On the motion of the heart and blood in animals / Willis's translation rev. & ed. by Alex Bowie.

  • William Harvey
Date:
1889
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Credit: On the motion of the heart and blood in animals / Willis's translation rev. & ed. by Alex Bowie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    preserved to us, and that little is derived from the in- scription on a monumental slab in Folkestone Church. She is there described as having died in her 50th year, the mother of seven sons and two daughters. A Godly harmles Woman: A chaste loveing Wife: A charitable quiet Neighbour: A co'fortable frendly Matron: A p'ovident diligent Huswyfe: A careful te'der-harted Mother. Deere to her Husband: Reverensed of her Children: Beloved of her Neighbours: Elected of Cod. Whose Soule Rest in Heaven: her Body in this Grave: To Her a Happy Advantage: To Hers an Unhappy Loss. Conjecture has attributed the author- ship of the foregoing inscription to her son William. At the age of ten Harvey entered the Grammar School of Canterbury, where he remained for five years. There he worked at the ordinary subjects of an English educa- tion, and acquired a good knowledge of Latin and Greek. This was essential at a time when the influence of authority was triumphant, and when even contemporary literature, to appear learned, must needs be expressed in Latin. At sixteen we find him entered as a student at Caius- Gonvil College, Cambridge, where he spent the following three years in the study of classics, dialectics and physics. Such a course of training was then, as now, considered a fitting prelude to the study of the science and art of medicine. In 1597, being then nineteen years of age, he was made a Bachelor of Arts of his university. At that time, and indeed until quite recently, the University of Cambridge was in a very different position with regard to the teaching of medicine from what we now find. Divinity was its chief glory, and the well equipped medical school of the present was almost unrepresented, one or two professorships only being devoted to medical subjects. As a consequence, it was the almost universal practice
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