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Excerpt from Gilbert, Physician: A Note Prepared for the Three-Hundredth Anniversary of the Death of William Gilbert of Colchester, President of the Royal College of Physicians, and Physician to Queen Elizabeth
In the fixteenth and feventeenth centuries, writes Dr. Willis, the biographer of Harvey, France and Italy boafted medical fchools of higher repute than any in Europe: and to one or other of thefe muf't the young Englifhman who dedicated himfelf to phyfic repair, in order to furnilh himfelf with the lore that was indifpenfable in his profe?ion.
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