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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    shortly to be consummated; it wilbe a fitt occasion to have order to congratulate. I perceyve iieare myself to have much acceptance, access and familiarity, whereby it may be (att least I desier) to performe his Majestys service, or for your Eccelency or any your affayres. Here is a great Coort. The Duke of Loreyn and his Dutchess, to whom the Grand Duke giveth the hand; the Duke of Guise, his lady and his sonnes, Prince Janviel (Joinville), the Duke of Joyeux and too little ones, knights of Malta, and a daughter marriedgable, besides the Dukes sister, his too brothers, and the Cardinall and one of his uncles. Your Eccel- encys humble servant. The Grand Duke who thus liberally entertained the great physician was Ferdinand II, who himself was the inventor of various forms of thermometers and took the greatest interest in the scientific work of his day. The best account of this remarkable prince is to be found in the brochure of Father Urbano Daviso, entitled Pratiche Astrono- miche, annexed to Trattato della Sfera, quoted by De Nelle (Vita e Commercio Litterario di Galileo Galilei), Losanna, 1793, pp. 91 to 93. In an address on The Early History of Instrumental Precision in Medicine (Second Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, September 23, 1891) I described long ago some of the instruments invented by the Duke Ferdinand. Harvey is heard of again in Rome, where on October 5 [39]