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rose, M.D. " Popular Errours, or the Errours 

 " of the people, in matter of Physic ;" the pre- 

 face to which is dated " From my house at Hull, 

 " Decemb. 2, 1650." On the subject of this 

 translation, his friend Andrew Mar veil addressed 

 two complimentary poems to him, one in Eng- 

 lish, in which he styles our author " his worthy 

 " friend," and the other in Latin, inscribed " Dig- 

 " nissimo suo amico Doctori Witty. 1 ' In Mrs. 

 Shawe's Tombstone, he is described (in 1658) as 

 " the worshipful Dr. Robert Wittye, of the City 

 " of York ;" and a letter, written by him, to his 

 friend Shawe, condoling with him on the loss of 

 his wife, is dated "York Decemb. 23, 1657," 

 whence it may be inferred that he had then 

 changed his residence to that city. His " Scar* 

 " borough Spaw, or a description of the nature and 

 " vertue of the Spaw at Scarborough, in York- 

 " shire/* is also dated at York, " ex musceo meo, 

 " 29th May, 1660." Dr. Wittie was the author 

 of several works connected with his profession, 

 which are enumerated in Watts's " Bibliotheca 

 " Britannica.' * He must have lived to attain a good 

 old age, as his translation of " the Antirnonial Cup 

 " twice cast" was printed in 1640, while so long 

 afterwards as February, 1 694-5, he communicated 

 to the Royal Society a paper entitled " Observa- 

 " tio anatomica rara de calculo in rene invento."* 



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