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Title: Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England
Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967

Author: Charles W. Bodemer
Lester S. King

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Medical Investigation
in Seventeenth Century
England

Charles W. Bodemer

Lester S. King

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Medical Investigation
in Seventeenth Century
England

Embryological Thought in
Seventeenth Century England

_by Charles W. Bodemer_

Robert Boyle as an Amateur Physician

_by Lester S. King_

Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar,
October 14, 1967

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
_University of California, Los Angeles/1968_

_Foreword_

Although the collection of scientific literature in the Clark Library
has already served as the background for a number of seminars, in the
most recent of them the literature of embryology and the medical aspects
of Robert Boyle's thought were subjected to a first and expert
examination. Charles W. Bodemer, of the Division of Biomedical History,
School of Medicine, University of Washington, evaluated the
embryological ideas of that remarkable group of inquiring Englishmen,
Sir Kenelm Digby, Nathaniel Highmore, William Harvey, and Sir Thomas
Browne. Lester S. King, Senior Editor of the _Journal of the American
Medical Association_, dealt with the medical side of Robert Boyle's
writings, the collection of which constitutes one of the chief glories
of the Clark Library. It was a happy marriage of subject matter and
library's wealth, the former a noteworthy oral presentation, the latter
a spectacular exhibit. As usual, and of necessity, the audience was
restricted in size, far smaller in numbers than all those who are no