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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    strangers gott his own fede subscribed att Connian, and for the horses we rood on, and did not tell us untili it was to late, thinking his was sufficient. Butt for all these cavills, I sayd the word of an honest man or his oth in this case ought to suffice. I write the larger to your Eccelency of those passages because I know not what they may make of my conference in ther letters that ye may know the truth, and indeed my lord I am a little jealous of them, and to take anny beds now of ther sending, for since ther manners and cruelty hath beene soe shamefull to me, and they have soe little reason for what they have done, it would be like the rest of ther proceedings yf they sent me an infected bed to make ther conjectures and suspitions prove true; therfor I choose to lie still to be redeemed by your Eccelency oute of this inocent straw. Yester- day likewise the patron that owed the howse wheare I first took my straw bed (a little poore garden howse full of lumber, durt and knatts, without window or dore, open to the high way att midnight) was to offer me that agayne, because I had chosen that to shun the infamy of this lazaret and the suspition I had that sum infected person had lately bene heare, and from which they forced me with terror of muskets, I write this to shew your Eccelency that all they doe hence upon your stirring is butt formal to salve ther own errors. I tell them I desier nothing of them, or expect or will except, but only beseech the Podesta that I may be att liberty with all expedition, and that att [27]
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