the Turkey Company. At the close of the sixteenth century Sir Edward Barton was Ambassador in Turkey, and he was not only the nominee of the Turkey Company, but his entire income was derived from the resources of the company, while his every act was done in the name of the sovereign and under the direction of her Ministers of State. It was to this Turkey Company that the younger brothers of Harvey belonged, and it was through their relation to the trade of the Levant that some of them became men of wealth and importance, [7]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21173370_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
