THE LIFE and TIMES of DR. WILLAM HARVEY* by SIR WILMOT HERRINGHAM, K.C.M.G., C.B., M.D., F.R.C.P
[From Dubovrgdiev: Aphorism Prognostici Hippocrates, Romae, 1659.] ANNALS OF MEDICAL HISTORY New Seri es , Volu me IV March , 1932 Number 2 THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DR. WILLAM HARVEY* By SIR WILMOT HERRINGHAM, K.C.M.G., C.B., M.D., F.R.C.P. HAMPSTEAD, ENGLAND Part i 1. Harvey fr om 1578-1600 Dean and Chapter. There were fifty ILLIAMW Harvey boys on the foundation, and others was the son of were allowed to come who were not on it, of whom Harvey was one, Thomas Harvey, yeoman, of Folkc- but all were required to have learned tone. Thomas, who reading, writing and the rudiments of as born at Folke- grammar, previously.! This, there- stone in 1549, mar- fore, was not Harvey’s first school; ried as his first wife, Juliana Jenkin, he must have been taught in a small who dying left him a daughter, Julian. grammar school, of which there were a great number in the country, either He married in January, 1577, his sec- ond wife, Joan Hawke, or Halkc, by at Folkestone itself or elsewhere. whom he had seven sons, called by Ful- Canterbury held the position of a ler “a week of sons,” and two daugh- modern public school. It had six ters. William, the eldest child, was born forms, which read the usual Latin authors in order: Cato, Aesop, Ter- at Folkestone, on April 1, 1578. ence, Horace and Cicero, with one or Nothing is known of William Har- vey’s childhood. At ten years of age two moderns who wrote in Latin, he was admitted to the King’s School such as Mantuanus and Erasmus.
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