The Practitioner . Kig. Fig. 22 FAMOUS HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL SCHOOLS. 249 of his brothers, successful Turkey merchants. He died atRoehampton, in the house of Sir EHab Haney, on June 3,1657, and is buried at Hempstead, near Saffron Walden, inEssex. Although Harvey fortunately never attained to a largeor fashionable practice, he was able to serve the hospitalmaterially, for he came of a family of first-rate businesscapacity. The minutes of the Hospital Court contain numerousentries about him whilst he was physician, and show that thegovernors had a high opinion of his capacity. Indeed, SirJ
The Practitioner . Kig. Fig. 22 FAMOUS HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL SCHOOLS. 249 of his brothers, successful Turkey merchants. He died atRoehampton, in the house of Sir EHab Haney, on June 3,1657, and is buried at Hempstead, near Saffron Walden, inEssex. Although Harvey fortunately never attained to a largeor fashionable practice, he was able to serve the hospitalmaterially, for he came of a family of first-rate businesscapacity. The minutes of the Hospital Court contain numerousentries about him whilst he was physician, and show that thegovernors had a high opinion of his capacity. Indeed, SirJames Paget says that dining the 34 years he held the ofliceof physician he was more honoured by the governors andexercised a greater influence in the affairs of the hospital thanany medical officer before the time of Aberneth3\ WILLIAM CLOWES. Surgery reached its lowest ebb in the later 3ears of thereign of King Henry VHI. It became of no account as aprofession, and an Act of Parliament was passed to allow- anyquack to pract
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