The Harveian oration : delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London, on October 18, 1901 / by Norman Moore.

  • Moore, Norman, 1847-1922.
Date:
1901
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Credit: The Harveian oration : delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London, on October 18, 1901 / by Norman Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    His life in our College was one of con¬ tinued friendship and learned conversation. He was welcomed in his youth, applauded in his discoveries, venerated in his age. When his life ended in 1657 his body was accom¬ panied beyond the walls of the city by the President and the whole College on its way to its last resting-place at Hempstead in Essex. Our College was of about one-tenth its present size when Harvey was admitted, but it was nevertheless a society in which a great variety of learning was to be found, and where a man could spend his days with advantage. His entrance into it was gradual, for those were the days, as Clarendon says, “when men were seen some time before they were known, and well known before they were preferred.” Harvey's relations with this College began in the first year of King James. At a meeting April 21, 1608, the Fellows had discussed whether they should go out to meet the King at his entry into London and salute him “solemni oratione.” At the next meeting on May 4, 1608, “ Mr. Harvie, doctor of medicine in the University of Padua, attended and presented himself for examination, the-Hill shows her to have been tall, of a dark complexion and somewhat severe aspect.