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BMJ No 7115 Volume 315

Endpiece Saturday 25 October 1997


Endpiece

Scientific distinction hampers private practice?

I have heard him say, that after his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came out, that he fell mightily in his Practize, and that 'twas beleeved by the vulgar that he was crack-brained; and all the physitians were against his Opinion, and envyed him; many wrote against him.

John Aubrey (1626-97), Brief Lives,
on William Harvey (1578-1657)


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