or Cambridge (see D'Arcy Power's biography, London, 



1897, P- 39)' 



161 6. Delivered (April) first "visceral lecture" at 

 Royal College of Physicians, in manuscript notes in 

 which is his first account of the circulation of the blood. 

 Death of Shakespeare and Cervantes. 



1618. Appointed (February 3) Physician Extraor- 

 dinary to James I, and promised post of Physician in 

 Ordinary as soon as it became vacant. The Lord Chan- 

 cellor, Francis Bacon, his patient, but no sympathy be- 

 tween them. Start of Thirty Years' War. Pharmaco- 

 poeia Londinensis. 



1620. Publication of Bacon's Novum Organum. Puri- 

 tans settle in New England. 



1625. Death of King James I, accession of Charles L 



1627. Appointed (December 3) Elect of Royal College 

 of Physicians, one of eight "directors." 



1628. Publication of Exercitatio anatomica de motu 

 cordis et sanguinis in animalium, at Frankfort. Elected 

 Treasurer of Royal College of Physicians. Birth of 

 Marcello Malpighi (March 10). Parliament's Petition 

 of Right. 



1630. Journeys through France and Spain with James 

 Stuart, Duke of Lennox, at King's order. Plagues, wars, 

 and famines. King struggling with Parliament. Ap- 

 pointed Physician in Ordinary to Charles L Jacob 

 Primrose, licensed to practice with Harvey's consent, 

 publishes first attack on his doctrine of the circulation. 



1632. Petitions King to restrict sale of poisons. 



1633. Travels with Charles and Court to Scotland. 

 Tactless aggravation of religious animosities. Drew up 

 rules governing St. Bartholomew's Hospital, in which he 

 subordinates surgeons to physicians. Reflection of op- 

 pressive court tactics? Recantation of Galilei. 



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