Oratio anniversaria a Gulielmo Harveio instituta in theatro collegii medicorum Londinensium habita festo sancti Lucæ Oct. xviii A.D. MDCCLXIX.

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MDCCLXX. [1770]
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Credit: Oratio anniversaria a Gulielmo Harveio instituta in theatro collegii medicorum Londinensium habita festo sancti Lucæ Oct. xviii A.D. MDCCLXIX. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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