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
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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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    bands and then I had shunned them or make known att his entrance to every man what he was to doe, otherwise this was to surprize and catch men; and they knowing not well what to answear sumtime alledged that Villach was suspected sumtime I had not gotten my fede subscribed att Conian (? Conegliano) or Sacile, sumtime that the Vitturin had brought a boy with him, his son to gett a master, whose name was not in the Vitturins fede soe sumtime I was stayed for him, sum time (they sayd) he and his horses stayed for me. Touching the suspition I answeared Villach tooke as great care and examined my fede as strictly as they could and had given me fede of ther safety which they ought in civility to trust, and that the Duke of Alkalay (Alcala) viceroy of Naples with lOO persons choosed to stay there. And that upon bare suspitions of ther owne without any just ground ought not to be thougt cause enough to use me in all respects as if I had the plague for certentye on me, and that if I had had it would they not have granted me in charity a house, bed and succour for my money though all had beene burned after, and I have payd for it. It was agaynst all manhood and charit}^ And for not having my fede subscribed in ther own town, as we passed, they knew well I could com noe other way from Pontevi (Pon- tebba) and that they weare all without suspition and that I was towld, and it was and is every man's mouth ther was noe neede, and that it was upon accident for our Vitturin whoe should have directed us being [26]