# Portraits of Dr. William Harvey

Author: Royal Society of Medicine (Great Britain)

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49549

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## Summary

The Council of the Royal Society of Medicine determined in 1912 to form a section for the study of the History of Medicine. The section immediately became popular, and one of its first actions was to arrange for the issue of occasional fasciculi dealing with such subjects in medical history as did not lend themselves readily to discussion. Mr. William Roberts pointed out in 1903 that the iconography of medical men had not yet received adequate attention, and he published (_The Athenaeum_, No. 3960, Sept. 19, 1903, p. 388) an account of the portraits of Dr. William Harvey which was afterwards revised and reissued in Dr. Weir Mitchell’s privately printed _Some Memoranda in regard to William...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/portraits-of-dr-william-harvey-49549/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/portraits-of-dr-william-harvey-49549/chapters/2/index.md)