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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    last he will have respect to princes recommendations and to my bysines: and now as I am writing I humbly thanke your Eccelency, your servant is arrived and hath beene with me and is gone to the Podesta ac- cording to your order. He will tell you of a trick to burn my pass and the injury they have offered me therein. When your lordship shale marke how tedious I am in writing I pray give it this interpretation, I have noe other thinge to doe and infinite greedy to be gone, and that I scrible thus, in hast and the want of good pens and inke, etc. Yf your Eccellency goe to the Colledg ye may justly lament the little respect this Podesta hath given the recommendations I have from my lord Embass. and his Majesty, or the bysines I am sent in, whoe would not soe much as receyve it and read it being offered nor send information thereof to Venis, nor make difference thereupon betweene me and the vitturines servants, would give me no releife or assistance, not soe much as a barne or stule free to myself butt force that infamy, danger, suspition and base usadg of ther lazarett upon me, not to suffer me to write to your Eccellency untill 5 or 6 howers past, that in the meane time he mought procure an order from Venis to countenance his act and injure me upon un- equal relation; and your Eccellency may justly resent that the dispatches to you and bysines of yours should be thus used and not upon your letters released and [28]