WiLliam Petty: Oxford Anatomist and Physician

Slatter MD . Calendar of Literary and Personal Papers of Sir William Petty. Lists the “Petty Papers” (henceforth PP), now held in the British Library, but also on microfilm. Bodleian Library MSS Film 1944–59.

The medical papers are in vol. 3.

Marquis of Lansdowne. The Petty Papers (henceforth Lans. TPP). London: Constable, 1927.

Marquis of Lansdowne. The Petty-Southwell Correspondence (henceforth Lans. PSC). London: Constable, 1928.

Evelyn J . The Diary of John Evelyn, Vols 1–3, Dobson A , ed. London: Macmillan, 1906, several entries.

Aubrey J . Brief Lives, Clark A , ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898: vol. 2, pp. 139–50.

Pepys S . The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Vols 1–8, Wheatley HB , ed. London: Bell & Sons, 1942, several entries.

Wood A . Athenae Oxonienses. Vols 1–4, Bliss P , ed. London: many publishers, 1813;Vol. 2, pp. 119–20, 156; vol. 3, pp. 1120; vol. 4, pp. 214–20.

Fitzmaurice E . The Life of Sir William Petty. London: John Murray, 1895. Appendix 11 reproduces the will, dated 2 May 1685, Court of Probate in Ireland.

Strauss E . Sir William Petty, Portrait of a Genius. London: Bodley Head, 1954.

Sharp GL . Sir William Petty and some aspects of seventeenth century natural philosophy. Oxford: DPhil thesis, University of Oxford, 1976.

Dale PG . Sir W. P. of Romsey. Romsey: LTVAS Group, 1987.

Lans . PSC, 216–17.13 Letter to Sir R Southwell, 14 July 1686.

Lans . PSC, 216–17.13 Letter to Sir R Southwell, 14 July 1686.

Romsey parish register, burial on 14 July 1644.

Fitzmaurice E (op. cit. ref. 8): 319.

Innes-Smith RW . English-Speaking Students of Medicine at the University of Leyden. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1932: 181.

Fitzmaurice E (op. cit. ref. 8): 317.

Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1908: vol. 11, pp. 931–9.

Fitzmaurice E (op. cit. ref. 8): 319.

Fitzmaurice E (op. cit. ref. 8): 319.

Aubrey (op. cit. ref. 5): vol. 2, p. 143.

University of Oxford Archive. Cong. Reg. 1648–59, f 182r.

Wood A (op. cit. ref. 7): vol. 4, p. 215.

Munk W . The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London (2nd edn). London: Royal College of Physicians, 1878: 271.

Wood A (op. cit. ref. 7): vol. 4, p. 213.

Ward J . The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College. London: John Moore, 1740: 217–27.

Ward GRM . Translation of Oxford University Statutes. London: Pickering, 1845.

Gibson S , ed. Statuta antiqua universalis Oxoniensis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.

Clark A . Register of the University of Oxford. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888: 2, 3, 184.

Wood A (op. cit. ref. 7): vol. 4, p. 215.

University of Oxford Archive. Conv. Reg. 1647–59, 31 December 1650: 124.

Griffiths J . Statutes of the University of Oxford Codified in the Year 1638 Under the Authority of Archbishop Laud. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888: 125–7.

Gibson S (op. cit. ref. 28): 551–5; Griffiths J (op. cit. ref. 32): 258–61.

PP. The medical papers are grouped 1–31 in vol. 3.

Fitzmaurice E (op. cit. ref. 8): 317, 1646, Paris and Oxford.

Fitzmaurice E (op. cit. ref. 8): 317, 1649, Oxford.

PP vol. 3, p. 27.

PP vol. 3, p. vol. 3, p. 25. Reproduced in Lans. TPP, 171–9.

Lans. TPP, 169.

Lans. TPP, 178.

Fitzmaurice E (op. cit. ref. 8): appendix 1, 1650, London.

PP vol. 3, p. 23.

University of Oxford Archive, SEP. L ii, 21.

Hughes JT . Miraculous deliverance of Anne Green: An Oxford case of resuscitation in the seventeenth century. BMJ 1982;285: 1702–3. Lists references.

Fitzmaurice E (op. cit. ref. 8): 317, 1646, Paris and Oxford.

PP vol. 3, 19.

PP vol. 3, pp. 6, 8, 13, 17, 21.

PP vol. 3, p. 21.

Lans. PSC, 214–5. Letter to Southwell, 13 July 1686.

Munk W (op. cit. ref. 24): 271.

Lans. PSC, 214–15.

Birch T . The History of the Royal Society of London. London: A Millar, 1755: vol. 1, pp. 1–3.

Birch T . The History of the Royal Society of London. London: A Millar, 1755: vol. 1, pp. 8.

Lans. PSC, 381. Letter to Petty, 13 August 1687.